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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2h

I never understood the satellite campus rationale- just seems like an extra cost centre to me.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 3h

A virtue of few TV channels back in the dark ages was the serendipity of seeing loads of movies that aren't really visible these days (e.g., 40s film noir, 50s sci-fi b movies etc.) because they were a regular part of the schedule.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 19h

Successive UK governments have explicitly attacked media and journalism HE courses whilst being amongst- forgive the technical term here- the most diabolically horseshit at Comms, possibly ever. I live in constant bemusement at this.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed but what qualifies him for that matter either? Fed up with media moral panics being driven by people with no relevant expertise under the cover of misperceived authority.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure whether someone close to them should call Prevent or their local social services.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Some of these people need prison, some need sectioning.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

These people are truly appalling. I am bewildered by them.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Ask him if his double-seat, double-seat routine would still work today. I don't imagine he's been on a train since he did it mind you.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

They could not give a flying fuck for things belonging to people could they?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 3d

The poison they put into HE is being added to by the current government, whose leaders are cut from the same cloth, and are actively trying to kill parts of HE. If the Tories ever got back into power they'd find about 5 universities left, teaching only medicine, law and business.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 4d

For many places, if they don't change the rules sufficiently, it will be like the armies of the dead in Lord of the Rings for many places. Submissions full of long departed souls. How on earth PCE can work like that, who knows.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 4d

It does not give a flying fuck about copyright. It's all just training data that it will take without consent, attribution or remuneration.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 4d

This is why Comms scholars are so unfairly neglected. We were doing conference sessions involving beer tasting in IAMCR a decade ago.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 6d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 7d

The fishing industry is tiny though isn't it. The whole workforce would fit into a modest football stadium. Funny how it became so important in Brexit whilst some many times greater were ignored then, and still ignored now.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 7d

No prior attainment and claiming unearned credit? You sound like you're describing the deal between Oxford and OpenAI.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 9d

Apart from it being an issue at the absolute bottom of the public's concerns, I just don't understand why the government is just kicking HE to bits.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 10d

They're just not going to do anything about the collapse in HE and claim it as strategy.

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vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 10d

Unfortunately, most of the universities are about to close.

vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social · 10d

I'm reading this a different way to many it seems. To me that are saying that they are welcoming the ongoing collapse of HE, explicitly promising to do nothing about that, whilst pretending that they will do something about FE and apprenticeships to make up the difference.

Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 10d

NEW on Wonkhe: Keir Starmer joins the ranks of those to abandon Tony Blair's target of having 50 per cent of young people enter higher education. David Kernohan has the receipts buff.ly/WwrhDw3

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