Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of Smith's closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee. n.pr/49cmd6E

Would be much funnier if they went on and were purposefully and ostentatiously terrible

An obvious statement, but Trump’s claim that Russia wants the best for Ukraine is classic abusive husband schtick.

‘Farage said in a letter to Mahmood: "It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr el-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK."’ 👀🤫 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you ever want to learn the subtle topography of your neighbourhood, get yourself a toddler with a scooter.

The most BBC of headlines www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes. This is important. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Having just received an excellent proposal, I am reminded that I should do more to advertise the Bloomsbury book series I co-edit: Geopolitical Worlds, Material Bodies www.bloomsbury.com/ca/series/ge... We would value some more excellent proposals to go with the one I just got! #AcademicSky

I continue to find @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social one of the most interesting commentators of our current conundrum. Strongly recommend this one: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

It's 16 minutes past 3. The sun has set in #Orkney. Just 6 hours and 19 minutes of daylight today. We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice. And then the light returns. 💡

Good to see findings from this timely & necessary research coming out. Hope there are tangible actions following the findings and this is not simply another citable reference that can be used to document and tick-box States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography www.rgs.org/research/hig...

A really interesting article for those interested in Gibraltar and performances of sovereignty (and/or assemblage geopolitics!): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today that parts of the U.S. administration's new National Security Strategy are terrible from Europe's point of view.

All the news that is fit to print www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

Big congratulations to my fellow FIFA Peace Prize shortlist nominees: we are all, in some way, winners, and we can just focus on the hard work of talking about how much peace we accomplished in 2025 & how much we’re into the idea of peace, generally.

To all my followers that own wine vineyards: “Pinot Grinch-io” That’s for you, but I get 10% of proceeds

Does Pete Hegseth know the fog of war isn’t an actual fog?

🎄 Norwegian Christmas tree arrives in London In a yearly tradition going back to 1947, a Norwegian spruce arrives in London, where it will "grace" Trafalgar Square during the Christmas period, with a lighting ceremony planned for December 4

Well, that settles that www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...

on.ft.com/481Bk3s The death of the diplomat in Trump’s America (Or of expertise, I would argue)

An interesting read given we are all talking about critical infrastructure these days on.ft.com/3XPJbeq How Ireland became the weak spot in Europe’s defences

So the University of Texas at Austin neither signed Trump's higher-ed compact nor rejected it. The deadline passed and UT just did not respond: www.texastribune.org/2025/11/17/u...

Bloomberg unfolds the history of the Vance-Dmitriev initiative... Dmitriev put it to Witkoff and Vance in a meeting in Miami, Axios published it, Trump and Rubio knew nothing of it. But then Trump decided to simply bless Dmitriev's draft after the fact. A perfect biopsy of "diplomacy" under Trump.

When Forest Gump said something similar it was cute. But I don’t think he was talking and brutal murder and repression. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Looks like an exciting opportunity for an energy geographer: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/84073

It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative. For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure. m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...

Good to remeber Heritage Foundation spent a good deal of its cultural capital complaining about the way James Madison's Montpelier talks about slavery. In particular they didnt like an agreement to give the descendents of Montpelier's enslaved population more say on how the museum presented slavery.

'One senior ally of Starmer has been heard describing Larry the Cat, who has been No. 10’s “chief mouser” since 2011, as a metaphor for the British state — old, lazy, too pampered to do the job he was hired for (catching mice), yet unsackable due to a sense of fondness and tradition.' (1/5)

The US Senate deal seems a triumph for linking the GOP to the rise in health care costs (assuming there is a vote on it as promised) but colossal defeat for actually maintaining Americans’ health care

A great reflection on masculinity and the shape of the economy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Please sign and share this petition. I care deeply about geography and want to do everything I can to save our jobs and the school, and protect our students 🌍 #Geography #SchoolClosure c.org/Z2ZK6fQVgf

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

The Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Indigenous Geographies, preferably with a focus on Human–Environment Relationships. Read more 👉 www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

🚨New @ausis.bsky.social book alert! In "Building a Green Wall," @cgallaher.bsky.social and @au-spa.bsky.social's Kimberly Cowell-Meyers explore how the Irish-American lobby worked to defend the Good Friday Agreement and shaped US policy toward Brexit. Read more: www.american.edu/sis/research...

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

Imagine wanting to pay him $1 trillion for this on.ft.com/47rYyOG

Interesting session for the AAG in San Francisco, if you are interested in Diaspora Diplomacy! www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

Trump has affirmed support for the nuclear sub deal with Australia and the UK.

📘 Book Launch: Governing the End Join us on 5 Nov, 6:30pm @ UCL Bloomsbury for the launch of Prof Lisa Vanhala’s new book on climate change loss & damage. 🎤 Panel experts: UCL, SOAS, LSE, Johns Hopkins & The Loss and Damage Collaboration. 🔗 Register: https://shorturl.at/tUwzL

This week in the European Parliamen in Strasbourg, there was a workshop in which you could paint your own garden gnome ... and it makes sense, as gnomes can actually be very political. In our Declassified humor column, we explain 👇

Furious about attacks on DEI? Exquisite timing for this awesome new collection edited by Guo Chen and LaToya Eaves @spacedemands.bsky.social with chapters on strategies across academia and community action. Thrilled to be a contributor. @geographers.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/how...

Not sure how this helps productivity in other sectors, especially in the early morning

My neighbour: isn’t it a little early to have your Halloween decorations up? Me:

Where was the O-line? Embarrassing job of protecting the QB

An interesting essay that ties in to what @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social have been writing about in their book The Politics of Feeling www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

[T]he act “was caused by an uproar over the actions of the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Spencer Clark,” who had “placed himself on a five-cent note and had a large quantity of them printed before it was noticed.” 🤣😆🤣😆 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

To the fox that pooped in my window box