I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.

files and carefully store them to make sure they remain available. Could this not be grounds to have the verdict rescinded? Also, it is rather surprising that nobody in the House of Lords has commented on this, given that the report was by cross-parliamentarian workgroup "European Union Committee".

as an expansive term to include trans people in the classes of male and female. All this evidence is dated AFTER the reference that Supreme Court used when referring to the sex and their interpretation of what it meant for the Equality Act. I have taken the opportunity to download all the evidence

evidence to support that point, mentioning how they were at that time out of step with most European countries. Also, that interpretation is further supported by all subsequent discussions in the House of Lords about the Equality Act 2010. Each time sex differences are mentioned they use "gender"

Earlier today I found in the national archives undisputable evidence showing that the Supreme Court were wrong in their interpretation. The explanatory memorandum is clear about a GRC effectively meaning that someone is of the sex they acquired. And the explanatory note linked in it further provides

ELIZA's creator was so alarmed by the fact that people mistook the chatbot for a sentient being that he wrote an entire book about why this implementation of computer technology was a huge problem and it is a staggering achievement

The only difference between my children and your children is where they were born.

Re?watched Sense & Sensibility and I love how they show Hugh Grant’s Edward Ferrars caring for all the Dashwoods, especially Margaret who they also develop with an adventurous spirit and a travelling tree house 🖤

Does anyone have a list of a) books/culture journalists or b) bookstagrammers that you would contact with a news story? Posting in the hope that one of you might be able to save me a lot of time...

A moment to reflect on what it means, what it feels like, to work in a profession dedicated to veracity, factuality, rigour and open debate, in a world spiralling ever-faster into the unchallenged reign of liars, ramming their lies home at gunpoint, as they kill thousands and make millions.

There I was the other day, tutoring a student for his MA dissertation, a student I first taught as an undergraduate in 1994, straight off an Access Course, who became a teacher, and is now the head of an International school in India.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

Not to put too fine a point on this, but when the hardback of this came out, I’d just been made redundant by one crisis-ridden university. The paperback’s being published when my current employer is threatening to make about 400 people redundant (we still don’t know who).

Very much enjoyed doing this video interview about my article! Thanks to @erikahanna.bsky.social and @urbanhistory.bsky.social for the opportunity. Hopefully of interest to colleagues across urban history and environmental humanities #UrbanHist #UrbanStudies #EnviroHums #CoastalHist

Check out Sam's article 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' for free: doi.org/10.1017/S096... And catch up on our seminars and interviews: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @universitypress.cambridge.org

In the latest Urban History interview, @erikahanna.bsky.social speaks to @samgrinsell.bsky.social about his recent article 'Urban History as Urgent Work'. It's an incredibly rich discussion of the intersection of urban history and environmental history, and how we do and communicate our research

So the @plutopress.bsky.social catalogue is out and… my new book is in there! 🥳📚 Scroll to page 14 to read about it: www.plutobooks.com/wp-content/u... (it’s for fans of @profdanhicks.bsky.social, or so the catalogue says!)

Migration is part of what makes this country great. We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours. The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

Have any Routledge/Taylor and Francis authors received anything like this?

Always fascinated by these things. Personally I'm up for endsay instead of conclusion

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” Arundhati Roy, War Talk

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

Back a long time ago when I used iTunes on a computer, I would go through phases of being obsessed with the visualiser that spat out various lava-lamp colours and shapes. Some I enjoyed so much that I took screenshots. I never expected this to feel so topical twenty years later

I’m finding it particularly hard to just ‘be’ & ‘work’, when news of death/war pervade all my media & senses. Every fiber of my being knows that we can just keep still, ‘normal’ whilst the world & future of others beings is being brutally burnt! #endgenocide #resist #NoToWar #Peace #HumanRights

flashback to over two decades ago hearing Mitch Benn on Radio 4 singing He Was Mean To My Daddy, about how GW Bush wanted war with Iraq because of the previous Iraq War, and just wondering how to escape from this cycle of "military intervention"

2003. The names have changed but as always, George was right 🖤

In 21 years of teaching, I have yet to meet a stupid student. What I have met in growing numbers is students who don’t know why they’re in college and being taught the material they’re learning. The crisis, to my mind, is not one of capability but of purpose.

Reminder that Times Higher is a clickbait factory and undermines academic solidarity on the regular

Today's think piece seems designed to pit ECRs against mid-career colleagues but really, as Dr Davies points out, the sector is in freefall. All of us are in danger!

Bridges across the Tyne, photo by Sally Ann Norman.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

i don't suppose I'll get anything here, BUT if you know of anyone currently offering free therapeutic support for gazans in the uk (scotland), i'd be grateful to hear about it

I do think, on a sort of human, moral level, I can't understand how you become like this? This level of clawing, grasping greed that leads you to betting on the lives that you are about to end.

Bob Dylan writing Masters of War, unable to conceive of anyone more despicable than those profiting from making weapons of death... Insiders betting on the places they're about to bomb, "hold that thought for me would ya Bob?"

Love it when an Onion article has been relevant my entire adult life

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

okay, here it is, the five key takeaways from this by-election: 1. Denton Kebab House 2. The Crispy Cod, Denton 3. Reddish Tandoori, Gorton 4. Cottage Chippy, Gorton 5. The Continental Takeaway, Denton

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

Honestly this little anecdote is for me just emblematic of something I really believe: the British public are genuinely much nicer and more decent than either our political or media class are themselves, or would have you believe.

Apologies to all of Hannah's customers! Something exciting is happening. Be a part of it ⤵️

We're now going to get wall-to-wall coverage of the Greens, get them on every single discussion programme, have university managers preemptively reach out to them and adhere to their demands, and basically organise society to make a declared-inevitable victory reality, right? That's how this works?

The Tories losing their deposit is possibly the funniest thing to happen thus far in 2026

AND the worst Tory by-election result in their history

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

quite funny that he just states the obvious to bad faith questions and they keep acting puzzled

Whenever UK politics floods my feed, it reads to me like: "Angry Fay Defeat Poshies and Gray Cloaks in Smashing Lower Stabbington Faff-Election" I vastly prefer this to USA news naturally