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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

30,000 job losses in one of the few sectors we are still genuinely world-leading, and zero national conversation beyond tuition fees and loans. UK Higher Ed is sinking and apparently no-one has noticed.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also - I don't look forward to the end of shared culture. One of the joys is experiencing something others experience and talking about it afterwards.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anne Carson seriously raising the bar here for ‘what I was doing when I got that surprise call that I’ve won the Nobel Prize’ www.ft.com/content/7eef...

Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, made Thursday's announcement a few minutes after reaching Carson by telephone. Carson was "very taken by surprise", Carlberg said, and was
"in Iceland, listening to the wind"

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every Brad Bradford endorsement is like, "Toronto used to be a utopia with zero problems. Now it is only fit for the most violent of rats, where sentient crack pipes murder you in dark alleys and feral child gangs feast on the Lululemons of my yoga mom group. Brad will fix this. I live in Whitby."

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Heart of the Forest Emily Carr 1935

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would like women to have whatever colour hair they'd like. I would also like accurate data on: 50+ female unemployment rates; number of 65+ single women on/below poverty line; percentage of 50+ women unpaid carers; impact of austerity on all the above. And for that data to be headline news.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

rare column from @stephenkb.bsky.social that combines my interest in the state of the UK charts in a siloed culture with my interest in public policy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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What ‘Choosin’ Texas’ tells us about Burnham’s social care obstacles

Convincing the British public to pay higher taxes for something they wrongly assume the state provides will not be easy

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Activists? Activists?

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We've had a "Number 10 spokesperson" briefing to journalists, and reported comments from Burnham in a closed door meeting That's pissweak. If you can make videos about chicken nuggets or whatever, you can make videos about violent fascists

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

By tomorrow morning, who knows, they may have even progressed to commenting on what happens when the 'line into disorder' has actually been crossed.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/09/2026

It's craven, it's politically stupid, and it's morally wrong. Number 10 does not struggle to get Andy Burnham in front of a camera when it wants him to be there. Every minute he's not on show over this is the result of a deliberate decision.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"I have will happily accept breezy reassurances about legality with no follow-up questions or even thought. Please make me prime minister."

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards?

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 02/09/2026

I think what really adds to the problem is seasons not having endings. I really enjoyed Pluribus but the experience is very much "I read six chapters of this book. I'll pick up chapter seven in 2028"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/09/2026

again, the knowledge that coverage like this now happens because of some people who call themselves feminists drives me insane - must everyone who happened to have been born a girl be seen through the lens of "but what about breastfeeding"? is that really what we're doing, again?

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What engineering firms want to be party to grevious bodily harm & death?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 30/08/2026

Trying to make local journalism works as a business is hard. That's why I'm proud to announce that London Centric is diversifying into the capital's ice cream trade. www.londoncentric.media/p/ice-cream-...

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Intimidation, illegality and Mr Whippy: We join London’s ice cream wars

London Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 29/08/2026

The Canadians, realizing they could completely destroy the Republican Party in November by shutting down oil exports and driving us gasoline to $9/gal

“The power of the sun in the palm of my hand” memes

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Jonathan English @englishrail.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My latest Infrastory post is a bit of mythbusting around Toronto transit. There are a lot of things that we've often heard repeated that aren't quite accurate when you dig into the documents. infrastory.substack.com/p/a-lot-of-c...

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A Lot of Conventional Wisdom about Toronto Transit is Wrong

A quick fact check on many of the ideas that have floated around for years.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Really annoyed that the Trump administration has made me support both Doug Ford and the Quebec Nationalists. Tabarnak!

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Distinguished American Economist Paul Krugman echoes what I said yesterday: "all indications are that the Canadians will be much more willing to bear the pain of a trade war than Americans will." #CanadaStong Full article: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The Moose That Roared

Why Trump will lose his war with Canada

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky

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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

en esta economía??????

nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Jules @jules111985.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change”

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the end, mindless trolls won’t take away what matters most’. Scorching, and spot on.

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Dope, a meme chamber @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you're a freelancer working in heritage, you're going to want to come to this! We're setting up a branch of @prospectunion.bsky.social, and this is our first meeting, open to members and non-members. This Thursday, online from 12-1. Register for a link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We are searching for creative academics who want to experiment with their engagement work and find new ways to share their research with a public audience. Apply now: bit.ly/43JR4oA

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.

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Hundreds slam proposals to turn car park into children's home in Bromley

Plans to build a children’s home on a car park in Bromley have been slammed by nearby residents who call the current parking situation “a…

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Have the British public always been so self centred? I’m staggered by how many people I’ve seen saying ‘I don’t use buses so what good is that?’ Or ‘pubs aren’t for me so who cares?’ Millions of people do use each and they are both pretty vital for our economy and society

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The British government is still on X

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/07/2026

I am a climate scientist and, same.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

there's only so much you can do with northern ontario given the size

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Advance notice of the British Academy reports published to be tomorrow (Wednesday) and their findings. It does not make happy reading if you value UK higher education and research.

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's been a point that's been argued to a brick-wall my entire professional life but if you take a cold hard look at the relative successes, compounding economic benefits, and global standing of British industries the treatment of the performing arts is a completely mad kind of self harm

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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I really need people to understand that being shitty to women is not separate from a person's politics. Contempt for those seen as weaker, resentment towards people who get something you think you're entitled to, using power to dominate or intimidate—these are the foundations of someone's"politics."

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