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Jun 22, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
On Friday the govt announced its plan to radically change uni fees, and the headlines rightfully focussed on those 110% hikes to humanities degrees.
But now the full plan is out and the real story is clear: this is a massive defunding of tertiary education. THREAD.
The government announced 39,000 new university places by 2023, but there's no new funding here (it's “budget neutral”). Those new places are paid for by cuts.
Jun 10, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Lot of “don’t judge the past by the standards of the present” being used to justify monuments to slavery going around at the moment. You gotta understand: this idea is historically illiterate at best.
It should be no surprise to anyone who thinks about it for more than five seconds that slavery and colonialism WERE criticised at the time! By the standards of the time! Primarily by people who were being enslaved!
