Devastating new report from @reporters_co showing how my beloved university @JNU_official_50 is being degraded and destroyed by ideologically motivated and corrupt recruitment.
https://t.co/iq39l5hwm5
The UPA's bungled response to Anna Andolan destroyed its *legitimacy* to rule
Will Modi govt's snubbing of (& now disrupting) CJP undermine its legitimacy? Not unless the CJP is prepared to challenge the new grounds of state legitimacy--Hindutva
I argue
https://t.co/Ll5TZ3tmLU
There really is no need for the catastrophic redundancies hitting our university sector. The UK is an educational powerhouse and its resources are being squandered.
JUST IN | #LokSabha passes by voice vote Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, which proposes to remove transgender people’s right to a self-perceived gender identity and limit the definition of transgender person to people with biological or physiological markers or people belonging to socio-cultural identities.
- @al_lakshman reports
The FT now reporting that, even without the energy shocks, there's a pretty good chance that the closure of Hormuz will pop the AI bubble and lead to a stock market crash
Call for papers!
The annual Warwick Postgraduate History Conference returns!
We're super excited to showcase the fantastic research coming out of our PG community here at @WarwickHistory
Now accepting papers from Warwick postgraduates!
https://t.co/ZAGJeAEp20
The issue is not a lack of curiosity or intellectual hunger in lower-middle-class families; it is the uneven and often undignified access to books and reading spaces. Exposure to ideas is not just about wanting to read, it depends on whether books are physically available, socially permitted, and emotionally safe to engage with. In many places, even where a library or school exists, reading is framed as a privilege, tightly linked to exams or “usefulness,” not as a legitimate form of exploration. Children are often made to feel out of place, watched, or unworthy in formal knowledge spaces. When access comes without dignity, when you are allowed in, but not welcomed, the habit of reading cannot take root. What appears as a “circle of mediocrity” is more accurately a structural denial of casual, joyful, self-directed reading. Community libraries like us (more in @FreeLibNetwork) exist precisely to break this pattern by offering not just books, but belonging, trust, and the freedom to read without justification.