Looking After Your Books by @francescagalligan.bsky.social - out now!

On the blog today - a new book from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Publishing which is perfect for any booklover - Looking After Your Books! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/i...

Time to talk about one of my favourite Oxford buildings, 26-27-28 Cornmarket!! Popularly known as The Old Pret

Bit harsh on Dominic Grieve in retrospect.

If only there were a simple way to halve the risk.

New open access article from Dan White - "Permissible Purchasing, Obligatory Abstention: The Strict Vegan Case against New Omnivorism" in @the-joap.bsky.social

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

“The reality is that the Israelis are fast destroying the remaining chances of Palestinian statehood and there is little the UK can do about it.” I wrote about the UK’s recognition of Palestine for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social

I am at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Here is Aristotle. Here, equally impressively, is also @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social talking about Methods and Methodology in Political Philosophy.

Midway Still at the Bullingdon in Oxford.

The Wedding Present at GuilFest.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Oxford O2.

Richard Dawson at the Cowley Workers Social Club.

I wanted to be the Pope :(

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford. One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

All Souls College, University of Oxford is advertising a senior academic position in philosophy. Closing date: 19 September 2025. #PhilJobs, #Philosophy, @jowolff.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social www.asc.ox.ac.uk/senior-resea...

What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075

Here is the first single from the new Haines/Buck album:'The Pink Floyd Research Group'.

mclusky at the Bully in November. excellent.

Today’s purchase from the excellent Abbey Bookshop in Paris - the original edition of The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham. (In better nick than the one on the Wikipedia entry! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cas... )

Melodie Is Arrived ‪@stereolabgroop.bsky.social‬

Preoccupations at the Bully, courtesy of @divineschism.bsky.social

Luxembourg, then Iceland, then Sweden for me. Data in appendix.

Coming in September and it is FANTASTIC.

I recently co-authored & circulated (with @polphilpod.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric. Over 100 of my UK-based colleagues signed it. Read the whole thing here: www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

If you’re an academic, researcher, or writer, sign this letter!

My new book, The Way Out, is now available for pre-order! Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

A @stereolabgroop.bsky.social cryptic crossword by @alanconnor.bsky.social? Yes please.

The new Antony Gormley door at Trinity College, Oxford.

The new Antony Gormley door at Trinity College, Oxford.

I thought I'd just slide away into retirement. But others, especially @shaiagmon.bsky.social to whom I'm incredibly grateful had other ideas. So he's assembled an extraordinary cast of philosophers to make sure I actually do retire. www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...

I'm hiring a part-time research assistant to help organise a workshop in Oxford (May-June). I think the role would be ideal for a student (including post-grads) who is looking for some paid experience in academia. My DMs are open. Please share! www.quillproject.net/resource_col...

@profnicolamcewen.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social is giving the annual @ballioloxford.bsky.social Bingham lecture on 'Resetting relationships in the Family of Nations: A New Era in Intergovernmental Relations?' on Tue 27 May at 5 pm in Balliol. To register email [email protected]

What a surprise - the attack now is on the independence of the great Smithsonian Institution, which has strong connections to @ox.ac.uk. Asserting control over its curation is an attack on knowledge itself. Solidarity from Oxford’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

IN NEW ISSUE: Must refugees be grateful to their asylum state? @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social & Matthew J. Gibney argue that when refugees' full experience is considered, resentment might be a more apt response: buff.ly/KA6tPYE @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ethics @sagepub.com

Genuinely historically accurate version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_D...

I wore a badge, that came with the 7" of Feelin' by the La's, that said "Skin up, you bastards!". I didn't know what "skin up" meant, I thought it was an anti-racist slogan. "Pay attention to racial disadvantage, for heaven's sake!" Something like that.

The right wing Policy Exchange has attacked the Church of England’s reparative measures after research showed its endowment fund’s connection with enslavement. Disagreement with reparations is one thing, but denigrating the historical research is disingenuous: alanlester.co.uk/blog/policy-...

There was a particular reason for this. They had played a 16-second piece by Poulenc (for Nadia Boulanger’s birthday) earlier on in the show, and two listeners contacted them to suggest the 1.13-second You Suffer. Which Petroc duly played.

Great thread. There was once a 20C British Politics Q that asked, "Was WWII the making of the Labour Party as a party of government?" I marked a great essay that argued indignantly (in good faith) that no, of course not, because Labour *weren't* the party of govt in the 30s and didn't cause WWII.

Interview with @princetonupress.bsky.social on Erased... including why, in the end, I wasn't actually able to write this history ‘without men’... and the broader and contemporary relevance of the story... press.princeton.edu/ideas/patric...

'As the Church of England has discovered, reparative justice is deeply contentious.' Daniel Butt: A ‘trenchant plea’ for Britain to pay slavery reparations to the Caribbean

Apply to study for a doctorate in political theory at the Central European University, or tell others about this opportunity. All our students get funding (tuition fees and living costs.) Links to admission procedure and program: dsps.ceu.edu/admission dsps.ceu.edu/tracks/polit...

I review Michael Banner's book "Britain's Slavery Debt: Reparations Now!" in the current issue of the TLS: www.the-tls.co.uk/history/mode... @thetls.bsky.social

I review Michael Banner's book "Britain's Slavery Debt: Reparations Now!" in the current issue of the TLS: www.the-tls.co.uk/history/mode... @thetls.bsky.social

Jacob Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social rocking the (literal!) after-dinner slot at @biapt.bsky.social #BIAPT2025

Off to York for the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought conference. It’s 7am and minus two degrees, but my scarf and @biapt.bsky.social hat match, so that’s something. #BIAPT2025

Call for papers: political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. Please circulate. #polisky @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

Putting these books in their rightful order