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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 3h

DWP lies exposed as minister admits they’re cutting Access to Work.
"Disabled people in the UK have been sounding the alarm about unofficial cuts, changes, and delays to the DWP Access to Work scheme since February 2024. The DWP has insisted that nothing has changed"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

DWP lies exposed as minister admits they're cutting Access to Work

The DWP has repeatedly denied it's cutting Access to Work - but an admission from a minister has now revealed the truth

www.thecanary.co

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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 5h

NHS waiting list in England is longer per head by quarter of a million patients and shockingly twice as long in Wales, than in Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/10/n...

NHS waiting list in England is longer per head by quarter of a million patients and shockingly twice as long in Wales, than in Scotland

Professor John Robertson OBA MSM Monitor, fast and effective as always, demolished the claims of Baillie and Sarwar yesterday. What are the most recent waiting list figures? Scotland – 718 00…

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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 8h

Why is Reporting Scotland still headlining the three-day-old news of ‘hundreds’ of operations cancelled in one NHS board when it never tells us of the month after month 98% of thousands completed across the country? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/10/w...

Why is Reporting Scotland still headlining the three-day-old news of ‘hundreds’ of operations cancelled in one NHS board when it never tells us of the month after month 98% of thousands completed acro...

with faulty sterilising equipment that’s led to the cancellation of hundreds of operations, is fixed. Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland’s insert in BBC Breakfast this morning op…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 3h

Ofcom has hired a new Director of Communications: former Remain campaigner and Labour adviser David Chaplin.
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Ofcom Hires Labour Stooge as Director of Communications

Ofcom has hired a new Director of Communications: former Remain campaigner and Labour adviser David Chaplin. Impartial comms to be expected? Chaplin began

order-order.com

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 5h

Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda

The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night.

But he schooled them all.
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Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda

The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all.

www.thecanary.co

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: A legal challenge has been launched in the Scottish courts to overturn the 'draconian' ban on Palestine Action

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4h

Children and young people have taken more than 250 million free bus journeys since the Scottish Government introduced free travel for those under 22

Young people embrace Scotland’s free bus travel with 250m journeys made since 2022

www.thenational.scot

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 4h

More money in your pocket, more opportunities, fewer emissions.

I’m proud we introduced free bus travel for young people under 22 - and as of today, over 250 million free journeys have been made across Scotland.

Together with scrapping peak rail fares, we’re making your commutes cheaper.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 9h

Massive data leak linked to Online Safety Act security measures

The thing that everyone predicted would happen has happened - and the Discord data leak should ring alarm bells for Labour, writes @willem-moore.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Massive data leak linked to Online Safety Act security measures

The thing that everyone predicted would happen has happened - and the Discord data leak should ring alarm bells for Labour

www.thecanary.co

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 6h

Do you feel better off after austerity, Brexit and rising bills under Westminster?

With independence, we can raise living standards and build an economy that works for Scotland.

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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 5h

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Free bus travel scheme for young Scots hits 250 million journeys

The scheme was launched in January 2022 and offers free bus travel to those under the age of 22.

news.stv.tv

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h

Zack Polanski,
"The only way to be morally consistent is to condemn what happened on Oct 7th and to condemn the genocide in Palestine"

"As a Jewish man I feel the genocide very very deeply"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 19h

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 9h

These are the things that Labour stood for once upon a time. No surprise, really, that as Labour have shifted ever rightwards to try to capture the right-wing Reform vote, the English Greens are filling that egalitarian left-wing space.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17h

Zack Polanski, "The four wealthiest people in this country have more wealth than 20 million people"

"Inequality in our society is absolutely huge"

"We need to be taxing the super rich"

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 8h

“Propaganda by omission” occurs when a source withholds relevant facts or perspectives to influence opinion. It’s not about lying directly - it’s about what isn’t said

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FRANK1E @abnfrank1e.bsky.social · 7h

Yet still, people pay for it.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 1d

www.thenational.scot/news/2553124...

“The regulation of medicine pricing is reserved to the UK Government through the Department of Health and Social Care.

“Any agreed price increases will apply UK-wide, including Scotland, so NHS Scotland would face higher costs.”

Labour to hike Scottish drug prices to 'appease' Donald Trump

LABOUR’S plans to "appease" Donald Trump will hike Scottish drug prices, The National can reveal.

www.thenational.scot

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

Why government lost its courage — and how we get it back youtu.be/ipwqMPMbBsI?...

In 2011, I wrote The Courageous State — a call for governments that act with purpose and confidence, not cowardice.

Fourteen years later, it’s time to reclaim the language of democracy

Why government lost its courage — and how we get it back

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 1d

Ceasefire is great. However, I hope this won't stop investigations into, and arrests and prosecutions, for war crimes.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22h

Sir Jim Ratcliffe spent part of the £4bn tax bill he dodged to fund Manchester United.

That is how the UK works you pay tax, the big people don't and they get richer and richer and RICHER.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h

Pubs could stay open longer under Starmer plan to revive British night out

Who will provide extra police, staff, public services?

Nights out restricted due to cost of living crisis

Govt can help hospitality industry by cutting energy/water bills, rents, improving public transport.

Pubs could stay open longer under Starmer plan to revive British night out

PM’s initiative, which could lead to ‘bonfire’ of old licensing rules, aims to ‘bring the buzz back’ to high streets

www.independent.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 23h

Any comment Wes Streeting? Or will you call the coroner a liar as well?

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

www.thecanary.co

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