'Parasites aren’t just in our water supply – the industry is full of them.'

There isn't a single person in the country would disagree with any of that. Unless of course you happen to be the CEO of Severn Trent who made almost £13 million in the last 4 years.

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My ducks are not in a row. My ducks have got loose and are shitting over my to-do list. One of them is on fire.

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'it was not clear how that initial selection had been carried out, since there was no documentation, other than the matrix, which had been overwritten during the consultation process'

Dr D Harvie and Others v University of Leicester - the judgement:

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We can’t go without a fight. For many of us it’s not just personal grief at our jobs, it is about saving an institution we love & has so much to offer 💜✊🏿🔥

who would choose an academic career for a 45-week teaching year?!

Favour from Joyce scholars? I’m going in for the first time and somehow have three different copies to hand. Which should I go with? I appreciate there’s always another better version. And good supporting text recommendation?

Just rediscovering Jayne Casey’s Pink Industry. She was truly prescient with the lines ‘here’s my Smiths tapes you never wanted to hear; throw them away Morrissey in the bin; if it would bring you back again’

Michelle Donelan got her legal costs paid but neither the Hillsborough families nor the subpostmasters got legal aid. I do have that right, don't I?

Every UCU picket line for ever more should be giving this one an airing
....this is not going away!

This story is going to keep running until Michelle Donelan either resigns or commits to paying the 15k herself. It's not going to go away and will keep derailing the government comms grid. The longer they dither, the worse it looks. Surely someone in Downing St must know this?

The 'Citizens of change' maybe overreached themselves?

“The bar for making somebody legally redundant in the UK is so low that if you can’t get over that, you really are not fit for the task you are employed to do.”
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OR YOU COULD JUST TAX THE RICH

Give our money back, pay your own court fines and resign.

Top work University of Leicester. A great REF impact case no doubt. Perhaps the 'citizens of change' need a change of management?

The detail of this judgement implies that all of those sacked by University of Leicester for practising Critical Management Studies were unfairly dismissed, not just the 3 who brought the case. So who brought the university into such disrepute?