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IMAGINE claiming to be a twenty first century feminist and then writing an op-ed with a standfirst that says "the basic biological distinction between a woman and a man" is

I am bored of keeping tweeting about this but: my house is always full of food, full of treats, full of snacks and crisps and baking, and also so much

There is no way of demanding a uterus emoji without sounding a bit TERFy and that’s just one more thing I resent them for because I really would like a

One big problem with SUs calling for a minimum amount of guaranteed in-person teaching is that some staff members are unable to do any in-person teaching because of health conditions

Saw a friend post a link to a personal essay they had enjoyed, saw it had “Mongolia” in the title, thought idly — oh is this the one where..., opened

There’s a weird thing of being a (humanities, maybe social sciences) academic in the world of impact and public engagement which is that people get utterly, derangedly furious at your

If you’re a journalist and you’re about to write a spluttering article that talks about students ONLY getting X HOURS of contact time or NO f2f TEACHING it’s an OUTRAGE,

I hate this trope about British “embarrassment” about their own history. The British are largely proud and/or ignorant of their own history. That’s basically the problem.https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1298233236204793857 Th

Universities can’t just take everyone, because lots of them massively over-offer, & the government has put a cap on admissions this year (plus staff-student ratio & grade entry tariff are

We should be deeply ashamed of these statistics, as a nation.https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1293196614266507267 Sure, you can look at how these statistics break down by party or by Brexit position or whatever, but

Carrie Symonds was born in 1988 and Boris Johnson was born in 1964 and every so often I remember that fact and just sort of shudder This evening it was

All this cooking "healthy food" discourse is reminding me of the WW2 reports that evacuated children refused to eat food that wasn't tinned, or fish & chips. There was so