Comments | anti_gravitas: Yeah, but it won't look like that on Tuesday and Thursday. Er, hopefully.

sensaes in anti_gravitas

Yeah, but it won't look like that on Tuesday and Thursday. Er, hopefully.

Mar 21, 2011 01:57

As some wag at Birkbeck pointed out earlier this evening, it's currently like that old cathode ray tube television sat in the corner of the room - doing naff all, except sucking the lifeblood out of the planet's energy resources:

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sensaes March 21 2011, 02:02:38 UTC

Someone's already suggested that this post belongs on academics_uk.

I'm ignoring them.

tyopsqueene March 21 2011, 18:40:30 UTC

1. sometimes being in a union is like being a vegetarian. It'd be fine except for all the other eejits who're doing it too.

2. Bonus points to the Guardian's early coverage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/20/lecturers-strike-over-pensions-pay?CMP=twt_gu
for a. illustrating it with a photo of an anti-fees demo which was nothing AT ALL to do with the UCU, b. not understanding the difference between a public and private pension, c. getting the current retirement age wrong, d. etc etc etc.

sensaes March 22 2011, 06:17:54 UTC

The subsite finally went live shortly after that post. On the evidence of the first few pages it's going to save Her Majesty's Constabulary quite a bit of legwork in updating the PNC with names and photographs of potential troublemakers.