Richard Reeve
@richardr-ucu.bsky.social
Our demands most moderate are, we only want the earth. Join a union. He/him.
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All that ‘protect-our-sovereign -borders-against-people-with-no -guns-in-tiny-dinghies’ rings hollow in a world where our so-called allies kill or extract leaders extrajudicially and by invading sovereign territory.
Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum
Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum
January 4, 2026 at 8:46 AM
All that ‘protect-our-sovereign -borders-against-people-with-no -guns-in-tiny-dinghies’ rings hollow in a world where our so-called allies kill or extract leaders extrajudicially and by invading sovereign territory.
Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum
Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum
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Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
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Now or never.
We’re heading into the final stretch of the ballot and every vote matters.
Join us live on Monday at 7pm as we break down what’s at stake, answer your questions, and keep the momentum going.
Vote or lose your say.
We’re heading into the final stretch of the ballot and every vote matters.
Join us live on Monday at 7pm as we break down what’s at stake, answer your questions, and keep the momentum going.
Vote or lose your say.
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Now or never.
We’re heading into the final stretch of the ballot and every vote matters.
Join us live on Monday at 7pm as we break down what’s at stake, answer your questions, and keep the momentum going.
Vote or lose your say.
We’re heading into the final stretch of the ballot and every vote matters.
Join us live on Monday at 7pm as we break down what’s at stake, answer your questions, and keep the momentum going.
Vote or lose your say.
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If you didn't get your ballot, if your dog ate your ballot, if an overzealous manager snuck your ballot into the recycling, if you've realised you should vote after all as it's fairly obvious that managers aren't going to act in the interest of staff (or unis for that matter): REQUEST A REPLACEMENT!
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you didn't get your ballot, if your dog ate your ballot, if an overzealous manager snuck your ballot into the recycling, if you've realised you should vote after all as it's fairly obvious that managers aren't going to act in the interest of staff (or unis for that matter): REQUEST A REPLACEMENT!
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We are the University! and we are currently balloting to take action for better pay, job security, and respect of national agreements ✊ Let's smash the 50% turnout threshold to make our ballot count! Post your ballot ASAP 📮 @ucu.org.uk #WeAreTheUniversity
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We are the University! and we are currently balloting to take action for better pay, job security, and respect of national agreements ✊ Let's smash the 50% turnout threshold to make our ballot count! Post your ballot ASAP 📮 @ucu.org.uk #WeAreTheUniversity
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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'The very act of oppressing others has changed us as a people. Our boots may be on their necks, but those same boots also shackle our feet.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz
Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
'The very act of oppressing others has changed us as a people. Our boots may be on their necks, but those same boots also shackle our feet.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Lots of people in this country need to hear the message - it isn't the left's fault that everything you wanted and fought for is absolute fucking dogwater. I, too, am sorry that you won and imposed this shit on us, but we actually tried to stop it.
September 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Lots of people in this country need to hear the message - it isn't the left's fault that everything you wanted and fought for is absolute fucking dogwater. I, too, am sorry that you won and imposed this shit on us, but we actually tried to stop it.
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UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties”
Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!
policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...
Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!
policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...
UCU: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions
Motion from UCU Congress 2022-2023: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions
policy.web.ucu.org.uk
September 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties”
Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!
policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...
Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!
policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...
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Drafting a more extensive response, but for now we think that (1) @uniteucu.bsky.social rock [branch position, voted on in motions], (2) that this is no way of treating staff [union position, voted on in Congress], and (3) everyone should read this blog: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...
September 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Drafting a more extensive response, but for now we think that (1) @uniteucu.bsky.social rock [branch position, voted on in motions], (2) that this is no way of treating staff [union position, voted on in Congress], and (3) everyone should read this blog: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...
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It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yvette Cooper: Some 'don't know the full nature' of Palestine Action
Defending the group's proscription under terror law, she said the organisation was "not a non-violent organisation".
www.bbc.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🎓 40 brilliant Palestinian students have pushed through war, loss & destruction - just for the chance to study.
Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.
✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.
🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40
#Gaza40
Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.
✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.
🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40
#Gaza40
August 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🎓 40 brilliant Palestinian students have pushed through war, loss & destruction - just for the chance to study.
Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.
✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.
🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40
#Gaza40
Now UK bureaucracy is standing in their way.
✍️ Students & alumni: sign & share the open letter.
We’re at 3,000 - let’s hit 10,000 by Sunday.
🔗 linktr.ee/thegaza40
#Gaza40
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GCIV, art. 55 would like a word.
July 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
GCIV, art. 55 would like a word.
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While remaining complicit in Israel’s genocide, the UK government is now shamefully blocking young Palestinians in Gaza from taking up places at British universities this September.
We have written to the Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP demanding these students be welcomed. 🔽
We have written to the Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP demanding these students be welcomed. 🔽
July 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
While remaining complicit in Israel’s genocide, the UK government is now shamefully blocking young Palestinians in Gaza from taking up places at British universities this September.
We have written to the Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP demanding these students be welcomed. 🔽
We have written to the Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP demanding these students be welcomed. 🔽
What are @ucu.org.uk up to? Do they realise they are a trade union themselves and their appalling behaviour encourages disrespect from our employers when we ask for rights that are being denied to our own staff (as well as being unacceptable in its own right).
Our employer is now imposing a full return to offices without the hybrid policy we’ve asked for since 2021, with no equality considerations, in a way we believe is unlawfully bypassing Unite as a recognised trade union, and which exacerbates the ongoing breach of our recognition agreement.
July 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
What are @ucu.org.uk up to? Do they realise they are a trade union themselves and their appalling behaviour encourages disrespect from our employers when we ask for rights that are being denied to our own staff (as well as being unacceptable in its own right).
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John Boyd Orr was once a household name in Scotland
Convinced of the nutritional benefits of milk, Boyd Orr was appalled it was wasted when poor families could not afford it, but his proposals for a government scheme to supply free milk to schools were first ignored ...
Convinced of the nutritional benefits of milk, Boyd Orr was appalled it was wasted when poor families could not afford it, but his proposals for a government scheme to supply free milk to schools were first ignored ...
Meet the Scot who who suggested schoolchildren be given free milk
www.thenational.scot
July 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
John Boyd Orr was once a household name in Scotland
Convinced of the nutritional benefits of milk, Boyd Orr was appalled it was wasted when poor families could not afford it, but his proposals for a government scheme to supply free milk to schools were first ignored ...
Convinced of the nutritional benefits of milk, Boyd Orr was appalled it was wasted when poor families could not afford it, but his proposals for a government scheme to supply free milk to schools were first ignored ...
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I was told that managers argued for potential cuts and closure of departments by looking at their contribution margins, i.e. their financial contribution to the university. I wonder if these managers have ever heard about the 'cost allocation death spiral'.
#UKHE
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#UKHE
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The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University
The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University Accountants, as people whose business it chiefly is to bring hard news to powerful people, generally avoid emotional terms. They prefer softer, nuan...
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July 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I was told that managers argued for potential cuts and closure of departments by looking at their contribution margins, i.e. their financial contribution to the university. I wonder if these managers have ever heard about the 'cost allocation death spiral'.
#UKHE
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#UKHE
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Paywall free
Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza'
One of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip, Jean-Pierre Filiu, spent a month in the killing fields there, and documented everything
archive.is/2025.07.05-1...
Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza'
One of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip, Jean-Pierre Filiu, spent a month in the killing fields there, and documented everything
archive.is/2025.07.05-1...
July 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Paywall free
Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza'
One of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip, Jean-Pierre Filiu, spent a month in the killing fields there, and documented everything
archive.is/2025.07.05-1...
Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza'
One of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip, Jean-Pierre Filiu, spent a month in the killing fields there, and documented everything
archive.is/2025.07.05-1...
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Great open letter about genocide in #Gaza in @bmj.com
"It threatens to set the most dystopian of precedents demonstrating a brazen disregard for international humanitarian and military law; an exercise of power without accountability"
Sign and share lnkd.in/eH97sibP
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
"It threatens to set the most dystopian of precedents demonstrating a brazen disregard for international humanitarian and military law; an exercise of power without accountability"
Sign and share lnkd.in/eH97sibP
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The UK must not fail Gaza—a call for government action
For nearly 20 months, since October 2023, Palestinians in Gaza have endured a relentless campaign of annihilation. The statistics alone defy comprehension: over 56 000 people killed—one third of them ...
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July 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great open letter about genocide in #Gaza in @bmj.com
"It threatens to set the most dystopian of precedents demonstrating a brazen disregard for international humanitarian and military law; an exercise of power without accountability"
Sign and share lnkd.in/eH97sibP
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
"It threatens to set the most dystopian of precedents demonstrating a brazen disregard for international humanitarian and military law; an exercise of power without accountability"
Sign and share lnkd.in/eH97sibP
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Breaking news – Redundancy notice (Section 188) removed
The University of Dundee has confirmed that the section 188 letter issued in March 2025 has been formally withdrawn! This is a direct result of the industrial action we took and the action we threatened.
This is our victory! 1/3
The University of Dundee has confirmed that the section 188 letter issued in March 2025 has been formally withdrawn! This is a direct result of the industrial action we took and the action we threatened.
This is our victory! 1/3
June 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Breaking news – Redundancy notice (Section 188) removed
The University of Dundee has confirmed that the section 188 letter issued in March 2025 has been formally withdrawn! This is a direct result of the industrial action we took and the action we threatened.
This is our victory! 1/3
The University of Dundee has confirmed that the section 188 letter issued in March 2025 has been formally withdrawn! This is a direct result of the industrial action we took and the action we threatened.
This is our victory! 1/3
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If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
This NEW Law is TERRIFYING & Will SILENCE Us All
www.doubledown.news
June 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
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Our branch has declared no confidence in UCU’s SMT to protect the well-being of staff, nor in its commitment to improving industrial relations.
With the increasing victimisation of our reps, and SMT now repeatedly imposing changes in working conditions and policies, our dispute continues.
With the increasing victimisation of our reps, and SMT now repeatedly imposing changes in working conditions and policies, our dispute continues.
June 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Our branch has declared no confidence in UCU’s SMT to protect the well-being of staff, nor in its commitment to improving industrial relations.
With the increasing victimisation of our reps, and SMT now repeatedly imposing changes in working conditions and policies, our dispute continues.
With the increasing victimisation of our reps, and SMT now repeatedly imposing changes in working conditions and policies, our dispute continues.
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A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
June 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
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NO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee.
Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us.
Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.
Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us.
Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.
June 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
NO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee.
Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us.
Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.
Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us.
Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.