The branch has just published its analysis of the financial situation of the university oxfordbrookes.web.ucu.org.uk/oxford-brookes… We follow this by our strategy in response to ongoing cuts, redundancies and closures
HUMAN BEINGS BEFORE VANITY BUILDINGS!
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Warrington is part of a swath of councils that have ploughed money into speculative ventures over the past decade by taking on huge debts in response to centrally imposed funding cuts.

It’s borrowings now near £2bn. Great graphics from Clara Murray 👇🏻

What on earth has Warrington Council been up to?
210,000 people, £2bn of debt

I like the nostalgia for 'peace-and-love' marches of the 60s which were violently suppressed, spied on by the FBI, and broadly characterized as allies of the Kremlin and the Viet Cong

H.R. Giger / 1979

“There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.”
— H. G. Wells

Both needed a win ...

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Another quiet one for the Conservative and Unionist Party.

Les échecs résumés en une photo !
(📸 Michał Walusza 👍 International Chess Federation)

A modest proposal: the Premier League should not initiate any new investigations into any other club until it finally completes the one (or 115, depending on how you frame it) into Manchester City

Pretty Unko-man is a pink poop who encourages children who are embarrassed about pooping at school to use the toilet with peace of mind.

Exclusive.

The government spent more than £23k on legal services related to Michelle Donelan’s letter to UK Research and Innovation about members of an advisory panel, bringing the total cost of the incident to the government & UKRI to more than £60k.

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My study for round 6. White to move and win.
Based on Pragg's 42. a4! vs Abasov and the dominating position of knight-d7 in that game.

The study begins with the classically patient Pragg-move 1. a4! (of course not 1. Rxf5 Kxf5 2. a4 Ke6!) Rxa5 2. bxa5 Bh2

1/3

💬 « Les #échecs sont un sport. Un sport violent. Pour peu que les échecs soient quelque chose, ils sont un combat. » (Marcel Duchamp)

📷 Maria Emelianova
#FIDECandidates

currently tracking each of these nerds down to force them to watch Inland Empire, Clockwork Orange-style

I see there is some discussion about creative arts today.
I do not think we are much further on than 2017 - when I wrote this :
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For everyone who has been watching the brilliant #Defiance documentary, here’s a piece I published in the London Review of Books 10 years ago, naming the police officer who the Met identified as the prime suspect for Blair Peach’s murder

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The breakneck speeds at which Goldsmiths management are pushing through unnecessary and harmful redundancies is underpinned by a reckless copy-paste culture of vandalism.

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#binthetp #saveourjobs #goldstrike

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This is a good summary of the history, but I feel it should emphasise more how austerity was a cross-party consensus from 2009 (reinforced by the BoE, think-tanks & media) to 2015. The rise of Corbyn was wholly attributable to that consensus.

Duolingo giving me the vocabulary I need to navigate this week