this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

Couldn’t resist this one!

The @europarl.europa.eu has to do its job as democracy watchdog and hold the Commission to account. “Loyalty to national interests cannot trump the EU’s general interest, or the edifice will crumble when threatened from all sides, including within it” says @alemanno.bsky.social

Commercial law, human rights law, EU law

The centre-right European People's Party is siding with far-right groups to slash EU sustainability and corporate due diligence rules, while business leaders and former EU heavyweights are urging to keep climate and human rights reporting rules intact.

Yet another Australian Commonwealth Government fiasco: The @Deloitte scandal discredits both this high (taxpayer) paid consultant and AI (artificial intelligence). Before it was cut and paste. Now AI has been exposed making stuff up. False/fraudulent. Elizabeth Knight/SMH 👇

Also ‘that stuff you want to study is rubbish’ is a hard sell.

News like this makes me even more delighted we'll be offering a joint degree in Anthropology and Sociology next year at Queen's.

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Australia takes bold action against sovereign citizens

'The Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends about £1m a year sending children to private schools in north Wales because "state schools teach some or all lessons in the Welsh language".

It paid £1,019,000 in day school allowance in north Wales for 83 children of service personnel in 2024-2025'.

Discuss.

Euh. Il y a plein de raisons hein 😱.

🚌 Ready to roll!

Our own OmniBus is hitting the streets today

Citizens are speaking up against the deregulation of environmental laws, and we’re bringing their message

@ec.europa.eu: don’t throw nature under the bus!
#HandsOffNature

It's #EPC day once again, so a reminder of who's coming and what's being discussed

PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic131
@ukandeu.bsky.social

Delighted to see that my brilliant colleague Kieran Connell's book is shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 👇

Some fantastic historical research (and teaching) happening at Queen's!

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"

Labour have gone utterly bonkers

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

🚂🇪🇺 Quelques années seulement après leur relance, les lignes de train de nuit Paris-Strasbourg-Berlin et Paris-Strasbourg-Vienne sont supprimées faute de subventions de l’État.

Ces lignes étaient une alternative à l’avion très plébiscitée par les usager·es. Elles ne peuvent pas disparaître.

I really would like to interview some of the UK's political journalists to find out how much they know about ILR - I suspect very little indeed, despite opining about it with great confidence.

The Prime Minister of Spain, the Vice President of the European Commission, two former Prime Ministers of Sweden, and the leader of the Democrats in Italy call for an EU-Palestinian trade deal and for sanctions on Israel in an editorial in the Guardian.

If anyone ever tells you academics are some privileged caste that imposes its woke agenda on a guileless political class, you can point to the sheer, stubborn refusal even to entertain the lessons of a significant current of research about far-right normalisation.

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

Topical viewing tonight of incredible documentary on the Sarkozy/Khadafi affair - Sarkozy's audacity and callousness throughout is really quite something 😬 www.mediapart.fr/vod/personne...