Pulitzer Prize photo right here.

lol

Still in the Orwell rabbit hole. Just listened to this. Wifedom by Anna Funder sounds very interesting although I am not a big fun of books that mix non-fiction and fiction sections. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Indeed. In intelligence, politics, foreign policy if you are still selling the message that there is something behind the chaos, either you have been fooled or you’ve got something (generally a book among my contacts) to sell.

God, I missed this rhetoric. Powerful, inspiring, social democratic. No hope of seeing it in this country unfortunately, despite the large electoral majority.

This. Going for about 15 minutes now on tv. The “shocking” discovery that some shops are fronts for criminal activity. The gusto in putting non-white people in the crosshairs.

You can always bet on this @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to do both the unethical and the electorally suicidal thing at once. Tax. The. Rich.

Waiting for @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social to tell us that Dick Cheney did politics and foreign policy the right way.

Early reports claim Satan is scared and has provisionally left Hell.

Brilliant. Can’t wait for this. @socintelhist.bsky.social roundtable on @tim-weiner.bsky.social’s latest.

Of interest to me and many colleagues @swanseaunippir.bsky.social

As the government refuses to support universities in dire financial situations, many will look to foreign markets and opportunities with severe implications like the ones below.

Started reading Orwell's collected essays. Quite timely reflections on the nature of facts, totalitarianism, and the nature/future of truth. Including a reflection on how the liberal tradition that evil always loses out in the end, lulls people into a sense of complacency.

Maybe, it’s time to explore more broadly Russia’s influence in UK politics, from the Tory party and Boris Johnson’s parties, to Farage, UKIP, and now Reform. It should be done as if the future of UK democracy depended on it. Because it does.

Regime change has worked so well in the past for the US. I’m also sure this has nothing to do with the Epstein files.

Published this last month. Trump's moved from illegal strikes on targets of unknown identity to preparing for a war against Venezuela for wholly unclear reasons seemingly on a whim. This isn't how you win a drug war but it will kill lots of people. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

The desperate attempt to get close to power, the endless betting on grift and hatred, can turn someone from a respected academic to a social media laughing stock. Times are tough. Stay sane people. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/que...

The art of the (terrible) deal. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/31/c...

No?! I’m shocked. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Happy Halloween.

The US military needs to become as fascistic as its current leaders. Noted. Obscene by @warontherocks.bsky.social.

Sydney Gottlieb, the CIA’s poisoner in chief, in his own words. Testimony to the Church Committee made available by the @nsarchive.bsky.social. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Some reflections from me for @france24.com on the expansion of CIA covert operations in Latin America and the approach take by the Trump Administration in openly discussing them. www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...

Rachel, Tax.The.Rich. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

New, quick Brush Contact story from me on the US government’s attempt to recruit Maduro’s pilot, as reported by @apnews.com. I compare this case to another failed pilot recruitment in 1960. Discover who the target was below. open.substack.com/pub/thebrush...

Ah! BBC News on again at the gym. Questioning of Home Office amounts to: ‘What are you doing to make people who’ve already suffered a lot suffer a bit more?’ I’m keen on blaming @teamlabouruk.bsky.social for the direction of the country, but the media is just obscene. Hours stoking hatred.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

A new post from The Brush Contact on Henry Kissinger and Chile. The occasion: a new PBS documentary on Chile, 50 years of the Church Committee, 50 years of Operation CONDOR. open.substack.com/pub/thebrush...

PBS Documentary looks like an absolute must watch. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/chile-c...

Yep.

The only publication insisting on this obscene and under reported scandal.

Tapper will write a book about it any moment now…

It’s Constructivism week in my IR module, which means I can start my lecture with this. www.youtube.com/shorts/S8f1S...

Congress and the courts should force the Justice Department to release the Office of Legal Counsel memo that purportedly authorizes these strikes--even if there's *nothing* the OLC memo could say that would make these summary executions lawful. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

This sounds good but it assumes that Starmer and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social have any common sense.

Two major problems in a single post. Years of limited investment in research. And universities and the HE sector more broadly (looking at you REF) should rethink how we assess academics and institutions.

Well done to Welsh Labour and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social more broadly. Your policies clearly are resonating since you got 11% in a seat you’ve held since devolution and came 3rd behind reform.

I know it's a tired game, but just imagine Obama doing this.

The current @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government hits that sweet spot of disgusting and electorally foolish. Except when you contact your local MP and they try to convince of what progressive policies they are apparently putting in place.

If all the words, policies, and funds that are wasted on blaming migrants and refugees were put to better use against some of the real threats the country faces…

Awesome (if unintended) representation of what the Trump Administration is doing to the United States domestically and globally.

On one of the leading processes of our time, from the web, to services, to jobs. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

In case you were wondering whether Trump had changed his mind on Russia and Putin.

Fantastic episode. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Culpably late to this. Any thoughts?

US already preparing the ground for Netanyahu to restart the war?

Very predictable (and understandable).

Try as I might, I can't get Reform to answer a simple question about their candidate in the Caerphilly by-election Llyr Powell. When did he last have contact with Nathan Gill, the party's former leader in Wales who has admitted taking Russian bribes? willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/why-cant-r...

‘France has charged four people over a suspected plot against a Russian dissident, prosecutors said Friday, October 17, after a refugee who helped reveal abuses in Russian prisons said he was targeted.’ www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Today, Trump's trying to make us comfortable with masked agents on the streets. Tomorrow, Trump's looking to leverage this power, take advantage of our elections, and scare voters away. We must call this what it is: a power grab that echoes the rise of authoritarian regimes.