Will Kitchen
@willkitchen.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer, AUB | Non-Executive Director, Workers Policy Project | Author of 4 books with Bloomsbury & EUP
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Will Kitchen
@willkitchen.bsky.social
· Aug 16
CCC is available today in Ebook format 📚 Still prohibitively expensive, unfortunately. But the paperback is on the way… www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...
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Our members at the University of Nottingham will strike this Wednesday and Thursday in their fight against compulsory redundancies and course cuts.
Show your solidarity as they head onto picket lines, ahead of sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1466...
Show your solidarity as they head onto picket lines, ahead of sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1466...
University of Nottingham staff to strike for three months from October in redundancy fight
Staff at the University of Nottingham will strike on Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1 October, and then solid strike action from 5th October until 11 December in a row over jobs and course cuts, ...
www.ucu.org.uk
September 28, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Our members at the University of Nottingham will strike this Wednesday and Thursday in their fight against compulsory redundancies and course cuts.
Show your solidarity as they head onto picket lines, ahead of sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1466...
Show your solidarity as they head onto picket lines, ahead of sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1466...
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The Call for Papers for the 13th International Women and the Silent Screen Conference (2027) is now live on our website!
La convocatoria de participación para el XIII Congreso Internacional de Mujeres y el Cine Silente (2027) ya está disponible en nuestra página web.
www.wfhi.org/2027-mexico-...
La convocatoria de participación para el XIII Congreso Internacional de Mujeres y el Cine Silente (2027) ya está disponible en nuestra página web.
www.wfhi.org/2027-mexico-...
July 24, 2026 at 9:50 AM
The Call for Papers for the 13th International Women and the Silent Screen Conference (2027) is now live on our website!
La convocatoria de participación para el XIII Congreso Internacional de Mujeres y el Cine Silente (2027) ya está disponible en nuestra página web.
www.wfhi.org/2027-mexico-...
La convocatoria de participación para el XIII Congreso Internacional de Mujeres y el Cine Silente (2027) ya está disponible en nuestra página web.
www.wfhi.org/2027-mexico-...
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Every academic outside of a small inner core of universities should consider themselves permanently at risk of redundancy. The sector will operate a rolling redundancy wave from about this point on.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear...
‘Nuclear’ restructure at London South Bank seen as ‘test bed’
University claims its changes will protect academic jobs and strengthen teaching but striking staff say reforms pose an ‘existential’ threat
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 24, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Every academic outside of a small inner core of universities should consider themselves permanently at risk of redundancy. The sector will operate a rolling redundancy wave from about this point on.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear...
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NEW on That '70s Movie Podcast
Night Moves
D: Arthur Penn, W: Alan Sharp, DP: Bruce Surtees, Ed: DeDe Allen
w/Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, ++
Hear us debate whether it's great, or, as I argue, Monumentally Great
open.spotify.com/episode/3SEo...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Night Moves
D: Arthur Penn, W: Alan Sharp, DP: Bruce Surtees, Ed: DeDe Allen
w/Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, ++
Hear us debate whether it's great, or, as I argue, Monumentally Great
open.spotify.com/episode/3SEo...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
July 19, 2026 at 3:11 AM
NEW on That '70s Movie Podcast
Night Moves
D: Arthur Penn, W: Alan Sharp, DP: Bruce Surtees, Ed: DeDe Allen
w/Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, ++
Hear us debate whether it's great, or, as I argue, Monumentally Great
open.spotify.com/episode/3SEo...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Night Moves
D: Arthur Penn, W: Alan Sharp, DP: Bruce Surtees, Ed: DeDe Allen
w/Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, ++
Hear us debate whether it's great, or, as I argue, Monumentally Great
open.spotify.com/episode/3SEo...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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July 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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📚 Now available to pre-order in paperback from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...
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July 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
📚 Now available to pre-order in paperback from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...
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CCC is available today in Ebook format 📚 Still prohibitively expensive, unfortunately. But the paperback is on the way… www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...
August 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
CCC is available today in Ebook format 📚 Still prohibitively expensive, unfortunately. But the paperback is on the way… www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...
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The Programme's up!
The Fleadh's 'a week-long international film festival ... every July ... in Galway .... to be a platform for the boldest new films, and to bring audiences & filmmakers from around the world together, to celebrate our shared passion for film.'
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
The Fleadh's 'a week-long international film festival ... every July ... in Galway .... to be a platform for the boldest new films, and to bring audiences & filmmakers from around the world together, to celebrate our shared passion for film.'
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
38th Galway Film Fleadh | 7th -12th July 2026
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
June 23, 2026 at 8:36 PM
The Programme's up!
The Fleadh's 'a week-long international film festival ... every July ... in Galway .... to be a platform for the boldest new films, and to bring audiences & filmmakers from around the world together, to celebrate our shared passion for film.'
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
The Fleadh's 'a week-long international film festival ... every July ... in Galway .... to be a platform for the boldest new films, and to bring audiences & filmmakers from around the world together, to celebrate our shared passion for film.'
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
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BOTD Roger Ebert!!!
One of the great American critics
His T10 of all time: www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...
Ebert & Scorsese: www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/r...
From us via @bostonreview.bsky.social on his memoir + Great Movies III: www.bostonreview.net/articles/jon...
One of the great American critics
His T10 of all time: www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...
Ebert & Scorsese: www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/r...
From us via @bostonreview.bsky.social on his memoir + Great Movies III: www.bostonreview.net/articles/jon...
June 18, 2026 at 5:15 PM
BOTD Roger Ebert!!!
One of the great American critics
His T10 of all time: www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...
Ebert & Scorsese: www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/r...
From us via @bostonreview.bsky.social on his memoir + Great Movies III: www.bostonreview.net/articles/jon...
One of the great American critics
His T10 of all time: www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...
Ebert & Scorsese: www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/r...
From us via @bostonreview.bsky.social on his memoir + Great Movies III: www.bostonreview.net/articles/jon...
My first visit to the Steinway and Bluthner buildings in London. Really beautiful pianos.
May 9, 2026 at 9:43 AM
My first visit to the Steinway and Bluthner buildings in London. Really beautiful pianos.
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5/7/58: Arthur Penn's 1st feature, The Left Handed Gun
w/Paul Newman
Gore Vidal in on screenplay
#3 on Truffaut's 1958 T10 (#1: Touch of Evil, #5: 7th Seal)
More:
@nathanrabin.bsky.social: www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...
Namwene Mukabwa via Collider: collider.com/paul-newman-...
w/Paul Newman
Gore Vidal in on screenplay
#3 on Truffaut's 1958 T10 (#1: Touch of Evil, #5: 7th Seal)
More:
@nathanrabin.bsky.social: www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...
Namwene Mukabwa via Collider: collider.com/paul-newman-...
May 7, 2026 at 5:23 PM
5/7/58: Arthur Penn's 1st feature, The Left Handed Gun
w/Paul Newman
Gore Vidal in on screenplay
#3 on Truffaut's 1958 T10 (#1: Touch of Evil, #5: 7th Seal)
More:
@nathanrabin.bsky.social: www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...
Namwene Mukabwa via Collider: collider.com/paul-newman-...
w/Paul Newman
Gore Vidal in on screenplay
#3 on Truffaut's 1958 T10 (#1: Touch of Evil, #5: 7th Seal)
More:
@nathanrabin.bsky.social: www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/...
Namwene Mukabwa via Collider: collider.com/paul-newman-...
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I wrote for @timeshighered.bsky.social about Sussex -v- OfS. In short I think the regulator needs to urgently review its current approach. The sector needs to be confident that its regulator is acting lawfully, fairly and proportionately www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/suss...
The Sussex case raises urgent doubts about the OfS’ free speech approach
The OfS’ approach was opaque, highly discretionary and appeared to lack basic procedural safeguards, says Smita Jamdar
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 30, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I wrote for @timeshighered.bsky.social about Sussex -v- OfS. In short I think the regulator needs to urgently review its current approach. The sector needs to be confident that its regulator is acting lawfully, fairly and proportionately www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/suss...
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600 job cuts. Closure of 42 degree courses.
Nottingham University is selling its King's Meadow and brand-new Castle Meadow Campus which "for as little as £14.4 million despite bosses spending around £80m on the ill-fated project."
#highered #academicsky
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Nottingham University is selling its King's Meadow and brand-new Castle Meadow Campus which "for as little as £14.4 million despite bosses spending around £80m on the ill-fated project."
#highered #academicsky
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
University plans 600 job cuts in major cost-cutting move
The university hopes the move will stop it from running out of cash
www.nottinghampost.com
April 26, 2026 at 8:33 AM
600 job cuts. Closure of 42 degree courses.
Nottingham University is selling its King's Meadow and brand-new Castle Meadow Campus which "for as little as £14.4 million despite bosses spending around £80m on the ill-fated project."
#highered #academicsky
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Nottingham University is selling its King's Meadow and brand-new Castle Meadow Campus which "for as little as £14.4 million despite bosses spending around £80m on the ill-fated project."
#highered #academicsky
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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BOTD Rod Steiger!!
MCCT5: 5)Heat of the Night (Jewison) 4)Hands over the City (Rosi) 3)Innocents w/Dirty Hands (Chabrol) 2)Pawnbroker (Lumet) 1)Waterfront (Kazan)
More:
Interview: brightlightsfilm.com/confessions-...
@chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rod-st...
MCCT5: 5)Heat of the Night (Jewison) 4)Hands over the City (Rosi) 3)Innocents w/Dirty Hands (Chabrol) 2)Pawnbroker (Lumet) 1)Waterfront (Kazan)
More:
Interview: brightlightsfilm.com/confessions-...
@chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rod-st...
Rod Steiger: 10 essential films
One hundred years after he was born, we salute the fury and intensity of Rod Steiger’s presence on screen, from On the Waterfront to In the Heat of the Night.
www.bfi.org.uk
April 14, 2026 at 11:20 PM
BOTD Rod Steiger!!
MCCT5: 5)Heat of the Night (Jewison) 4)Hands over the City (Rosi) 3)Innocents w/Dirty Hands (Chabrol) 2)Pawnbroker (Lumet) 1)Waterfront (Kazan)
More:
Interview: brightlightsfilm.com/confessions-...
@chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rod-st...
MCCT5: 5)Heat of the Night (Jewison) 4)Hands over the City (Rosi) 3)Innocents w/Dirty Hands (Chabrol) 2)Pawnbroker (Lumet) 1)Waterfront (Kazan)
More:
Interview: brightlightsfilm.com/confessions-...
@chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rod-st...
Worth a watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...
Bernie vs. Claude
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
m.youtube.com
April 2, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Worth a watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...
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A clear message from the hundreds who turned out yesterday: we are not having it.
At Northumbria University, staff are refusing to be forced into worse pensions or pay cuts.
This is organised resistance to an organised attack.
At Northumbria University, staff are refusing to be forced into worse pensions or pay cuts.
This is organised resistance to an organised attack.
March 26, 2026 at 9:34 AM
A clear message from the hundreds who turned out yesterday: we are not having it.
At Northumbria University, staff are refusing to be forced into worse pensions or pay cuts.
This is organised resistance to an organised attack.
At Northumbria University, staff are refusing to be forced into worse pensions or pay cuts.
This is organised resistance to an organised attack.
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HBD Spike Lee!!!
MCCT5: 5)Summer of San 4)She’s Gotta Have It 3)Malcolm X 2)25th Hour 1)Do the Right Thing
More:
@amonwarmann.bsky.social: www.nme.com/features/fil...
@roryjdoherty.bsky.social: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...
Grace Barber-Plentie: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
MCCT5: 5)Summer of San 4)She’s Gotta Have It 3)Malcolm X 2)25th Hour 1)Do the Right Thing
More:
@amonwarmann.bsky.social: www.nme.com/features/fil...
@roryjdoherty.bsky.social: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...
Grace Barber-Plentie: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
Where to begin with Spike Lee
A beginner’s path through the films of pioneer and provocateur Spike Lee.
www.bfi.org.uk
March 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
HBD Spike Lee!!!
MCCT5: 5)Summer of San 4)She’s Gotta Have It 3)Malcolm X 2)25th Hour 1)Do the Right Thing
More:
@amonwarmann.bsky.social: www.nme.com/features/fil...
@roryjdoherty.bsky.social: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...
Grace Barber-Plentie: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
MCCT5: 5)Summer of San 4)She’s Gotta Have It 3)Malcolm X 2)25th Hour 1)Do the Right Thing
More:
@amonwarmann.bsky.social: www.nme.com/features/fil...
@roryjdoherty.bsky.social: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...
Grace Barber-Plentie: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
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Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.
Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
nyti.ms
March 14, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.
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A true giant. I was lucky enought to meet him and spend an evening around him and Rorty in Chicago many years ago. RIP
apnews.com/article/juer...
apnews.com/article/juer...
Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...
apnews.com
March 14, 2026 at 4:41 PM
A true giant. I was lucky enought to meet him and spend an evening around him and Rorty in Chicago many years ago. RIP
apnews.com/article/juer...
apnews.com/article/juer...
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In global survey of more than 12,000 academics, half agreed that teaching-focused roles were "career-limiting" at their university www.timeshighereducation.com/news/half-ac... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Half of academics view teaching-only roles as ‘career-limiting’
Early career academics most likely to express negative views about teaching culture at their institution, survey finds
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 2, 2026 at 10:55 AM
In global survey of more than 12,000 academics, half agreed that teaching-focused roles were "career-limiting" at their university www.timeshighereducation.com/news/half-ac... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
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Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory
Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory
Streaming service says ‘deal no longer financially attractive’ at price required to match Paramount Skydance offer
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Netflix has walked away from its planned takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, declining to raise its offer for the media conglomerate’s storied Hollywood studios and streaming business after it determined a sweetened rival offer from Paramount Skydance to be “superior”.
In a statement on Thursday evening, Netflix co-chief executives Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said that “at the price required to match Paramount Skydance’s latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory
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2/26/69: Z
D: Costa-Gavras W: Jorge Semprún DP: Raoul Coutard
w/Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant ++
More:
@nschager.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/best-picture...
@trylon.org: www.perisphere.org/2023/08/11/f...
Margaret Spillane/ @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
D: Costa-Gavras W: Jorge Semprún DP: Raoul Coutard
w/Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant ++
More:
@nschager.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/best-picture...
@trylon.org: www.perisphere.org/2023/08/11/f...
Margaret Spillane/ @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now
Costa Gavras’s classic antifascist thriller reminds us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning.
www.thenation.com
February 26, 2026 at 8:08 PM
2/26/69: Z
D: Costa-Gavras W: Jorge Semprún DP: Raoul Coutard
w/Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant ++
More:
@nschager.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/best-picture...
@trylon.org: www.perisphere.org/2023/08/11/f...
Margaret Spillane/ @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
D: Costa-Gavras W: Jorge Semprún DP: Raoul Coutard
w/Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant ++
More:
@nschager.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/best-picture...
@trylon.org: www.perisphere.org/2023/08/11/f...
Margaret Spillane/ @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Listen! @mivich.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fantastic The Division of Rationalized Labor newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...
Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 23, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Listen! @mivich.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fantastic The Division of Rationalized Labor newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...
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Number of academics working in UK higher education institutions has fallen for the first time on record after thousands of jobs were axed, official figures reveal www.timeshighereducation.com/news/number-... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
Number of academics working in the UK falls for first time
Some universities reduce staff teams by more than a fifth after year of cutbacks and job losses, new data show
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 20, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Number of academics working in UK higher education institutions has fallen for the first time on record after thousands of jobs were axed, official figures reveal www.timeshighereducation.com/news/number-... via @patrickjack.bsky.social