the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

oh i don't expect this to improve the situation and i agree about the causes.

there are two conflicting issues in general for me, between the purpose of education in individual development and its socioeconomic function. those two things have never felt further apart, but ironically i don't think either of them are well-served by things as they are.

my friends in UK academia are constantly trying to get out because of the degree of administrative micromanagement---and they know other systems too, they can make fair comparisons between e.g. UK & USA, Benelux, etc. From what I've read it's a nightmare of form filling, report writing, and paper shuffling, for no academic gain. I suppose it'll help get rid of all EU citizens in UK academia, apparently a goal of your government. Even UK citizens with pretty top jobs (Oxbridge e.g.) are quitting because of rock-bottom job satisfaction.

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some of Young's vital insight. Mary Beard has pointed out that the quote that he held a post at Cambridge is some creative CVing, big difference between being a "casual" and having a post.

time for a fun 2018 revival

You rivived it around new year last year too. Something about the time of year?

In this case they buried the bad news under New Year's Eve.

I think NV must get some kind of 'British Right-Wing Twats' advent calendar. That includes New Year.

Academic colleague of a colleague https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/why-im-moving-to-ireland/

Not to be a smartarse but were I him I'd double-check that 'final salary's pension scheme

'Is that a terrorist?' Prince Philip makes joke about bearded bystander

Apparently it's not allowed on here to joke we're joining ISIS, so can I joke I want to slice this bastard and all of his kin up? #hny

schools with wheelchair ramps and libraries that stock the complete works of a widely acclaimed novelist, what a dystopia

also of course he picked Twain because detailing the horrors of racism is a task that should be left to good hearted white men

I know this is fish in a barrel stuff but jesus

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No point slicing up a flatworm, they just become multiples. Hydrogen peroxide or holy fire will exterminate this type of 20th century fascist detritus!

Young is a vile eugenicist, and deserves to die very fucking painfully.

Like as if he is some fucking alpha specimen as well ffs!

Just come back and read that Young clip. You'll be shocked to hear that he's lying about the relationship of the Equality Act and exam regulation - the handbook on access arrangements for the AQA specifies frequently that no adjustment can be made that compromises the integrity of an exam.

Don't suppose we should expect better of a worm who's happy to publicly acknowledge his contempt for disabled people.

Sorry for political correct overreaction, obviously his invective is mere banter.

He needs stamping on. What the fuck do they think they're doing

Young makes me think of a half remembered quote from a Hitler book, where some Nazi or other had said in other words about Himmler: I'd be wary about preaching about Aryan purity looking like he does. I'm not wanting to get into shaming territory here, but I will in Young's case. Without his privilege and whiteness, the ugly lil' bald buffoon wouldn't fare well in the cruel natural selection society he wants to make a case for. Without his trappings, that don't include intelligence, nor valuable insight, the cunt is truly unemployable outside of his pathetic bubble. Sorry, shooting fish here again, but pissed!

always thought it was great that the sexed-up screen version of toby in the film adaptation of his immortal memoir i am a cunt was played by... simon pegg

‘i wonder who’ll they’ll cast as me in the movie about my life? clooney? pitt? crowe? oh it’s the guy from run fat boy run who looks like a rodent, cheers’

Sometimes I think Young, Pegg and Gove would look poetically beautiful in a death pit trio b+w photograph, freshly shot. Old b+w footage of the execution featuring Young having a Antonescu moment, where he just puts his hat down neatly on the floor, so he can get it back after they have shot him and then thinks about this for a second.

Without his privilege and whiteness, the ugly lil' bald buffoon wouldn't fare well in the cruel natural selection society he wants to make a case for.

you just described the entire Tory party

The reality of our establishment: a white man with no qualifications but good connections always gets the job. pic.twitter.com/8vCqlDO1H0

— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) January 1, 2018

counterpoint: Young's appointment is fine because of the lack of protest by the opposition party about a matter that is in any case reserved for diplomatic channels

The warped priorities of @UKLabour. Silent about violent suppression of protests against Iran's brutal theocracy. Vitriolic about appointment of free school founder @toadmeister to Office of Students board.

— Nick Boles MP (@NickBoles) January 2, 2018

"an entirely unrelated matter" of course

I'm sure the Iranian regime will be quivering at the very idea of a verbal condemnation from Corbyn, and will be telling their secret police to chillax already.

It took your Government's new universities adviser less than an hour to delete this tweet. https://t.co/pDWfePwsSO

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) January 2, 2018

I might need some updates on any other regimes Corbyn has failed to condemn.

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Love a good bit of Whataboutism but something that directly affects millions of people in this country vs something that doesn't is the purest form of the genre.

Nick Boles not dead yet?

If Corbyn is going to criticise the government in future, he better add: that Xi Jingping get's right on my nerves, and don't even get me started on Htin Kyaw ...

Begins with a Y ends in an N, in the Middle east.

Yossi Benayoun

I find it interesting that after the recent Liverpool fire that had no casualties, only 1400 incinerated cars, that when it is stated a sprinkler system would have prevented it spreading so rapidly. There isn't suddenly a load of fire safety experts (total fucking dickheads that have read a couple of building regs and wikipedia) stating in an authoritative manner that they wouldn't have actually made a difference.

makes u think

It made me think of a short-lived poster on an earlier incarnation of this very thread!

RIP Nude Spock

It was RIP [username some US indie crapband]

can't believe there was an ilxor with an indie crapband name

I tried to get odds on it, shockingly all the bookies in the world were unanimously not offering a price.

amazing interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zENoTey8e_k

Bloody hell, he's not mincing his words - good stuff! And May as Home Sec to PM owns this shit.

looks like May is stuffing up a reshuffle of her own Cabinet, hard to believe I know

Brokenshire just resigned, not related to reshuffle, but ill health. Get well soon xxx.

Brandon Lewis is the new front-runner for Party Chairman. He actually seems like a bigger twat than Chris Grayling, if that is possible, so definitely qualified for the job.

This has just been deleted from CCHQ twitter feed pic.twitter.com/jNgfDMQqoM

— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) January 8, 2018

literally couldn't run the proverbial piss-up, this lot. Everything they do is chaotic and farcical.

is Grayling a Kipper?

he did share a platform with Farage during the referendum campaign.

what with him and Rudd in senior posts May could be making a rod for her own back

either one could try and knock her off her perch

the usual foul tench of Tory in-fighting