Thrilled to share my new article (w/@KaySocLearn) in Gender and Education: ‘If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next’ Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… #Misogyny #Fascisms #Education #AffirmativeEthics #ForMyMom

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Paul McGrath with one of the greatest individual performances vs Italy in the 1994 World Cup. #AVFC

If a newspaper cannot explain that PIP is a disability benefit rather than an unemployment benefit, it is failing at the most basic level of reporting. The public deserves accurate information, not misleading framing.

The constant banging on about DEI is an infuriating American import into the UK. In the UK we call it EDI. And EDI training is essentially summed up like this: ‘Don’t be a knob to other people, and realise some people face barriers you don’t.’ It’s not some woke conspiracy.

So stop it maybe? Who are you warning? I can't do anything, YOU are the UN.

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right bbc.com/news/articles/cpqxrz…

We have quite literally seen BILLIONS cut from the social security budget since 2010. What has been achieved? More poverty and hardship, more young people out of work, worse health. There is now deep structural inequality which is being ignored in favour of more cuts.

Israel has arrested two Palestinian women’s national team players, Natalie Abu Dayyeh & Rand Al Halawini. The Palestine FA described it as part of the systematic targeting of their athletes. Will the same media who were concerned about Iran’s women footballers say anything now?

18. The transition from child to adult services is so stressful. At 18/19 full time education provision ends. At 18 the parent/carer will lose family allowance and any element of UC they claim for a dependent disabled child. This will do untold harm. A Labour Government did this.

AI is only part of the problem for @UniversitiesUK. No job is safe (save for those of VCs and SMTs) as long as everything is seen through the lens of value for money and courses that make a "profit". As fixed costs increase then this becomes harder. @ucu

The UK is about to have its 6th prime minister in 7 years because after 47 years of Thatcherism, nothing works any more. We're going to be stuck in an endless cycle of prime ministerial resignations until the failed neoliberal model is overturned.

I am disgusted to hear that the University of Hertfordshire is closing English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History and Creative Writing undergraduate degrees. 1/5

Ask yourself why you never had about this candidate but you heard about so many Green candidates.

Ask yourself why you didn’t hear about this guy but you did hear about lots of Green local candidates.

I finally lost it on the departmental AI survey.

When you manage 20 minutes of writing

You can colour it light blue and stick its politicians in suits but ultimately it’ll always be the latest manifestation of the National Front Farage’s candidates falling off script and calling the Reform Party UKIP Mask slipping

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

The U.K. marks the 81st Anniversary of VE Day by waking up to discover many of their neighbours voted for concentration camps. Never Again eh?

RT @IndiaWilloughby: If we had a proper media, Reform would be finished. The BBC has played a massive role in legitimising a re-hashed Nati…