@maireadenright
Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Complicit cowards. Unwilling to critique American actions of aggression. Sickening stuff. No such hesitancy, and rightly so, when it comes to russian acts of imperialist aggression.
She is not ‘taking on Reform’ she is sinking to their level. There’s a difference.
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This is eccentric by the standards of the median British voter, and British Muslims have far more socially conservative views than the median voter, by a huge distance. This is especially true regarding homosexuality and the role of women. The most ruddy-faced bar room reactionary at the 19th hole is a blue-haired college radical in comparison. (Incidentally, I’m also not sure how the Green party squares their environmental transport policy with the fact that British-Pakistanis tend to favour cars, as social conservatives with families.)
Thank God Muslim voters in Manchester overwhelmingly decided to vote for the female candidate in the party led by a proud gay Jew, then. Guess your analysis is wrong!
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
A woman whose infant brother died in the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork has expressed shock at a decision by the city council to grant planning permission for apartments on the site. jrnl.ie/6967750
Genuinely shocked to read about proposals at Galway (an amazing university with world-class humanities departments) to axe the broad-based arts degree. Really grim reading. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
weird how every time a "moderate liberal" party cites "electoral realities" for embracing fascist policies they get shit canned
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And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win
The first golden age of paranoia came in the 1970s. It was a decade in which everyone in Britain from the prime minister down believed malign forces were at work. Harold Wilson, the former prime minister, was by turns a kgb plant or a soon-to-be victim of a secret-service coup, depending on who was asked. Reactionary colonels plotted while revolutionary sects marched through trade unions. Enemies were within and without, above and below. A second golden age of paranoia is happening right now. Almost half of British voters believe that the statement "a secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions, such as going to war" is definitely or probably true, points out More In Common, a pollster. From left to right, rich to poor, almost every Briton will at some point reach for a complicated, conspiratorial explanation when a simpler and more likely one is at hand. The "paranoid style" ', as it was dubbed by Richard Hofstadter, an American historian, is back in fashion.
Another way of looking at this is that when times are tough, money is tight and elites are hard pressed due to e.g. abysmal corruption scandals, they tend to drop the polite facade and move towards overt enforcement archive.ph/SNpXO
LOL
AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).
JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.
Coconut dream spudaleens
Slightly lower ratio of sugar to sugar bearing ingredients but yes!
They have coconut in them. And sure what’s more Irish than a snowball or a Mikado?
Also the real deal:
They’re good actually? Easily the least offensive Irish American novelty food I had consumed.
Herself is bringing me home a box of these from Pennsylvania. Reserving judgment. #SpeirGorm
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽
Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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The Green Party wishes a happy and peaceful Ramadan to everyone celebrating in the UK and around the world.
Ramadan Mubarak.
CFP: Race, Law and Empire
Can’t believe we are still doing this
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
Think about what that library could do with an extra $2 million a year
Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700).
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I think if more people had been following @janelleshane.com over the years we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. Also I miss the days when language models were hilarious
Nearly 800 staff left the University of Edinburgh last year as senior management pushes a £140m savings drive
This hits precarious staff hardest
It's a great comfort to learn that senior management pay & bonuses are unaffected 😉
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2582884...
