I'm really thrilled to share my new article, 'Deleuze's Dickens: Life and Community', on Deleuze's late reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and published in the new Dickens Quarterly. (I've got a PDF if anyone wants it!) doi.org/10.1353/dqt....

I'm really thrilled to share my new article, 'Deleuze's Dickens: Life and Community', on Deleuze's late reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and published in the new Dickens Quarterly. (I've got a PDF if anyone wants it!) doi.org/10.1353/dqt....

I’d normally be opposed to the British government trying to interfere in former colonies but, given the UK believes the Sino-British Joint Declaration is still a legally binding treaty, its failure to attempt to enforce its basic provisions is grotesque www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Always good to see the UK Labour Party backing a winner 😂 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Academic study of the BBC consistently shows a right-wing bias but it is only ever news when it is accused of left-wing bias…which is very characteristic of the general miserable sordid reactionary British media in general theconversation.com/bbc-question...

So now I live in Munich - please give me your suggestions for good bars, cinemas, bookshops, arts spaces, cafes, etc etc. It’s a very big city to find your feet in! Even better if you live here and you want to meet up!

So now I live in Munich - please give me your suggestions for good bars, cinemas, bookshops, arts spaces, cafes, etc etc. It’s a very big city to find your feet in! Even better if you live here and you want to meet up!

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Big life announcement: On my way to Munich where I’ll be working as a Research Associate at Ludwig Maximilian University. Do I know anyone in Munich? I’m going to need some friends and I’m interested in arts and/or academic collaborations!

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

I'm going to Brussels this weekend. What should I do? I'd particularly like to look at something about post/colonial history (and which isn't necessarily the Africa Museum).

Can't help thinking about Kurt Tuchlosky's Weimar-era satirical poem, Rosen auf den Weg gestreut today, and most days in the UK just now - here in the singer Daniel Kahn's translation

"ENDGAME WAITING FOR GODOT WATT HAPPY DAYS which means I love you"

Really fascinating and interesting to put alongside Wales - I’d be interested to know how the absence of single words corresponding to Yes and No in Welsh changes the process of justice in Wales (the same “issue” is brought up with Irish in this article)

In the immortal words of Rubberbandits: Sally Rooney, she’s in the ‘Ra. youtu.be/GrAd2KfgUSE www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.

“We’re here to talk about A levels” “Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀

Higher Ed is littered with appalling employment practices. We can't go on like this.

YOU - What am I doing? SHIVERS - Looking up at the sky, cold water dripping from your hair. YOU - What do I see? SHIVERS - Grey sky like great battleships, clouds colliding with one another. Rain falls down on the world.

I really enjoyed interviewing Chris Washington on the brilliant Nonbinary Jane Austen for a podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/nonbinary-ja...

I really enjoyed interviewing Chris Washington on the brilliant Nonbinary Jane Austen for a podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/nonbinary-ja...

Insulindian Phasmid www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Unbelievable

As a vegan for most of my adult life and a chaotic traveler, I genuinely love this list of tips for being vegan on holiday www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ju...

I'm grimly fascinated by the human capacity - as cogs within systems of power - to participate in great evils such as genocide. And in this case, I'm fascinated by David Lammy's capacity to maintain his characteristic demeanor of pomposity and self regard, even as he follows Israel into the abyss.

This got me thinking: what are your favourite pieces of writing on visual art?

SHIVERS - In a little alley next to Boogie street, a man in stained overalls steps out of a workshop for a cigarette. His hands are bruised and soaked with motor oil and dirt. He breathes smoke out of his nostrils and closes his eyes. The next five minutes are his and his alone.

Sone documentation of our Heroes of Work/Arwyr o’r Geaith/Helden der Arbeit Happeninh which we facilitated yesterday in Bangor

74. To Die In The Country (1974), dir. Shūji Terayama

Why does no one ever advocate for legislation to tackle Oxbridge’s enormous endowments? Under the Endowed Schools Act 1869 schools’ endowments could be appropriated for the benefit of the whole community. If even the Victorians discerned ways to redistribute institutional wealth, why can’t we?

KLAASJE (MISS ORANJE DISCO DANCER) - “I love Revachol, though.” She looks around, the wind in her hair. “I hope she loves me too.”

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Truly awful here

I am going to sunny Oslo tomorrow - does anyone have any recommendations for touristy things to do, good vegan food, and affordable good beer?

Every day spent talking about migrants on small boats, the majority of whom are granted asylum, is another day Labour can avoid talking about wealth taxes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I am going to sunny Oslo tomorrow - does anyone have any recommendations for touristy things to do, good vegan food, and affordable good beer?

Fond memories of Norman Tebbit www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

A very good thread. Note, it remains possible that the Courts will refuse to allow Yvette Cooper to proscribe Palestine Action. The High Court on Friday held that there was, in effect, a serious question to be asked about the lawfulness of her decision.

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws. Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide. This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

Hallucinating a year of quiet competent government measurably improving people’s lives, in order to explain that even that doesn’t work these days because voters are stupid 🤔

Big Gilbert Imlay Energy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

Today's university with the redundancies is Bristol, which is looking to sack staff from its Centre for Academic Language and Development. Every single day in Higher Education is like this. Every single day. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am eight years out of my PhD and have never had a permanent contract; I have done good research in spite of my employers and precarious employment. I have recently been made unemployed again. Precarity prevents us even reaching “mid-career” status because we are denied the stability to get there.

This is the issue. The bulk of excellent and amazing people that make up the ever-increasing academic precariat aren’t early career as we are too far out of PhD. But we also don’t qualify as mid-career as we don’t have open-ended contracts.

Great but what if you’re mid career and unemployed?