The incoherence of US policy under Trump is mind-bending. The Arctic is important, they claim, because of climate change. Yet they also say climate science is a scam and they cut artic research. They demand greater NATO contributions from Allies while imposing economically limiting tariffs on them.

Amazing to learn that pretty much anything that mentions women is "woke". A real insight into the madness that is the modern right wing.

I was trying to get a word document to open on my phone and the Office 360 suite insists on opening co-pilot asking me if I was it to describe the document or whatever. No, I just want to read the fucking thing! This happened repeatedly. Can we just stop with this AI shite!

Modern academic job advert: We are looking for a person with exceptional qualifications 1. If you haven't published two books AND a dozen articles you need not apply. 2. You will have brought in £1m of funding or demonstrate ability to do so. 3. You can probably teach Plato to NATO.

Lol. Spot on.

Having had money from the Mellon Foundation, to study the diaries and papers of a US diplomat and spy master - perhaps the most old-school type of project in all of academia - what is this guy even talking about?

Piers Morgan is at his usual game of shilling for Trump. This time over his empty threat to sue the BBC, as if the corporation has more to fear from discovery than a man who instigated an attempted coup.

Got a student interested in cultural depictions of the space race. Obviously we talked about Bowie and Elton John, as well as movies. Anyone got any other suggestions for music?

Over 18 months too late, but better latd than never. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Claptrap from the Telegraph, all of whom have degrees. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

As a very white man of provable Welsh and English heritage: Fuck off you cunt.

"Investigating"? Could they not just turn the autogenerated subtitles on YouTube?

Just been to see 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. I have to say, it isn't remotely frightening in the film sense. It doesn't really do the breathless horror of the first film (still the best). But it does do the drama very well, perhaps better. Not to spoil, but the first film does the zombie

I'm really tempted to start a YouTube channel where professional historians drink beer/wine/whisky, eat smelly cheese (or whatever floats your boat) and take the piss out of racist YouTubers with massive platforms talking utter shit about history.

I'm annoyed that the media are now misrepresenting (including @lewisgoodall.com) the student loan system. First, I don't like the system, I protested this in the freezing cold, my friends were kettled, arguing this situation was unfair. Second, let's talk about how the system actually is. It is...

The MAGA faithful have convinced themselves that Gerrymandering is a Democrat tactic because Massachusetts Governor and VP Elbridge Gerry was from Democratic MA. Problem: the Democratic Party not exist for over another decade after his death and that state voted Whig and Republican until 1912.

Making predictions, more than three years out from the election, about the overwhelming likelihood of a widely hated party utterly tied to Trump and other detestable characters currently unraveling, and linked to Russia, winning? Hubris thy name is Marr. youtu.be/PKckzb9UFOk?...

So, which 22 year old White House intern is going to be pushed onto the sword and have their life ruined over Trump's racist video?

The MAGA cycling through excuses for Trump's overt racism today has been at lightning speed. Early morning, it was denial. Then it was that it wasn't racist. Then it was that it's just owning the libs. Now it is that it was racist but "a staffer did it". All in like 12 hours.

I'm not a political strategist, but this seems like the issue to hone in on. MAGA don't care about gassing kids or shooting lefties. They don't know what "conservativism" is. How many have heard of Burke? Tariffs, if they can be explained (correctly) are presented as taxes, are a different matter.

Obviously, it is not for the government, and the police investigation and the CPS analysis will need to conclude, but surely Mandelson is in the breaching of the Official Secrets legislation level of exposure?

This is a genuinely insane episode. Glasman is the most brain broken older guy with "back in my day we didn't have to worry about calling 'em trannies" energy ever. I think @iandunt.bsky.social had a stroke at the end.

I don't know if it is intellectual sophistication, but there is a lot to despair about. Particularly in academic Bluesky, which, are people working in a sector which is being squeezed to obliteration.

I recorded an episode with Jonathan at Anglotopia today, on Bletchley Park. It was a great chat, and hopefully, it will be a fascinating listen. In shameless self-promotion, this is an episode we did late last year on the Coventry Blitz.

Leicester by-election confusion as Your Party members back different candidate - Leicestershire Live share.google/EIODffzzvMJe...

Who bets that Trump's suit against Trevor Noah is quietly withdrawn as soon as it reaches the discovery stage?

AI made me think my refrigerator would tell me why my mom hates me. But it was all a lie. It barely makes ice.

Given the latest revelations about Musk, that his contention that he fended off invitations to visit Epstein for "parties" are lies, I thought I'd revisit X. It is hilarious. The neo-Nazis trying to rationalise their Daddy's behaviour are bonkers.

Lots made in the press about Peter Mandelson being all over the Epstein files and taking his money, yet next to silence on the fact that Farage is also in them.

"Detention Center" is a cynical euphamism for "concentration camp".

I think that there is a reasonable possibility that Badenoch (and Brexit) kills the Tory party dead. This has happened before. Famously, the Liberals collapsed in the early 1920s beyond recovery after dominating British politics for decades. And that involved less suicidal stupidity.

Is this a Monty Python sketch?

Obvious Trump can't shut the fuck up. But attacking Bruce Springsteen always strikes me as a mistake and is going to be a vote loser. Particularly among a base comprising white people who came of age during the 1970s and 1980s when Springsteen was a powerhouse.

In other news, perhaps the dumbest cretin to block me back on twitter, who is a known liar, has been platformed by the BBC and inevitably brought their editorial standards into disrepute. Will any lessons be learned at New Broadcasting House? No.

Ok. Yeah. It's still much better than Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 combined. www.ign.com/articles/go-...

Who could have guessed? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Don Lemon arrested but no pedophile billionaires

I've not seen it, nor do I have any desire to do so. But there is something wrong (beyond the obvious) that it wasn't obvious this would likely be the reaction (regardless of the quality of the film). Who is advising these people and why can't they see the obvious for themselves? Fart sniffers?

More stupidity from Reeves and Labour. You gain from a university education by existing in society. Like having an education, using the NHS, taking out a bank account, or basically doing anything.

A little idea for a big article - by big I mean really big. We now broadly have three types of encycploedia. 1. Traditional heavily curated, expert produced series of volumes like Britannica. The limitation being they are small. 2. Crowd written and curated, like Wikipedia which is massive.

I'm surprised it is only half. If you hollow out the support structures then they operate poorly. If you hollow put the teaching provision, the range of what is taught narrows and shallows.

These people are weirdos and very high from sniffing their own farts.

Amusing though this is, you just know that it will get a rapturous reception from his base.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I have decided that my academic job is too hard and doesn't pay enough. But I hear that posting obviously spurious bigoted drivel opens lucrative doors writing for thinktanks, the Telegraph, and other publications. This, in turn, opens doors to stand for parliament. Trans people are bad.

This slow burning disaster is going to stop being slow very soon.

This has substantially improved my day.

This fuckwit is an actual lawyer. Apparently.

I had a very interesting convo with a pretty much apolitical friend on the weekend. He is conservative (small c), and I think he has voted that way in the past. But was disgusted by the last government. He said Reform are "literally" the same as the last lot of fuckups. He is a bit of a weather vein