— Sustaining the Ivory Tower: Oxbridge Formal Dining as Organizational Ritual — Journal of Management Inquiry (via nogoodreason)
via @alun, who calls it “like being let loose in a sweet-shop”
I try to avoid linking to the Daily Mail (why give them the ad revenue?), so I took a screenshot of this hilarious photo/caption combo h/t @sciencepunk.
If you really MUST see the actual article, google the headline… lol
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Marc Loris: Lebanon’s Fight For Independence (1944)
via clingtomymouth
Engraved title-page to William Camden’s ‘Britannia’, 2nd ed. (London, George Bishop and John Norton, 1607) via @davidbmetcalfe + @ramage
@hannahnicklin My 2p: Putting the #BNPonBBC doesn’t legitimise them,1000s of people voting for them does.People are racist, we need to face this in public. +
@autobees First car crash point. Jack Straw should not be trying to compete with the BNP on who has the toughest immigration policy. Argh! #bbcqt +
@syrianews Warsi calls for limits on numbers of immigrants. Idiot. She is playing the BNP’s game. Idiot. +
@pickledpolitics Sayeeda Warsi and Jack Straw position on immigration is the same. She just said it better #BBCQT +
@syrianews They are trying to be better immigrant-bashers than the BNP. This is how low British politics has sunk. #bbcqt +
@pickledpolitics But the Conservative Party’s policy on immigration is the same as Labour’s. #BBCQT +
@pickledpolitics Chris Huhne sounding a bit hawkish on immigration… unusual for him. Suspect they’re all trying to outmaneuver Griffin #BBCQT +
@hannahnicklin #bbcqt I’m so bored with this fallacious anti-immigration rhetoric -a debate entirely cultivated by lazy right wing media +
@hannahnicklin And it hurts that Labour can’t acknowledge how bloody necessary immigration is to our ageing population, and groaning public sector #bbcqt +
@syrianews Griffin: we are the aborigines here (FACTUALLY BOLLOCKS) +
@LostLondon Is anyone going to tell them all idiots they would not be so many immigrants if they stopped messing other countries up?! #bbcqt +
@hannahnicklin OK, according to the internet, if a ‘proper Britain’ has to be as of 17000 years ago, we need to be Ukranian http://bit.ly/2Wp6j8 #bbcqt +
@autobees All of the parties are tripping over the topic of immigration to show they have the toughest policy & are pandering to BNP tactics. +
@autobees The most challenging questions on immigration came from patriotic British Black/Asian people. Interesting. +
@autobees One of the moments where the audience laughed & heckled the most: indigenous English are like Indigenous Red Indians & were there 1st. +
@jamiepotter RT @paulbradshaw: If you think #bbcqt somehow burst the BNP bubble remind yourself of these reactions http://bit.ly/3yMOMa +
@ninapower Never mind Griffin, the whole debate took place on racist terms. Fucking depressing. +
@kpunk99 RT @bat020 Warsi’s drivel demonstrates how the very presence of the BNP pulls political discourse sharply to the right #bbcqt +
@kpunk99 Of course the reverse is also true. Reason that the BNP has gained ground is how right wing the mainstream discourse on immigration is. +
@nextleft #bbcqt ‘cast conventional politicians in a largely favourable light which they have not enjoyed for many a month’ John Kampfner, guardian +
“Alongside the “English Defence League”, who were counter-protesting the “Al Quds Day” march, another group of counter-protesters were calling for greater democracy in Iran. These two groups were allied during the event.”
via A.W.A on fb w/ commentary: “Since the Palestinian cause has been milked by some less than savoury governments in the region, the people who are oppressed by said governments are likely to become increasingly anti-Palestinian.”
“This report looks at how researchers publish and why, including the motivations that lead them to publish in different formats and the increase in collaboration and co-authorship. It also explores how researchers decide what to cite and the influence of research assessment on their behaviours and attitudes.”
— Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings | RIN via nogoodreason aka @mweller
i’m learning a lot from igather about a region i know little about. thank you.
“According to the United Kingdom, we are not Africans, yet “Bahamians” is not a legal term under the constitution, and no one can say with any degree of truth that we are British. As a people we are without history, without culture, and without a national identity. We study British history, British culture, and even British weather, but about ourselves, we have no past – and in colonialism, no future.” (September 1966)
“While it’s toe-curling to see Coir’s holy joes lament socialist leader James Connolly and an English nationalist like Farage suck up to an Irish audience on a rebellion that would be one of the first nails in the coffin of 20th century British imperialism, it’s also ironic to hear leading architects of the crisis-ridden, disillusioned state that is contemporary Ireland reclaim a revolutionary tradition their governments have ever been at a pains to bury, particularly in the form it took in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.” (via @Presseurop)
