Fascinating 🧵 German at Leeds

The President Biden accusation that Trumpism has morphed into 'semi-fascism' is spot on - as I argued in How To Stop Fascism: the far right thought-architecture is now shaping r/w Conservative politics 🧵 1/ here's the quote...

Sigh ... more stuff about 'combating grade inflation'. In the universities we've worked so hard in recent decades to improve learning experience for students, and no doubt the same is true in schools. But when grades go up it can only mean falling standards, not rising????

Die Longlist des Deutschen Buchpreises 2022 German at Leeds
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Stop Press: BBC News (UK) headline proves emily m point

via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2022/08/24/opi…

Congratulations Bill Niven and best wishes from your friends German at Leeds

University of Lviv, #Ukraine , spiritual and intellectual home of human rights law

🇺🇦It's Ukraine Independence Day — 31 years since the country's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

Here's Ukrainian soprano Inna Husieva bringing the house down with a trad. folk song at Opera in the City @MillSqLeeds...

#StandForFreedom #StandWithUkraine Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Shanaz Gulzar & Danbates will lead Bradford 2025 with flair, care for the place and will deliver one phenomenal year with a long lasting change that will shift perceptions and opportunities for the future generations of #Bradford

Lots of creative event commissions from Cultural Institute - with a preference for West Yorks artists and producers too. Can absolutely confirm it’s a very beautiful campus crying out for some super cultural animation and activation… apply apply apply!

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We’re flying the Ukrainian flag on the #Leeds civic buildings for the next cpl of days - today is their national flag day & its 30th anniversary, with tomorrow being Ukrainian Independence Day 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

Roll up, roll up!

Bolton's two Conservative MPs voted to let sewage be dumped into the town's rivers. And here's last year's result...take a bow Mark Logan and Chris Green...

On the night of 20 August 1968, Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia in tanks to halt a campaign of liberal reforms Deutschlandfunk⁩ feature Heinrich Böll: 'Der Panzer zielte auf Kafka' ⁦⁦German at Leeds⁩ deutschlandfunkkultur.de/heinrich-boell…

A brilliant interdisciplinary research project that many on Twitter will relate to and enjoy.

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A cap on international students - a great UK export worth £30 billion, enriching so many lives at home & abroad & promoting UK soft power for generations - would be an extraordinary act of national self harm.

But it would be oh-so in keeping with the direction of #BrexitBritain