Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
What awful news. 🗃️
Why is the universities crisis being ignored?
Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
"There is however a second and more overwhelming emotion running through redundancy after redundancy – it’s sadness."
Excellent essay that brings out the historical and contemporary stakes of pluralistic liberalism vs ethnonationalism.
I think this is the greatest 'bad poem in a paper' I've ever seen, and I've looked out for these on social media for years. It defies all your expectations of what can be done in a poem. It's made my day.
Gordon Wood's defense of the US as a creedal nation and opposition to rising ethno- nationalism is something I refer to a lot and use in class.
www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.
Sarah Kay
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful.
isrf.org/blog/what-do...
