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"By framing migration primarily as an issue of border enforcement, the debate is skewed toward security concerns rather than addressing migrants’ rights, contributions, and long-term integration” @nandosigona.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/03/14/i...

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Part of a wider roll-back/rethink of 'neoliberalism' and the supposed 'depoliticization' that was often part and parcel thereof?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There is a massive row between Rupert Lowe and Nigel Farage over at The Other Place, but this quote from Farage to the Telegraph seems the heart of it: Farage ordered Lowe to not use "repatriation" in the speech. He doesn't seek the AfD path, and knows that would cap Reform's support a lot.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

We have been through several cuts in staff and now at Dundee hundreds more jobs to go. It hasn’t solved the crisis, only increased workloads, reduced choice for students, and created new problems. We all know what the reflex will be in the next crisis. Our system is slowly degrading Higher Education

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Today, Shane O’Neill, our interim Principal announced the University of Dundee needs to cut 632 jobs to be financially sustainable. Also there are 237 vacancies (in part due to the recruitment freeze since Nov). That’s 870 colleagues from 3200. OVER A QUARTER! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

As @lewgmiller.bsky.social reminded me earlier, US presidents are not allowed to drive on public roads. Trump also has said he hates EVs for years. Does he even know how to drive?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Devastating news. Really depressing that things have been allowed to get to this stage. Why are we the ones who have to suffer for all the errors made at Dundee and in higher education policy? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 24% (-2) RFM: 23% (-2) CON: 22% (+1) LDM: 15% (+1) GRN: 9% (=) SNP: 3% (=) Via @yougov.co.uk, 9-10 Mar. Changes w/ 2-3 Mar.

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🇺🇦Supporters of Ukraine have unfurled the world’s largest Ukrainian flag on the White House ellipse, pushing for the U.S. to continue its aid against the Russian invasion: “Do not abandon Ukraine!”

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

This is starting to remind me of the start of the pandemic, when every columnist had a "don't waste this crisis, we must now do [thing I have always wanted to happen anyway]" take

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

I would pay for a streaming service just to watch a docu series about Mourinho vs Dick Campbell for the League One title. @disneyplushelp.bsky.social @netflix.com

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I support a half time show at the World Cup Final but only if it’s a raffle and a bunch of children trying to shoot past Neuer. If we want to Scottish football about it maybe have a pipe band walk round the pitch.

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“…protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.” Henry George

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Radical right, Conservative and Social Dem all getting about 25% with liberals and Greens taking most of the rest…five years after Brexit and British politics has never looked more European

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has refused to comment on the Trump attack on Zelenskyy, the FT reports. The only major European leader to do so.

submitted 14 days ago • 220 comments

The exchange between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office today in which our country attacked the victim in defense of a brutal aggressor has to be one of the most shameful moments in Modern American history.

submitted 14 days ago • 120 comments

Very interesting section of Dodds' letter: "Even 3%[defence spending] may only be the start, and it will be impossible to raise the substantial resources needed just through tactical cuts to public spending" She says the government must look again at "our fiscal rules and approach to taxation"

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

Universities UK calls for a 'funding rethink' as HE redundancies surge 'off the scale'. Good luck with your science and tech deal. www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

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Titanic paper from @andrewduffeu.bsky.social, which I missed at the time While there may be some stuff to quibble about, and some of this will be hard reading for Europeans, as well as for some in the UK, as a whole this is what needs to be said. This should be the focus for join. A reaction 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

Funding defence with the money that the Home Office is allegedly going to return to FCDO any decade now. Not a serious government.

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

On strike to save jobs at Dundee Uni

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Just looking at the latest YouGov poll - the Tories are on 9% with people under 50. It is not clear to me how this helps with that problem.

submitted 21 days ago • 115 comments

Britons tend to say it is more important to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US More important to support Ukraine: 48% More important to maintain good relations with the US: 20% Neither: 14% yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

So much of what Trump has said has been dismissed as ‘just talk’. Words matter and what he has said today and over the last few days has been incredibly destructive.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is 100% the wrong line from Badenoch, and the Lib Dems will be breaking open the champagne. Note the point about Twitter, which she thinks has a role or is important. It isn't.

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

That whole thing about waking up and then having to read all the ridiculous things the Trump admin has done overnight is really back in a big way, isn’t it.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 27 days ago • 417 comments

49% of Britons support introducing proportional representation, with just 26% backing first past the post PR: 49% FPTP: 26% By party voted for in 2024 Green: 72% PR vs 15% FPTP Reform UK: 67% vs 20% Lib Dem: 61% vs 20% Labour: 53% vs 27% Conservative: 39% vs 42% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything % saying Brexit has had a positive impact on... Control the UK has over its laws: 31% UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23% UK's level of international trade: 11% NHS: 6% Full list in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

submitted 42 days ago • 58 comments

"Academics from poorer backgrounds are both more likely to not publish and to have outstanding publication records. Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition" 👀

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Encouraging (at least for those of us who teach it).

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

Gong hei fat choi 🎊🎉

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to everyone who follows me. As you may be aware, Dundee Uni isn’t in the best spot. Being careful with social media due to the obvious stress that comes with where things are.

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Reading about the trading fears over DeepSeek and am a bit confused why markets aren’t more concerned about the very likely impending tariffs in the US. Maybe I am missing something.

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New article by tjoliver.bsky.social in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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For anyone who missed it: Spending Review will be announced to Parliament on 11th June.

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

Incredibly useful for anyone who isn't immersed in this already. 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com (who most definitely is!).

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

A shift i've noticed in focus groups which I think explains why Reform are up to low 20s- the type of people who'd previously have said "I like that Farage says it like it is, but don't want him as PM" now say versions of "We've tried the others, hasn't worked, so we may as well roll dice on Farage"

submitted 81 days ago • 23 comments

Academics, this Christmas, may your inbox be empty, your article accepted without amendment, your research funding bountiful and your family gatherings an ethnographic marvel. Have a good one.

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

The result of the Vote of No Confidence at the University of Dundee was clear. 89% of staff who voted said they had no confidence in the University executive team. It is clear that staff at the University of Dundee are extremely frustrated at how the current leadership is handling the crisis.

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Kemi Badenoch's early polling figures make for grim reading for the Tories, writes @patrick-pme.bsky.social Looks like a PM in waiting: 13% Doing well as leader of the Conservative party: 20% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

I often say to political friends that most of us, as a starting point, don’t want policy to make our lives worse. That’s why headlines about flat taxes, getting rid of lunch hours or annual leave seems pretty damaging for Badenoch in my eyes.

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