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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.

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arnie @arnie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

andy burnham was an op used to prevent increasing support for a left wing alternative among predominantly 'normie libs' who had even begun to realise how shit starmer, who was also an op, was

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our government thinks you're a terrorist if you protest this.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They treat those who seek peace as a threat to the public realm, while throwing a defensive cordon around those engaged in genocide. They treat environmental protesters as if they were antisocial thugs, while the antisocial thugs of the fossil fuel industry get a free pass to trash our lives.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not holding my breath, not least because the author of the worst of these polices, Yvette Cooper, is still in government, and her successor in the Home Office, Shabana Mahmood, has defended and extended her draconian anti-protest measures. And yes, these measures really are mad and bad.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not as if Burnham and Miliband are radicals. It's not as if the UK has stopped providing weapons, surveillance and logistical support to a government pursuing genocide. But at least we begin to see some acknowledgement that it's not mad and bad to care about the lives of Palestinians.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spot on on the cancel culture framing

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Plot twist: Britain was an Imperial power because of the 'tism. Much better story if you ask me.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You might ask yourself “whose side are they on?”. You might not like the answer, but it becomes hard to deny. So why? Why, when we know that appeasing the far right empowers and builds it, do they keep doing it, alienating their base and helping to deliver the country to Reform or Restore?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So the favourite obsession of the far right, being weaponised by US billionaires to push us towards their technofascist dystopia, is repeatedly legitimised by a Labour government. Other concerns, including the longstanding concerns of the left, are vilified and delegitimised.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“…would be offered help according to a “holistic” assessment of their needs” Can’t think where I’ve heard that before…🤔 Oh wait… And we know where that leads.

The Health Department's minister of state for secondary care, Karin Smyth, said during a Tuesday (13 January) Commons debate, the Government has supported plans to move away from the "medical intervention model" when providing care for trans and non-binary young people.
Instead, it planned on moving towards a "holistic approach" to treatment based on evidence provided by the Cass Review - a controversial independent analysis into health care for trans youngsters in the UK.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Guardian has been at the forefront of the 'just asking questions' canard in pursuit of delegitimisation of all neurodiverse people. Don't think we can't see this. We know, and we will remember.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the really depressing things about being a jobbing academic moving between different unis (and there are a lot to pick from) is going from place to place seeing the same 'strategies' applied that have failed everywhere else you worked. Destroying programmes doesn't save universities.

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚀 Congratulations to former Durham PhD Giulia De Cesaris (2020), who has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project 'PeripaTOs – Recasting Aristotelianism'! 👏 The project proposes to study the Peripatetic school (from Theophrastus to Critolaus). 🔗 shorturl.at/45tUM

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10/09/2026

Handing NHS data to Palantir was always going to be a disaster for public trust. Now, tens of thousands are opting out and medical research is taking the hit. It’s time to scrap the deal. www.theguardian.com/society/2026/se…

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‘Mistrust’ of Palantir may affect NHS research, says health minister

James Frith says patients may be less willing to share data as new figures show a rise in opt-outs

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2026

So close and yet The far right's real weapon is the mainstream elite hyping it to distract from the crisis of democracy. It's not rising because it's popular or because immigration is a "legitimate concern", it's rising because it is being built as the only alternative by those currently in power

The Guardian view on the far right’s real weapon: it is the politics of powerlessness
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From Dover to Saxony-Anhalt, extremists thrive when voters believe established parties can no longer deliver security, prosperity or meaningful change

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 03/09/2026

Ben Delo, the crypto billionaire who funded Holocaust-revisionist neo-Nazi "bullies" in the High Court against their Jewish target (me), has just given Reform another £4 million. This is the scary state of UK politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2026

That's the thing really So many are apparently waking up to something that's been in the making for decades and studied and denounced by many who were discarded by the mainstream elite as "radicals" or "populists", equating them with the very politics they were trying to warn about...

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The arrogance and entitlement of Labour politicians truly knows no boundaries. Fortunately, there is no longer a tactical reason to vote Labour over Green in many districts, so that they can finally be punished for their disregard, disrespect, and open loathing of their own voters.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Brought to you by a guy complicit with genocide and several other war crimes.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: Nick Kale and the Pumpkin Seeds

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

From the very same people who bang on about protecting our statues even if we don't agree with them

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Last year we suffered through a Surrey manager's "lecture" about how we must be nicer to fascists, and stop being "snob". It was rubbish and shows how SMTs across the UK have no clue about who their workers are. A university that doesn't stand up to fascism is not worth defending or working for.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Without detracting from the failure of UUK's efforts, what would it mean if UK universities 'won over Reform'? What compromises would that entail? Binning the arts and humanities? Rejecting duties mandated by the Equalities act? Agreeing that only 30-ish universities should have funded research?

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UK universities fail to win over Reform

University leaders have spent months on a charm offensive aimed at gaining the support of the populist rightwing party

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Boom. UCU Exeter ballot results just in. 90.53% vote yes to strike, 73.85% turnout. This fight ain't over yet. #UCU

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, we have gone from the idea that central university management is there to support teaching and research to the idea that teaching and research are there to support ‘the university’. We must bring in more money, and not cost so much in doing it.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just so we're all clear on what is happening. This is not a protest, and these are not activists. This is a controlled escalation that is testing the limits of fascist legitimacy in civil society and the institutions' response. It's a paramilitary organised action that will not solve itself.

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No 10 condemns ‘thuggish’ far-right activists after Portsmouth unrest

Hundreds of men, some in balaclavas, try to prevent asylum seekers’ processing, two days after similar scenes in Dover

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aAaaAAAAAAda @oinkophobia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

contrary to fukuyama's final cop-out (that ennui might animate a return to history), we're being driven into a return to conflict because liberalism - both economic and political, to maintain a false separation that he himself maintains - is unsustainable materially

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/09/2026

Ofwat, Ofgem and Ofcom set caps on prices. They regulate the quality of service we get. They exert public influence on water, energy and Royal Mail That is public control. BUT we still see huge dividends for shareholders and poor, expensive services for us Public ownership is the only solution

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Using the reactionary category of "social contagion" is becoming really popular among the British commentariat. I did a short reconstruction of where it comes from here: bsky.app/profile/emiz...

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sabokat.bsky.social @sabokat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On October 4th 2026, we call on everyone to join the Autonomous Bloc at the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in East London.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Marina Hydeous from The Guardian. Behind the façade of humorous cynicism, there's always some sort of monstrosity.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📌 ICYMI: The Peter Thiel Backed Race Science Network There is a connection between the two Cambridge Professors. Orr was part of the ‘race realist’ group which targeted Arday as a ‘DEI hire’ Support our investigations

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 02/09/2026

If you're wondering how the cordon sanitaire is going in the UK, it's apparently ok now for prominent mainstream academics to sit on panels at far-right party conferences... This is yet another step in the process of mainstreaming and hegemonic defeatism

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In this week in the year 476, the insignificant boy-emperor Romulus (nicknamed Augustulus) was deposed by Odoacer, leader of the western Roman field army in Italy. This event has received notoriety as "the fall of the [western] Roman empire". A thread on one of the biggest Bad Ancient History takes.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The British Museum still hasn’t reversed its shameful erasure and there is a lot of misinformation flying around even though we’ve been talking about this for months, so here is a brief history of the term: Ancient Palestine ✊🏻🇵🇸

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An industrial dispute is the exercise of worker power. That has many aspects, but crucially everything we did was an attempt to avoid the need for a strike. But we started planning a strike ballot in week 2 as well. HR hoped we’d fail over the summer. We haven’t. Any strike will shut the Uni down.

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Kids never get into idealism or you'll spout out this stuff and accidentally provide legitimation for fascism every time you speak. Idealism is bad for you.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Absurd take born out of the outlandish epistemology that underpins all his interventions on the topic and the vagueness of his definition of fascism. Misrepresents the argument: you don't need the hyper. Socialdemocracy has the same structural contradictions. Pure liberal ideology.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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paranormal mattivity @windows98support.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wild that the Labour Party has valued children at £16.50 each.

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Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Clownish article from an old classicist who, unsurprisingly, didn't check a single piece of evidence before writing it and repeated debunked lies fabricated by the "racial realists". Infamy should be the price to write and publish such rubbish.

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