www.latimes.com/entertainmen... James Ellroy interview question as he now lives in Denver.

3/3

2/3 add this to the common accounts of EP Thompson's arrogance and lack of support for other leftists. 2/3

Germain Greer's 1990 introduction to an edited collection of her Warwick colleague, Gay Clifford, the first female tutor in the dept of English & Comp Lit. a lost world of English academia, and not one to be mourned for either. 1/3

6 years ago today Fox News helpfully distilled some of the demands of the Movement for Black Lives... Curious that they could figure out the demands but that white dude bros on the so called Left say that it's unclear... LOL

Season 4 of From felt like placeholder exposition.

archive.is/iw0G6 "Culture in the outskirts of Berlin – Between uniqueness and absence, Berlin's cultural scene is focused on die Mitte and Kreuzberg - but there are places in the suburbs that are more authentic than any trendy club. A journey behind the S-Bahn-Ring"

later corrected to 10%, but if so, this should be an a priori grounds for expulsion from the Russell Group bsky.app/profile/beci...

Germain Greer's 1990 introduction to an edited collection of her Warwick colleague, Gay Clifford, the first female tutor in the dept of English & Comp Lit. a lost world of English academia, and not one to be mourned for either. 1/3

archive.is/iw0G6 "Culture in the outskirts of Berlin – Between uniqueness and absence, Berlin's cultural scene is focused on die Mitte and Kreuzberg - but there are places in the suburbs that are more authentic than any trendy club. A journey behind the S-Bahn-Ring"

This review of a book about Eric Hobsbawm manages to avoid saying where he worked for his whole career: Birkbeck. He was (t)here from 1947-1982, then emeritus, then President, 2002-2012. A university focused on giving education to working class people. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ce...

I liked episode 1 of song of the samurai but I also had to spend an hour reading up on 19c Japanese history .

At this point, I see France winning it.

The problem foreseen a decade ago exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex... 1Williams. Exchanges 2016 4(1), pp. 1-13 A Conversation with Martin Stannard and Barbara Cooke

Yes, a key Tory mistake that enshittifies British universities

Godless communists unite, you have nothing to lose but Trump.

Has the Guardian discovered the massive proportion of students who attend their local university because they’re working-class and have done for years? Of course not. It’s another way to bash non-Russell Group universities as a poor second-best chosen by the desperate. With friends like this…

The problem foreseen a decade ago exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex... 1Williams. Exchanges 2016 4(1), pp. 1-13 A Conversation with Martin Stannard and Barbara Cooke

'Palestine and the relentless erosion of trans rights are perennial issues that shape our customers' discussions and inform both our events and stock profile' www.heraldscotland.com/life...

"Inevitably, this will have implications for the size of our workforce, affecting both academic and professional services roles." 👇

Godless communists unite, you have nothing to lose but Trump.

ban the Afd www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

I look forward to seeing the new Cinnabon staff bsky.app/profile/acyn...

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but some young garden fascists do it anyway thetab.com/2026/06/26/e...

European imperialists changing names

Vance is a lot like Nixon: amoral, unloveable, and soulless

Counter-position: yes, you should always feel guilty. www.zeit.de/feuilleton/m...