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Lord Sumption's lecture on the govt response to COVID-19 is definitely worth watching. Makes crystal clear there has been an unconstitutional power-grab by the executive and agencies like the police.I

A thread on my @ChathamHouse research report coauthored with @ShaharHameiri:"Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’: How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative."It contains detailed case studies of #

This is a crass and mentally deficient position from my union.Universities cannot be "the care homes of a second #COVID19 wave" because they are nothing like care homes.1/21https://twitter.com/ucu/status/1299811608491823104 #COVID

Lots of people are probably wondering why UK governments were/are reluctant simply to use teachers' predicted grades for #Alevelresults.My @Cieothinks report on UK universities with @thephilippics, published this week, provides

My new report is out today: Saving Britain's Universities: Academic Freedom, Democracy and Renewal.It identifies massification (over-expansion) and marketisation as the twin evils plaguing the sector and calls for the

I share a lot of the concerns of the authors here, and the findings are broadly in line with other reports finding growing threats to academic freedom arising from campus

Dreadful but predictable response to the @SecDialogue #SecuritizationTheory imbroglio. Demanding that basic standards of scholarship be upheld, and insisting on a clear, defensible definition of racism, now constitutes "assault" o

You'll get nothing from me for the next 8 days except #UCUstrike. I'll explain why I and thousands of other university staff are striking here. Long thread, because there are