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May goes to Queen’s Uni Belfast tomorrow. Contrast with Corbyn’s visit speaks volumes

26/11/2018by SKWAWKBOX 6 Comments

Theresa May is to visit Queen’s University Belfast tomorrow, no doubt as part of her supposed ‘meet the people’ tour to try to sell her abysmal Brexit ‘deal’. The contrast […]

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Queen’s U Belfast Student Union says ‘Solidarity with Palestine’ during Israeli ambassador visit

16/10/2018by SKWAWKBOX 8 Comments

The Student Union of Queen’s University in Belfast staged a sit-in today in protest at the visit of Israeli ambassador Mark Regev to the university, to express their solidarity with […]

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Landmark report: 95 serious ‘failures’ in MSM reporting of ‘Labour antisemitism’

28/09/2018by SKWAWKBOX 45 Comments

A landmark new report by an academic from London’s Birkbeck University and the Media Reform Coalition has analysed mainstream media coverage of the Labour Party’s alleged issues around antisemitism. Its […]

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Student who revealed Umunna internship: “He wants us to take out a loan to work for him”

01/06/2018by SKWAWKBOX 15 Comments

Kane Emerson is the Leeds University student who revealed centrist Labour MP Chuka Umunna’s ad for an unpaid internship – at his London office. Umunna issued an explanation – emphases added […]

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Umunna offers unpaid internship – and defends it

31/05/2018by SKWAWKBOX 20 Comments

Labour MP Chuka Umunna has been criticised by Young Labour and others for advertising an unpaid intern position: Labour Party policy, as Young Labour’s Twitter account pointed out, is to […]

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Here’s what Skwawkbox has been doing. Please support us if you can

07/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 11 Comments

The Skwawkbox continues to unsettle and expose the Establishment and affect the UK’s political narrative. Here are a few examples of the information we’ve either brought our readers exclusively or […]

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Excl: Uni of Liverpool – 220 academic redundancies. No notice, no consultation

21/03/2018by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

As BBC North-West has reported this evening, the University of Liverpool – scene of student and teaching staff protests as part of national industrial action to protect pensions – has […]

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Liverpool University students occupy floor in support of #UCU strike

27/02/2018by SKWAWKBOX 2 Comments

Students at the University of Liverpool have occupied and sealed off the fifth floor of a university building directly above the university Vice Chancellor’s office in support of the UCU […]

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Video: gifted schoolgirl’s face tells bleak reality as scale of tuition fees sinks in

15/02/2018by SKWAWKBOX 21 Comments

Wednesday night’s BBC 2 programme, Generation Gifted, followed six extremely bright, 13-year-old pupils from poor, disadvantaged backgrounds and the challenges they face to make the most of their abilities. One passage […]

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Oxford paper: “Black-cab rapist stripped at uni Con club. Rees-Mogg ‘heartily approved'”

14/02/2018by SKWAWKBOX 5 Comments

“Cherwell“, the Oxford University student paper named after a local river, is one of the oldest student publications in the UK, dating back to 1920 – so it was around […]

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