Better than the alternative, I say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/w...

Good geopolitical argument that compares the War in Iran to the Suez Crisis www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/o...

Me, reading my draft article and looking for an original argument #AcademicSky

I aspire to this level of cool www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

Sorry Charles, you’re going to have to try a bit harder to get out of this one King's US visit will go ahead as planned, Buckingham Palace says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 Very interesting postdoc opportunity at QMUL on far-right politics!

One for @davidplotz.bsky.social My condolences giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Applications are invited from excellent candidates to pursue a PhD project in Geography with the School of History and Geography @unioflimerick.bsky.social #StudyAtUL Deadline: 29th May 2026. For more information, please see: www.ul.ie/artsoc/histo...

Great to see us academics doing our bit for falling income inequality 😬

Is he going to block the Strait of Hormuz and ruin their economies?

doesn't seem great

Trump and Iran finally agree on something: the real enemy is commercial shipping www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Fascinating article by Noah Hawley that speaks to the danger to all of us from the rise of the super-super-rich: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I think it is preferable to have politicians who have, at some point in their lives, lived like a normal person

To be fair Trump’s doctors have tended to look pretty wild. This is Dr Harold Bornstein.

It’s going to commemorate the Iran War peace deal. They are going to make all the cars drive under it and then they will set up a tollbooth and charge $2 to pass

Remember, always consult your own financial advisor

You never miss professional diplomats until they're gone

Headed out on Easter holiday and I am not sure what to make of this symbol on the BBC weather app

You don’t say!

The British folk-rock band shares world-weary anthems to growing older, weathering the innumerable blows of life and coming out on the other side, hopefully a little wiser. n.pr/4rTXjjo

A good article that provides an important remedy to some of today’s political problems. It probably should be read alongside the stories about insider trading around Trump and the Iran War giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

When history breaks, what happens to time? Distemporalities A one-day symposium on rupture, memory and imagined futures. 📅 24 April · University of Stirling Evening conversation with Rahul Rao Register → placememory.net/distemporalities

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Labour AI copyright u-turn bit.ly/40BdsiA another example of making the right decision but only second time round after huge public (or creator) opposition

He is invoking PRIMA NOCTA

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

‘The narrow passageway out of the Persian Gulf is both vital — serving as the only gateway to the rest of the world for huge amounts of oil and natural gas — and extremely vulnerable to attacks.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

If I have learned one thing living in the UK for ~20 years, it is that British rearmament won’t happen because of the war in Ukraine or anything that Trump says; what matters is that the UK has been shown to be less capable than France in the current crisis. That will drive the politicians crazy.

How has nobody bought the IP for AskJeeves.com and used it for an AI chatbot?

📘 New book out: rethinking how diplomacy is learned Diplomatic Training: Histories, Geographies, Politics brings together voices from across the world to examine how diplomatic training shapes international relations, and who it includes. Read more here: academy.unpo.org/diplomatic-t...

Incredible to start something like this and not even get your story straight in advance www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Probably not the most important news right now, but I think it is worth passing on that buying a white sweatshirt when you have a three-year-old is a terrible idea

Fantastic blog by my former colleague @alanlester.bsky.social forensically refuting the disgraceful attacks on the University of Sussex by the disgracefully ignorant Nigel Biggar. If you’re interested in protecting academic freedom please do read and share

American ambassadors in the EU are bringing a new style of more abrasive and confrontational diplomacy to the EU. It is not a bug in the system. It is the new system. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/fran...

“in the modern academic environment professors act more like middle managers than monastics…forces driv[e] us to constantly look at screens..But there’s nobility in pushing back.. universities have..the opportunity [&!] obligation to integrate..sustained concentration into their social mission”

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This was an absolute nail-biter of a match! Bring on Saturday night! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

Surely we could do with one more season of the Crown www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

important commentary!!! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

I was a big fan of Robert Duvall, but was still stunned to read about how many classic movies he was in. The obituary proves its own thesis, that he sank into his own roles so deeply you didn’t see him www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

One for @alpinkerton.bsky.social

The German curling uniforms look like they have been stolen from Guy Fieri 🇩🇪

Please God yes.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

"He was not simply changing the name. He was actually enacting a different worldview..." Kudos to @derekgeographer.bsky.social for contributing remarks for another national news piece on place renaming! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

New hope for academics everywhere!

When infrastructure policy becomes political metaphor

Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!

Nobody tell me what happened - about to watch the curling on catch-up