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The excellent Nils Peters is renting a new place, maybe you know somebody who may want to rent his old place - a 1-bed flat near Burgess Park... facebook.com/marketplace/it…

A thread on the new bogeyman of “critical race theory” theblaze.com/news/ready-uk-…

Prof Gargi Bhattacharyya is one of our foremost scholars of race and capitalism. Hers is a key voice in openDemocracy ourVoices podcast on 'is capitalism racist?' She is now being made redundant by Uni of East London in an apparent targeting of union organisers. #SaveUEL

How to best support early career scholars during a pandemic? We decided to organise a manuscript development workshop where we want to help our peers get their papers published! 🙂 Are you a PhD/postDoc & have a paper almost ready? Then check out our CfP: warwick.ac.uk/warwickcritica…

It is not just that cost of borrowing is at historic lows; it is that this is in part result of policy intervention. Co-ordinated action btwn the Bank & Treasury - policy choice, not just 'market' forces - opened up fiscal headroom that Chancellor has irresponsibly underused.

you may remember Rashan Charles, who died under police restraint in Hackney a couple of years ago. you may also recall that police were aided by a random "member of the public" who just happened to be around. well the CCTV tells a different story. opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-lig…

'Managers shape how contracts are assigned, how targets are set, and what opportunities these provide for external providers to extract profit' Thing on how the NHS wasn't really 'marketised' tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/how-ma…

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Lisa is a fantastic scholar, teacher, person - read what she has to say in full.

'When our jobs are under threat, student learning conditions unbearable, and when our sector is being destroyed by parasitic managers, the responsible thing to do is strike.' goldsmithsucu.org/2021/10/26/we-… If you can, pls donate to support our most precarious colleagues.

Ach, education is necessary and important but we cannot tackle the racism endemic in English cricket without redistributing resources in the game. English cricket is wealthy but cash is concentrated in places where 'diversity' is mostly an exception

SMTs think university staff are reflexively resistant to change and so just plough on over considered and knowledgeable objections with their shiny outside consultants and then all of a sudden everything falls apart exactly the way people said it would, millions of pounds later

'underlying the dispute is the broader problem of how universities are run, and by whom. Specialist managers move from institution to institution, partnering with expensive consultants to impose chaotic restructurings' novaramedia.com/2021/11/26/we-…

We wrote a book! It will hopefully be of interest to non-academic readers too. The politics Covid revealed btw, weren't great...

I wrote about how in a stagnant, skewed economy, monetary policy can't fix inflation without reinforcing underlying problems theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📗NEW REPORT📗    What's wrong with UK pensions?   Our latest from @BBonizzi @jenchurchill79 Sahil Dutta explores how we can move from a system defined by inequality, instability & insecurity to one that guarantees economic security and dignity for all.   common-wealth.co.uk/publications/u…

My attempt to shed a different light on the debate about New Industrial Policy. Exploring the history of social democratic managerialism, New Labour, and the forever crisis of growth and productivity in the UK versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…