A powerful film with amazing people. Travelling to Belfast and Cork next - go see if you can 👇👇
Luqman Saeed, an academic with Ulster University, has shared his personal experience of the pogroms the last two days, describing his situation as a de facto house arrest, under violence caused by an absence of leadership www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
A shocking and shameful night in Belfast; a racist pogrom - no other terms can (or should) describe it.
Looking forward to @socworkscot.bsky.social Justice Conference.
I'll be speaking on:
🟪 Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission, with fellow Commissioner Lynsey Smith.
🟪 Our comparative #probation & Justice #SocialWork research 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇮🇪; (PI: Prof Nicola Carr).
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socialworkscotland.org/sws-events/j...
A must read: "Contentious Spaces is an urgent, formidable work, attentive to the complicated humanity of the people who inhabit its pages."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
This is terrible for colleagues, for students and for Nottingham. Solidarity.
Judgment now available online. The OfS does not come out of it well at all. Final line: “The Final Decision was vitiated by bias because the OfS approached the decision with a closed mind and had therefore unlawfully predetermined the decision.” www.judiciary.uk/judgments/th...
Funny how things can get done
When a male journalist decides to cover a femicide on the line of "why should I feel ashamed for what others have done". I've had it too. @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/were...
Next Saturday ☀️
It isn’t an exaggeration to say that we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive...
This event was only possible in collaboration with and support from @nicolacarr.bsky.social and Trinity College Dublin.
If you missed today's screening, The Strike is available to buy or rent on various streaming services, lnkd.in/dui7pH8h /n
Avant Music Port
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have received 'at risk' letters from the management.
The same management which refused to cut their own pay, and the same management which refused to resign after losing £60 million on a disastrous attempt to build a new campus.
#JoinAUnion
A temporary train station is to be constructed in Adare, Co Limerick, as part of plans for hosting the Ryder Cup.
Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim
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A temporary train station is to be constructed in Adare, Co Limerick, as part of plans for hosting the Ryder Cup.
www.rte.ie
Ruling is blow to OfS after regulator issued fine over handling of protests aimed at professor over trans rights views
Sussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine by England’s higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims the university had breached free speech regulations involving its former professor Kathleen Stock.
The ruling is a damaging blow to the credibility and management of the Office for Students, after the court rejected the regulator’s lengthy investigation into Sussex’s handling of the protests aimed at Stock over her views on transgender rights and her subsequent resignation in 2021. Continue reading...
