I reviewed Pete Wolfendale’s new book, ‘The Revenge of Reason’, for @radical-philosophy.bsky.social www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/arti...

View from my new shared office.

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The University of Edinburgh has £3.1bn in assets and made a surplus of £43m last year. But the senior management team is still threatening huge staffing cuts while implementing a massively destructive austerity drive.

Trying to read the text in this print-on-demand book.

With many thanks to @uoe-cahss.bsky.social for funding, I'm delighted that the Network for the Study of Work (NSW) is launching in February: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cahss-netw... With help from @haylesben.bsky.social, @ibalilebali.bsky.social and @tomoshea.org

I had a nightmare where I was on In Our Time but completely fucked it.

Taking more recommendations for books in the genre Weird Medieval Guy.

Here at last is the 3+ hours recorded by myself and @profafinlayson.bsky.social on nationalism and the future of Britain. Subscribe in any podcast app to Culture, Power, Politics. Yes, Burnham-block emergency pod, other guests, more solos, all coming soon. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/n...

With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.

aspirational

Upon receiving my own message to the mailing list: What fresh bastard has emailed me now?

We’ve been using tape to mark out locations for new sofas and now the living room looks like Dogville.

Saw a series of academic conferences about Mary Wollstonecraft which were called Wollapolooza.

The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481. Since that time, it

I thought it was strange for Maduro to plead not guilty rather than refuse to recognise the legitimacy of the court. But then I remembered how that strategy worked out for Charles the First.

Lost my phone yesterday, and have been watching its merry journey around and around the bus route, before ending up safely in the depot.

If you’re wondering what the weather is like in Scotland at the moment: Hannah, carrying three separate hot water bottles upstairs, asks, ‘Shall we have a second duvet?’

Still searching for a theory of justice on which it turns out to be ‘just ice’.

May the white mausu guide and protect you this year.

For the hogmanay not the hogafew

If you want to hear, not me, but the normally mild-mannered @profafinlayson.bsky.social suggest that Britain might now be entering a pre-revolutionary phase, get your ears around this massive Christmas pressie of a Culture, Power, Politics Emergency Podcast. culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/12/24/p...

My favourite tracks released this year. open.spotify.com/playlist/2J7...

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/...