Ben Knights

Interests: how people learn; landscapes. Author of Pedagogic Criticism (Palgrave 2017). Tweets personal. Also to be found on @benknights.bsky.social

[Ben Knights @knightsben]

@CarolAtherton8 Whoops, I thought I was. Now following. Rather out of touch with XTwitter!

[Ben Knights @knightsben]

@carolatherton8 enormous congratulations on Reading Lessons. Would you be happy to DM me your email?

[Ben Knights @knightsben]

@YWHelp the water supply in Preston under Scar has gone off without warning. Major funeral with catering in the village today. Can you please investigate quickly?

[Ben Knights @knightsben]

@beyer_char @BACLS_official That’s tremendous news. A thoroughly deserved award. Congratulations to Charlotte and her team.

[Dr Beyer (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @beyer_char]

Thank you @BACLS_official ! I am so thrilled and incredibly honoured to have won the BACLS Edited Collection Prize for my edited book Decolonising the Literature Curriculum. I am also grateful to the book’s outstanding contributors. This really means everything to me and them.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

The 300 to 500 excess deaths a week because of A &E waiting times now stretching to 12 hours or more have a root cause. Lest we forget: our NHS crisis is the deadly legacy of George Osborne’s austerity https://t.co/bdepbUU9VR

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Please retweet the shit out of this thread. Thank you.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The economy is shrinking because of falls in consumer spending. Soon it will be because of increasing interest rates. Straight after that it will be because of austerity and tax increases. This is the first time we will have ever had a deliberate government manufactured recession

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Our economy is being dragged down by a shortage of staff and low productivity. The staff shortage is over 50s, incapacitated by Covid. The low productivity is 7 million people on waiting lists worrying about their health instead of doing their job. Spending money on the NHS pays

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

We cannot have an economic recovery unless we spend more on the NHS https://t.co/S2trmvV086 Sick people cannot drive an economic recovery. Tackling deficiencies in the NHS is the pre-condition of getting out of the recession to come in that case

[English Association @EnglishAssoc]

“…arts & humanities students are the “ideal entrepreneurs” of the future, digitally literate, ready to thrive in a globally diverse world, resilient, confident at analysis & team working, independently minded’ …Birkbeck is ideally placed to lead on this. “

[Ben Knights @knightsben]

@jaxrafferty Hello Jackie. Are you planning a migration to Mastodon?

[Ben Knights @knightsben]

@DrPaulKleiman Hi Paul. Do you think it's worth having a go? I've rather stayed away from Twitter recently.

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

Next week, the government will receive the OBR forecasts on its Budget.

But they won’t publish them for another six weeks.

That is misguided and harmful.

And it’s why I’ve written to the Chancellor requesting he publishes the OBR forecasts - in full - on the 7 October.

[Ben Knights @knightsben]

@YWHelp I’ll DM you.

[Ben Knights @knightsben]

@YWHelp water supply off again in Preston under Scar. Can you advise when supply will be reconnected? Thank you.

[Hugh Pemberton @hugh_pemberton]

Blimey, this letter to the FT from a former Treasury Minister under John Major doesn't pull any punches on the Truss /Kwarteng economic strategy

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

So no US trade deal. Another of the big Brexit lies nailed. And on they go pretending it is going to plan, going well, can be made to work and none of our economic problems have anything to do with it. Liars and charlatans. They should never be allowed anywhere near power again

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

Me too.
https://t.co/oQWiWZzOuF

[Dr Matt Prescott @mattprescott]

The UK certainly knows how to put on a funeral. It's a shame that the same level of care, attention + effort doesn't go into maintaining the NHS, feeding the poor, housing the vulnerable, educating the young, helping the old, taxing the rich + powerful or investing in the future.