Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026@sathnam.bsky.social’s ‘Tonight the Music seems so loud’ is a magnificent book. It is life affirming in parts, troubling throughout - and a reminder of the joy that George Michael’s music still brings. Like the author I too ‘am grateful that George Michael has been the soundtrack to my life’. 040
Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Very excited to read @sathnam.bsky.social book about George Michael which arrived yesterday. 020
Reposted by Tom LawsonSathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 11/03/2026A compromise we can all get behind surely 301054152
Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025This is a slightly odd story - isn't the sentence identified just wrong rather than a question of interpretative nuance? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...theguardian.comImperial War Museum rejects criticism of caption in Holocaust displayVisitor to museum and two eminent historians say wording of information board on Nuremberg race laws is incorrect 160
Reposted by Tom LawsonDr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Wondering what @tgplawson.bsky.social makes of this news? Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comInquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous AustraliansIt is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021. 022
Reposted by Tom LawsonYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 12/06/2025The truth is brutal and horrible, but we need to be honest. The memory culture of one genocide - the Holocaust - has made it difficult for many to recognize and stop another genocide - the eradication of the Gaza Strip. 310125
Reposted by Tom LawsonNicky Bandini @nickybandini.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Arsenal losing at home and needing to go to France and turn things around in a Champions League semi final second leg? We know it can be done 3388394
Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This might just be straight in at number 1 in the books I wish I had written list... although I would have called it 'did you cover your eyes when they told you' or 'all God's children crept out the back door'. 000
Reposted by Tom LawsonAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/02/20251/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comMore than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher 214455
Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Here’s a pretty sobering start to the day…foreignaffairs.comThe Path to American AuthoritarianismWhat comes after democratic breakdown. 222
Reposted by Tom LawsonChris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Growing numbers of post-92 universities likely to pull out of collective pay bargaining if they remain compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics, warns @tgplawson.bsky.social in @hepi-news.bsky.social blog www.timeshighereducation.com/news/post-92...timeshighereducation.comPost-92s ‘may quit collective pay bargaining without TPS opt-out’Northumbria leaders say modern universities will be forced to rein in pay rises if they are compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics 032
Reposted by Tom LawsonHigher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Read the original blog here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...hepi.ac.ukUniversities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPIThe disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities. 022
Reposted by Tom LawsonHigher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social · 06/01/2025New: Leaders at Northumbria University argue the time to reform the Teachers Pension Scheme is now. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...hepi.ac.ukUniversities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPIThe disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities. 045
Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I wrote this with my colleague on one of the most pressing issues that some UK universities are facing at the moment: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...hepi.ac.ukUniversities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPIThe disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities. 051
Reposted by Tom LawsonVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs… 19248202129
Reposted by Tom LawsonWonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe heads back to Darlington and worries the civic agenda is becoming a bit too distant, a bit too middle class, and a bit too removed from the lives of people in the communities it seeks to impact. buff.ly/402xYcg 113
Reposted by Tom LawsonGeoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Massive away win for the little fella. 573584019608
Reposted by Tom LawsonTim Grady @tlgrady68.bsky.social · 02/12/2024PhD Fully Funded Scholarship Opportunity! Anyone fancy writing on the history of war graves and commemoration? We have a great collaborative PhD lined up with Chester and @cwgc.bsky.social Full details here or DM me: www.chester.ac.uk/study/resear...chester.ac.ukThe Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Commemoration and International Relations | University of Chester 44552
Reposted by Tom LawsonThe Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024📍 Have you discovered the stories revealed by our online Refugee Map? An interactive window into our unique family papers collections... bit.ly/3qnEskI 094
Reposted by Tom LawsonAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/11/2024We are on @bsky.app. Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz. Repost please. 16564273899