Steve Knowles
@steveknowles.bsky.social
Academic researching Christian fundamentalist apocalypticism, sociology of risk, Plymouth Brethren (aka Exclusive Brethren) Season ticket holder LFC. Don’t buy the Sun!
July 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
April 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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good piece on the impact on students BBC News - 'My university course made me who I am - now it's being cut'
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'My university course made me who I am - now it's being cut'
Universities are cutting jobs to make financial savings, with students and staff bearing the brunt.
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February 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
good piece on the impact on students BBC News - 'My university course made me who I am - now it's being cut'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Saw #benelton #authenticstupidity #uk tour at the #floralpavillion. He is as indefatigable as ever! Go and see him #comedy
February 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Saw #benelton #authenticstupidity #uk tour at the #floralpavillion. He is as indefatigable as ever! Go and see him #comedy
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The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
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January 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
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Musk’s election interference is a serious threat.
But it can be challenged if governments use their powers and we stop letting the world’s richest man set the news and political agenda
Latest by me on Democracy for Sale
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But it can be challenged if governments use their powers and we stop letting the world’s richest man set the news and political agenda
Latest by me on Democracy for Sale
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
How to solve a problem like Elon Musk
Let's stop letting the world's richest man set the political and news agenda - and start taking action against foreign interference
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January 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Musk’s election interference is a serious threat.
But it can be challenged if governments use their powers and we stop letting the world’s richest man set the news and political agenda
Latest by me on Democracy for Sale
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
But it can be challenged if governments use their powers and we stop letting the world’s richest man set the news and political agenda
Latest by me on Democracy for Sale
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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It’s long been suggested locally that JRR Tolkien’s tree-like warriors, the Ents, may have been inspired in part by this ancient oak at Cannock Chase, where he was based during the First World War.
It’s extraordinary to see in person and well worth finding…
@tolkiensociety.org @digitaltolkien.com
It’s extraordinary to see in person and well worth finding…
@tolkiensociety.org @digitaltolkien.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
It’s long been suggested locally that JRR Tolkien’s tree-like warriors, the Ents, may have been inspired in part by this ancient oak at Cannock Chase, where he was based during the First World War.
It’s extraordinary to see in person and well worth finding…
@tolkiensociety.org @digitaltolkien.com
It’s extraordinary to see in person and well worth finding…
@tolkiensociety.org @digitaltolkien.com
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How I beat overwhelm: I deleted my email app – and my sleep suddenly improved
How I beat overwhelm: I deleted my email app – and my sleep suddenly improved
Checking my emails at every possible opportunity had become distracting and draining. So I set myself new boundaries
As a freelance writer, the structure of my work day can often vary wildly. Sometimes, it feels as if I have too much to do – other days,…
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December 28, 2024 at 5:37 AM
How I beat overwhelm: I deleted my email app – and my sleep suddenly improved
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McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term | Richard Sennett
McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term | Richard Sennett
Trump’s eerily familiar evocations of the ‘enemy within’ may be harder to shake off than the man who targeted my parents
The rise of Donald Trump aroused in me an old fear of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Both McCarthy and Trump rose to power as demagogues…
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December 28, 2024 at 7:06 AM
McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term | Richard Sennett
December 26, 2024 at 9:33 PM
17 thoughts on Paul McCartney’s recent stunning show at Manchester’s Co-Op arena… louderthanwar.com/17-thoughts-...
17 thoughts on Paul McCartney gig
17 thoughts on Paul McCartney's gig and his stunning show at Manchester’s Co-Op arena
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December 18, 2024 at 9:22 PM
17 thoughts on Paul McCartney’s recent stunning show at Manchester’s Co-Op arena… louderthanwar.com/17-thoughts-...
Closed my #twitter account and could do with a few more #lfc #journalists coming over to #bluesky as I’m not getting my usual #lfcteamnews as quick as usual. #lfc #souvlfc #carabaocup
December 18, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Closed my #twitter account and could do with a few more #lfc #journalists coming over to #bluesky as I’m not getting my usual #lfcteamnews as quick as usual. #lfc #souvlfc #carabaocup
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The expertise the UK loses when they make researchers and professors redundant is hugely damaging to the UK's economy, reputation and place in the world.
And all because of the bonkers idea of funding universities from international students and then, even more bonkers, cutting family visas.
And all because of the bonkers idea of funding universities from international students and then, even more bonkers, cutting family visas.
Eighty-three universities are now making redundancies. That number will rise to 90 and then 100+ during 2025. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 30, 2024 at 12:20 PM
The expertise the UK loses when they make researchers and professors redundant is hugely damaging to the UK's economy, reputation and place in the world.
And all because of the bonkers idea of funding universities from international students and then, even more bonkers, cutting family visas.
And all because of the bonkers idea of funding universities from international students and then, even more bonkers, cutting family visas.
Author of Late, Great Planet Earth Hal Lindsey has died at 95
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December 1, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Author of Late, Great Planet Earth Hal Lindsey has died at 95
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