The Liz Truss saga is a strange one. Has she genuinely moved to the far right? Is she trying, cynically or cleverly or both, repositioning herself there for a political comeback? Or is there something else going on?

Suella Braverman says that British Muslim children who are British citizens with British values don't have the right to pray in their lunch break 🤷‍♂️

Francis O’Gorman 21.ix.67 - 11.iv.24 Francis died peacefully at home. May he rest in peace.

I went to visit my daughter’s grave (in a woodland burial site). There’s a single bluebell pushing up from her. Such a powerful little symbol.

Facebook privacy alerts are hopeless. “Someone logged on to your account from a computer near Croydon”. Me, in Hull: Yes, that was me. To some computer in California, a server in Croydon is close enough.

Dropping by to see Mr Larkin heading for his taxi to the university library.

Social reality. Hull. 2024.

The other thing that has been holding the sector together is the dedication of staff. Despite facing a 30% cut in salaries against inflation.

Wages have been the ‘soft target’ masking difficulties in the sector, but why should staff foot the bill?

The first new Lennon/McCartney composition in decades. But not that Lennon or that McCartney. music.apple.com/gb/album/primr…

What's an album that you heard at 15 that changed your brain chemistry?

I have introduced my son to Rush via the gateway drug of Moving Pictures. He has enthusiastically texted from his bedroom that it is ‘excellent’.

Spinning some vinyl. I forget sometimes how much I adore The Smiths. Some of the best guitar work of the 1980s. One of the best compilations of all time. This was regularly on my Walkman back in the day.

Strongly recommended. Definitive.

A great opportunity to work at the University of Leeds on an interdisciplinary research project led by Professor Jane Plastow (School of English) and Dr Matthew Elliot (School of Performance & Cultural Industries).

Performance and Cultural Industries at Leeds

Defund. Mock. Privatise. Profit.

The same playbook they used for water, rail and mail.

Don’t fall for it.

#YourNHSNeedsYou H/T Patrick Graham