Liz Morrish
@lizmorrish.bsky.social
UK independent scholar. Critical University Studies. Fascinated by US politics. Tweets mostly about Higher Ed issues. Open Water swimmer. Blog https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/
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Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Where do you imagine those "young people" will be educated, given what you are doing to the university sector?
Always the way, isn't it? Graduate from top uni says other people shouldn't aspire to go to university.
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK bigwig who went to top university says fewer others should do the same
Reform UK's former chairman calls for "fewer people going to university" after benefiting from a degree from one of the country's most prestigious ones himself
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Where do you imagine those "young people" will be educated, given what you are doing to the university sector?
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Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
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It goes without saying that the neoliberal language of a higher education "market" from which providers will "exit" is bleak. No media organisation challenges it, though. They all just repeat the mantra, as though education could never be a public good.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It goes without saying that the neoliberal language of a higher education "market" from which providers will "exit" is bleak. No media organisation challenges it, though. They all just repeat the mantra, as though education could never be a public good.
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At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
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Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
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November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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The Guardian has a game where you play Chancellor and put in what you'd do for the budget. I basically taxed rich people a lot and ended up £56bn in the black, with a good poll rating and the markets like me.
Perhaps I should be Chancellor. I didn't even have to hurt any disabled people to do it.
Perhaps I should be Chancellor. I didn't even have to hurt any disabled people to do it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Guardian has a game where you play Chancellor and put in what you'd do for the budget. I basically taxed rich people a lot and ended up £56bn in the black, with a good poll rating and the markets like me.
Perhaps I should be Chancellor. I didn't even have to hurt any disabled people to do it.
Perhaps I should be Chancellor. I didn't even have to hurt any disabled people to do it.
I do wonder if our indifference to the calamitous state of university finance is anything to do with calling them 'providers'.
Seven large universities at risk of going under in the next year share.google/nwdYPlUNQERG...
Seven large universities at risk of going under in the next year share.google/nwdYPlUNQERG...
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
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November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I do wonder if our indifference to the calamitous state of university finance is anything to do with calling them 'providers'.
Seven large universities at risk of going under in the next year share.google/nwdYPlUNQERG...
Seven large universities at risk of going under in the next year share.google/nwdYPlUNQERG...
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The BBC folded. Just like everyone else.
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The BBC folded. Just like everyone else.
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Country so obsessed with policing children's behaviour it has to tell the Prime Minister off...
Starmer apologises for leading pupils in 6-7 dance
Starmer apologises for leading pupils in 6-7 dance
The prime minister performed a version of the viral dance with primary school children, before being told it was not allowed.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Country so obsessed with policing children's behaviour it has to tell the Prime Minister off...
Wow. The Reith Lectures entering Strictly levels of controversy.
"Bregman, who is giving the BBC’s prestigious annual Reith Lectures, said his claim that Trump was “the most openly corrupt president in American history” had been taken out. He said he had been told that the decision to remove the accusation was taken at the “highest levels within the BBC”.
Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Wow. The Reith Lectures entering Strictly levels of controversy.
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"Bregman, who is giving the BBC’s prestigious annual Reith Lectures, said his claim that Trump was “the most openly corrupt president in American history” had been taken out. He said he had been told that the decision to remove the accusation was taken at the “highest levels within the BBC”.
Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Bregman, who is giving the BBC’s prestigious annual Reith Lectures, said his claim that Trump was “the most openly corrupt president in American history” had been taken out. He said he had been told that the decision to remove the accusation was taken at the “highest levels within the BBC”.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing
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I understand the need for multifactor authentication but holy fuck is it annoying as hell
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I understand the need for multifactor authentication but holy fuck is it annoying as hell
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Support @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social fight to save their TPS
pensions! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Support @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social fight to save their TPS
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Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.
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Shocking, but not surprising.
Oh FFS, Today Christmas guest editors, tax dodger James Dyson an ex Tory PM and head of AI from Microsoft…. Why not get some genuinely interesting people? Someone who volunteers in a food bank, a doctor who works in a&e, a Welsh hill farmer…. BBC has completely lost its way.
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Shocking, but not surprising.
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A tech bro, a former Tory PM, a brexiter, a small c conservative historian... that good old leftist bias is going as strong as ever! #r4today
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A tech bro, a former Tory PM, a brexiter, a small c conservative historian... that good old leftist bias is going as strong as ever! #r4today
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“The cost that the researchers on my team face is the possibility that their parents and siblings will go to prison, that they themselves will be in eternal exile,” she says.
“And here’s a university that has only 73 Chinese students, saying we might lose our access to the Chinese student market.”
“And here’s a university that has only 73 Chinese students, saying we might lose our access to the Chinese student market.”
She stood up to China. Now she’s exposing how her university caved in
Emails released to the academic Laura Murphy reveal the full story of how her research into forced labour in China was blocked by Sheffield Hallam
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“The cost that the researchers on my team face is the possibility that their parents and siblings will go to prison, that they themselves will be in eternal exile,” she says.
“And here’s a university that has only 73 Chinese students, saying we might lose our access to the Chinese student market.”
“And here’s a university that has only 73 Chinese students, saying we might lose our access to the Chinese student market.”
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Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
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Tusk slips the knife in right at the end.
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tusk slips the knife in right at the end.
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...
The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...
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It is tragic to see what figures like Mamdani are doing to a once great Democratic Party.
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It is tragic to see what figures like Mamdani are doing to a once great Democratic Party.
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich
by Andrew Cuomo, Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Bob Menendez, and Rod Blagojevich