Stephen Baker
@stephenbaker.bsky.social
Socialist. Trade unionist. Strummer of strings. Co.Down. Researches, writes & teaches. Radical whore of sociology. "...clean living under difficult circumstances." Proudly Paddystinian.
Here's a poll that suggest the Greens would do better. But carry on Polly.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Here's a poll that suggest the Greens would do better. But carry on Polly.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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God, YES! 🙏
Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:41 AM
God, YES! 🙏
I don’t know why any news organisation is reporting the racist, inaccurate, conceptually ignorant ramblings of a tax dodging billionaire.
February 12, 2026 at 7:21 AM
I don’t know why any news organisation is reporting the racist, inaccurate, conceptually ignorant ramblings of a tax dodging billionaire.
We've suffered enough...
American conservative Erika Kirk is expected to visit Northern Ireland as part of a tour to recruit young people to Turning Point, the organisation founded by her murdered husband.
Widow of murdered US activist Charlie Kirk to recruit students on NI visit
Ex-DUP MP Ian Paisley backing plan to launch branch of Christian-right group Turning Point here
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 8:51 AM
We've suffered enough...
Wouldn't it be something if China was more invested in UKHE than the UK government.
Director General of MI5 has told a meeting of vice-chancellors last week that China and other states were attempting to influence universities’ research and teaching.
www.ft.com/content/888a...
Director General of MI5 has told a meeting of vice-chancellors last week that China and other states were attempting to influence universities’ research and teaching.
www.ft.com/content/888a...
UK universities told to step up defences against intimidation by China
Security services to launch advisory scheme for threatened academics in wake of Sheffield Hallam row
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Wouldn't it be something if China was more invested in UKHE than the UK government.
Director General of MI5 has told a meeting of vice-chancellors last week that China and other states were attempting to influence universities’ research and teaching.
www.ft.com/content/888a...
Director General of MI5 has told a meeting of vice-chancellors last week that China and other states were attempting to influence universities’ research and teaching.
www.ft.com/content/888a...
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We're going to need more trade unionists on here....
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
We're going to need more trade unionists on here....
I don't see any value in hard work. And by a happy co-incidence, neither does my employer. My colleagues and I have suffered over a decade of real-terms pay cuts.
BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I don't see any value in hard work. And by a happy co-incidence, neither does my employer. My colleagues and I have suffered over a decade of real-terms pay cuts.
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Hear me out. Morgan McSweeney and Dominic Cummings do a podcast together called The Rest is … oh, something or other.
February 9, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Hear me out. Morgan McSweeney and Dominic Cummings do a podcast together called The Rest is … oh, something or other.
Westminster correspondents fetishise the political 'dark arts'; they love a supposed Machiavellian genius like McSweeney or Cummings. Politics as Game of Thrones-style soap opera. Yet these advisors are never all that! They end up sacked, after crashing a government and/or trashing a party.
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Westminster correspondents fetishise the political 'dark arts'; they love a supposed Machiavellian genius like McSweeney or Cummings. Politics as Game of Thrones-style soap opera. Yet these advisors are never all that! They end up sacked, after crashing a government and/or trashing a party.
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Yes, mate, that's your job
February 9, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Yes, mate, that's your job
The current storm in a teacup over President Catherine Connolly referring to "Derry" is brought to you, platformed and amplified by the BBC in Northern Ireland.
February 6, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The current storm in a teacup over President Catherine Connolly referring to "Derry" is brought to you, platformed and amplified by the BBC in Northern Ireland.
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Our members have voted to formally oppose @ulsteruni.bsky.social management's mid-term module survey
This follows disregard to concerns raised with UU management about the survey and its consequences for staff welfare & workload
Members, please check your email for more details
This follows disregard to concerns raised with UU management about the survey and its consequences for staff welfare & workload
Members, please check your email for more details
a woman in a blue shirt is making a funny face and saying nope
ALT: a woman in a blue shirt is making a funny face and saying nope
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January 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Our members have voted to formally oppose @ulsteruni.bsky.social management's mid-term module survey
This follows disregard to concerns raised with UU management about the survey and its consequences for staff welfare & workload
Members, please check your email for more details
This follows disregard to concerns raised with UU management about the survey and its consequences for staff welfare & workload
Members, please check your email for more details
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#OtD 30 Jan 1972 the Bloody Sunday massacre took place when British soldiers fired on unarmed civil rights protesters in the Bogside, Ireland, killing 14. Protesters had been opposing the policy of internment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1028...
January 30, 2026 at 5:25 AM
#OtD 30 Jan 1972 the Bloody Sunday massacre took place when British soldiers fired on unarmed civil rights protesters in the Bogside, Ireland, killing 14. Protesters had been opposing the policy of internment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1028...
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Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture
Untangling ‘identity’ and ‘identity politics’: an interview with Marie Moran
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January 29, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Niamh McCrea discusses "Identity and Capitalism" (2015) with Marie Moran in our January issue, and her subsequent research, which seeks to productively intervene in what Moran terms the ‘radical confusion’ within contemporary debates on identity politics across academia, activism and popular culture
Public Media Ireland: a radical vision of PSM in a United Ireland
A new report asks: If Ireland was United, what Public Service Media system would it adopt? By Phil Ramsey and Roderick Flynn @mediareformuk.bsky.social
www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/psm-uni...
A new report asks: If Ireland was United, what Public Service Media system would it adopt? By Phil Ramsey and Roderick Flynn @mediareformuk.bsky.social
www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/psm-uni...
Media Reform Coalition
Media Reform coordinates the work of advocacy groups campaigning to protect the public interest in light of the Leveson Inquiry and Communications Review.
www.mediareform.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Public Media Ireland: a radical vision of PSM in a United Ireland
A new report asks: If Ireland was United, what Public Service Media system would it adopt? By Phil Ramsey and Roderick Flynn @mediareformuk.bsky.social
www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/psm-uni...
A new report asks: If Ireland was United, what Public Service Media system would it adopt? By Phil Ramsey and Roderick Flynn @mediareformuk.bsky.social
www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/psm-uni...
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An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
January 28, 2026 at 8:53 PM
An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!
What have we got to lose by opening up a debate about the media and how it might contribute to the achievement of a rich participatory democracy?
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What have we got to lose by opening up a debate about the media and how it might contribute to the achievement of a rich participatory democracy?
Stephen Baker is a Lecturer at Ulster University Earlier in January, a report was launched setting out proposals for a new public media organisation in the event of a united Ireland. Funded by progre...
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January 28, 2026 at 4:57 PM
What have we got to lose by opening up a debate about the media and how it might contribute to the achievement of a rich participatory democracy?
sluggerotoole.com/2026/01/28/w...
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Rep Omar with the Glasgow pub rule response. Love to see it.
ok the full clip is way better than the little one going around. her whole team try to get her to bail on the event and she's like no, I came to speak. incredible example.
REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
January 28, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Rep Omar with the Glasgow pub rule response. Love to see it.
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ok the full clip is way better than the little one going around. her whole team try to get her to bail on the event and she's like no, I came to speak. incredible example.
REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
January 28, 2026 at 2:13 AM
ok the full clip is way better than the little one going around. her whole team try to get her to bail on the event and she's like no, I came to speak. incredible example.
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REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 AM
REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
Reform's role is clearly to ingest all the most poisonous and insentient elements of the Conservative Party, and then regurgitate them for public consumption, again. That Reform are regarded as insurgent or novel, is just extraordinary. It is the bile and boke of the past.
January 27, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Reform's role is clearly to ingest all the most poisonous and insentient elements of the Conservative Party, and then regurgitate them for public consumption, again. That Reform are regarded as insurgent or novel, is just extraordinary. It is the bile and boke of the past.
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Deirdre Connolly, survivor of the Post Office Horizon scandal, featured on BBC Panorama on one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history. Deirdre will speak at 'Punching Up - Working Class Struggles' this Saturday, hosted by the Bloody Sunday Trust.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - Post Office: Who’s to Blame?
It’s been called the worst miscarriage of justice in British history. Hundreds of postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after money vanished from the Horizon computer system. But who’s really to blame?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Deirdre Connolly, survivor of the Post Office Horizon scandal, featured on BBC Panorama on one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history. Deirdre will speak at 'Punching Up - Working Class Struggles' this Saturday, hosted by the Bloody Sunday Trust.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Labour finds itself in "turmoil" and on the brink of "civil war" over the NEC's blocking of Andy Burnham standing as an MP in the Gorton and Denton by-election. My favourite take on this is from a Labour supporter who sees this as some sort of indictment of Corbyn. Let it go, ffs!
January 27, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Labour finds itself in "turmoil" and on the brink of "civil war" over the NEC's blocking of Andy Burnham standing as an MP in the Gorton and Denton by-election. My favourite take on this is from a Labour supporter who sees this as some sort of indictment of Corbyn. Let it go, ffs!