Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind. 1783428630
Craig Horrocks @chcookley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Why would the Tory leader want to get rid of a degree which helps students to critically analyse written texts? Oh, I see.... 0132
Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 08/10/2025And it was the subject taught to colonial administrators to bolster their sense of national culture and identity, so even in terms of her supposed politics it's a stupid thing to say. 010
Richard Hernaman Allen @rhernamanallen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They are stuck in a nativist neocon bubble. They've failed to realise that the coming technology will require at least as many creative people as those with good science and tech. We need to boost both. 020
researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Anti-intelectualism is a staple of authoritarianism.Which is why anyone paying attention could see the “we’re tired of experts” line from Gove for what it was. The hatred of the university educated, of education and cultural institutions and people who work for them has been steadily on the rise in🇬🇧 161
researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Are these the same people that go around talking about how important it is to promote British culture…? Yeah, thought so. 020
horatioraddish.bsky.social @horatioraddish.bsky.social · 08/10/2025How can you wrap yourself in the flag and shout about protecting English culture but then rail against the study and appreciation of that same culture? 2111
James F Ford @jamiefford.bsky.social · 08/10/2025All learning, is worthwhile. Degrees offer not only specific subject knowledge and expertise but transferable skills. Learning at higher levels involves critical thinking, analysis and evidence based conclusions. It is these higher-order skills that right-wing media and politicians fear. 020
Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It was Badenoch! That explains everything. Somehow I don't think Badenoch believes one should go to university to expand one's mind. It is quite obvious that learning is a concept that has passed her by. People like her get 'qualifications'. Plebs get trained. 000
Amanda @amandagillender.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Really? Presumably they didn't study English, themselves. I'm aware that degrees differ from university to university. My course included compulsory Anglo Saxon, Middle English, Shakespeare; optional Metaphysical Poetry, the novel & linguistics. Also required subs in Latin & French. Some rip-off! 150
Paul Giblin @paulfromhull.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Studying English not only teaches the nuances of our language, but also the writing and the culture that makes us who we are. A so-called patriot should be all for it, but no.. This merely shows she prefers to have a nation of ignorance and ignorants, who believe her knees-jerk racist bollox 030
Craig Nelson @craigne.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Germany has degrees in German, France has degrees in French, Italy in Italian etc etc. 000
Enseign CG 🇪🇺𓆩♡𓆪 @castrogacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025More populist soundbites. It's never-ending! 110
LaPoodella @lapoodella.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Had a blind date once. Guy belittled my history degree. The person who set us up asked me how it went. Yuck said I and told her why. She told me he was smitten with me and wanted to see me again. No way! Never again. Nope. Why would I spend time with someone lacking respect for me? 130
redG @redg187.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I talk good english and dont need no dang collage degree for it 000
HRH The Reedy Boy @reedyboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The Tories fear an electorate capable of independent reading and the clear expression of thought. 040
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Not to mention performing arts! The UK has some of the best talent in the world in film and TV. Not just actors but producers, lighting, ADs, makeup, costume, casting. High-end production companies come from around the world to make stuff here. Performing arts is a *massive industry for Britain*. 919023
J McLaren @jmclaren.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Recall my uni study of drama and lit. criticism enabled my first city jobs (fin. sector) because, “degree proves you’ve been taught how to think.” A debatable accusation, but still…I hated all those jobs and wrote a novel about a bank clerk trying to die, whose guardian angel kept saving him. Still. 020
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It’s quite an accusation: it damns not only students for being foolish about the courses they choose, but also universities for being fraudulent in the courses they deliver. 010
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Seems like the natural endpoint of the general "STEM über alles" tenor of education policy over the last couple of decades. 000
Ex Pret A Manger Staff - expret.org 🇺🇦 @expret.org · 08/10/2025Well, that's why they want to close libraries as well. Keep people uneducated. 010
excog @excog.bsky.social · 08/10/2025◻️ An old debate (or rather cry of the Right since the Ark), rehashed by a woman desperate woman who herself did IT/engineering and law. But it does echo the US university assault. It's apogee, Turning Point USA (Farage was at the opening of TP UK) 000
johnnymorton.bsky.social @johnnymorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025One thing I've always found true: People who glorify STEM degrees over liberal arts degrees generally don't do well in either discipline... 010
philpixy7.bsky.social @philpixy7.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Especially when she can’t spell ‘Britain’. 🙄 020
Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It won't be their kids who are denied access to such degrees. It's kids like my 17,yr old working his socks off with an AuDHD brain that affects every moment of his day. Another thee not me. 080
kevinlucioni.bsky.social @kevinlucioni.bsky.social · 08/10/2025From the party that spells Britain Britiain... 000
terrible towelie @terribletowelie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025what job do you get for being an expert at what every child learns by the time they're 5? i could read and write by the time i was 3, once you can read everyone is an expert, just read it, whoopty fuck all degrees are worthless, you're either born smart or not, knowing trivia doesn't change that 200
| Éireann | @rinnywee.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Been hearing this about a number of humanities subjects since the 90s when I started uni and it is SO boring and SO wrong. 000
mattfezza.bsky.social @mattfezza.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They want to make the country stupid. Because the stupid votes for them. The US is a case in point. 011
max @doctorsnacks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025ironically being creative with language is the reason she thinks shes an engineer and somehow special 000
Gill O’Leary @gilloleary.bsky.social · 08/10/2025My degree was in English. I was searching for the words to express how I feel about this execrable statement from the awful Badenoch but you’ve said it perfectly. Thanks. 020
Alan Davies #FBPE @alanrdavies.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It's more elitism than barbarism. They believe that education is the preserve of the upper classes who can continue to study Classics and History of Art, and that the lower classes should only be offered training to take up their place in industry. 1171
tsoprano.bsky.social @tsoprano.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Good stuff. If Kemi valued it, I'd be questioning my own judgement. 011
Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Also wrong on its own terms given importance of arts to UK economy. 0191
Paul Fernandez @exilefromgroggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I did an OU English Language and Literature degree (my degree when I was young was CompSci at Cambridge). On the back of Eng Lang, I'm doing a PhD in linguistics, looking at how to make multilingual high-risk environments safe. festivalofsocialscience.com/events/langu...media.tenor.coma cartoon character says kronk this is kind of important in yellow lettersALT: a cartoon character says kronk this is kind of important in yellow letters 1171
SolarAlly @burkelinne.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I see a Fahrenheit 451 scenario in play here. Where citizens don't read but just look at pictures. When I read all those books in 70's and 80's, it was Science Fiction, not a planning guide for rich folks to keep citizens ignorant while they take over everything & enslave us for no/low wages. 030
Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Serfs don't need educating on things that could make them see the riches they shall never have. Born, work, die. The master holds the whip. The blindfold too. 030
John Bee @buzzer1969.bsky.social · 08/10/2025English literature! Britains greatest gift to the world and these flag shaggers think its aload of useless buff!!! 020
Steven Westwood @tamino78.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Doctorate on Chemistry here who couldn't agree with you more 010
Prentice @prentice-wolfe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Yeah - I’ll take that English Degree please - or at least the opportunity to achieve obtaining one🤣🤦 100
Olwenmcg @olwenmcg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025To get context on what you've posted I googled and was shocked to be led to "Gov.uk" site. I'm struggling to accept that "rip-off degree" was considered appropriate language for a Government minister to use at all! I have long wished my Degree was in English Lit and Language. 130
The Other David Harper @theotherdavidh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I'm a maths graduate, and even I recognise the ignorance and barbarism behind Badenoch's remark. 030
MaxAnglia @maxanglia.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Dear god, so depressing, she’s simply aping Trump, Hegseth et al finding anything she considers woke to be a target for attack 010
Jenia #FBPE #FBPPR #ClimateCrisis 🕷🌍🇪🇺🇺🇦 @rakitacraft.bsky.social · 08/10/2025bsky.app/profile/did:...Jenia #FBPE #FBPPR #ClimateCrisis 🕷🌍🇪🇺🇺🇦@rakitacraft.bsky.socialAhh, the ability to spell or string a coherent sentence together are highly overrated, innit! In fact, it's a matter of pride in some quarters to be unable to arrange words in a comprehensible manner, gets you in with the natives, apparently! 000
Richard Dubourg @richarddubourg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I think she's just having another sly pop at Bob 'History and Political Science' Jenrick. 000
Shouting in my echo chamber @catowasright.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The de education of the population is a principle of fascism 210815
Anita Howarth @anitahowarth27.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I'm confused. Why would a study of the great texts written in your mother tongue be a 'rip-off degree' for a party that claims to love British culture and all Britain stands for? 1/2 130
John @johnmd1968.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Yet they want migrants to have a comprehension of English. 000
tinytimb.bsky.social @tinytimb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Time was when education in Latin and Greek was considered superior to the lesser study of science and humanities.... & University education looked down on the idea of training for a profession. 🙄😒 110
Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The constant attack on absolutely everything that Britain might be considered world-leading at (higher education and the arts spring immediately to mind) is part of the contemporary conservative brand. They are not patriots; they hate this country. 031
gec236.bsky.social @gec236.bsky.social · 08/10/2025English a rip off degree - really 🤔 - did she follow that with a Nazi salute ..this is the woman who denies she is from Nigeria .. proud about getting people expelled .. she’s working class after doing a few shifts in McDonald’s .. like previous Tory leaders .. an ignorant arrogant vain mess 👎 000
philcave.bsky.social @philcave.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They’d really hate Shakespeare if he’d emerged today. And he’s from Birmingham 1202
Belinda Atkinson @belinda65.bsky.social · 08/10/2025On one hand they despair that ‘Englishness’ is being destroyed by migrants and then decry those who want to study English. It’s as if they don’t want anyone to think! 1142
Stephen Johnstone @stitges.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They’d have had literally everyone studying coding 3 years ago. Now totally screwed by AI 060
Do NOT DM @gideonwainwright.bsky.social · 08/10/2025People do it with history and law too. Assholes all of em. 010
Life Political @mrriffraff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Don't think I've ever heard a more beautiful argument 000
farawaywatcher.bsky.social @farawaywatcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Well said Ian. What a bereft mind she has. I am Clive Rutland. Dean’s dad. 000
Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 08/10/2025My languages degree was a HUGE benefit to me in terms of understanding the world, working across borders and winning business. So quantitatively (which is all Badenoch understands) and qualitatively (which the rest of us do). Price of everything, value of nothing etc 😠🤦🏻♂️ 020
Huw Richards @huwrich.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Any degree in any language develops high level skills essential to the economy. 000
Sam Proctor @samproctor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025In the next sentence they’ll be laying it on thick about how much they love the England of Shakespeare and Milton…. 020
Richard @richdef.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I wish I could remember which company CEO said this, but he always checks CVs for those applicants with degrees in the humanities, as they are the most grounded, well-rounded and empathetic people to hire and work with. 3362
ClaireH @chugh9673.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They don't want people to be able to think for themselves and have the ability to have empathy. They want commodities to be exploited. 040
Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It’s no coincidence that the most powerful, emotionally charged communicators are those politicians who’ve done English, History or Drama . They know the importance of connecting with people, making a powerful speech and speaking from the heart. 1244
Robert Smallshire @robert.smallshire.no · 08/10/2025I work in software development. Since the advent of generative AI, much of my work has changed from coding in programming languages to sculpting and manipulating software through expression in English. English has never been more important. 030
irmacguyver.bsky.social @irmacguyver.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It is though. People should not go into debt for a degree with no practical use. Take night classes at a community college if you want to major in English. Don't go $250,000 in debt for it. 110
Broxton8r @broxton8r.bsky.social · 08/10/2025And judging by the fact that some in the Tory party clearly can’t spell ‘Britain’, one would think English would be high on their agenda… 020
Tepic Harlequin @tepicharliquin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Wonder how many of her MPs have English degrees? 000
Arthur Seaton #FBPE #Wessex @southsaxon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025My parents were against ALL education. So we all left school at the earliest possible opportunity. I was 15. I’d been working with dad on building sites from the age of 12, often during school time. Luckily when I got older I got an economics BSc. Then an ENGLISH MA. Fuck ‘em!! 3772
azurevista.bsky.social @azurevista.bsky.social · 08/10/2025'These violent passions will have violent ends.' - Shakespeare. Speaking as a Brown man whose ancestors were subjected to the full range of white supremacist colonialist violence for daring to resist & then found themselves fighting Fascism, we've seen this movie before bsky.app/profile/azur...@azurevista.bsky.social@azurevista.bsky.socialDid you know Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from the BBC where he worked? Did you know Hitler got the idea for *Lebensraum* from his love of BBC propaganda clips of British occupation forces in British India murdering Pashtun villagers? Source: Nazis: A Warning From History episode 2. 021
sapiens365.bsky.social @sapiens365.bsky.social · 08/10/2025What you learn from English is incalculable. The rich variety of English Literature is the cultural journey of a people. Without knowledge of that journey, we become shallow & rudderless-which somewhat defines the right wing in British politics. "Brave new world that has such people in it." 1100
Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Get a PROPER qualficashun at the Youniversty of Lif! 290
danishpasty66.bsky.social @danishpasty66.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I picked up a load of these St George's cross flags from the Conservative Party conference. I'll be tying them to lampposts all over my area this weekend. 020
Tommy Palmer @tommyp.org · 08/10/2025The same people then kick off when the biggest books, film, and TV shows in the UK are cultural exports from another country. 051
derekmacd18.bsky.social @derekmacd18.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They could have used someone who could spell Britain as well! 080
Mrs B 🐧🇪🇺 @mathsgeeky.bsky.social · 08/10/2025One word - Britian. (This is seriously going to mess up my spellcheck.) 2130
Peter Keen @pk054.bsky.social · 08/10/2025She reckons herself to be an engineer but has no idea how the world works. 030
Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Kemi Badenoch's vision for the UK: "These days, if you study English you get arrested and thrown in jail don't you" 2303
Chris Gallen @villain57.bsky.social · 08/10/2025PPE is a worthless degree as do many in parliament and particularly the Tory party have demonstrated 200
Ger D @rardeenus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025One of the foremost literary powerhouses in the world. Basically created the world’s principle language, with an unsurpassed richness in literature, which generates income and wealth. It also demands to be studied- it’s an amazing national resource. Yet Kemi Khazi calls it a ‘rip off’ degree. Idiot. 2345
Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 08/10/2025These people talk about protecting "Western culture" but where the hell is this "culture" going to come from without art or literature or music? 150
kim @erwhatdidyousay.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It's like Mao's Cultural Revolution. Race to the bottom. Look what that did to China for decades 040
dotdarling.bsky.social @dotdarling.bsky.social · 08/10/2025My response, as someone who studied English Lit: ‘…and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms.’ - As You Like It, Act II, Scene 7 1253
dreamingcrone.bsky.social @dreamingcrone.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Did she fail her A level? GCSE?? 000
Jay #FBPE #REJOIN @jaywardcarroll.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I have an English degree from Oxford, it’s been enormously helpful in my life and career. Aside from the benefit of education in general for critical thinking and communication, any degree shows an aptitude for self discipline and learning. A boon in all aspects of life. 2161
Sarah G @sarahg123.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The weird thing is that GCSE English is the gateway to all jobs. You have to have it and yet they don’t want any English teachers. I’ve never regretted taking English and Drama, especially when I see the general standard of written English in the population. 020
Big Tent Democrat @manmtmike.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I was an English major and I worked my butt off. Not surprised at the “rip-off” comment, though, given the current national assault on education in general and on liberal arts education in particular. 020
Dexter Crisp @dextercrisp.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Bear this in mind when they demand "degree-level English" as one of the many criteria for migrants seeking to live and work in the UK 0174
woopdiddyscooppoop.bsky.social @woopdiddyscooppoop.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Almost every degree is a rip off nowadays. Humongous fees. Scant few lectures. Online courses. Life altering long-term debts of £50-£100k. And for what? To have a piece of paper that doesn’t assist you in life. Maybe in the 80’s a degree had value. No more. Now everyone has one. 230
daviddouglas.bsky.social @daviddouglas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025How many hours per week did you have on your English degree course? 000
Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Good friend, thou speak’st true. To call English a “rip-off” is to spit upon the wellspring of our soul. Words are the coin of thought— Would they make us rich in purse yet beggars in spirit? He who scorns language knoweth not what makes mankind divine. 😉 041
Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Our arts and culture are one of the few remaining economic and soft powers we have. So yeah, why not smother them too 180
isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It's odd that medicine costs £9535 / year and English costs £9535 / year and psychology costs £9535 / year. You might think English would be a bit cheaper given that the learning materials are basically either a pen and paper, or the digital equivalent, plus a map showing the nearest library. 200
petelebas52.bsky.social @petelebas52.bsky.social · 08/10/2025That's Christopher Nolan on the scrapheap? 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 08/10/2025How far the Tories have fallen from being the party my parents always used to vote for 2110
Dick Horn @tsuno85.bsky.social · 08/10/2025English literature gives you understanding of the history, culture and politics of the time. Critical thinking is developed in good English classes. 010
Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I think we can see this as in the line of evolution from Thatcher's comment forty years ago on studying Anglo-Saxon. 000
Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 08/10/2025English isn't 'sold' properly to students, IMO. Alongside the understanding and appreciation of literature, poetry, song etc, it teaches you (if you're paying attention) how language is used to move, persuade and even manipulate others - and how to spot when people are trying to do it to you. 150
Ian Cholmondeley @iancholmondeley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Based on the amount of harm inflicted over the last 15 years or so lets just get rid of PPE at Oxford and leave it at that 000
Liz St Clair @lemurskulls.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Maybe her speech could have been improved if she hired someone with an English degree... 000
Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025She wouldn’t say that to a rich person who wanted to study it, and that’s the test. It’s classism. I don’t think she understands British society very well. 230
LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 08/10/2025What's up with a political party which, at one and the same time, slags off English degrees, and yet wants immigrants to integrate by learning English?? 0428
valerie.bsky.social @valeriea.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Ah, but it teaches critical thinking. We can't have that, can we.... 080
Sue @sukey49.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Does she have no idea how hard it is to gain an English degree? 010
Stephen Boswell @longtonian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025She hates English because you’re not trained to illegally hack 152
Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Her chocolate bars may have had 'Britain' spelt correctly if the Tories had more English students - although, to be fair, Michael Gove was clearly ripped off by his English degree. Either he missed reading any classics like Hardy, Dickens, Orwell, or Steinbeck...or he didn't understand the messages. 251
Styx&Stonz @clubsandrocks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Those who can't criticize those who can. A whole lot of ignorant, borderline-literacy chumps questioning their betters. 000
RedPandamoniums @redpandamoniums.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I may not university educated, but I have enough intellect to recognise that any degree, but especially English is a pinnacle of learning. It is benefit to your mind. Your last sentence is a piece of gold that will stick with me. I will cite you when I quote. Thank you. 000
Woof-Woof @quietnotabot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Education is the enemy of authoritarianism and idiots generally. The Tories and reform are particularly dense but attacks on the value of higher education are becoming common across politics - the university’s not for you gang are everywhere. 010
Grey Eye Magpie @greyeyemagpie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025In a time when words are the most effective weapons in the world, it is of massive benefit to them to ensure their opposition are not well-trained in their use. 040
wysiwyg94.bsky.social @wysiwyg94.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Here's a little reading for her, a page we used extensively when helping students seeking their yearin industry: What can I do with an English degree? | Prospects.ac.uk share.google/ONy1mm0j3bPW...prospects.ac.ukProspects | Job & Course Search | Career & University AdviceProspects guides students and graduates every step of the way. Explore courses, find jobs, and get expert guidance. 020
John C. Weaver @johncarlweaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2025As an old retired English teacher who still calls himself an English major, I say thank you! 000
Jen Was Here 💙✌️ @jennifersydney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I have an English degree and have had an amazing career, now on a small creative team working with chefs. I wish I had gotten that accounting degree./s 030
jmc123.bsky.social @jmc123.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Its dumbing down. It's easier to lie to or change history etc to less educated people. Terrestrial TV has been dumbed down! Thought free for the most part. Little real drama and foreign drama, news is limited etc 000
Malcolm Mair @malcolm55.bsky.social · 08/10/2025You're forgetting....this was from a woman who thought living on the streets was a lifestyle choice, and working in McDonalds during college holidays made her working class. SHE'S DELUSIONAL! 1110
Dickie Davies @dickiedavies.bsky.social · 08/10/2025She’s a stupid clot Everything she’s says Is just fucking rot. 010
donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025As we only get a degree so as to earn more. Not for the expansion of knowledge, of the mind for self and society's benefit. Not to keep culture and tradition alive. No, for money. As all the value that matters is monetary 010
Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Global Britian doesn't need people with an English degree! 14012
Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Degrees like that teach you critical thinking, which means you’ll never vote for those a-holes again 040
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Kerry Fisher @vodkakit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025'Poverty of your own mind'. Is that the best you can do? Come on, the English language has a plethora of fine insults. 000
Old Hobbit🐸 @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Stick a St George's flag on it and all will be fine! Make English Great Again! 010
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaam @samsamsamsamsam.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The irony is that if she had an English degree, Badenoch might be better able to figure out when she's being quoted out of context 020
Soluble @solpadeine.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I'd have thought a qualification in knowing more about English would be invaluable in these un-British times. 020
charliegorgon.bsky.social @charliegorgon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025As a chemistry graduate, I find Badenoch's statement utterly moronic. The country needs people with a wide range of skills and educational backgrounds. If not it would be a poorer and less productive place. And how many of her senior colleagues are humanities grads? Do they agree with her? 010
Caffeine 🇺🇦 @caffeineninja.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I think people call it that because employers don’t really value it and it’s harder to get a job with an English degree. In our personal lives it’s valuable. But most people value a career more. 000
Verity @becausepithy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Fascinating - I use skills developed during my degree in English Language and Literature in work every day. I’m an accountant, I both write and critically analyse other other people’s written reports (on financial information). Doesn’t the workforce need great English and Maths skills? 051
Josh @joshmoorc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Is this part of the Trump playbook of eroding the value of education? Presumably because their increasingly far right ideology can be more easily sold to the undereducated? 010
rob @robinprague.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I teach advanced TESOL .. showed my C1/C2 students this claim of 'rip-off degree' .. everyone single one of them shocked and appalled. Beyond crass. 010
Martin Roche @cluthaman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Shakespeare, Byron, Shelly, Rowling, Burns, Jilly Cooper, Hobbes, Russell, Amis, McEwan, Sheridan, please add some names. 130
Doug HS 😶🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Until student loan repayments receive a better and fairer rate of interest, all degrees could be classified a rip off. 030
Phil Jackman @philjackman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The performing arts is something we actually do well in. 030
Alastair #FBPE 🇪🇺🇵🇸 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @alastairh4h.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Grammar was not taught at all for nigh on 30 years until 1988. Guess which cohorts are now in guvernmint (sic). 100
Free Speech For Peace @freespeechforpeace.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The Tories, Labour and Reform are all about how much they can take from us - the greedy millionaires will never be sated. Choose The Green Party who are working to give you more - starting with hope! 030
Graeme Worsfold @graemeworsfold.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The performing arts sector is (roughly) delivering £10-20bn value to the UK economy each year. Cool. Cool. 010
RuelFox @ruelfox.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Or something like that which my old used to say. She’d have quickly labelled them, quite accurately, a as “bunch of posh thick cunts.” Bless her heart. 100
Paul Park @pauljunhyuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Reminds me of Alan Bennett’s point that reading fiction encourages empathy because it’s the only medium that shows you the inside of someone else’s head (even if it’s mostly a version of the author). 030
Gavin Knight @gavinknight1.bsky.social · 08/10/2025There is a decline in people taking English A level and studying it at uni since Gove made English GCSE a tickbox nightmare. Creative industry bodies tend towards CreaTech like gaming, immersive AI rather than writing and storytelling, the most powerful art that has survived for thousands of years…. 020
Kirsten Elliott @kirstenelliott.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I'm still reeling from that comment. My OH has an MA and PhD in English and an MA in fine art. All dismissed as 'rip off degrees', I assume. 020
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