Chris Downs
University worker
"a teacher's primary responsibility is not to get in the way of learning" - Mark Notturno
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- Reposted by Chris Downs“I woke up with a sense of dread…” A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Don’t miss this powerful open letter. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @cambsforeurope.bsky.social
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- "HMRC estimates that there are 2.8 million landlords in the UK: more than 5% of the adult population... that’s... double the number of coal miners at the industry’s peak. Landlordism is the closest thing we have to a national industry." - Jack Shenker in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- I hope the Prime Minister will share his reply to @tanjabueltmann.net's letter ⤵️ cc. @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
- My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
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- Some good news. ⤵️
- Peterloo, The Rock Musical. to be performed on the 206th anniversary of the massacre at St Petersfield in Manchester. ⤵️
- "With superb animation and a score by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat, this timeless and deeply moving tale is a powerful reminder that in the darkest times, the soul of humanity can only be preserved by the bright light of love and the heroism of ordinary people." Highly recommended. ⤵️
- Reposted by Chris Downs🇪🇪🇺🇦This poster is displayed on the castle walls of border city Narva, Estonia, facing directly towards Russia. ❤️THANK YOU ESTONIA
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- Reposted by Chris Downs163 day of nonstop protests in Georgia, Europe Day, 2025. Georgia is Europe!
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- Reposted by Chris DownsThe U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has issued a warning about a "potentially significant" air attack on our country in the following days. It is a very russian thing to do to consolidate their parade and demonstration of force by burning a few families in their beds.
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- Reposted by Chris DownsIs this how work should be?
- Something for all Richard Thompson fans. I really enjoyed this interview. www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/bro...
- Trump's "chaotic, indiscriminate trade policies do little to expand critical, strategic investments in the US, and they are riddled with cronyism... There will be no upside to his mercantilism, because it embodies the strategy’s worst defects." - @drodrik.bsky.social ⤵️
- Many think Adam Smith killed and buried mercantilism, but mercantilist practices, along with Smithian ideas, have often been useful. Trump of course gets the mix all wrong. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
- "The four-month-old needed hypoallergenic milk formula - a normally common product now absent in Gaza - to help her with chronic diarrhea that caused malnutrition and left her too weak to fight infection, her doctor... said from the... hospital... where Jenan died." www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- Reposted by Chris Downs❗ Stop AI stealing our music! We're outside Parliament with musicians, music creators and @ukmusic.bsky.social supporting amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that would increase transparency in relation to training AI models 🧵👇
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- Reposted by Chris Downs💰 £400 million per year of YOUR money fuels outsourcing profits - not better trains. Labour promised ‘the biggest insourcing wave in a generation.’ Let's hold them to it! 📹 Join our campaign launch livestream: Tonight at 6pm rmtunion.org/3GzSQk0
- On the importance of voting ⤵️
- Reposted by Chris DownsThe time has come. EVERYONE who follows me, please repost, share and spread this fundraiser to provide legal defense for whistleblowers in America, including my friend Miles Taylor, who Trump has ordered to be investigated for treason, for the “crime” of criticizing him. Please donate if you can. 🧵
- 🚨 No president should use the White House for revenge. Join over 200 bipartisan leaders standing with whistleblowers like Miles Taylor. Support the legal defense fund at 👉 ENDPRESIDENTIALREVENGE.org #EndPresidentialRevenge #Whistleblower #MilesTaylor
- Reposted by Chris DownsAnother video from this morning—Russia’s drones strike Kharkiv yet again. Turn the sound on. Watch closely. Then imagine living this nightmare every single day for over three years
- Reposted by Chris Downs#Belarus Belarusian paratroopers marching through Moscow, belting out a propaganda song about how “cool” Lukashenka is. Nothing says independence like singing your dictator’s praises on Red Square for Putin’s parade.
- I've given copies of Bregman's "Humankind" to several people in my life and recommended it to many more. Hoping to find time read his new book soon. www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rutg... www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rutg...
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- Reposted by Chris DownsIt’s International Workers’ Day! Today we celebrate all the people who make the world go round - and wish for better recognition of human value in the future. Happy May Day all ✊
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- Reposted by Chris DownsIt’s on! BCU @ucu.org.uk members take strike action this Thursday 1st May. Pickets: - Seacole: 8:30 - 10 - Benjamin Zephaniah: 8:30 - 10:30 - Curzon, Parkside & Millenium Point: 8:30 - 12 Rally for jobs and professional respect: 12-1 in front of Parkside Building Teachout 2-3.30 Woodman
- For anyone within reach of Manchester this weekend. The brilliant @rickardsisters.bsky.social at the brilliant @phm.org.uk ⤵️
- "But in the spring of 1525 the peasants made war on their masters... Swathes of territory came under the control of ragtag regiments... It was the greatest mass revolt in Europe before the French Revolution; some 100,000 people died." ⤵️ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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- Reposted by Chris DownsAgainst authoritarianism or fascism, Silence = Consent.
- "Öztürk, a Tufts University PhD student, and Khalil, a graduate of Columbia, have been detained for more than a month since US immigration authorities took them into custody. Neither have been accused of criminal conduct..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- Reposted by Chris DownsThe @royalhistsoc.org reports on the tragic and stupid cuts to university History provision in the UK. The RHS alone has worked with 23 depts in trouble, and 90% of post-92 History groups have made cuts. Madness. royalhistsoc.org/rhs-presiden...
