Dr Barbara Eichner
@barbaraeichner.bsky.social
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Music historian, author of "History in Mighty Sounds" and a perenially half-written study of music in monasteries and nunneries around 1600. Loves country walks, reading, sightseeing, archaeology.
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Love it that philology is a nun in this image!
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Just don't take paracetamol to dull the pain.
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Are there even for-profit consultants in the room? Policy makers seem hell-bent on ignoring any expert advice (including, for example, from business leaders) if it doesn't chime with the gut feelings of the willfully ignorant.
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What a sensible and sensitive review! I love his comparison with Bollywood - bilions of people consider it perfectly normal when performers break into song and dance.
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Set aside times for dealing with emails, and close your inbox in between. A cynic might say: do the service as badly as possible, so that other colleagues have to shoulder that burden.
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But you are still in academia, right?
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But hey, what does a mere president of a learned society know?
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Indeed, it's not as if Labour are even planning to deliver on their promises for education and the arts. Quite the contrary.
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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redpeter99.bsky.social
The Rees Moggs will still do History degrees. The Johnsons will still do Classics.
Sadly, the Wilsons from South Bank in Middlesbrough won't get the intellectual stimulation of studying a subject of interest for a degree.
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And, are the media calling it out for what it is? Nope.
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Labour continue to fight *against* their core vote.
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If high-skilled workers are put off, then that's just what the government deserve.
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Immigration will fall, because who wants to go to a country where they are being discriminated against as workers and families, and used as punchbag by the media?
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It wasn't great before Brexit, but that has certainly not helped mid-sized, family-founded businesses.
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You'd also need a fair number of mittelständische Betriebe in the UK for the German apprenticeship system to happen.
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I loved doing research, and sometimes it loved me back, too.
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adambienkov.bsky.social
BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
barbaraeichner.bsky.social
But people who are totally clueless should not be elected to political office, nor should they aspire to being elected.