Prof Carole Elliott

Prof of Leadership Development, University of St Andrews. FRSA. @bam_ac_uk Fellow. Visiting Professor @CBScph. Visiting Fellow @RennesSB. Foreign. She/her.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Find time to read this quite astonishingly good piece by
@ArwaM Mahdawi. Brilliant on our government's appalling moral confusion over Gaza

"Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime"

https://t.co/lxF64weMUN

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Economist Mariana Mazzucato says Brexit led to businesses leaving the UK, shrank market opportunities and damaged investment.

She tells The Fourcast that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have still not been held accountable for what she calls one of the country's biggest economic mistakes.

Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have both denied lying to the public.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

Remember that, when it was still in the EU, Britain supported & voted for the introduction of this EU Entry/Exit System (EES). The then (Tory) govt wanted more checks on non-EU visitors entering the EU

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The @BBCWorld is pathetically & quite disgracefully timid in the face of pro-Israeli lobbying. They are spectacularly failing to tell truth to power

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Dear Brexiters,

Whenever I point to the Brexit disaster, you use one of your 2016 reasons why Brexit SHOULD work...

E.g. Our trade deficit, service economy, global trade...

Too late! It's been 10yrs!

All our industries say it's hurt them. So none of your arguments were valid.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

If a state’s argument for bombing, starving, machine-gunning, imprisoning, torturing and raping its neighbours is that it’s concerned they might one day do that to them, hasn’t that state lost the argument? Hasn’t it become the monster it feared?

[Prof Carole Elliott @JEllliott]

@MikeJMustafa Congratulations!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SEN. KELLY: I've spent 15 years working with Russian cosmonauts. Took me 5 years to understand what motivated them.

Number one, appearance that they were in charge of something. Two, who to blame when something goes wrong. Three, what to steal today. Only four, mission success.

I think as Ukrainians, as Americans, as Brits, we're often motivated by mission success. You want organization you work for to be successful, you want your country to be successful, you want British Army to be successful, I want US Navy to be successful, I want NASA to be successful.

That wasn't my experience with Russian cosmonauts I worked with. I'm talking about dozens of people that I knew well, what motivated them when they went to work every day.

At the top of the list was that they really cared about the appearance that they were in charge of something, not mission success. Now, whether they were really actually in charge of it or not didn't matter so much. Mission success wasn't even number two.

Number two on the list, I would say, was whether they knew who to blame when something went wrong, like placing the blame. Russians have a position in their Mission Control Center which is called "mistakes officer." When a Russian cosmonaut makes a mistake, they keep track of it and they take money out of their pay.

I would say the third thing, even before mission success, was what am I going to steal from my employer today. And we would talk about that. They were very open about this. And apparently there's a saying in Russian that if you didn't steal something at work that day, you did not have a good day.

For us, and I think everybody in this room here, mission success is the thing that matters more than anything else. And for the Russians I worked with, it might have been number four on the list. So I actually was not that surprised about their incompetence.

[Prof Carole Elliott @JEllliott]

@MikeJMustafa Certainly did not happen when a French woman won last year's TdFF.

[Yoshik @AskYoshik]

The AI numbers are starting to look very ugly.

Even under "best case" assumptions, FT's own data shows Microsoft AI ROI at -9%, Google at -15%, Meta at -28%, Oracle at -35%. Only Amazon barely comes out positive.

This is exactly why I keep comparing this to the dot-com era. Incredible technology does not automatically mean sustainable economics. The internet survived. Most internet companies didn't.

Right now hyperscalers are spending trillions hoping future demand catches up to present capex. That's not certainty. That's a leveraged bet.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

This is indeed a superb letter from The Astronomer Royal of Scotland. “Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why.” I agree - my colleagues in particle physics have also tried, without success, to discover who owns the decision to damage physics research in the UK, perhaps irreparably, at a time when our economy desperately needs the skills and knowledge we develop and teach. @UKRI_News need to get a grip urgently and fix the problem someone, somewhere, has created.

[Prof Carole Elliott @JEllliott]

@MikeJMustafa Swimming?

[Prof Carole Elliott @JEllliott]

@WisdenCricket what you suggesting?

[Prof Carole Elliott @JEllliott]

@MikeJMustafa cheeky

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

The open letter to @UniofNottingham now has *six* Nobel Laureate signatures asking them to think again regarding their huge cuts to one of the country’s most successful physics departments.

But I am sure their slash-and-burn senior managers know better.

https://t.co/yPwy8OuJ5I

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

"The question is not whether Labour values have been usurped by Starmer’s faction. It is what kind of party could be built out of the corpse of Starmer’s party. One option is clearly a more Blairite party: pro-tech giants, the US, and privatisation. But are there any serious options to create a progressive party, one that dares speak out on the issues of the day, that actually communicates with a progressive electorate? It is hard to see at the moment whether the ambition or capacity exists within it.

It is worth noting that Starmer’s Party is only barely the official party of the organised working class. Whereas Labour had affiliated to it nearly every major trade union, today only just over half of union members are in party-affiliated unions. And even then some may leave. This is hardly surprising: as it stands its policies, Starmer’s Party’s political instincts, are far closer to those of the Tories and Reform than to the progressive parties that are eating it up. And that is not accidental, or the result of a lack of vision. It was the whole point."

Read @DEHEdgerton's obituary for Starmerism

https://t.co/OldkYFx1dc

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

The unanswered question is why Josh Simons threw himself on his sword and resigned his Makerfield seat for Andy Burnham? He ran Labour Together & along with Morgan McSweeny and Mandelson nurtured Starmer as Labour leader, and organised a savage campaign to remove Jeremy Corbyn.

[Colin Bingle @bingle_colin]

Required reading for all in HE and Government 👇
This eye open report (written by a HE outsider with no axe to gind🤔) lays bare the financial & structural woes affecting UKHE right now. 🔥🔥
@HigherEd_UK @ucu @Jacqui_Smith1
https://t.co/TAx8e9ANZJ

[UCU @ucu]

"This is vandalism."

2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have received letters putting them at risk of redundancy.

Members describe shock turning into anger and organisation.

The message from staff is clear: these cuts are not necessary, and alternatives have already been put forward.