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'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
View from the library today
October 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
View from the library today
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Something we don't talk about enough in housing is what will happen when a generation of renters start to retire. The private rented sector is not set up for old age:
www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
www.standard.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Something we don't talk about enough in housing is what will happen when a generation of renters start to retire. The private rented sector is not set up for old age:
www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
Just so deeply unpleasant waking up in a country where such a nasty, fascist policy proposal is making front-page news. Lots of pandering to the 'island of strangers' crowd in the UK, far less sympathy for the basically liberal majority feeling increasingly alienated from mainstream politics/media
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Just so deeply unpleasant waking up in a country where such a nasty, fascist policy proposal is making front-page news. Lots of pandering to the 'island of strangers' crowd in the UK, far less sympathy for the basically liberal majority feeling increasingly alienated from mainstream politics/media
Accidentally bought a black 'kimono' / cover-up thing that closely resembles an Oxbridge gown, giving me a donnish aspect even as I lie in a bikini on a beach in central Italy
August 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Accidentally bought a black 'kimono' / cover-up thing that closely resembles an Oxbridge gown, giving me a donnish aspect even as I lie in a bikini on a beach in central Italy
Subterranean summer 👁️
August 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Subterranean summer 👁️
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I wrote about the Vylanising of the Gaza discourse, and what happens if you keep telling people things they can see aren’t true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Gaza discourse has been Vylanised – but that diversionary strategy just doesn’t work any more | Archie Bland
Those appalled by Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the kind of media frenzy prompted by Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury appearance, are finding their voice, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edit...
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I wrote about the Vylanising of the Gaza discourse, and what happens if you keep telling people things they can see aren’t true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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And of course he is entirely correct. Labour, the party that punishes working-class people if they fall in love with foreigners.
Visa income rules discriminate against working-class people, British father says
Leighton Allen, who cannot bring his family to the UK, says it feels as if he is being punished for not earning enough
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
And of course he is entirely correct. Labour, the party that punishes working-class people if they fall in love with foreigners.
Sometimes I feel like life is running away with me but today the radiologist described me as 'une jeune fille de 28 ans' in his report 🫶🏼
July 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Sometimes I feel like life is running away with me but today the radiologist described me as 'une jeune fille de 28 ans' in his report 🫶🏼
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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great speech on the democratic stakes of anti-migrant policies in Europe. Well worth a read/listen
Thank you @iwm.at @erstestiftung.org & to everyone who came to my Europe Speech on migration & borders yesterday. It was an unforgettable evening for me, one whole hour in which I felt fully at home in the square after months and months of political homelessness. Speech 👉 www.iwm.at/news/a-speec...
May 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Great speech on the democratic stakes of anti-migrant policies in Europe. Well worth a read/listen
'So we're saying no to the hypnotist?' Adventures finding a new housemate in Paris continue
May 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
'So we're saying no to the hypnotist?' Adventures finding a new housemate in Paris continue
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“Oxford and Cambridge will come through this OK because they have other sources of funding...But we may well see a serious contraction of humanities postgraduate research training…That would be devastating for the vibrant national system that we’ve built in recent decades.” @mcraeandrew.bsky.social
Will funding cuts devalue arts and humanities PhDs in the UK?
From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD supervis...
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“Oxford and Cambridge will come through this OK because they have other sources of funding...But we may well see a serious contraction of humanities postgraduate research training…That would be devastating for the vibrant national system that we’ve built in recent decades.” @mcraeandrew.bsky.social
Completely fatuous distinction being drawn between privileges and rights here, not least given that the government's plan seems to be simply to extend the qualification period for ILR applications (the substantive condition for settlement, namely residence, remaining the same)
May 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Completely fatuous distinction being drawn between privileges and rights here, not least given that the government's plan seems to be simply to extend the qualification period for ILR applications (the substantive condition for settlement, namely residence, remaining the same)
Surely it's been said before but it's wild the number of TikToks (/insta reels etc.) that pass for 'observational comedy' when they are in fact engaged in pure 'observation'. Where is the joke??
May 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Surely it's been said before but it's wild the number of TikToks (/insta reels etc.) that pass for 'observational comedy' when they are in fact engaged in pure 'observation'. Where is the joke??
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Boris Romanchrnko came to our school in Kharkiv to tell about WW2. Not of the glory days, but of 4 concentration camps he survived. He also lived through Holodomor. Boris was a human rights activist and he was killed by the russian military 22 March 2022 in his home in Saltivka district, Kharkiv.
May 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Boris Romanchrnko came to our school in Kharkiv to tell about WW2. Not of the glory days, but of 4 concentration camps he survived. He also lived through Holodomor. Boris was a human rights activist and he was killed by the russian military 22 March 2022 in his home in Saltivka district, Kharkiv.
Local takeaway pizza place takes a step towards the future
May 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Local takeaway pizza place takes a step towards the future
The Hockney exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton really is breathtakingly good btw. Can only echo what a fellow visitor said: 'C'est un coloriste extraordinaire'
May 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The Hockney exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton really is breathtakingly good btw. Can only echo what a fellow visitor said: 'C'est un coloriste extraordinaire'
So stressed out by personal stuff that I checked my work emails at 1am in bed as a means of distraction 👍🏼
May 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
So stressed out by personal stuff that I checked my work emails at 1am in bed as a means of distraction 👍🏼
The government's attitude to the For Women Scotland ruling is objectionable not least because they seem to be treating the SC judgment as the ultimate source of legal authority, thereby conveniently ignoring the fact that, if they disagreed with it, they could just legislate to make the law clearer
April 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The government's attitude to the For Women Scotland ruling is objectionable not least because they seem to be treating the SC judgment as the ultimate source of legal authority, thereby conveniently ignoring the fact that, if they disagreed with it, they could just legislate to make the law clearer
Watching the wind turbines turn in the sunset from my seat in this high-speed train 🌬️🚞♻️🥰
April 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching the wind turbines turn in the sunset from my seat in this high-speed train 🌬️🚞♻️🥰
Tulip season in Regent's Park 🌷🫶🏻
April 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tulip season in Regent's Park 🌷🫶🏻
