Louise, Prof/Dr
Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome.
Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen
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- Kind of sad. And I say that as an occasional pescatarian myself.
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- Another example of how people's trust in preventive treatment has been eroded, with sad consequences
- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrZack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month" "That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group" "The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"
- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrFull time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...
- Woah. Sapienza University in Rome has had to shut down its entire IT system. uk.lapresse.it/news-en/2026...
- Hypocrite
- Farage calls for EU to probe Mandelson’s time in Brussels ft.trib.al/eAGo2wa
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrSome interesting reporting in the New Statesman. There was a shortlist of four to be UK Ambassador to the US. Starmer favoured George Osborne. It was Morgan McSweeney who pushed for Mandelson.
- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrIf Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrIn 15 years when Peter Mandelson is next sacked from the government, having been caught red-handed robbing a bank, commentators will confidently predict that his career is definitely over this time.
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/Dr"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrIn this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrIncandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrI feel obliged to remind everyone that there are plenty of countries where higher education is either completely free or cost a token amount of tuition money and that many of these countries offer top notch teaching and research. It’s a political choice.
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- Maybe he should have stayed in education then. 19 and 'leading' a council. Ridiculous. 'I had to learn very quickly’: Reform UK leader, 19, defends council tax rise www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Oxford welcomes all. Quite right. International city and proud of it.
- Can anyone help these hens?
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- Some Very Good Dogs to brighten this miserable rainy day
- It's jolly wet in Oxford. They're not called water meadows for nothing.
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- Me too
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- Well, maybe something helpful to come out of all this
- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrCNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrSad news from Wikipedia. Following lengthy discussion on the talk page, they've removed Matt Goodwin's claim to be the first in his family to go to university on the grounds that it [checks notes] isn't true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ma...
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- 🚨🚨Striking but welcome development in Portugese politics: To stop the explosive growth of the ultranationalist #Chega party, Portugal’s leading conservatives are doing the previously unthinkable: endorsing the center-left candidate for president. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/port...
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- 👏 Oxford
- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrCurrent calls for RHS funding (closing 6 March) bit.ly/4tdarCb: > David Berry Fellowship in History of Scotland, for all career stages > Early Career Fellowships Grants > Open Research Support Grants, for mid-career historians Applications from current RHS Fellows / Members now invited 1/2
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- Ooooh. Are we allowed to be rude about it now?
- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrBannon bragging he has control of the far right across Europe. Including Nigel Farage. #EpsteinFiles
- Tell us what you really think 🤣
- And resign from the Lords?
- The sense of entitlement
- my last Epstein scoop for the weekend: Jeffrey Epstein wired $150,000 to Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, in 2001, according to newly released financial records, after helping her to cash in share options earned from her work for Weight Watchers. www.ft.com/content/8623...
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/Dr2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution 2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party Protecting women and children, is it?
- JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrYesterday evening, Peter Mandelson told me "I've never owned property in Brazil and never will". Then we discovered the Brazilian company he incorporated, "for the purpose of purchasing and selling real estate". Thread:
- 5 classes you took in university 1. Mediaeval French literature 2. Mediaeval German literature 3. Old Norse 4. Racine, Corneille and Molière 5. Kafka and Thomas Mann Yeah, I don't quite know how I ended up as a social scientist either
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrWith more evidence coming to light of Bannon’s interference in British politics - plotting with Johnson, Rees Mogg and Farage and bigging up Yaxley Lennon while working with Epstein, thought I’d re-up this bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
- As we know, much of the opposition to traffic measures in Oxford was whipped up by a bunch of climate change and Covid deniers who don't live here. Kind of similar to the racist flag types importing a bunch of their extreme mates from as far afield as Sheffield this weekend to put up more flags. 😡
- Great detailed thread but if you're an Oxford(shire) resident you might want to start here
- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrSo why would a Kazakhstani billionaire be trying to secretly bankroll Reform? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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- Technical term
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- OK, credit where credit's due. I was having a bit of a grumble yesterday about Jeremy Clarkson-branded stuff being all over the Cotswolds. But he's right about Farage. Maybe I'll buy a Hawkstone beer next time.
- ✅ Clarkson is right, people aren’t voting Reform for policies 👉there aren’t any. It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future. Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith 🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...
- I don't know how @mistyswoman.bsky.social manages to uncover and report so many bot and scam accounts, but she deserves an award 🏆
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- Reposted by Louise, Prof/DrI can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
- What a world
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