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We’re hiring a press and media manager 📢
Play a key part in our fight against authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, and the targeting of marginalised communities.⬇️
https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/press-media-manager/
I want to see a UKHEI Vice Chancellor speaking publicly about their PASSION for Higher Education
If you want to hear more about door knocking, you can shadow after the training in small groups with an experienced leader.
We'll be knocking on the doors of residents in Twickenham to better understand the issues that are important to them and, most importantly, to gauge support for voting Green.
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I'm sending the guys in white coats
I am proud that @libdems.org.uk introduced premium funding to ensure disadvantaged children - wherever they live - get more support at school. Ministers are proposing to "rebalance" funding and need to come clean as to who will lose out, and guarantee cash will always follow the child.
In case anyone missed them before the half-term break, here's a couple of blogs I wrote for @engmediacentre.bsky.social about curriculum change for secondary English. This one is about language in general in KS3&4: www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-fut...
A-levels are now only one of many viable and commendable qualifications/routes into HE. *Anyone* working in the sector should be aware of that!
The graphic has been updated. Some minor errors had to be corrected.
I've also added the German numeral 'zig' (umpteen), which, like Dutch 'tig', was extracted from numerals such as 'vierzig' rather recently.
You can always find the latest versions of my graphics on tumblr.com/yvanspijk!
We’re all very relieved
Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography, discusses why physical borders are such a live issue in today's world.
www.mklitfest.org/online-event...
@philipseargeant.bsky.social #literature #politics #borders #geography @ouliterature.bsky.social
Well that's it: Film Studies and Modern Languages programmes to close at Leicester Uni. Sad and wrong. Every day, the UK becomes a little less outward looking.
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Promotional graphic for an Africa Week 2026 event featuring a photograph of a modern city skyline with a tall glass skyscraper in the centre. At the top left, a black box with white text reads “FREE EVENT.” Over a black text panel in the lower half, white text announces: “In-Conversation with the Governor of Lagos State, H.E. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, on Exercising Agency Beyond the Nation-State.” Additional details read: “06 March, 17:30–18:30, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS / Online.” At the bottom right are the Africa Week 2026 logo (“AW26 Africa Week 2–6 March”) and the King’s College London logo.
Happening Tomorrow 🚨
in‑conversation session with the Governor of Lagos State, H.E. Babajide Olusola Sanwo‑Olu on:
Exercising Agency Beyond the Nation‑State
📅 6 March
⏰ 17:30–18:30
📍 Strand Campus, London / Online
🔗 Register: kcl.ac.uk/events/aw-in...
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Old Rhyming slang: ‘Hampton Wick’
I’m no expert but I have serious doubts about these surveys (23K respondents), especially knowing Gen Z’s propensity for teasing and irony
En argot londonien ‘little hampton’ est très dur
She’s not happy with the small breakfast we provided
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Flocking hell, what a blunder!
I think Gen X and millennials should just bow out of politics and leave it to we boomers and our Gen Z offspring
I wonder if on one of the Indian channels some middle-aged comedian is being sent around Britain, getting the Thameslink to St Albans, sampling pey wet in Wigan, poignantly observing that there are homeless folk on the streets even in Knightsbridge, and so forth bsky.app/profile/jack...
I’m sorry but you’re just not surly enough
Happy #WorldBookDay to everyone out there, particularly those in costume - here's the daughter of a member of the EMC team channelling her inner Hettie Nettle to marvellous effect!
Shabana Mahmood says Labour values & 1951 that refugee convention is protection should be temporary
The practice of refugee protection in each of last 7 and a half decades has been that some have gone back & many have become British
Here are their stories
www.britishfuture.org/70-years-of-...
