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A New Year’s Message from your Favourite VC at Kingston Uni

The Dissenter blog has been given a copy of the first draft of the VC’s 2026 New Year message. We thought you would like to see the original before it was edited and redrafted by the Uni Comms Team under … Continue reading

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Spier Spin Speared

According to the latest leaks from the KU comms corner of the Uni, Vice-Admiral and part-time VC Sir Steven ‘Two-Jobs’ Spier has been getting very anxious and red-faced about the less-than-impressive student applicant numbers. He has been turning the screws … Continue reading

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The Clown House slaughterhouse Strategy continues

The slaughter and destruction of jobs, roles and depts continues at KU relentlessly: Vice-Admiral, Gold Commandant and Failed Architect Steven ‘Two Jobs’ Speer, AKA the Grim Reaper, remains determined to save £20m in the financial year 2025-26, no matter how … Continue reading

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Carry on Cutting: Kingston’s Axeman blunders on regardless

It is like a cross between a badly-made Carry On movie, an Ealing comedy and the worst kind of horror film. Or perhaps ‘Admiral’ Spier, with his weird Naval language (‘navigate’, ‘explore’, ‘discover’, etc, etc), just simply refuses to accept … Continue reading

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Axeman’s diddums: Kingston’s VC is not happy

Gold Commandant, Vice-Admiral, Supreme Leader and nasty course Axeman Steven ‘Two Jobs’ Spier is not a happy man again. But then, was he ever a happy man? According to reliable admin sources near the top of the KU command chain, … Continue reading

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Big Buildings, Small Minds: Kingston has caught BBS

There is a frightening new disease spreading rapidly across much of the HE sector, and it has also contaminated large parts of FE across Britain. Labelled by scientists as ‘Big Building Syndrome’ (BBS), the new plague has infected many University … Continue reading

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