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Imagine you introduce austerity, which hits most vulnerable. You handle pandemic by partying. You do Brexit knowing it’s going to adversely impact those vulnerable most. You remove justice, batter NHS & don’t support mental health care. Then you blame vulnerable for not coping….

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‘I’ve called a general election by mistake’

July 4th is an important date - but there is arguably a more important one The Electoral Commission announces deadline for registering to vote for July general election 🚨 Tuesday 18 June 🚨

Happy UK Civil Service tweet anniversary to all who celebrate 🥳

EXCLUSIVE The chief Treasury civil servant wrote to Labour two days ago saying that the £38 billion/£2,000 tax attack “should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service” He said he had reminded ministers of this

NEW from me: one of the biggest threats to the UK's economy and society is a ferocious gathering storm inside its universities. How on Earth did things get so bad? I've tried to explain in this month's Prospect: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

"Have you got any honey? And plenty of money? It's for a thing."

"In spite of initial reservations, I'm glad I accepted Rishi's offer to run his campaign, and it seems to be going really well!"

This is really sad. The Mail shouldn’t be exploiting a poor mad man who lives in a hedge to further its own agenda

Nice bit of data for teaching maxim of relevance?

Starmer in the The Guardian: expresses a wish to 'change the whole approach' to university funding. I'm all ears. (1/2)

I've been re-reading the 1945 manifestos for a thing next week. The sections on education - written in the middle of an economic crisis, with a huge job of reconstruction ahead - make quite a contrast with the narrowly econometric vision we get today.

"It's a big building full of sick people, but that's not important right now"

Everyone slags Starmer over the family background in tools but in fairness he can assemble a cabinet quickly

Our Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Open Day visitors today had: a talk on myths about English by Jonathan Culpeper, the challenge to spot deception in language with Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account), and a theory-of-mind activity with @SilleBrandt. Plus the chance to hear about our new BSc in Language Sciences.

No president of America has ever given birth - I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue

We’d like to announce that while we are not a hotel, we are a concept of a hotel.

Une chocolapine.

We are delighted that Professor Jason Rothman - a world-leading expert in bilingualism and multilingualism - has recently joined us at Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni! News item: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/ne… Find out more about Jason's work here: lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-socia…