Reposted by Andrew McRaeSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15hWith each additional news report following yesterday's shocking announcement, it will become even clearer which side of the war in Europe America is now on 40442163
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death 554244846
Reposted by Andrew McRaeTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Well, I never did”, as my dad used to say. 12418124
Reposted by Andrew McRaeRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country. 2067161235605
Reposted by Andrew McRaeMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Badenoch is more popular than her party in the way that being kicked in the crotch is preferable to beheading.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/kemi-charm...brokenbottleboy.substack.comKemi-charmed lifePraise for Kemi Badenoch’s Tory party conference speech shows the British right-wing press engaged in an act of collective fantasy. 1317936
Reposted by Andrew McRaeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports 349352451093
Reposted by Andrew McRaeTaylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Our book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England has turned one. They grow up so fast! 🎂 This blogpost marks the publication anniversary with a brisk walk through the labours & fruits of #earlymodern #autumn 🍎🍺🐂👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2025/11/20/t... #historydrtayloraucoin.comThe Autumnal Experience of Work in Early Modern EnglandThis post is part of a series marking the print and online Open Access (free) publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, … 14318
Reposted by Andrew McRaeMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 05/10/2026This is the political economic trade-off in our space: politics (time devoted to critiquing AI, developing policies for handling it) vs. pleasure (reading and teaching literature). And that’s what AI, along with every other bureaucratic incursion, ends up taking away from us. eve.gd/2026/10/05/m...eve.gdMy View on AI and University-Level English Literature 34118
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It includes this stunning description of Raise the Colours. Better late than never - and pity it’s left to p. 7. 000
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The only problem with this story is that the Guardian editors didn’t splash it across page 1. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.com‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrolsSeven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement 120
Reposted by Andrew McRaeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?" 23556861299
Reposted by Andrew McRaeRev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just looking at the Future Nottingham program and spotting that one of its planks is 'our Tutoring for Students Success initiative will replace traditional one-to-one personal tutoring'. Namely, breaking the link between pastoral support in a department and a student. I have VIEWS.nottingham.ac.uk News - Shaping Nottingham's future - University of Nottingham Over the past two years, we have been developing a clear plan to strengthen our organisation for the future. Known as Future Nottingham, the aim is to create a university that is more focused in its a... 2185
Reposted by Andrew McRaeMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.timeshighereducation.comNottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affectedLanguages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans 8267199
Reposted by Andrew McRaeOnni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/202641% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking. 1617186
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In an ideal world, the way Musk wants to perceive himself might differ from the way our left-wing newspaper chooses to depict him. Too much to ask? 001
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This man’s reckless, inhumane actions have caused untold death and suffering across the world. Is this really an appropriate image for the Guardian? 131
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Lectures in ethics, of course - possibly entirely unpaid. 🤷♂️ 1130
Reposted by Andrew McRaeProf. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026An English Literature degree (broadly defined) is underpinned by so-called soft skills 041
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who amongst us hasn't been tempted... 541895
Reposted by Andrew McRaeDale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/10/2026Was 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. 710448
Reposted by Andrew McRaeJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day. 581793374
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. 5143753
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”. 231356486
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
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This thread offers a glimmer of hope. bsky.app/profile/heta... 020
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. 88784157
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. 28135
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026But with that income, surely comes greater responsibility for campus culture. Classism is insidious; I’ve seen it at multiple unis, not least my own. I’m not sure a casual assurance from the vice-principal that students may bring prejudices but ‘tend not to leave with them’ really cuts it. 010
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
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#wato just assured us they ‘look like … British men’. 🤔 010
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... 281557899
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 · 24/09/2026And if it really is as simple as ‘rich guy buys an academic title with £millions’, somebody very senior needs to go. 030
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 40435241
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 1143332751
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 134106512499
Reposted by Andrew McRaePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either. 381081332