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Conor Bollins
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🎓Lecturer in Early Modern History, UEA.
📚 Historian of #18thC Political Thought.
☮ Peace Activist, CND. 🦊Brother, uncle, etc.
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Conor Bollins @conorbollins.bsky.social · May 18
🎓'When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?'

🌹Please stick a repost on my piece for @labouroutlook.bsky.social. #UKHE #EducationCrisis

🚩It includes a special mention of my @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues. #SaveUEA

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Education, education, education? When will Labour tackle the crisis engulfing our schools, colleges and universities?
All levels of our education system face a systemic crisis. Yet as with so many other areas of policy, Keir Starmer doesn't seem to have any hopes for education at all, writes Connor Bollins.
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Manufacturing Consent for the Military: Labour’s plans for schools and universities - CONOR BOLLINS looks at the sinister moves to entice young people towards military and arms industry careers
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Manufacturing Consent for the Military: Labour’s plans for schools and universities
IT IS becoming almost impossible to avoid the British Army’s aggressive new recruitment campaign. From traditional adverts plastered on the side of London buses to the You Belong Here clips being prom...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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🚩"Manufacturing Consent for the Military: Labour’s plans for schools and universities."

🚩My piece for today's Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/manu...

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Manufacturing Consent for the Military: Labour’s plans for schools and universities
IT IS becoming almost impossible to avoid the British Army’s aggressive new recruitment campaign. From traditional adverts plastered on the side of London buses to the You Belong Here clips being prom...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
Thanks to all our anti-nuclear allies who joined us outside Downing Street to call on Keir Starmer to rethink Britain's F-35A purchase.

We'll be demonstrating against these nuke jets at RAF Marham on 28 February.

Write to your MP, calling for an urgent debate: cnd.eaction.org.uk/StopBritains...
Campaigners stand on Whitehall next to Downing Street gates. One holds up a letter addressed to the Prime Minister and other hold CND placards that read "Stop British nuke jets." Two are wearing Donald Trump and Keir Starmer masks while holding cardboard nuclear missiles.
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
"It is absolutely critical that we rachet up the political pressure to make these world leaders — including the British government — step back from this nuclear escalation."

CND's Sophie Bolt reacts to Trump's nuclear testing announcement: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stop...
Stop Trump’s nuclear arms race – no to global war
THE announcement by US President Donald Trump last week that the US plans to restart nuclear testing has been a wake-up call that the threat of nuclear war is real and accelerating.Trump did not make ...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
CND was delighted to be part of last night's screening of Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima. A special thanks to Queen Mary University of London for hosting and to the film experts who contributed to the discussion afterwards.

Find more CND events: cnduk.org/events/
Scene from the film Hellfire: a journey from Hiroshima. Image shows people in a gallery viewing a mural painted by Japanese artists, Iri and Toshi Maruki, depicting the human suffering of people following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. View of panel discussion from seats. From left to right: Guy Westwell , Min-Kyoo Kim, Sophie Bolt (all sitting), Libby Saxton (standing and speaking) Guy Westwell (speaking) and Min-Kyoo Kim Min-Kyoo Kim (Cambridge), Sophie Bolt (General Secretary, CND), Libby Saxton (QMUL), and Guy Westwell (QMUL) hold CND placards outside event
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
Today is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Britain should be marking it with ambitious steps to further the cause of nuclear disarmament. Instead, we see yet another breach of international law by Starmer.

Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Headline from article in The Guardian newspaper with an image of an F-35A fighter jet. text reads: "Fighter jets purchase would put UK in breach of nuclear treaty, says CND. Legal opinion for campaign group says deal amounts to reversal of UK’s commitment to nuclear disarmament"
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Pupil Well-being crisis. Will more militarism help?
Blog 45. Paty Paliokosta look at why pupil well-being in secondary schools is declining and Conor Bollins questions Starmer's commitment to increase militarism in schools
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September 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The Crisis Engulfing our Universities
Blog 44. Dr Conor Bollins asks when will Labour tackle the growing crisis, using his experience as a lecturer at UEA, as an example of the mess.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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ucu.org.uk
UCU GS @drjogrady.bsky.social putting an end to weapons over wages at #TUC2025:

“Our country is broken… yet billions for bombs.

Cash found for weapons. No cash found for wages.” ✊

#WagesNotWeapons
September 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
British trade unionists, in a very significant vote, have backed a motion overturning previous support for the government’s military spending hikes. The #WagesNotWeapons motion passed by 2,871,000 votes to 2,291,000.

Read more: cnduk.org/wages-not-we...
Graphic with CND symbol and an image from TUC Congress showing UCU's Jo Grady visible on a large screen. She is wearing a t-shirt with the slogan "wages not weapons." Text below the image reads: "Wages not weapons: trade unions overturn support for military spending hikes."
September 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
Great to see the arguments put forward in the Alternative Defence Review feautered in this trade union debate on increased military spending. If you're at TUC Congress, pick up your copy at the CND stall or read online: cnduk.org/adr/
September 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
Despite the British government's attempts to stifle and suppress peaceful protest, today saw yet another huge show of support for Palestine on the streets of London. This movement will not be silenced. We demand sanctions on genocidal Israel now!
September 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
We're here at the 30th national march for Palestine. If you're attending, come visit our stall at Russell Square and pick up one of our placards. #EndTheGenocide #StopStarvingGaza
Two women visit the CND stall CND placards with slogans "end the genocide" and "nuclear-free Middle East"
September 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Congratulations to all receiving results today. The hard work and effort of students, teachers and those supporting them should be commended.🙌
August 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Asked about the biggest threats to the UK, cyber attacks top the poll, though the youngest adults are more likely to be worried about nuclear conflict with another country. A plurality think our defence spending is about right, though 26% say too little and 21% too much.
July 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🌸In the run-up to Hiroshima Day 2025, we will be posting photos of our supporters wearing our NO MORE HIROSHIMAS t-shirt.
🌸Get yours to help spread this powerful message: cndukstore.com/no-more-hiro...
🌸Send us your photos and we’ll share those too! #NoMoreHiroshimas
July 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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cnduk.bsky.social
"It is just a shame that Starmer has decided to make militarism and warmongering 'the fundamental organising principle of government' rather than the promotion of people’s health and wellbeing."
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stra...
The strategic defence review: why Labour would do better to invest elsewhere | Morning Star
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July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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cnduk.bsky.social
"Conventional wisdom says it was necessary to drop the bomb...but extensive scholarly research in the US shows that this just wasn’t true."

CND Vice-President Kate Hudson on the myths used to justify nuclear weapons from 1945 to today. #NeverAgain

labouroutlook.org/2025/07/19/h...
Hiroshima to Today: Confronting the Nuclear Threat
80 years on from the bombing of Hirsoshima and Nagasaki, Kate Hudson looks at the story behind it and sets out why the fight for nuclear disarmament is crucial today.
labouroutlook.org
July 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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cnduk.bsky.social
A report and photo gallery of Wednesday's incredibly poweful event in Parliament on remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki is now on our website. Thanks again to everyone who joined us and who contributed as guest speakers. #NeverAgain

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No More Hiroshimas event in Parliament, 16 July - CND
It was standing room only for the powerful meeting in Parliament on Wednesday 16 July, to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Organised by Parliamentary CND, we...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Powerful @cnduk.bsky.social event in Parliament this week marking the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Honoured to speak about the links between nuclear weapons, racism and imperialism and the continuing urgency of disarmament.

#WelfareNotWarfare #NoMoreHiroshimas
Bell stands and reads from a paper while addressing a panel at a CND event in Parliament. Other panellists, including women and men of various ages, sit attentively beside her beneath the room’s carved wood panelling and patterned red wallpaper. A large group of attendees at a CND event in a UK Parliamentary room pose together holding signs that read “No More Hiroshimas.” The room is richly decorated with red wallpaper and ornate light fittings. Participants wear orange lanyards to show they are visitors.
July 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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cnduk.bsky.social
We had a packed meeting in Parliament yesterday to hear about the humanitarian cost of nuclear war. A special thanks to our guest speakers: the South African High Commissioner to the UK, and Kyoko Gibson, a second-generation survivor of the Hiroshima bombing for her moving testimony. #NeverAgain
His Excellency Jeremiah Nyamane Mamabolo, South African High Commissioner to the UK, and Kyoko Gibson hold a CND placard reading "No more Hiroshimas" Kyoko Gibson speaking Crowd give a standing ovation Speakers and attendees pose for photograph.
July 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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forceswatch.bsky.social
"Our shared cultural memory must be wearing exceedingly thin if we, as a society, are ready to accept our sons and daughters being shipped off to fight in another brutal and fruitless war"

Check out this pertinent & powerful analysis by @conorbollins.bsky.social

labouroutlook.org/2025/06/26/d...
Don’t let Starmer recruit our young people to fight his wars
An in-depth look into Starmer's plans to recruit young people into the military - and why we must oppose them.
labouroutlook.org
July 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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“Do we want the future of our young people to be defined by nukes and NATO or good jobs and education?”

SW London CND member @conorbollins.bsky.social explores Keir Starmer’s troubling military recruitment plans in this @LabourOutlook piece. #peacenotnukes

labouroutlook.org/2025/06/26/d...
Don’t let Starmer recruit our young people to fight his wars
An in-depth look into Starmer's plans to recruit young people into the military - and why we must oppose them.
labouroutlook.org
July 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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ucu.org.uk
Our statement on the Labour government’s escalating authoritarian crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement.

We will not be silenced. We are the majority.

We urge you to join us on the streets of London next Saturday (19 July) and march for Palestine.
July 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM