Andy Williams
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Welsh; unions; #bi/#pan 🩷💜💙🏳️🌈; #BWithTheT; anti-#Spycops; interested in journalism; @cardiffUCU media; resistance is fertile 🌱; [email protected]
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This from Radio Wales is the most comprehensive take yet on @cardiffucu’s win in the @CardiffUni dispute. Worth a listen if you’re staff, a student, a trade unionist, or are just interested in the detail of what’s (& what fights remain ahead). @UCU ✊🔥💖 https://t.co/cTk9HVXTm2
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Prof Frances Corner, Vice Chancellor of Goldsmith's College, departs abruptly Her speciality was eliminating faculty & staff positions During her reign, 130 positions were zeroed, that's ~ 18% of all academic faculty Her legacy: a smaller Goldsmith's https://t.co/ZVRfn2d2DR
gold.ac.uk
Professor Frances Corner OBE has stepped down with immediate effect as Vice-Chancellor of Goldsmiths.
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Here’s my video recapping today at the #spycops inquiry in under five minutes. If you haven’t followed what happened today, this should bring you up to speed
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10 years since Dismaland where I opened a payday loan shop for kids called Pocket Money Loans. I was in that cabin every day for five weeks That exhibition completely changed my life, I sold enough postcards and prints that I could actually afford to rent my first studio
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> 10000 university jobs lost in 2024-25 "People could, even if they lost their job, get a job at another institution. That's not happening now" "They're probably looking not only at the end of the a job, but really the end of their career in academia." https://t.co/Cob597AwVJ
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University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
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“At a time when legitimate protest is increasingly criminalised, the mere affirmation of activism feels significant, dramatised or not. This is potent and urgent theatre.” - Guardian Demand the Impossible. On this week, Newport Corn Exchange. https://t.co/OcFZ8XNhmH
theguardian.com
Everyday oppression is explored through the narratives of a Black Lives Matter activist, a blacklisted construction worker and an environmental campaigner
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“At a time when legitimate protest is increasingly criminalised, the mere affirmation of activism feels significant, dramatised or not. This is potent and urgent theatre.” - Guardian Demand the Impossible. On this week, Newport Corn Exchange. https://t.co/OcFZ8XNhmH
theguardian.com
Everyday oppression is explored through the narratives of a Black Lives Matter activist, a blacklisted construction worker and an environmental campaigner
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Cardiff Uni's defended opening a campus in Kazakhstan - after concerns were raised about the country's human rights record. The UCU says it's concerned about the impact on the university's reputation. But Cardiff University says due diligence has been followed.
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Wodak’s diagnosis focuses attention on process, not intent. “Shameless normalization” describes how lies and exclusionary narratives migrate from the extremes into everyday political practice, stripped of their overtly violent trappings but retaining the logic of exclusion.
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Weird seeing healthy me from a few weeks ago when this was filmed from the perspective of being cramping, virus-ridden me of today. Hate this time of year for the ills.
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Me on BBC Wales Today for @CardiffUCU about concerns over the Cardiff University Kazakhstan (CUK) campus. Full piece available here: https://t.co/LvdI7k3CM9
“Uni defends new Kazakhstan campus amid human rights concerns” - BBC News “The UCU, said it was not opposed to the venture in principle, but that it had serious concerns regarding staff workload and the speed with which it had been set up.” https://t.co/QLyi4VtyoA
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“Uni defends new Kazakhstan campus amid human rights concerns” - BBC News “The UCU, said it was not opposed to the venture in principle, but that it had serious concerns regarding staff workload and the speed with which it had been set up.” https://t.co/QLyi4VtyoA
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Hundreds of students have started lectures at the new campus, which is 3,712 miles from Cardiff.
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“Uni defends new Kazakhstan campus amid human rights concerns” - BBC News “The UCU, said it was not opposed to the venture in principle, but that it had serious concerns regarding staff workload and the speed with which it had been set up.” https://t.co/QLyi4VtyoA
bbc.com
Hundreds of students have started lectures at the new campus, which is 3,712 miles from Cardiff.
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ACORN Cardiff Recap 2025: everything our union achieved this year Thread 🧵⬇️
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As a lifelong leftie & recovering ex Labour member, have to say Zack Polanski is currently articulating ethical, economic & practical case for socialism & the left arguably better than any other politician for *decades* bar none. And he's making it heard, not begging to be heard
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Probably the last thing I need to watch at the moment when I'm still dealing with the fallout/ utter insanity of being in a non-consensual relationship with a Met police #spycops twenty years ago. But it's important and so I must watch it.
Serving Metropolitan Police officers called for immigrants to be shot, revelled in the use of force and were dismissive of rape claims in footage captured by a Panorama undercover reporter. Watch on BBC One at 9pm, or on iPlayer now https://t.co/lMjqeY5eXE
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"It is shameful and bad practice leaving so many people at risk for so long" https://t.co/IEUWloYre0 🚨UCU members: Get that vote in by tomorrow (Friday). No more can we stand this unnecessary cruelty after the hell of the last 10 months. An injury to one is an injury to all 🚨
walesonline.co.uk
Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins
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Workload is the major factor forcing academics to quit their roles, with some of the perceived benefits of working in universities actually adding to the strain, according to a new study. @JulietteRowsell reports https://t.co/i4vaIctFdA
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In academia, ‘flexible hours’ really just means all hours are work hours
Workload is the major factor forcing academics to quit their roles, with some of the perceived benefits of working in universities actually adding to the strain, according to a new study. @JulietteRowsell reports https://t.co/i4vaIctFdA
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UK universities in or entering heightened stages of industrial action over job losses include: Bournemouth, Bradford, Durham, Edinburgh, Greenwich, Kingston, Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool Hope, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth This will only rise as term progresses
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Until the @GOVUK starts taking in a radically new direction, it will continue crashing in the polls. It could – and must – act differently! #LabourConference2025 @guardian
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