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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 2h

Not a reject yet! Just waiting 10 months so far!

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 3h

I swear a reject after 10 months in review waiting for that first decision might break me.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 5h

Any other leader would be 20 points ahead they said.

I know, 3 years out, etc. Yet, when the current government would become the main opposition party 250 seats short of Reform, you'd probably say that Labour are duty bound to bin Starmer. Alas.

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 6h

Woahhhhhh.

A poll that shows the Greens surging to 15% - and just 2 points behind the Labour party.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 10h

I, for one, am shocked that one of the world’s biggest climate villains is allying himself with a Party led by global warming deniers.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 10h

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire chemicals tycoon, is set to meet the Reform leader before Christmas after warning one million jobs at risk from chemical industry collapse

Nigel Farage woos Ineos tycoon who calls clean energy targets ‘absurd’

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire chemicals tycoon, is set to meet the Reform leader before Christmas after warning one million jobs at risk from chemical industry collapse

www.thetimes.com

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 9h

I don't listen to many podcasts and my love of standup has waned but I'll really miss WTF. I appreciate his openness about his mental health + how he stands up for progressive punch up comedy but what I love most about the podcast is his curiosity and the unapologetic geekery about culture.

Marc Maron is the rare comedian who shows us how it should be done | Andrew Lawrence

In a new documentary and as his WTF podcast ends, the US comic has shown a level of integrity and perspective that many of his peers could learn from

www.theguardian.com

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 9h

sure Charles II of Spain had his health issues but he got into government

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 9h

New Tories, trying to redefine the ince in incel

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, and it turns out the guy with the umbrella is definitely a new breed of activist

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, and it turns out the guy with the umbrella is definitely a new breed of activist

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 10h

Joy really is an act of resistance!

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 10h

Portland, man

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 10h

Stephen Graham has given the political class permission to say "yeah it's the phones"

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 10h

whatchagonnadoabout it then. Phones are such a convenient thing to point to when we're at eye watering levels of inequality with landlords and landowners - like her family - sucking away any potential wealth from working people

Kate warns too much screen time damages family life

The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 22h

Patriotic Wetherspoonsism of the left

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 22h

14 years in opposition, 5 years plotting against Magic Grandpa and you get... this.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly, the most ridiculously stupid party

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 22h

Dare I say, the better half? So very jealous.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 1d

At a talk on poetry which fits with my part time life as a literature student but is also framed on theories from my full time job as a sociologist of work & care. What a nice way to spend an afternoon.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 1d

TBF, Heriot-Watt has always been pretty firm friends with any number of amoral organisations.

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 1d

Well, well, well... Glasgow and, my own alma mater, Heriot-Watt

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 1d

(Very, very broad brush 300 character post that simplifies a number of trends!)

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 1d

Note to Badenoch, you can't actually shut down sociology. UK sociology self immolated itself in the early 20th C through it's eugenic turn. Yet, English departments created their own sociology - cultural studies - to fill the gap. Every discipline ends up creating its own sociology.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer announces that he will go harder and faster in delivering patriotic renewal by detonating tactical nukes underneath every university library library’s 800 shelfmark section.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Badenoch's policy announcements and seeing them as having much the same effects as me, a 40 year old, writing what I'd like to Santa.

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