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by Mark Priestley

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Lstest brilliance from John Crace

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Badenoch enjoys her first, and probably last, Tory conference leader’s speech | John Crace
The audience cheered and clapped to convince themselves the whole thing hadn’t been a waste of time
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by Mark Priestley

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A catastrophe ignored by world governments

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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by Mark Priestley

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Disgraceful

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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
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Agree. I wish these people would look at the data, if that's what floats their boat. Courses like maths and biology don't perform better that art history or English. And why not make it possible to do STEM AND arts/hums? (I did).
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by Mark Priestley

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A polite way of describing fuckwittery
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 9h
They are abject philistines
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They are abject philistines
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Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.
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by Mark Priestley

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Robert Jenrick often seems to be a man with no principles. But here he is clearly showing he has some - racist ones

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Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit
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by Mark Priestley

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Please sign up for this event - Bridging Skills for Working Lives - run by researchers from the University of Stirling

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For George
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by Mark Priestley

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The irony is that a future government could use these proposed laws to deport Badenoch to her native Nigeria

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Badenoch says Tories open to quitting more treaties to increase deportations
Party leader uses conference speech to outline proposal for UK to exit ECHR as part of wider bonfire of protections
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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Mark Priestley, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Charles W. Smith , and 2 more

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One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny
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by Mark Priestley

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Happily, Badenoch seems to be doing a grand job making herself irrelevant
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d
Kemi Badenoch asked where she would send the 150,000 people she says she would deport every year, replies that it's an "irrelevant question".

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When people start doubting that Trump actually wants to work with dictators, they might ask themselves why the two states he is working hard to limit military sales to are Taiwan and Ukraine.
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Kemi Badenoch asked where she would send the 150,000 people she says she would deport every year, replies that it's an "irrelevant question".
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by Mark Priestley

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The right to peaceful protest is a large part of what makes us a democracy. Labour should understand that given their history
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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 3d
This erosion of civil liberty is getting more dangerous by the day

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Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
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by Mark Priestley

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This erosion of civil liberty is getting more dangerous by the day

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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by Mark Priestley

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Badenoch is insane

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Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration
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by Mark Priestley

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A disgrace, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Ricky Hale @councilestatemedia.bsky.social · 4d
The UK has arrested 1,775 people for protesting against genocide since the proscription of Palestine Action.

The UK has not arrested a single person since October 7 for their participation in that genocide.
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'The companies dominating the digital economy continue to undertake a massive social experiment where they keep the lion’s share of the benefits while shunting the risks onto society as a whole'

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The warning signs are clear: We’re heading toward a digital crisis
The warning signs are loud and clear: we’re headed into a crisis, thanks to the growing interdependence of digital and economic systems — with no safety nets.
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by Mark Priestley

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We can offer limited online access (to listen to the speakers). If you are interested in this option, please do not use the sign-up page, but instead send an email to curric-stir @stir.ac.uk. (remove space)
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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 4d
Forthcoming SCRCM symposium – ‘Curriculum making for social justice in a rapidly changing world’, featuring a range of international and UK speakers.

Monday 19 January, 10am-3.30pm in Stirling. Please sign up at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Select tickets – Curriculum making for social justice in a rapidly changing world - Research Symposium – Conference Suite, Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling
Curriculum making for social justice in a rapidly changing world - Research Symposium – Conference Suite, Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, Mon 19 Jan 2026 - This research symposium will ...
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Forthcoming SCRCM symposium – ‘Curriculum making for social justice in a rapidly changing world’, featuring a range of international and UK speakers.

Monday 19 January, 10am-3.30pm in Stirling. Please sign up at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Select tickets – Curriculum making for social justice in a rapidly changing world - Research Symposium – Conference Suite, Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling
Curriculum making for social justice in a rapidly changing world - Research Symposium – Conference Suite, Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, Mon 19 Jan 2026 - This research symposium will ...
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The UK has arrested 1,775 people for protesting against genocide since the proscription of Palestine Action.

The UK has not arrested a single person since October 7 for their participation in that genocide.
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On reports the Tories will back leaving the ECHR, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

“Kemi Badenoch has chosen to back Nigel Farage and join Vladimir Putin by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – a proud British creation championed by Churchill that protects everyone's rights and freedoms."
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Time for my old ECHR Venn diagram, yet again.
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If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism

And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.

It’s really that simple.

(So many shameless hypocrites around.)
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by Mark Priestley

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I absolutely respect the grief of British Jews. Anti-Semitic vice is horrific and unacceptable. But this does not mean I accept the war crimes of the brutal Israeli government

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Starmer urges pro-Palestine protesters to ‘respect the grief of British Jews’
Writing before a planned protest against Palestine Action ban, PM says activists should recognise a time of mourning
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by Mark Priestley

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The horrific anti-Semitic attack in Manchester should not be used to suppress protest against the horrific war crimes of the Israeli state

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Police ask for protest against Palestine Action ban to be postponed after Manchester attack
Exclusive: Organisers say protest will go ahead as planned and it is up to Met whether or not it prioritises arrests
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