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Glen O'Hara is an academic historian, who also writes on politics for a number of publications in the United… more

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This is who Robert Jenrick is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
Minister Robert Jenrick ordered painting over of child asylum unit murals - BBC News
Robert Jenrick is reported to have considered the cartoon images in the Dover centre too welcoming.
www.bbc.co.uk
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by Glen O’Hara

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Here are two of the relevant sections on ECHR in the Belfast/ Good Friday Agreement (Cm 3883, pp 16-17). I'm as moderate a Nationalist as you can possibly be. Without ECHR I would regard the multilateral Agreement as terminated.
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Reposted by: Glen O’Hara, Alison Phipps, Keith Lilley , and 2 more

politicalquarterly.bsky.social
There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
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by Mark Elliott — Reposted by: Glen O’Hara

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Excellent (but depressing) analysis by @gsoh31.bsky.social on the fragile state of higher education in the UK. This passage particularly struck me. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
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by Martin Paul Eve — Reposted by: Glen O’Hara, McKenzie Wark

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This is a must read to understand the context of Britain's universities and their finances.
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ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
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by Glen O’Hara — Reposted by: Glen O’Hara, Steve Peers, Martin Paul Eve , and 2 more

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ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
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by Glen O’Hara

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Like almost everything said about universities in the public sphere, utter garbage that insofar as it means anything will have the opposite effects of those intended. I am not going to comment much on HE going forward, because there's not much point.
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by Glen O’Hara

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For this reason, and apart from the occasional article, I won't be sounding off much more about the great university debacle. Let's see what's in the White Paper and Budget, but I've advocated enough and huge upheaval and shrinkage is now inevitable. (2/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
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by Glen O’Hara — Reposted by: Glen O’Hara, Steve Peers, Lyn Robinson , and 1 more

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New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
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by Glen O’Hara

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As expected, the university union UCU will ballot for industrial action. A loooong, and maybe decisive, year ahead.
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by Glen O’Hara

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The UK university sector's desperation is now beginning to show through.
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 29d
British universities offering discounts on tuition fees worth up to £5,000 per year in a bid to attract international students www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dynamic... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
‘Dynamic pricing’: overseas students offered thousands off fees
Some ‘scholarships’ advertised by UK universities contingent on grades or ‘ambassadorial duties’, with others applied automatically to all
www.timeshighereducation.com
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by Glen O’Hara

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Are you kidding me, I've written and written and written and written in the press and I've advised and spoken and phoned and zoomed. I'm exhausted from trying to help!
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by Glen O’Hara

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'In this lecture I will reflect on the idea of "Anglo-Saxon liberties" popularised in the c17th and coming to their fruition in the American Revolution and especially as part of Victorian ideas of governance...', etc until zzzzzz. 🥱
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by Glen O’Hara

gsoh31.bsky.social
We Europeans have got to pay for our own defence. That will involve big tax rises and big changes to what we can afford at home. Anything less and we get a land war. That's my view, and I'm sticking to it.
glandsbergis.substack.com/p/europes-su...
Europe’s summer charm offensive has failed
Unfortunately — Europe didn’t even wake up, let alone step up.
glandsbergis.substack.com
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by Glen O’Hara

gsoh31.bsky.social
In my new book on Blair I've tried to treat his govts like any historian, tho of course that's impossible so soon. What were the roots and effects of Peelism, Gladstonism, Baldwinism, Attleeism, Thatcherism? The era deserves a similar treatment. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
Manchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?
New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
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by Glen O’Hara — Reposted by: Dave O’Brien

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Blair and 'Blairism' in domestic policy - the good, the bad, the ugly. It's all here. Give it a pre-order! What have you got to lose... (2/2)
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
Manchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?
New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
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by Glen O’Hara — Reposted by: Dave O’Brien

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I see there's debate about Blair and 'Blairism' again. As luck would have it, the proofs for my book on just that are now in!! So I'm going to review these for the next few days, while you can pre-order the book right now for just £20! Go on, it's a good deal. Link below... (1/2)
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Reposted by: Glen O’Hara

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British universities offering discounts on tuition fees worth up to £5,000 per year in a bid to attract international students www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dynamic... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
‘Dynamic pricing’: overseas students offered thousands off fees
Some ‘scholarships’ advertised by UK universities contingent on grades or ‘ambassadorial duties’, with others applied automatically to all
www.timeshighereducation.com
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by Glen O’Hara

gsoh31.bsky.social
Great article here that lays bare what for me is at the heart of UK Higher Ed's chaotic retreat. Governments simply do not have the governing capacity to stop it. The powers, time, staff, knowledge, data and admin structures do not exist. Pushing on a string.
wonkhe.com/blogs/warm-w...
Warm words from ministers to Universities UK, but a noticeable absence of buttered parsnips
Ministers at Universities UK conference were keen to show their appreciation for the sector – but Debbie McVitty argues that a deeper relationship with government remains elusive
wonkhe.com
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by Glen O’Hara

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Good stuff here on the damage the now-acute university financial crisis is doing to research. You simply cannot promote or enable good research if the sector doesn't have a clue where it's going - except down. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
University crisis is forcing the REF to lower its expectations - Research Professional News
When dauntingly complex plans meet cash-strapped institutions, something’s got to give, says Anna Grey
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
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by Glen O’Hara

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Given the flood of university redundancies I'm expecting this academic year, I should think strike action will be endemic across the sector. No getting away from that now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
University lecturers stage five-day walkout during freshers week
They are protesting the ‘largest ever’ budget cuts at the institution
www.independent.co.uk
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by Glen O’Hara

gsoh31.bsky.social
Fair comment, tho I don't think I ever called voters thick or gullible. It's the policymaking centre that gets it wrong time after time. Tho as real wages rise and public sector spending does the same, one has to engage with a series of vectors for populism rather than simply the one of austerity.
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by Glen O’Hara

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Well that's what I mean. Absolutely scything through legal migration, most of which the public is in favour of, to assauge anger about irregular movement which is much harder to affect, is dumb.
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by Glen O’Hara

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Well yes they did, Brexit is hated now and has only about a quarter of public support.
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by Glen O’Hara

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Oh don't get me wrong, I think there's a good chance of a minority RUK govt. But you can tear chunks out of them and do massive damage if you just get at the races.
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by Glen O’Hara

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Imagine voters putting Reform UK in. Then they're told 'you can't have vaccines and we're cutting off aid to Ukraine and Net Zero has gone at the cost of tens of billions and we're charging you tens of thousands more for nan's care cos there's no one to do the work'. They'd go bananas, ballistic.
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by Glen O’Hara

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They're climate change deniers. That's a niche audience which *at most* is the same size as the number of voters who think they'd succeed in office. Just get at them, for Christ's sake! 😡 (2/2) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Are concerns around climate change exaggerated?
Do you think concerns about climate change have or have not been exaggerated?
yougov.co.uk
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by Glen O’Hara

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This 'Reform are inevitable' narrative is rubbish. Fewer than a quarter of voters think they'd do a good job. Almost all their policies are hated. Their leader isn't liked. Even when the focus is on migration most reputable polls give them only a small overall majority.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
How do Britons see Reform UK, ahead of their 2025 conference? | YouGov
While Britons tend to feel Reform UK are dominating the political agenda, just 24% believe they’d do a good job of running the country
yougov.co.uk
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by Glen O’Hara

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The UK is a country with a rapidly ageing population that needs vast numbers of jobs filling. For it to crash all migration downwards because the public are enraged about small boats is the definition of national madness. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/nans-not-b...
Nan’s Not Bankrupting Britain (But Politicians Might Be)
Pensions, productivity, and the myth of the migrant “drain.”
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
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Reposted by: Glen O’Hara

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Wait'll Nate hears about this creeping Blueskyism in the Air Force Academy.
Air Force Academy cancels lecture after discovering speaker disparaged Trump
Air Force Academy officials have canceled an annual fall lecture because the speaker, Paisley Rekdal, disparaged President Donald Trump online, prompting a harsh critique from the donor, David Jannett...
gazette.com
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