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6 benefits of Erasmus:
-Being part of a long established network
-Generous support for people from all walks of life
-Cultural and personal growth
-Reciprocal benefits
-Improved academic outcomes and employability
-Closer relationships with international partners
theconversation.com/uk-to-re-joi...
-Being part of a long established network
-Generous support for people from all walks of life
-Cultural and personal growth
-Reciprocal benefits
-Improved academic outcomes and employability
-Closer relationships with international partners
theconversation.com/uk-to-re-joi...
UK to re-join Erasmus+ – here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme
Erasmus+ an accessible and well-supported programme.
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
6 benefits of Erasmus:
-Being part of a long established network
-Generous support for people from all walks of life
-Cultural and personal growth
-Reciprocal benefits
-Improved academic outcomes and employability
-Closer relationships with international partners
theconversation.com/uk-to-re-joi...
-Being part of a long established network
-Generous support for people from all walks of life
-Cultural and personal growth
-Reciprocal benefits
-Improved academic outcomes and employability
-Closer relationships with international partners
theconversation.com/uk-to-re-joi...
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
I wish the Brexit dinosaurs would stop this "Erasmus is for posh kids" crap. Half the young population goes to university, these days, in UK and most of EU. And most of the half that doesn't is also eligible for Erasmus+, which covers schools, further education, adult learners and in-work training.
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I wish the Brexit dinosaurs would stop this "Erasmus is for posh kids" crap. Half the young population goes to university, these days, in UK and most of EU. And most of the half that doesn't is also eligible for Erasmus+, which covers schools, further education, adult learners and in-work training.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Christmas, innit. How about we get some things for women and children with nothing who are escaping domestic violence? You can do that, as ever, via the brilliant Refuge. Check this out: donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
Buy a parcel and help give mums and their children in our refuges their first Christmas of freedom.
When a child arrives at a refuge in the countdown to Christmas, they’re withdrawn and in shock.
donate.refuge.org.uk
December 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Christmas, innit. How about we get some things for women and children with nothing who are escaping domestic violence? You can do that, as ever, via the brilliant Refuge. Check this out: donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Christ is always in Christmas and He doesn’t need the “help” of politicians who want to divide and frighten is for their own ends. Everyone is welcome this Christmas.
Jesus Christ is always at the centre of Christmas. And everyone's invited to experience it with us.
Come and celebrate Christmas at a church near you.
Find services and events in your local community at AChurchNearYou.com/christmas.
Come and celebrate Christmas at a church near you.
Find services and events in your local community at AChurchNearYou.com/christmas.
December 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Christ is always in Christmas and He doesn’t need the “help” of politicians who want to divide and frighten is for their own ends. Everyone is welcome this Christmas.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
"..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you said 'fuck off back where you came from', I was sick and you said we should replace the NHS with private health insurance..."
December 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you said 'fuck off back where you came from', I was sick and you said we should replace the NHS with private health insurance..."
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Whenever folk say, "The current asylum seeker framework was created for another era," I always want to say, "And what era was that, then?"
The whole point of our post war human rights-based order was that it was responding to horrors with what it believed were unchanging moral truths.
The whole point of our post war human rights-based order was that it was responding to horrors with what it believed were unchanging moral truths.
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Whenever folk say, "The current asylum seeker framework was created for another era," I always want to say, "And what era was that, then?"
The whole point of our post war human rights-based order was that it was responding to horrors with what it believed were unchanging moral truths.
The whole point of our post war human rights-based order was that it was responding to horrors with what it believed were unchanging moral truths.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
The Government is right to keep but reduce ‘qualifying periods’ for unfair dismissal protection.
Making unfair dismissal a ‘day one’ right would have taken the UK from one internation extreme to another.
Making unfair dismissal a ‘day one’ right would have taken the UK from one internation extreme to another.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Government is right to keep but reduce ‘qualifying periods’ for unfair dismissal protection.
Making unfair dismissal a ‘day one’ right would have taken the UK from one internation extreme to another.
Making unfair dismissal a ‘day one’ right would have taken the UK from one internation extreme to another.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Okay but here me out:
A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.
A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Okay but here me out:
A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.
A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
"Labour must fix the asylum system - but I have two very real concerns with Mahmood's plans"
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/labour-fix-asylum-system-real-concerns-opinion-5HjdN4X_2
t.co
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Labour must fix the asylum system - but I have two very real concerns with Mahmood's plans"
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Jesus christ people the UK government are not banning VPNs stop getting caught out by dogshit headlines on social media sharing cards.
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Jesus christ people the UK government are not banning VPNs stop getting caught out by dogshit headlines on social media sharing cards.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
What a day to be teaching classes on Gramsci’s notion of political hegemony. Optimism of the will!! 👊🏻
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
What a day to be teaching classes on Gramsci’s notion of political hegemony. Optimism of the will!! 👊🏻
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
I wish I could show you all the joyous photos and videos being shared on Muslim and South Asian WhatsApp right now with people reacting to Mamdani's victory.
It's really beautiful and cathartic.
So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.
And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.
It's really beautiful and cathartic.
So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.
And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wish I could show you all the joyous photos and videos being shared on Muslim and South Asian WhatsApp right now with people reacting to Mamdani's victory.
It's really beautiful and cathartic.
So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.
And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.
It's really beautiful and cathartic.
So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate.
And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Preston
It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage gets an easy ride from the media. They give him as much airtime as he wants but never hold him to account for the damage he’s done.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.
So much of what’s broken in Britain is thanks to Nigel Farage.