Seb Breitenbach

It used to be football clubs that got bought 🤷

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

Me is already dreaming about the pastures full of fresh scents and fun - mice’n stuff 🤩😝
Luv, Pebble

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members are on strike today in the fight for pay and pensions justice @northumbriauni.bsky.social - but taking time to recuperate and re-energise away from the picket lines, for the struggles ahead! Make the most of it, everyone. ✊✊✊🫶🫶🫶

Billionaire brothers who backed Tories give Reform £100k Oliver Wright Extracts Britain's second-richest family have begun giving money to Reform UK after years of supporting the Conservatives. A company linked to the property tycoons David and Simon Reuben donated £100,000 to Nigel Farage's party the first time the brothers have given to any party other than the Tories. Reform has also received £3 million from Christopher Harborne, 63, an entrepreneur who now lives in Thai-land, adding to the ty million he gave in August. At the time, that was the biggest single donation to a UK political party by a living donor. In the last quarter of last year, Reform received more than £5.4 million in do-nations, the Conservatives were given £2.4 million and Labour received £1.9 million. The Reuben brothers - David, 87, and Simon, 84, who own property including Millbank Tower and Admiralty Arch in London — have donated almost El million to the Conservative Party since 2008. They also supported Boris Johnson after he left No 10, giving him office space worth £85,000. Their family wealth was put at £26.87 billion in The Sunday Times Rich List last year. Reform UK has its headquarters in Millbank Tower, but it is not known whether the brothers donation linked to reduced rent payments. Other Reform donors include David John Grainger, the co-founder of a biotech firm, and Gary Dutton, a double glazing entrepreneur, who both gave the party £250,000. Reform also received £100,000 from Isabel Goldsmith, sister of the former Tory minister Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park. Her father, Sir James Gold-smith, was seen as the godfather of British Euroscepticism. For the second quarter in a row Lord Bamford, the chairman of JCB, gave £200,000 each to the Conservatives and Reform. At the time of his first do-nation, the company said he was "sup-portive of pro-business political parties that create the conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper".

More billionaire cash bankrolling Reform.
JCB’s chairman, Bamford, said he was “supportive of pro-business political parties that create conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper."

Reform wants to repeal the Equality Act.
Prosperity for them means loss of rights and pay for us.
(Times)

@theguardian.com nailed it!
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@andylong6.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social @alancampbellmp.bsky.social @kateosbornemp.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @theguardian.com @neunion.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Another @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line @northumbriauni.bsky.social yesterday. We're loud and proud in our fight for pay and pensions justice! @ucu.org.uk @chionwurah.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @timeshighered.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Take on tomorrow with pay freeze or reduced pension?
@northumbriauni.bsky.social
Thanks, but no thanks!
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We want fair pay and fair pensions!

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk

Why are we here? Because managers want our pensions! Stop the steal! 😡
Together we are strong!

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk
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Northumbria pics

Another day out and proud on the picket lines today at Northumbria University.

Staff are fighting to defend the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and stop management’s attempt to force them out through pay freezes.

This is about dignity, security and refusing to let pensions be stripped away.

Please share widely! Another day, another amazing message of support from a @northumbriauni.bsky.social student - an international student nurse💉, no less! - for @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's fight for pay and pensions justice ✊💙💚🧡💜💛. ucu-unn.org.uk/blogucu/329-...

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social @andylong6.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @theguardian.com @timeshighered.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @josephinecumbo.bsky.social @danhollandnews.bsky.social

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk Teesside standing shoulder to shoulder for fair pay and pensions, and a better, brighter future. There is always an alternative! ✊✊✊

More @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picketers on strike for fair pay and pensions @northumbriauni.bsky.social today, pic courtesy of @ucu.org.uk comrades from @teessideuni.bsky.social!

🥁🪘📯Tiny (but noisy!) part of one of the @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social pickets on the move @northumbriauni.bsky.social today...more tomorrow!

That’s why she looks at her phones often 🫣😅

Northumbria University staff announce 10 more days of strikes in pensions row UCU members at Northumbria University have confirmed that they will take another 10 days of strike action, as a dispute over an alleged 'pension grab' continues

As @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social say in this article - we don't want to be on strike and our door is open to talk to management @northumbriauni.bsky.social. But our members (and any right-thinking people) will never accept pay and pension injustice! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence A recent UK national security assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem collapse made headlines, not for its dire warnings, but for its omissions. It's part of a larger trend of governments keeping cli...

Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence

Via @thebulletin.org by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2026/02/deny...

Join the picket! Don’t let the managers steal our #pensions or freeze pay forever!! 😡
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All welcome!@chroniclelive.co.uk @danhollandnews.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social @ucucommons.org @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @rmtunion.bsky.social @aslefunion.bsky.social @tucneyh.bsky.social @pcsunion.bsky.social

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.

The greatest risk of AI in Higher Education isn’t cheating — it’s the erosion of learning itself

If we eliminate the friction that builds expertise, what’s left? Struggle isn’t inefficiency. Ignore this, and we’ll produce credentials while quietly dismantling HE

theconversation.com/the-greatest...

What Ian said! 👇

@olakwiecien3.bsky.social @drjosephgraly.bsky.social

Would love to read it right now - alas, too much admin atm…
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Awesome scenes at another @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line today @northumbriauni.bsky.social. We were delighted and humbled to welcome student Sam, who brought biscuits, and gave a great speech in support of staff. 🫶

Zoom in. See what people (ordinary people, passing by, and students) picked as their preferred pay and pension arrangements. No-one wants to be ripped off. No-one thinks what management @northumbriauni.bsky.social are doing is fair or right. Let's make it stop.

Hey @mariabox.bsky.social - here an interesting article for you 👍🤩

Natural or quarry blast? 🤪

Lobbyismus: Brandenburgs Regierung umgeht Kontrollgremium Anti-Korruptionsregeln bleiben in Brandenburg ohne Wirkung, weil die Regierung sie dank einer Gesetzeslücke kaum anwendet. Um das herauszufinden, mussten wir die Staatskanzlei verklagen. 

Das Ministergesetz soll in Brandenburg bei direkten Wechseln aus der Politik in die Wirtschaft Interessenkonflikte verhindern. Durch unsere Klage haben wir herausgefunden: Die Landesregierung nutzt eine Gesetzeslücke und wendet Kontrollmechanismen kaum an. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...

#TerrierTuesday
Hoodads locked screen 🥰 #wallpaper luv, Pebble
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