Thank you @BACLS_official ! I am so thrilled and incredibly honoured to have won the BACLS Edited Collection Prize for my edited book Decolonising the Literature Curriculum. I am also grateful to the book’s outstanding contributors. This really means everything to me and them.

Sheryl Crow: "What happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency."

Sheryl Crow speaks out after Trump’s UFC 250 event: “To stay quiet means to turn a blind eye. And so I am saying this. What happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency. Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living. Do not be fooled. This administration is corrupt and does not give a damn about the American people. It only cares about making money hand over fist at the expense and in spite of our democracy. If we continue to support this kind of distraction from reality, we are no better than them. Let's be better, America.”

De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more. I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class. I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families. I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.

“If the USA didn't want other Countries citizens in the US they shouldn't have bid for the Fifa world cup 2026” Didier Drogba

10 years ago Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death in Birstall by a far right thug. Do you remember the Farage \ Tommy Robinson riots that followed it, No me neither. R.I.P. Jo

UK universities warn of cuts for impoverished students if dire funding issues continue theguardian.com/education/20…

Today @DrJoGrady and @AndreaEganGS have written to Keir Starmer demanding emergency intervention as 15,000 jobs are lost across higher education and 2,700 staff face the axe at Nottingham alone. When British Steel was at risk, the government nationalised it overnight. Where's that urgency now? Read the full the statement here: ucu.org.uk/article/14514/Gov…

Powerful scenes in Nottingham today. Picket lines are up at the University of Nottingham. 2,700 staff have been told they are at risk of redundancy. More than 700 jobs are under threat. These cuts are not inevitable. They are a choice. Staff are fighting back. Solidarity matters.

"UK universities are precious commodity. Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where pieces land is not an education policy...It is neglect bordering on vandalism ... Westminster needs to wake up" Royal Historical Society lands an enormous punch royalhistsoc.org/history-and…

Nearly half of our universities are forecasting deficits. Institutions across the country are closing departments and issuing redundancy notices. The government don’t yet consider this a crisis. How many more jobs and courses must be lost before ministers act?

Astonishingly, Cardiff University is adding insult to injury in its cuts by closing their Humanities library with a three-week notice. Do sign the petition against it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees

Cuts have already devastated arts, humanities & social sciences in universities The fire is spreading & “blue skies” science is next This isn’t a tired “humanities vs sciences” battle We must all stand together or the flames will consume us all timeshighereducation.com/new…

Watch the whole conversation @DrJoGrady and @LopaLeach on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=nLni6MXH…

"This is vandalism." 2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have received letters putting them at risk of redundancy. Members describe shock turning into anger and organisation. The message from staff is clear: these cuts are not necessary, and alternatives have already been put forward.

Yesterday Keir Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel and save 2700 jobs. The Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities? Cities and towns will be devastated by these job losses.

An apology that’s welcome outside Hungary too - including among historians who have tried to be honest and holistic about Britain’s colonial past, and who have been misrepresented, maligned and insulted by Orban-funded right wing culture warriors. theguardian.com/world/2026/m…

🚨 NEW: Panorama investigated Christopher Harborne’s £10m donation to the Brexit Party back in 2020 - now, years later, fresh questions are being raised under strikingly similar circumstances. The old clip of Nigel Farage hanging up on a BBC interviewer when pressed about Harborne is resurfacing again.

Other disciplines are important but the humanities, fitting their name, are disciplines that can never be replaced by automation or algorithms because excellence demands we mine our humanity rather than training it out of ourselves to perform a task. We’re losing ourselves here.

How can a university shut down its English department and still be a university?

The UK's university system, one of the greatest sources of the country's soft power and drivers of its advanced economy, is collapsing. The government is doing nothing about it and nobody seems to care.