Marathon talks? Compared to what? It took years for Obama to deliver a detailed Iran deal. The Trump admin are packing it in after 20 hours. (H/T @bgrueskin.bsky.social)

It is inevitable that a HEPI report would advocate for all sorts of regulatory and systemic reforms like student distribution and reducing market incentives *way* after probably irrevocable damage has been done to the whole UK HE sector. Look at their reports from 2018-2020. It's Hotdog Man stuff.

They literally did the meme. -@gonglei89 x.com/gonglei89/st... bsky.app/profile/laci...

Surely even the least remarked on point - a Security Council resolution - seems immediately undeliverable, as to have any substance it would have China, France and the UK acting as the guarantor of Iranian sovereignty from future US-Israeli aggression.

While everyone is crowing about American strategic humiliation, I’m finding it inconceivable. Agog.

Again, I'm compelled to say that several years ago I wrote a piece for the NYT about me and my dad's shared love of Enya. In it, I mentioned that her music has been known to bring my father to tears and the fact-checking was so rigorous that they called my own dad - twice - to ask if this was true.

Sorry to be a stuck record, but "graham youre a heidegger scholar" at least deserves to be an honourable mention

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

I for one am shocked that the same guy who tried to waste union resources on a plausibly legalistic but doomed hail mary in the courts then also wasted union resources defending against his vexatious allegation of rule breaches after he lost an election.

With what other mode of plagiarism would your review remain up?

University senior management have invented new genre of euphemisms for “you’re being fired” "Our ambitious 5 year plan", Edge Hill "Adapting for Continued Success", Aberdeen "Our Future Nottingham Plan", Notts "Our Academic Futures", Cardiff "Shaping For Excellence", Leicester

well but have you considered that one time people on bluesky were very rude about a journalist who is my friend?

Drain the swamp, then use all the swamp juice to set up a new, much swampier swamp round the corner.

"We have to maintain our leverage over this country, which does whatever it wants anyway because we won't use any of the leverage in question" is the position of a liar.

Many such instances.

And it’s increasingly hiding the point of their degree from the students, too. A history degree is about learning to research and write — it’s also about learning about the past! — it’s not actually about vague “transferable skills” and it’s certainly not about a transcript of marks gained via AI.

Was this before or after all of Peter’s emails at his company were mysteriously deleted

Jameson: it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism Trump: why not both?

Illegitimate targets: military airfields used by an aggressor to launch attacks on another country’s military capabilities. Legitimate targets: unarmed poets and their immediate families, sheltering in an apartment building.

The worst people in the world. Ruling in the name of Christ.

The sector is being systematically destroyed, and by the people who are supposed to be leading it

Hard to believe anything out of the White House, though they hardly seem to be bothering to mention the Epstein stink. But to think that for all the contortions over cunning realpolitik in the clown king’s court, they didn’t even want him?

Getting sweaty palms reading the Harvard Business Review. hbr.org/2026/03/the-...

Indicator of the U.S. debate: NYT story on whether to attack Kharg Island does not mention as a factor that doing so would mean terrible economic misery and increased death rates for 90 million innocent Iranians. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/u...

I clicked through to the HEPI report. It's amazing the disconnect between the headline claim ("public patience with universities is thin as populist sentiment rises") and the content of the report ("the data tell a curious[!] story... most people still like the idea of universities")

One million people. Two weeks. And it’s a sideshow. reliefweb.int/report/leban...

103/ Staggering how Iran has imposed control on the umbilical cord that connects Gulf to Asia & Europe Daily oil exports through Hormuz Iran: • Pre-war: 1.5 million barrels • Since war: 1.2 million Others: • Pre-war: 14 million barrels • Since war: 0.4 million www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Apart from the Walt/Mearsheimer angle, has anyone written more broadly on the tendency to assign responsibility for US policy to Israel, even by those within the behemoth American national security state? A clash (and sometime overlap?) of conspiracy theories: the deep state vs. AIPAC made us do it.

Insofar as there are any allied nations left, they should just take a leaf out of Trump’s book and claim that they already have sent aid, it was very successful, and as a result ships are passing through the Strait of Hormuz very easily. They should do this via X, with an AI video of warships.

What a passage.

Not the first Secretary of War Crimes, and not yet anywhere close to the most criminal, but quantifiably the court jesterist of them all. A great gesticulating cartoon of a farce, grease-painted for the back row and chewing the scenery to mush.

The Dardanelles are open for transit, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill said. "The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is the Ottomans shooting at the fleet," he said. "It is open for transit should the Ottomans not do that."

Bold action by the government to prevent the “incalculable damage” wrought by people from Sudan studying computational biology at Cambridge. www.ft.com/content/4493...

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

The plural of anecdote is data.

Gentlemen, you can't bring souls in here! This is the prayer room!

“Moscow has so far earned an estimated $1.3bn-$1.9bn windfall from taxes on oil exports… The Russian government could receive $3.3bn-$4.9bn in overall additional revenues by the end of March”. 4-D checkers. www.ft.com/content/dd97...

"Zohran is teaching him dialectics" x.com/laurenoyler/...

its cool how we’ve spent decades anticipating this exact scenario where a cornered iran would mine or otherwise deny access to the strait and the US gov is just like “woah, no idea they’d play this card in response to [operation: no iranian government official left alive]”

“We are at war. The difference is, we’re not joining the war. We’re in the war.” The Conservative and Unionist Party will be taking no further questions at this time. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So much for the master race.

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

"Compared to the last maximum disruption during the 1956 Suez Crisis (as a percentage of total liquids demand), this represents the largest oil supply loss in history, by a factor of two Worse, unlike in past crises, there's zero spare capacity available"- David McNally of Rapidan

A wonderful new proposal to further expand the national security state. Recent experience reassures that Labour Home Secretaries will only use such powers sparingly, and I'm sure the same will be true of Reform Home Secretaries too.

Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.

in this former mining town, they know two things: Brexit means Brexit, and the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) are the rightful rulers of Persia.

“When I determine that the draft is fully realised, then my article will essentially appear in NATURE whether the editors say it themselves or not”.