The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).

Me, trying to explain how environmental history displaces the nation-state as the principal unit of historical analysis.

Sorry to report that "Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen" is another instant classic and has been added to my lexicon.

That's a new and unexpected direction for him.

Funniest possible thing for two MSPs to get into a violent altercation over.

Having to stand there while my fridge plays a 30-second ad (no option to skip) before I can open the door.

Genuinely feels like a plot detail in one of those Left Behind books where the Antichrist becomes U.S. president.

It's striking how bad he still is at delivering a prepared speech.

We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed). The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions. Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)

Is it time to give Labour to Sam Allardyce until the end of the parliament?

The best Robert Redford story is Mike Nichols' recollection of trying to explain to Redford why he wouldn't be a good fit for the lead role in The Graduate. Literally unable to grasp the concept of a woman not being interested in him.

"Don't you think he looks wired?"

Me, a landsman:

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - the other Frank Wilhoit.

Didn't realise Vin Diesel had been making them for that long.

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

It is an especially good stick.

The electrical engineering programme at Dixie Technical College is well known as a hotbed of Marxist indoctrination.

Moving tribute, sir.

FAO all "unfunded hobbyist researchers" 👇 www.ucu.org.uk/join

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

The easy way to avoid a crisis in US-UK relations is to let Trump take credit for this firing. Another of Epstein's cronies driven out of public life by heroic undercover FBI informant Donald J. Trump!

A lot of people thinking VERY CAREFULLY about the emails of consolation they plan to send to Mandelson today.

Netflix and Amazon phoning Mark Gatiss's agent to find out his availability for their rival films about the Mandelson scandal.

I think someone should ask Keir Starmer - who took over as DPP a few months after these emails were written - if he agrees that billionaire nonce Jeffrey Epstein wouldn't have been prosecuted in the UK.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Ending up in the Epstein files because you reflexively signed, "Have a great one, Jeffers!" on a birthday card circulating round the office.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Embarrassing how much this is my jam.

Straightforward from here: 1. Impeach Starmer 2. Constitutional crisis 3. Call by-election 4. Burnham v. Farage 5. Prime Minister Burnham

Oh no, it really is going to replace academics.

If I was Keir Starmer, I would simply make fewer mistakes and be better at governing.

I think this new emergency alert system is working really well.

Nadine's not going to like this.

Wouldn't have been able to waterboard this out of me.

My first lecture after the Reform government mandate the new Patriotic Pedagogy Panopticon database, 2029:

A final little bit from me in today's edition: the south London flagger who told the BBC he was one of many “hardworking business people” hanging British flags -- and his £98,000 false injury claim When I called him, he gave this gem of a quote

You have to admire a candidate who says to the media, "Um, I have an IMPORTANT campaign announcement TODAY. You should be there later TODAY," and then the announcement is "My opponent is AWFUL and I do NOT like him."

"Seamless, huh?"

When you definitely understood Minority Report.

I didn't expect the fascist takeover to be this embarrassing.

Going to be very funny when she starts agitating for Boris to take over.

"Evening, prime minister."

Defence barrister sobbing because they have to convince a court this man is not an obsessive harasser.