Ruth Holliday
@ruthholliday.bsky.social
#MDANT 🏅 UCUCommons ✊ (she/they) *EndTheGenocide* No DMs please
Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
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Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices
Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...
transsafety.network
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
Time to concede that the whole privatization of higher education was a giant mistake? Second only, perhaps, to the privatization of water?
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Time to concede that the whole privatization of higher education was a giant mistake? Second only, perhaps, to the privatization of water?
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'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
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I would much rather pay more income tax than have this ongoing chaos at work
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I would much rather pay more income tax than have this ongoing chaos at work
Apparently if governments take any action to reduce the profits of fossil fuel companies within the next 20 years the fossil fuel companies can sue governments for the lost income. This is on top of the £40bn or so of tax-payers’ money they get in subsidies. 🤷♀️
Fossil fuel lobbyists should be prohibited from attending COP meetings.
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Apparently if governments take any action to reduce the profits of fossil fuel companies within the next 20 years the fossil fuel companies can sue governments for the lost income. This is on top of the £40bn or so of tax-payers’ money they get in subsidies. 🤷♀️
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📊 NEW | As Labour launches crackdowns on refugees and trans people, Starmer's approval hits new low.
✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)
Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)
✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)
Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📊 NEW | As Labour launches crackdowns on refugees and trans people, Starmer's approval hits new low.
✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)
Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)
✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)
Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)
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It is good to see that that some people a) actually have values/principles and b) do not abandon those when entering Parliament
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It is good to see that that some people a) actually have values/principles and b) do not abandon those when entering Parliament
Fossil fuel lobbyists should be prohibited from attending COP meetings.
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Fossil fuel lobbyists should be prohibited from attending COP meetings.
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It’s a problem that none of the people criticised in the covid response report seems capable of shame, reflection or believing they could be wrong about anything. Everything’s just a game, other lives or deaths aren’t something they understand or even believe
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It’s a problem that none of the people criticised in the covid response report seems capable of shame, reflection or believing they could be wrong about anything. Everything’s just a game, other lives or deaths aren’t something they understand or even believe
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Criticize, smear and defame in the media, then cut.
The MO of neoliberalism.
All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.
Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.
When will we learn?
The MO of neoliberalism.
All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.
Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.
When will we learn?
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Criticize, smear and defame in the media, then cut.
The MO of neoliberalism.
All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.
Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.
When will we learn?
The MO of neoliberalism.
All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.
Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.
When will we learn?
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
Today’s Ivory tower folks …
Today in the life of an academic specifically targeted by management as under hours: PhD supervision meeting; exam board attendance; read and rank 51 job applications; write and deliver tonight’s MA lecture; write tomorrow’s 3rd year class.
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today’s Ivory tower folks …
Wow! We need one of these about Farage!
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Wow! We need one of these about Farage!
14,000 university staff to be made redundant by end 2025 😥
Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
14,000 university staff to be made redundant by end 2025 😥
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Reminder that men have no inherent right to the surname of the father, regardless of situation.
You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.
You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.
A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
The law has failed a woman and her child – fight back
No survivor should face harm from the very system that is meant to protect them. No child should have to carry an abuser’s name. It’s time to change the system.
goodlawproject.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reminder that men have no inherent right to the surname of the father, regardless of situation.
You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.
You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.
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Ray Eames (1912 – 1988), US artist and designer who worked in a variety of media, including furniture and fabric design #Womensart
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Ray Eames (1912 – 1988), US artist and designer who worked in a variety of media, including furniture and fabric design #Womensart
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
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Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
You have to wonder if the uk is actually just managed by the US
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You have to wonder if the uk is actually just managed by the US
On one level I feel sorry for these children-of-migrants anti-migrant Home Secretaries, placed to avert accusations of government racism. What must that do to your psyche?
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
On one level I feel sorry for these children-of-migrants anti-migrant Home Secretaries, placed to avert accusations of government racism. What must that do to your psyche?