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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation When Mus unfurled the leaflet lying on her driveway, she was left shocked, angry and upset. “White Britons are already a minority in London … it is clear that if these trends continue white people will become a minority in Britain,” it read. The leaflet, written by a far-right group, was distributed along her street three years ago in Moseley, a leafy suburb of Birmingham. It went on to blame NHS waiting lists, a shortage of social housing and even traffic on “the rising population”. Continue reading...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 1h

The interior worlds of other people should matter to us. How else can we begin to understand how we are all connected? www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

The party once led by a novelist (Disraeli), a published philosopher (Balfour) and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Churchill), as well as someone who annually devoured Austen and Trollope (Macmillan), is now against English degrees.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 1h

“I think it’s important for white people to actually stand up and say, ‘no, I’m not having it’, now more than ever,” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

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'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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AuntyFaTX @thegoatmother.bsky.social · 1d

#Antifa #PortlandFrog #Amphifa #FuckAgentKrasnov

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oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social · 1d

#UKEd #EduSky
If as @DanWillingham explained in @teacherhead & @Emma_Turner75's Mind The Gap podcast last week, causal thinking is at the heart of effective teaching, learn more at my The Professional Mind presentation in Edinburgh.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also worth noting that no charges were laid against George Retes, but after he went public with his story DHS accused him of assault.

He vehemently denies the claim.

They clearly want to silence anyone who exposes the horrors inside these camps.

So we must get louder!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

What’s more, no one should be treated this way.

George is one of the “lucky” ones. They let him go.

There’s thousands of others who won’t be let out.

Who will be detained indefinitely. Who may become sick, disabled or die in custody.

Who are disappeared to foreign countries

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

He was finally released when DHS confirmed he was a US citizen, but his rights were stripped from him for three days.

Why? Because they don’t bother to confirm if someone is a citizen before they lock them up.

There’s no due process.

No accountability.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'It is no secret that student attendance has plummeted in recent years, with near-empty lecture halls a staple of the post-pandemic world.'

Really? I lecture to all our 1st years. Lecture hall is full, not near-empty. Student engagement picked up last year and (early days) seems stronger again. 1/2

Fiction ‘brings lectures to life’ as academics face empty classes

University ‘whodunnit’ inspired by attempts to tackle poor attendance as scholars look for novel ways to engage mainstream audiences

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 1d

Yep. Grateful I can afford it but restrictions, when NHS is designed to be free at point of use, seems wrong.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

I had no idea it was so costly!

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Bookshop Day! Go and support your local bookshop and help them resist the dominance of Amazon

And if you want personally signed and dedicated copies of any of my books, buy from the lovely Kirstie at @foxlanebooks.bsky.social

Fox Lane Books 🦊 (@foxlanebooks.bsky.social)

🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts...

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 1d

in tactics if the majority moderate voices what to keep their world stable or they may well see power seized from their grasp.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:"

“Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'prime minister Keir Starmer...confirmed that the University of Lancaster and the University of Surrey had been given approval to open new campuses in India while on a trade mission to Mumbai, joining six more institutions already in the country.' (Lancaster is mooting 20% academic redundancy) 1/3

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’.

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’ - Research Professional News

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 1d

I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 2d

#HistoryEducation

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

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Jen Turner @jenturnerhistory.bsky.social · 1d

This book looks terrific and the fact it’s open access is amazing! One of the strongest misconceptions children bring to the history classroom is that ‘women were just at home.’ Can’t wait to read this! 👏👏👏

Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 2d

#HistoryEducation

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 1d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... remember Johnson as PM? Nothing appears to have changed

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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