What Zack is paraphrasing (and exemplifying) is Raymond Williams' “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.” Naturally centrists are falling over themselves to fulfil their sacred duty towards the second part.

Now this is how you announce your election victory! Finally the Green Party have good comms - and finally they have a leader who’s totally confident using anti-elite populist rhetoric that will enthuse a far wider voter base. No more meekness!

Congratulations to @ClancyFirefox and co-authors. This publication won the innovation award at the Universities Association of Lifelong Learning Conference in June. The award recognises innovations or creative initiatives that seek to expand lifelong learning.

Raymond Willams on why protest is essential in the age of mass media kmflett.wordpress.com/2025/0…

Now available for order: Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education, co-edited by @ClancyFirefox. Dr Clancy is a member of our Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management (CRELM). bit.ly/41wckNg #Research #CRELM #AdultEducation

📖 NEW: Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education, edited by Nalita James, Kevin Orr and Sharon Clancy (@ClancyFirefox) Free chapter at: doi.org/10.4337/978180088666… More information: e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/978180… #AdultEducation #UniversityManagement

Authenticity, Relationships and Community informed Research and Practice. ARVAC Routable 27th March 1-3.30pm @JurgenGrotz @ProfJohnDiamond @ClancyFirefox @clancy_sharon @UEAFPol @communityandy Book Here: eventbrite.com/e/authenticit…

Ian Hislop, "Farmers didn't pay inheritance tax at all, and now they're going to pay half of what everybody else pays.. And the limits they set on them are really pretty high" "So it's meant to stop wealthy landowners buying lots of land in order to avoid taxes" "People who come to mind.. Jeremy Clarkson who originally bought his farm in order to avoid paying any tax on it" "Who has now become the champion of the small farmer who is probably not going to get hit by this, and is going to end up worse off for lots of other reasons" Victroia Derbyshire, "Why are you here?" Jeremy Clarkson, "I'm here to support farmers" VD, "So it's not about you and the fact that you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?" JC, "Classic BBC.. It's not the fact that I bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax" VD, "You told the Sunday Times in 2021 that's why you bought it" JC shakes his head Ian Hislop, "It's not as though he doesn't have any history with the Beeb, she's quite lucky he didn't punch her in the face with cold food"

Guardian obituary of Agnes Flues, much missed by her friends colleagues in the UCU as well as family. Agnes was a customer of ours, often attended bookshop events.

Catch up on @WEAadulted’s #LifelongLearningWeek webinar: ‘A Permanent National Necessity: The Centenary Commission on Adult Education Five Years on’. 📺⬇️ wea.org.uk/news-views/news/w…

Brilliant - a whole journal on working class people in higher and further education .@ClancyFirefox journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum…

Here’s @LeeAndersonMP_ apologising in the House of Commons. Apologising because he said: “Fuck off, everyone opens the door to me.” to a security guard. Man of the people right there. #ReformTrain

Given impact of English NHS on devolved country healthcare- urge all to complete this survey @MarkLadbrooke @DrSteveTaylor @KevinPascoe @ClancyFirefox @mikegalsworthy

There can be no other country in the world where the majority of newspapers and radio/tv stations make every effort to bring down a democratically elected government before it has had time to deliver on its promises. It is quite deplorable after 14 years of failure by the Tories.

And here's the link: ucu.org.uk/media/14604/Harne… @adamthompson111 @ClancyFirefox @ellen_boeren @drkcarrutherst @FEWeek @suepemberholex @IainJonesNew @vicky_duckworth @GordonMarsden @ProfJohnDiamond @K_DonnellyCEO @EPALE_EU @LilianGreenwood @redrumlisa @GawainLittle @lllplatform

There are calls for Lord Eric Pickles to resign from the House of Lords he complained to the Grenfell Inquiry that he was missing important lunches. Like if he needs to resign. RT if he needs to be fired.

Last few places availiable ... @ProfJohnDiamond @JurgenGrotz @ClancyFirefox @sharonhutchings

Wow, I've seen over 500 people unfollow me in recently. People have been in touch in the past to let me know they have not deliberately unfollowed. This has happened to many others including e.g. @theAliceRoberts and @carolvorders Please RT so that lost followers can find me.

BREAKING: This brave Indigenous leader was just named Canada’s first prisoner of conscience by @amnesty after he was locked up for protesting an illegal pipeline being built on ancestral lands. Solidarity with Chief Dsta’hyl and all the Wet’suwet’en fighting the destructive Coastal GasLink project. Canada: release the Chief now. ⤵️ amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…

Here's the link to it: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…