WWWW004: ADHD Is My Media Training

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London Met Research Assistant Alison MacKinnon joins the committee to talk about layoffs at the university. Grok gets cancelled, UTAW wins big, and we decide whether speaking Bri’ish is a protected characteristic.

• Times Higher Education - “Union brands London Met cuts an ‘act of institutional vandalism’”: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/union-brands-london-met-cuts-act-institutional-vandalism or “archived” link: https://archive.is/hikiu
• People Make Games - “Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence”: https://youtu.be/dnuipPQDd_w?si=BqdEG2JF3SFMAjTq
• CWU.ie - Covalen: https://www.cwu.ie/2026/01/14/cwu-press-release-covalen/
• My Co-Worker Pretended to be British for 3 Years: https://www.reddit.com/r/coworkerstories/comments/1l3idhy/my_coworker_pretended_to_be_british_for_3_years/
• What you need to know about lying on your CV: https://bsquarelaw.co.uk/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-complexities-of-lying-on-your-cv/
• Geordie stroke victim now ‘speaks like Jamaican’: https://youtu.be/JF56cDpB0r0?si=L7w-agNGRJqIxS5E, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/04/health.healthandwellbeing
• Follow UCU London Met and UCU London: https://x.com/ucu_londonmet, https://x.com/uculondon, https://uculondonregion.wordpress.com/, https://www.facebook.com/share/195yYeYbqb/?mibextid=wwXIfr,
• Follow Alison MacKinnon https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-mackinnon-317a63236?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

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