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Richie Venton: The Crisis in Higher Ed: Solidarity, Strikes, and Scotland’s Universities

Over recent months, picket lines across Scotland—particularly at Glasgow Caledonian University—have seen incredible resilience from teaching and support staff fighting back against the threat of compulsory redundancies. ​In this episode, Richie Venton explores why these strikes are happening, examining the deep financial mismanagement, soaring international student fees, and a corporate university model that prioritizes profits […]

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The Frog Chorus Reunited

Last night, looking like the lead singer of an ageing re-formed and touring Frog Chorus, Alex Salmond announced his new Alpaca (or something) Party. The twitter/blogger gammony; parts of the ageing alt left, the transphobes and the creepy men who tell us that being a creepy man was acceptable when we were young (I was […]