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Alex Prichard

@profalexp.bsky.social
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Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4) out now! Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 23h
"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the first UCU Brief on the failing HE funding model, authored by UCU VP @markpendleton.bsky.social, is out! This is exactly the sort of evidence and analysis we need to get in front of MPs and policymakers #UCU #UKHE educationitsours.org.uk/ucu-briefs/
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Evidence and analysis - Education. It's ours
UCU Briefs: the key evidence, analysis and policy proposals to make education truly ours.
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
140 years young—anarchism’s oldest press Editorial, Sep 27th The editorial from our bumper anniversary issue, now in print ~ Freedom News ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/27/1...
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140 years young—anarchism's oldest press - Freedom News
The editorial from our bumper anniversary issue, now in print ~ Freedom News ~ We’ve had a big anniversaries year in 2026.
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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What an honour to be part of this 140th anniversary issue of "Freedom" alongside Mike Finn, Sophie Scott Brown, Eric Laursen, Ruth Kinna, Rob Ray, Daniel Adediran, Donal O'Driscoll, Danny Evans, and Uri Gordon's interview with Barney Greenway of Napalm Death. freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/27/1...
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140 years young—anarchism's oldest press - Freedom News
The editorial from our bumper anniversary issue, now in print ~ Freedom News ~ We’ve had a big anniversaries year in 2026.
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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Being associated with anarchism and hence vilified even more is probably the last thing the RNLI needs atm - but this is a kind and thoughtful piece. Kropotkin’s lifeboats: Mutual aid VS welfare chauvinism freedomnews.org.uk/2026/09/21/k...
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Kropotkin’s lifeboats: Mutual aid VS welfare chauvinism - Freedom News
The RNLI’s cosmopolitan philosophy undermines a cornerstone of the far right’s worldview ~ Roderick McMillan ~ Royal.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good piece as usual, from Martin Samuel
thetimes.com
Man City verdict: A great victory — but ‘best league in world’ reduced to rubble
Good guys may have won in case against Man City but losing everything in resulting reputational dumpster fire means there is very little to celebrate
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Philip Ruff @ruffphilip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RIP, Barry Pateman - even Valhalla needs a librarian! 💔 #absentfriends
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Jamie ⚽️ @jayloveslfc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And our next game is at home. To Manchester City. I'm sure the fans won't bring it up at all 😂😂 #lfc #Redsky #YNWA
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John Millard @johnmillard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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“You cheating ba*tards you know what you are” | United Fans Chants | Manchester Derby United vs City
YouTube video by Red EreMitis
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 22/09/2026
We are delighted that our member Madeleine Moore has been elected to a casual vacancy as UK-wide rep (HE) to UCU's NEC. Her term starts right now and will last until the end of Congress 2027, and her first engagement will be the HEC on 9 October. Well done Maddie! #UCU #UKHE
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Best branch co-chair you could hope for in a dispute, Michael Flexer, talks to Mark Pendleton, UCU VP about the dispute at Exeter this summer. 💪🏻
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 22/09/2026
The first episode of UCU's podcast has dropped! Featuring our very own @markpendleton.bsky.social ! Links to listen are in the original post.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Dyfrig Jones UCU President talking about the #EducationItsOurs campaign in our new podcast - No Shortcuts 🎙️
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/09/2026
In our latest branch solidarity update video, UCU vice president Mark Pendleton hears about the latest at @exeterucu.bsky.social ehere members are organising and fighting back against job cuts, high workload and poor management
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Centre of Advanced International Studies @cais-exeter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join us for the launch of Kinna and Prichard’s new book Constitutionalising Anarchy, on the 30th of September. This is a joint event with the Centre for Political Thought, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the book. Online attendance encouraged and registration at the link below.
sites.exeter.ac.uk
Book Launch on 30 September 2026: Constitutionalising Anarchy by Ruth Kinna and Alex Prichard
Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 15:30 - 17:30, Streatham Court Lecture Theatre B, University of Exeter Organised by The Centre for Political Thought and the Centre for Advanced International Studies  Th...
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Corvus Editions @humanispherian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Documentation from one of Proudhon's unpublished Carnets — now digitized in the BNF collections — of a meeting between P.-J. Proudhon and William Batchelder Greene: www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/featured-art...
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William Batchelder Greene pays a visit to P.-J. Proudhon - The Libertarian Labyrinth
We know surprisingly little about the details of the life of William Batchelder Greene. We know that he was an impressive character: handsome, intelligent, but eccentric, a bit tragic. People noticed ...
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m delighted to say that Constitutionalising Anarchy is finally available on Cambridge Core! Huge thanks to the CUP team for this, to the LSE International Studies editorial team as well, and of course to all our generous reviewers! It’s open access! So download to your heart’s content!!
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Constitutionalising Anarchy
Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Constitutionalising Anarchy
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a great short interview with Colva Roney-Dougal about AI solving maths difficult problems. Depressing, but hopeful too.
theguardian.com
Open AI and the million-dollar maths problem - video
In early September, OpenAI announced it had solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century. The news left mathematicians reeling, and many expressed concern over what ...
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hi, #UCU. UCU's Anti-casualisation committee are running an Equality & Anticas webinar on 23rd September, at 12.30pm and 5pm. Come and hear from chair Ben Pope, and speakers Suzi Toole, Andy Ward and Kevin Daws. Links to register and more info in linked post. Please share and pass to contacts!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The university management proposes that the Falmer campus, opened with great fanfare less than 2 years ago and housing the medical school, health, education, sport and health programmes, is to close. University crisis? What crisis? Is this what 'stabilising' the sector looks like?
brighton.ac.uk
University of Brighton marks beginning of new era in the city
New and returning students began their studies this week at our three campuses across Brighton at the beginning of a new era for the institution.
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join us in London on 23rd October for the launch of Ruth Kinna & @profalexp.bsky.social's 'Constitutionalising Anarchy'. With Simon Choat & Kimberly Hutchings we will discuss this reconstruction of 150 years of anarchist constitutional theory isrf.org/events/constitutionalising…
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Only 12 signatures away from 40k!! While we may have fought off compulsory redundancies, we need to keep up the pressure on senior management for governance change, and maintain the public visibility of our campaign to use this effectively for the wider sector.
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you to the #TUC26 President Steve Gillan for such a clear expression of solidarity with Brighton UCU from the chair of conference and especially for asking that delegates who are able show their support for the demo. @ucu.org.uk delegates are on our way 🪧🪧🪧
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Daniel 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:
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
London based peeps! Put the 23rd of October in your diaries and come along for some good chat!
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ISRF Book Launch Announcement: Constitutionalising Anarchy
Join us on 23rd October, at the Bishopsgate Institute in London, to celebrate the publication of Ruth Kinna & Alex Prichard’s 'Constitutionalising Anarchy'.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Legalease strike - Unite London Digital & Tech branch
Legal500 staff take strike action as the company refuses a total pay increase of less than half the CEO's annual salary.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026
UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#confederate
theguardian.com
Westminster’s time is coming to an end, say first ministers of UK’s Celtic nations
Leaders in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland discuss independence and call for constitutional change at summit
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We will be launching Constitutionalising Anarchy at the University of Exeter the 30th of September. Zoom and registration link for those who can’t attend in person below. Thanks to the Centre for Political Thought and @cais-exeter.bsky.social for supporting the event. @spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social
sites.exeter.ac.uk
Book Talk on 30 September 2026: Constitutionalising Anarchy by Ruth Kinna and Alex Prichard
Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 15:30 - 17:30, Streatham Court Lecture Theatre B, University of Exeter Organised by The Centre for Political Thought and the Centre for Advanced International Studies  The Book launch will be followed
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ex MI5 agent works for Tommy Robinson. Some of those who work forces Are the same that burn crosses hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-secr...
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Lennon's Secret Agent
A former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying ...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Russian oligarch and close personal friend of Putin Umar Kremlev secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr’s May wedding in the Bahamas, ProPublica reports. Kremlev and several other Russians were among the 50 guests.
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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In 2021 the Japanese group Posse published the translation of my Generation Left book. Late last year they interviewed me for their eponymously named journal on how the thesis in the book had fared in the years since publication. I've just published an extract on my Substack.
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Whatever Happened to Generation Left?
In 2021 the Japanese group Posse organised the publication of my Generation Left book in Japanese.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 12/09/2026
More than a festival. More than a day out. Black On The Square puts Black culture and creativity centre stage in the heart of the capital.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📣 Our #BISA2027 call and homepage is OPEN NOW 📣 'Fragmenting orders, shared futures: Global politics in turbulent times' 🌍 Have a look at our call down below - submissions for papers open on the 28th of September 🌟 Find out more here - we are so excited to see you there 👉 ow.ly/Irtg50ZMtXe
BISA logo, Manchester skyline, Conference 2027
Manchester, UK
Fragmenting orders, shared futures:
Global politics in turbulent times
Call for papers out now
Website: conference.bisa.ac.uk
Submissions open:
28 September
16-18 June
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seeing this latest from Patriot Platform, with Thomas promising to pay masked paramilitaries day rates for attendance while cops stand impassively a few feet away, I'm seriously wondering if the left should start using "patriot" in group names when taking direct action. Incredible.
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When the thing we oppose is obvious, when all other avenues have been exhausted, when the message is clear, and solidarity is palpable, when leadership and membership work together, when committee let a 1000 flowers bloom, members vote. 1000 members battled to defend 500 at risk (many not in UCU).
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Are we Goliath now?
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That chonky turnout!
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredible mobilisation across the institution, in all faculties and PS divisions. This is a resounding statement of industrial strength. Now we have to decide what to do with it!! 😂 With compulsory redundancies off the table already, tomorrow’s EGM will be interesting. There’s power in the Union! ✊🏻
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 09/09/2026
University of Exeter staff have delivered a huge mandate to keep fighting cuts. 91% voted for industrial action on a 74% turnout. The fight to defend jobs and education at Exeter continues.
ucu.org.uk
University of Exeter staff back industrial action in redundancy fight
Staff at the University of Exeter have overwhelmingly backed a mandate for industrial action in a battle to save jobs, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced today.
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David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New in the Critical Powers series
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 09/09/2026
Newsletter #26! Including: goodbye to @vthuppil.bsky.social from NEC (😭), cas vacancy elections, @exeterucu.bsky.social news, UCU equality & anticas events, devolved nations HE funding, Lincoln Bishop's takeover, OfS v Sussex, & VCs at Reform conference (🤮) #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/ucu-commons-...
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UCU Commons newsletter #26, 9 September 2026
Dear subscriber Welcome to the UCU Commons newsletter, a curated set of links and information about what's happening in UCU Commons, our union, and our sectors more generally. As always, we welcome a...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Picture of Farage:

Trades Union Congress • @The_T... 1h Ø
Boss making you resign to save himself?
Join a union.
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 04/09/2026
NEWS! Mixologists agree to rename Guinness with a champagne top as ‘The Grifter’ newsthump.com/2026/09/04/m...
newsthump.com
Mixologists agree to rename Guinness with a champagne top as ‘The Grifter’
In honour of Nigel Farage, mixologists around the country have renamed the Guinness and champagne cocktail ‘Black Velvet’ to ‘The Grifter’.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Our public services are being cut while military spending rises. We need investment in decent jobs, health, education, housing and social care, not more money for war. Back UCU’s Wages Not Weapons campaign and sign the petition: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/wages-not-we...
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Wages not weapons: Peace not war
Support UCU’s call to advance a vision of a lasting security based on decent jobs, quality public services, equality, climate action, democracy and peace.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good piece this, worth reading in full if you can access it. Identifies (among other issues) OfS's 'multiple failures to correctly interpret the law related to freedom of speech and academic freedom and to understand the scope of its own regulatory powers', disproportionate cost/time, publicity.
timeshighereducation.com
The OfS’ response to its legal defeat is welcome but puzzling
A “no surprises” approach to regulation is good, but there was no surprise in the Sussex case because it was predetermined, says Sasha Roseneil
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And if it’s not foreign money, it’s local parasites. This piece is a must read for anyone concerned with the HE funding crisis. @jimdickinson.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/whose-...
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Whose universities are they anyway?
As Andy Burnham rails against the privatisations of the past, Jim Dickinson reviews the corporate takeover of a 164 year old university in Lincolnshire
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 04/09/2026
Two year update: reader, Farage has not coped well with scrutiny of his conduct and finances and has done no constituency work.
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David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Excellent news. Management backed down before the strike ballot even closed. Congratulations to Exeter UCU. This is why union membership and solidarity is so important. #UCU
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