Who protects the mattress protector?

no microsoft word i would not like to live deliciously by turning all the chapter headings blue

Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

The true walk of shame is when someone's phone goes off in the National Library of Scotland and they have to scuttle away while being pierced with twenty dirty looks.

Huge thanks to Sanat Sogani for this conversation for the 'Justice Everywhere' site, in which we discuss punk, anarchism, radical republicanism, and the relationships between them. justice-everywhere.org/general/beyo...

Just published in Philosophers' Imprint: A powerful new paper from Rich Healey and Angie Pepper challenging 'pet-keeping'.

don't worry everyone Keir Starmer is being kept alive in the Golden Throne & his psychic power allows him to provide a navigation beacon for police & local councils to sustain humanity in the face of unrelenting threats

They've invented a pill that makes you arbitrary and unaccountable, a tyrant in your sphere.

I'm not your lawyer and this is not legal advice, but you might consider burying yourself in the soft earth.

"Special awards go to the students who obviously had no help from AI." It's getting to the point where I am so happy to see a clumsy but earnest sentence that I would actually support this.

It probably goes without saying (and if it doesn't then hi, new person, you're about to learn something about me!) that this is extremely My Bag

This is a great article and I'm happy to see it in print! A really helpful contribution to ongoing debates about what we might salvage from radical feminist thought.

My new article explores the neoliberalisation of the British worker coop movement. A lost history that speaks directly to today’s debates about ownership and the future of work. It's Open Access, so if it interests you, take a look! tinyurl.com/27r9j957

My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

Dear predatory journal: Thank you for sending me the abstract of an old article of mine. As respected experts in the field of mail merge, I'd gladly consider joining your editorial board, once you pay the standard Email Processing Charge. Quick decision guaranteed after the funds reach my account.

truth coming out of her well to shame humanity

i'm not convinced by your lived experience actually. i just don't think it would have went down like that

Like a grizzled detective writing a book about how to commit the perfect murder, I reckon I could produce a decent guide for students engaged in the far worse crime of getting AI to write their essays.

Going to resign my brief membership of Your Party. I hated the gleeful cynicism of those on the left who were willing the whole thing to collapse. But apart from the public spats and locking in the terrible name, it’s now going to be strangled in the cradle by the dead hand of British Trotskyism.

Every tenth publication, academics should be allowed to publish a weird essay in a prominent journal with no editorial interference.

Daydreaming of getting two cats called Guelph and Ghibelline.

David Leopold, "Hegel and Utopia," European Journal of Philosophy (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sleeping in Hannah's office while the mattress for our new bed arrives, and the academic books all have titles like 'Porkopolis' or 'Fish versus Power'.

CFP: 5th Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism. June 26-28, 2026. Venice International University. The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'. Deadline: December 30 www.univiu.org/campus-servi...

Lively picket with great music outside Old College

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.

Two requests to review within 17 minutes. This is cruel and unusual punishment.

Delighted that Mamdani has won and moreover opened his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs. aeon.co/essays/for-s...

If someone tries to make me wear a lanyard, I am always at risk of going full freeman-on-the-land.

The biggest clue for students using AI isn’t words like "delve" but variants on the phrase “not only X but also Y”. Marking those essays is not only infuriating but also exhausting.

One of the reasons I find the tone of ChatGPT so repellent is that it combines sycophancy with absolute confidence in the face of error — which is a mixture that will be familiar to anyone who has taught in a self-consciously ‘elite’ university.

No person with the name of a food should be more famous than that food.

I’ve been marking essays today, and in unrelated news will be launching a Butlerian jihad to wipe thinking machines from every corner of the galaxy.

New cat names just dropped: Perkin Warbeck; Milky Toner; Tacolobo.

Not sure I would have gone with this particular name in the current climate...

PhD scholarship in Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh registryservices.ed.ac.uk/scholarships...

Whenever I speak to someone about Moishe Postone, there always comes a point where we have to admit that we often have absolutely no idea what he is talking about.

On the train to Manchester to give a talk about structural domination in the economy. I'll be recompensed in curry afterwards.

We're going to have a big beautiful dark age, perhaps darker than ever before. And I think you'll be very happy

me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel? my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live

After slicing a Quorn picnic egg in half to feed to a toddler, I have discovered this is the superior dining experience.

Couldn't have gone to a worthier winner.

Going for the world record today for the number of failed attempts to spell ‘Montesquieu’.

Are there any messages anyone needs passed on to The eternal worm before I go to sleep?

Avoiding gendering our baby by referring to them as "comrade".

Personally, I don’t think those with the broadest shoulders should pay the most tax. That ought to be the wealthy.