Reposted by Jack McGowanHelen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 23hWe shouldn't have a Quiet Carriage on the train. We should have a NoisyCcarriage. If you want to watch or listen to the phone without headphones, or have loud and never-ending conversations, you go and sit in the Noisy Carriage. The rest of the train is de facto Quiet. Who's with me? 2026429
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A glimmer of hope: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.com‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells usThe year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive 000
Reposted by Jack McGowanAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s time for a zero tolerance crack down on far right thugs. They’re costing the taxpayer, soaking up police resources, intimidating peaceful communities & delaying the measures that are reducing the asylum backlog & its cost. Enough is enough. End the menace. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comFar-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboardThomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover 822870
Reposted by Jack McGowanJames O'Flynn @jamesoflynn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026'Tax Exile' is a stupid phrase. It sounds like defiance in the face of tyranny, or principled martyrdom. The guy moved abroad to avoid paying taxes in Britain. Just call him 'a man who moved abroad to avoid paying taxes in Britain'. 97014
Reposted by Jack McGowanDaniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: 13597704
Reposted by Jack McGowanhaversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 14/09/2026London I love you. By the activist group Everyone Hates Elon, across the tube network 015941
Reposted by Jack McGowanMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828. 142135262191
Reposted by Jack McGowanMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.” 6342221020
Reposted by Jack McGowanJohn Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It is utterly deplorable that a housing project in Glasgow was deliberately set on fire because of racist misinformation spread online. Those responsible will be fully pursued and will face justice. Let's unite against racism and lies that seek to break our communities apart. 417955
Reposted by Jack McGowanRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵) 4123751265
Reposted by Jack McGowanPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised 19835351084
Reposted by Jack McGowanSnigdha @snig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners are very unhappy that Nigel Farage used their music at the Reform party conference. 521957595
Reposted by Jack McGowanJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Re-upping this... 13516306
Reposted by Jack McGowanHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Ladybird wisdom ‘Sounds’ (1975) Artist: BH Robinson 2035649
Reposted by Jack McGowanMira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If I had a nickel every time a European far right party was exposed for ties to russia and attempts to destabilize Europe from within I’d have a lot of nickels and I’d buy Patriot batteries for Ukraine 10678180
Reposted by Jack McGowanBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️ 9496176
Reposted by Jack McGowanParis Marx @parismarx.com · 27/08/2026how long until google renames the lake but only for americans? 91048
Reposted by Jack McGowanDr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Gonna start an open letter against academics signing open letters. 3348
Reposted by Jack McGowanAndrew Brook @andrewbrook.bsky.social · 16/08/2026What is Lisa Nandy up to? Is she so afraid of her own electorate that she can’t do her job, and what on earth made Andy Burnham leave her in place? Neighbourly friendship? 1171
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The most effective second place result in a by-election since Roy Jenkins at Warrington in 1981? 010
Reposted by Jack McGowanNostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026At least Bobby Sands had a legitimate reason to not turn up to his declaration 1271
Reposted by Jack McGowanGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Ah yes, Clearing, the process by which eight to twelve Big Universities simply eat all the other unis. (1/2) 88024
Reposted by Jack McGowanPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve. 12664811527
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026'Could you put that in, like, American political terms?' 👏👏👏 000
Reposted by Jack McGowanKate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This. Our recent survey found that 70% of people felt they would find it difficult or impossible to avoid AI even if they wanted to. We cannot meaningfully consent to something that is baked into everything by default, whether it's used by us or on us. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/over-40...kcl.ac.ukOver 40% of people are limiting AI use, as popularity starts to wane | King's College LondonPeople are increasingly choosing to limit or reject the use of AI tools, according to a new report published today by the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London and Responsible AI UK. 45820
Reposted by Jack McGowanPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We’ve gone from wondering which universities might fail to wondering who might buy themft.comEuropean education group eyes takeovers of UK universitiesBritain ‘an appealing market’ for long-term investment, says Galileo chief 34829
Reposted by Jack McGowanAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comNorfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plansHomes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford 13623071011
Reposted by Jack McGowanRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms 28649182
Reposted by Jack McGowanBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.ft.comLabour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head saysLSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance 9671278
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I've just signed "Open University, stop advertising on Rupert Murdoch's Talk Radio" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/op... @StopFundingHateactionstorm.org 000
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Satire is dead. Non-action Nandy, 'promotion' for Sarwar, and now this: 000
Reposted by Jack McGowanDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I'm not sorry to see Anas Sarwar stand down as Scottish Labour leader; I think he should have done so immediately following the disastrous loss in May. But doing it now to take up a junior ministerial job in Westminster sends a terrible message about what Labour thinks of Scotland. Really terrible. 109827
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Minister for AI 'to attend Cabinet'. Jeez. If only Callaghan had made Hattersley Sec of State for 8-Track Cartridges, or Blair had appointed Hazel Blears Minister for MiniDiscs. 000
Reposted by Jack McGowanPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Has she glued herself to a painting? 4283
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Rewiring the British state? Circuit-breaker moment? Why not not give anyone the ridiculous title Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster? In fact, just pass the Duchy. On the left-hand side. 011
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I seem to be seeing and hearing more of Neil Kinnock than at any time since 1992. Does he have a new agent? 100
Reposted by Jack McGowanPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming… 15996386
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I've had negative feelings about the Burnham coronation from the outset. Every day they get worse. I hope I'm wrong. Time will tell - but time is a luxury they/we do not have. 000
Reposted by Jack McGowanAlison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 14/07/2026“nearly 4,000 academic posts in social sciences, humanities and the arts have been axed in one year alone”theguardian.comHumanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universitiesExclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year 1814
Reposted by Jack McGowanLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025Farage: epic grifter 25386804719
Reposted by Jack McGowanPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026It's exhausting. 11504141
Reposted by Jack McGowanLauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026futurism.com/future-socie... lol 178105252958
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I feel very uncomfortable about all of this. Even contemplating hiring Everton stadium (if true) would confirm the negative 'Kinnock at Sheffield' vibes. Dignified conduct and intellectual maturity seem finally to have been defeated. It doesn't bode well. 110
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Absolutely this, and for several years. The biggest difference north and south of the border is that HE destruction has been making national front pages and TV in Scotland for some time while being wilfully ignored in England: 020
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026c.org/5BcvyzQ2cpc.orgSign the PetitionStop Redundancies at the University of Exeter 000