Steve Godby
@stevegodby.bsky.social
Principal Lecturer in Geography, Nottingham Trent University. FRGS. Cyclist. Eddington Number 55 miles. Ipswich Town fan.
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
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Just as UK Higher Ed has gone past its red lines and the business will be in advising unis how to hold on and benefit from failures, all the work in politics looks like coming from Labour MPs who want to survive 2029 and return to office after Reform implode. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK borrowing costs up after markets spooked by Reeves’s income tax U-turn
Pound down 0.5% against dollar in early trading after chancellor drops plans for upcoming budget
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just as UK Higher Ed has gone past its red lines and the business will be in advising unis how to hold on and benefit from failures, all the work in politics looks like coming from Labour MPs who want to survive 2029 and return to office after Reform implode. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Moments before the attack.
*scratch scratch*
*purr purr*
*scratch*
*purr some more and louder*
*scratch the belly some more*
*purr purr … wait! That’s my belly!*
**ATTACK THE HAND!**
#Tibbles #BlackCatsRule
#CatsOfBlueSky
*scratch scratch*
*purr purr*
*scratch*
*purr some more and louder*
*scratch the belly some more*
*purr purr … wait! That’s my belly!*
**ATTACK THE HAND!**
#Tibbles #BlackCatsRule
#CatsOfBlueSky
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Moments before the attack.
*scratch scratch*
*purr purr*
*scratch*
*purr some more and louder*
*scratch the belly some more*
*purr purr … wait! That’s my belly!*
**ATTACK THE HAND!**
#Tibbles #BlackCatsRule
#CatsOfBlueSky
*scratch scratch*
*purr purr*
*scratch*
*purr some more and louder*
*scratch the belly some more*
*purr purr … wait! That’s my belly!*
**ATTACK THE HAND!**
#Tibbles #BlackCatsRule
#CatsOfBlueSky
This is quite marvellous 👇
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Leonard and Hungry Paul review – this Julia Roberts-narrated comedy is the perfect antidote to modern life
Alex Lawther and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell star in this adaptation of Rónán Hession’s understated 2019 novel. Its quiet celebration of the gentle life is the opposite of today’s frantic TV – even if it does...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is quite marvellous 👇
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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If only there were some clue that there was a genuine policing concern around Maccabi. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi called off after rioting
Israeli police make nine arrests, citing ‘disorderly conduct, riots, injured police officers’ and infrastructure damage
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
If only there were some clue that there was a genuine policing concern around Maccabi. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge
October 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge
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The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: “rail corrugation”.
You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.
You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.
No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder
I SAID, THE TUBE *IS* GETTING LOUDER.
jonn.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: “rail corrugation”.
You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.
You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.
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Happy birthday to Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel in space, who began her communications to #NASA with "Hailing frequencies open"—and guest starred in #StarTrekTNG's "Second Chances."
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy birthday to Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel in space, who began her communications to #NASA with "Hailing frequencies open"—and guest starred in #StarTrekTNG's "Second Chances."
Not much mention in the media coverage that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a bit of a reputation.
October 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Not much mention in the media coverage that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a bit of a reputation.
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I’m so hungry
I could eat
the harvest moon
I’m so hungry
I could swallow
it whole
I can’t remember
the last time someone
threw me a chip
if it carries on like this
I’ll have to move to Brid…
@holdernessnews.bsky.social
I could eat
the harvest moon
I’m so hungry
I could swallow
it whole
I can’t remember
the last time someone
threw me a chip
if it carries on like this
I’ll have to move to Brid…
@holdernessnews.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I’m so hungry
I could eat
the harvest moon
I’m so hungry
I could swallow
it whole
I can’t remember
the last time someone
threw me a chip
if it carries on like this
I’ll have to move to Brid…
@holdernessnews.bsky.social
I could eat
the harvest moon
I’m so hungry
I could swallow
it whole
I can’t remember
the last time someone
threw me a chip
if it carries on like this
I’ll have to move to Brid…
@holdernessnews.bsky.social
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If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.
October 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.
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With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:
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On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
benansell.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
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New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
"Whether they like it or not, our politicians have given permission for old hatreds and prejudices to be given a 21st-century refit"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On a trip to Kent, I saw how politics is being shaped by the west’s growing hostility to outsiders | John Harris
With a Reform council, small boat arrivals and asylum seeker accommodation, this county lays bare an increasingly divided Britain, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"Whether they like it or not, our politicians have given permission for old hatreds and prejudices to be given a 21st-century refit"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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38 years ago today: The Next Generation's first scene🖖
"Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7.
Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world."
TNG is 40 soon 🤯
"Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7.
Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world."
TNG is 40 soon 🤯
September 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
38 years ago today: The Next Generation's first scene🖖
"Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7.
Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world."
TNG is 40 soon 🤯
"Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7.
Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world."
TNG is 40 soon 🤯
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I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.
September 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.
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I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day
Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.
Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social
“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”
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Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social
“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”
on.ft.com/3VxxCaR
September 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day
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The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Elon Musk addresses the ‘unite the kingdom’ march crowd via video link – UK politics live
Met Police believe 110,000 people attending rally, with one group in Whitehall throwing projectiles at officers
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Keir Starmer should be old enough to remember that we didn't use to call them patriots, we called them football hooligans.
September 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Keir Starmer should be old enough to remember that we didn't use to call them patriots, we called them football hooligans.
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The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
September 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
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Worth pointing out that Dundee is ranked quite highly here, but anyone who looks it up will find an institution mired in financial freefall and mismanagement.
The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings
The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country. Our league tables rank them all subject by subject, as well as by student satisfaction, staff numbers, spending and career prospects Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Worth pointing out that Dundee is ranked quite highly here, but anyone who looks it up will find an institution mired in financial freefall and mismanagement.
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The BBC sending news alerts to explain what a widow of a far-right troll (a troll who was, at best, a marginal figure in the UK) said in a press conference is utterly absurd and a sign of a real skew in senior editorship.
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The BBC sending news alerts to explain what a widow of a far-right troll (a troll who was, at best, a marginal figure in the UK) said in a press conference is utterly absurd and a sign of a real skew in senior editorship.
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People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.
September 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.