Reposted by Andrew McRaeDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5hWho amongst us hasn't been tempted... 313118
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDale Vince @dalevince.com · 5hWas just explaining this to someone at Labour’s conference - Crown Estate owns the coast and seabed and charges for the use of it for green energy projects - pushing up energy bills. 56028
Reposted by Andrew McRaeJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day. 571763367
Reposted by Andrew McRaeHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/09/2026Man City have shown zero remorse and are still belittling the legal process. Hard to see how they can expect any leniency. 5143452
Reposted by Andrew McRaeRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 201231442
Reposted by Andrew McRaeJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rally is as packed as anything I've been to at Conferance - with a huge range of excellent, passionate speakers. The fight back against the EHRC guidance and to rebuild trans rights starts here. 1617726
Reposted by Andrew McRaeIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth. 87782157
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An appeal for the UK HE English community: I’m convening a panel for the @univeng.bsky.social OGM, 11/12, for people coordinating REF2029 returns for UoA2029 (or for a cognate sub-panel, but including English lit/lang researchers). Contact me if you’d like to contribute. 112
Reposted by Andrew McRaeBell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable. 28134
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This piece exposes a university business model unlike any other in the UK. 20% of UGs are Americans! No redundancies there, then. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.com‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classismOnline comments reflect class tensions at Scottish university between those from lower-income families and wealthier US undergraduates 100
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDavid Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...wonkhe.comGraduates now cover 84 per cent of the cost of a degreeThe effects of little-noticed threshold freezes 002
Reposted by Andrew McRaeScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.cnn.comFBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN PoliticsThe FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with... 281558900
Reposted by Andrew McRaeEn Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...lrb.co.ukLorna Finlayson | Public PositionsIn much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as... 621672
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is so completely mad, it reads like an April 1 story. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comBacklash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle UniversityRole for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity 110
Reposted by Andrew McRaeJohn Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky 40432237
Reposted by Andrew McRaeAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and crueltybbc.co.ukMost migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025. 14531178
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHome Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in KentUsually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025. 44949318
Reposted by Andrew McRaeBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026something has gone very, very wrong with the UK 1143334751
Reposted by Andrew McRaeTom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble 331460372
Reposted by Andrew McRaePeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026‘If converted into registrations, that fall in [international student] applications would represent a loss of about £416 million of income per annum for the university sector’timeshighereducation.comV-cs seek answers over ‘late surge’ in UK student visa refusalsGrowing numbers of institutions expected to have breached new compliance rules, endangering future recruitment prospects 104
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026‘Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, shared a YouTube livestream of the boat from the Channel.’ Seriously, how obvious does far-right crime need to be before the BBC reports it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west. 140
Reposted by Andrew McRaeBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron 133105992480
Reposted by Andrew McRaePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either. 381081332
Reposted by Andrew McRaesianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Asylum seeking people don’t have the freedom to work, they don’t even have the freedom to shop using cash or choose where to shop, in temp accommodation they don’t have the freedom to cook or choose their own food - honestly this headline is batshit 1631202
Reposted by Andrew McRaeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit" 2412218545338
Reposted by Andrew McRaeChris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation,[between 2016-17 and 2023-24] increasing only 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX [measure of inflation]” Substantial real terms pay cut, which continues a trend existing years before that…gov.ukCost of undergraduate provision and qualifications in EnglandA study of the full economic cost of providing undergraduate-level higher education and other qualifications in England. 65538
Reposted by Andrew McRaePriyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Please gods, a metaphor 1253
Reposted by Andrew McRaePeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136422893
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026He could have quite explicitly stated that they don't, because they don't. This isn't an area to go "oh people think". We have the evidence. They just don't. If you want to claim to be a progressive, liberal, party, you have to actually challenge right wing, predominantly, lies and scare mongering. 615066
Reposted by Andrew McRaeMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Trump posts that his arch will be a "military complex" for drones and snipers. Really. 4 possibilities: 1. He's using national security as an argument for the arch, as he did with the ballroom. 2. He's prepping Fortress DC for when he refuses to leave office. 3. He's insane. 4. All of the above. 67538165
Reposted by Andrew McRaePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s surprisingly common to believe that Russia/Ukraine is about good and evil, whereas Israel/Palestine is just political. 89723
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There are a raft of security checks which people seeking asylum go through, as part of a highly intrusive asylum system. This is pandering to far/hard right talking points of people seeking safety being threats, even if more obliquely than others. 17917
Reposted by Andrew McRaeTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?ft.comUK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in BritainBetfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects 93610149
Reposted by Andrew McRaeSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026While rightwing media nods approvingly at the prejudiced outcry in Piddington, a RNLI station has to close because of white British thuggery and threats. This is where the constantly toxic obsession with immigration leads. To racist, flag-wielding vigilantism that ruins this country for everyone. 44779299
Reposted by Andrew McRaePeter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comFormer student of suspended Reform official ‘reopens case’ against University of CambridgeCambridge previously paid £5,000 compensation after an investigation partially upheld allegations against Dr James Orr 023
Reposted by Andrew McRaeOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...oxfordmail.co.ukSoldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilianBradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders 851352442
Reposted by Andrew McRaeTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026😂 the Trump White House *are* the radical right. It is a personalist authoritarian regime. In their strategy documents they say they seek to pursue ethnonationism in Europe. They are not going to help us! 1315946
Reposted by Andrew McRaeIman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So excited for this publication coming out from @edinburghup.bsky.social and already available for pre-order. Thank you to the wonderful editors Professors Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus for the excellent work they’ve done here. So grateful to have my work included alongside such fabulous chapters! 273
Reposted by Andrew McRaeOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all. This is 1930s level stuff. 1191744355
Reposted by Andrew McRaeRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1062354688
Reposted by Andrew McRaePeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have since seen that the chair of Piddington parish council appealed to Elon Musk and Donald Trump for help. Appealing for help to someone found by a civil court to be a sex offender over fears of sex offences. 1217357
Reposted by Andrew McRaeRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 430115814857
Reposted by Andrew McRaeProf Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New research has determined that the pre-colonial Indigenous pop'n in #AUS was far more than previously thought. 2.22M. Over 90% of whom died (by disease & violence) in the 70 years after the invasion (1788). Cannot be denied that this was a genocidal process. theconversation.com/more-than-2-...theconversation.comMore than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new researchGenetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded. 22921
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The twists and turns in this exchange are a thing of rare comic beauty. 000
Reposted by Andrew McRaeMr B @mrbinexile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026About ten years ago I took drugs from a stranger in Germany and I'm pretty sure I'm still fucked up cause this cant be real life 412411
Reposted by Andrew McRaePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You should literally never believe a word Trump says. 57614
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This list of things the University of Brighton has de-recognised is insane 🤯🤯🤯 108249
Reposted by Andrew McRaeAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large... 15224451312