Mary Corcoran

@marycorcoran.bsky.social

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Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice.

‘Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine’: The people live in each other’s shadows. .. more

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · Mar 7

TweedleDumb & TweedleSly
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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing to see here….! 👍🏼

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 3h

Can you imagine the people who have to live/work/be around with these saddoes! They’ve no other life than to kvetch about others. Pity ‘em & block the feckers.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent discussion of how university siting needs long-term and holistic planning and sustainable investment. Instead, we get short-term start-up funding and then new campuses are exposed to full market conditions. Not surprisingly, most close, leaving educational ‘cold spots’ in a worse place.

Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 4h

Last week on Wonkhe: Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education

Whatever happened to the New Universities Challenge?

Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 4h

In Ukraine the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, even the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption

The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 4h

Whatever happened to the New Universities Challenge?

Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education

buff.ly

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 5h

Pity she wasn’t given a speaking slot, which would put her under pressure to actually speak to policy & performance & report what she’s doing for Wales.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 5h

Business got used to the idea that skills training & education would be paid for from the public purse or by students themselves. They bought into the idea of mobile supply of ready trained labour. Society incl employers having to get their heads around the fact that workforce > a necessary cost.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 5h

Yes. It’s been very expedient for successive governments & employer cohorts to ‘park’ people on NEETS or disability categories. It costs investment to build the workforce; employers used to have apprenticeships (costing £££) & FE/HE took up the slack. Businesses will always complain it’s too dear.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 6h

Supposedly Leftish indeed! I am hearing lots about young workers being edged out by employers’ preference for older ‘more reliable’ employees. Yet we are also told that older workers are exiting the workforce early in record numbers. So, which is it?

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 10h

Like them or loathe this is an excellent initiative by the government to help young people into work and learn a trade..

Odd tho that self proclaimed “People’s Party” leader Farage says young people get paid too much and he wants to cut the minimum wage 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

Young people on benefits to be offered construction and hospitality work

The government says it will fund training and work experience for 350,000 not in work or education.

www.bbc.co.uk

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 11h

And, of course, the fact that a highly paid ‘senior’ political correspondent is only now turning from mischief-making to ACTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS 🧐

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 11h

Noting that the article is nearly 10 years old(but the current trajectories are similar, I agree). Could upturn with focus on improving youth life chances.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 11h

Thing is, as a new immigrant, I was in the hotel jobs with Irish, Filipinos, Spanish, Italians etc. No Londoners would take them, Northern English took those jobs as Thatcherism destroyed their home towns & cities.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 11h

I’d be f*cked by current U.K. immigration thresholds: started off in hospitality industry; agency work; self-employed painter & decorator (funded me through a BA & MA). PhD scholarship to academic career. That wouldn’t happen now. Govs forget that people start low & then grow business or careers.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 14h

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A screenshot of a social media post from a parody account styled as a governor’s press office. The post uses all caps and mocks a political figure by describing a fake award in exaggerated, insulting language. Below it is another post sharing a short video clip from a televised event at the Kennedy Center. In the video still a man in a suit is being given a large decorative medal by another man while cameras and a news chyron run along the bottom. The scene takes place on a stage with a blurred backdrop.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 22h

Eat up, pay up, f*ck off’ atmospheric.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 22h

Tell that to the Poles, the Nordic & Baltic states. They’re on the frontline.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 22h

Wipe your nostrils, you shysters, before you piss away granny’s savings again.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

(Liberal) Europe has very recent history of dictatorship & autocratic violence. 1/3 citizens also want to FAFO like MAGA. But contemporary neofascist right is fundamentally radicalised and financed from the USA.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

Some differences: Fascism followed economic catastrophe; European countries were competitive imperial powers or outright hostile to each other; America was not fanning the flames & direct encouraging Hitler, Mussolini, Franco. Today US is destroying its legacy on another continent.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

I fear further strain in US-European relations.

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Eter Turadze @eturadze.bsky.social · 1d

“The regime is poisoning us—there must be an international investigation”: Protesters block central Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the 374th consecutive day.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

He’s got 9 million new wheels. I wouldn’t write #deform off. Too many well off oligarchs or edited to grease his palm and buy up space for public discourse.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

The door is shut. USA currently a hostile entity. The only reason European nations need to keep things smooth currently is to minimise the US sellout (sell off?) of Ukraine. Nations have come back from parish status before, & hopefully the US will rejoin international community in time.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously not if she’s married to him!

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

Again, you nail it! The Right at purveyors of nostalgia, not credible futures. Would that the current Labour government recall its Wilsonian legacy to back a forward looking industrial strategy… not that Wilson got it all right, but he saw the potential of tech modernisation.

Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

Your short comment alone skewers the Ill-informed views of Jenrick, who wishes to lead the party that did most to de-industrialise Britain. Wheres the strategy to move away from a rentier economy? Where’s the green industrial strategy? @conservatives.bsky.social are a waste of space.