Talking about political events when writing a polisci paper: "while the general relationship may be multicausal, I can offer a compelling causal argument and robust evidence for why X causes Y." Talking about political events when talking to journalists:

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

It feels like we are watching a bonfire of international cooperation. And a bit like many EU leaders’ main concern is still reassuring Donald that they support his marshmallow-roasting over the fire.

This is dangerous for many reasons, not least the information suppression that this causes. Lots of pressure on the EU to continue defending the torch of cooperation and, frankly, collecting data for the world now

Remember that so-called moderate Republicans are making a deliberate choice each and every day to do nothing

Once again, a mere handful of people in Washington could caucus today with the Democrats & put an end to ~90% of the worst things immediately. They even have names: bsky.app/profile/mcop... We should stop giving these people free passes every day & yell at them like everyone yells at Democrats.

I think journalists should refuse to discuss anything else with Labour ministers until they can answer whether the US can invade BVI or Argentina can invade the Falklands. And if they can answer, then until they can explain the difference from Greenland.

I may never forgive Donald Trump for forcing me to be a vocal supporter of Mette Frederiksen

“Listen Sophy, diplomacy is delicate and you just have to accept that it’s complicated but we’re letting him have the Sudetenland”

It says everything about him that he calls Brexit a “shock” akin to Covid and war in Ukraine, but notes that these were made worse by irresponsible governments promising quick solutions. As if Brexit was a natural occurrence and not itself the irresponsible decision promised as an easy solution.

Er… Keir Starmer ….. #bbclaurak

Just a quick reminder: there is no need to condemn Maduro in order to criticise the American aggression against Venezuela and the abduction of Maduro. Just as criminal law protects bad people from attack, international law prohibits intervention against states with authoritarian leaders.

It’s really embarrassing for Europeans that even centrist congressional Democrats have come out stronger against Trump on Venezuela

I think this feels particularly shocking because no matter how much you stretch the law this has absolutely no basis of legality whatsoever. No terrorists, no "threat" requiring anticipatory self defence. Nothing.

It sucks as a critic of international law to mourn its demise.

Venezuela is an important oil producer (~top15 in global ranking), with some of the world's largest proven oil reserves. Supply chocked last year but export to 🇨🇳 was picking up. The current uncertainty will be profitable to other fossil giants (🇷🇺) Unless, just an idea: we take renewables seriously

I’m waiting for her to condemn the “regime change war”

At this difficult time please think of the true victims, The UK Government and Labour Party MPs scared of losing the whip who now have to find a way to comment on the U.S. launching an unprovoked war without upsetting the only basket they have all their eggs in.

Remember when the US used to do its Latin American coups by stealth?

The most unrealistic part about season 5 of Emily in Paris is that Emily is a US citizen who establishes a third tax residency in Italy while vying to become an equity partner in a French domiciled firm yet never seems stressed about filing her US tax returns

"Good Law Project said both rulings countered the argument that the supreme court ruling automatically resulted in a bathroom ban for trans people. “The tribunal was clear that the law does not now require banning trans people from single-sex spaces.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’m sure Paul Mescal is a good actor or whatever but if you write like 130 passionate love poems about a pretty twink, you’re not totally straight and it’s exhausting that filmmakers still desperately want to shirk Shakespeare’s queerness.

You can almost feel the BBC breaking news journalists breaking in real-time as they struggle to report that the employment tribunal didn't find that it was ok to be a transphobe in the workplace, and the Supreme Court decision really didn't matter in this case...

Annual reminder that “A Christmas Carol” is the story of a stingy moneylender with a Hebrew name and a pointed nose who is told he faces eternal damnation unless he begins to celebrate the birth of Christ. It’s antisemitic and weird and it needs to be dropped from our holiday traditions omg

The irony is that this doesnt even need a bailout plan. You only need to unlock youth mobility & allow students from Europe (and anywhere else) in more easily. They'll fund your modern unis, will cross-subsidize the NHS, etc. Also I hear strangling your core constituencies is not politically smart.

Tillåt er att bli glada över att A-teens ska vara med i Mello, det är ok

How is there still no @ucu.org.uk ballot result??

'Opportunity' is doing so much heavy lifting in this sentence it'll put it's back out

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Look at those graphs — then get your ballot in ASAP! Next Wednesday is your LAST safe day to post, but don’t wait until then!

I'm not going to share Stock's Unherd article. But here's the important part: "Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes." The ven diagram of the anti-trans & the anti-woman lobby is a circle.

It is Transgender Awareness Week. Trans rights remain under attack in the UK. Our branch believes that trans people are who they say they are, and trans rights are human rights!

I'm no expert on US politics but could it be that these Democrat leaders are simply naive af? They basically serve Trump the US democracy and all their own past accomplishments on a silver plate to "make a point"? theintercept.com/2025/11/10/d...

This is what is on the line. And eight Democrats have blown it apart for nothing at all. The Republicans had no cards to play and were taking most of the heat. Eight Democrats capitulated for nothing, and millions of Americans will lose their healthcare for it.

Insane decision by so many Democrats to capitulate. Utterly unconscionable. They will burn the country to the ground and grovel to Trump for the paltriest of crumbs. I have never regretted anything less than severing all ties with this political party.

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Imagine if the Labour ministers cared as much about Elon Musk’s call to violence as they did about some chants at Glastonbury

Great, but cars must stop killing cyclists & cyclists must stop cycling on pavement! We’ve lost multiple colleagues to cycling accidents. I’ve been hit & injured (fortunately minimally) by TWO cyclists + constant near misses! Roads so unsafe so they put pedestrians at risk trying to stay safe.

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In trying to steer union efforts to prevent my employer going down worst path of applying EHRC’s transphobic guidance, I’ve been frantically researching the legal situation & lived reality for UK trans people. It is worse than I think almost anyone realizes.

It’s wild how economists are going nuts over Piketty’s paper that shows what qualitative people and all people with eyes have seen for generations. Like it’s genuinely so cute when they think they’ve discovered something novel with their little numbers and formulae and stuff.

A 34 year old told me that unlike me he is too old to be here, and I will build statues to him

To be clear, Labour’s position makes them one of the most far right parties in Europe on this issue. Cutting disability benefits and allowing the higher education sector to collapse shows they are not particularly left wing on other issues either.

Gaza is out of food. Israel is starving the population to death, and the world has closed its eyes. There are some things that can never be forgiven and some moral failures for which our leaders should never be able to atone.

If you *only* consider the question of toilets, and nothing else, Britain has been turned into a hostile environment for trans people. Britain is now the most hostile country to be trans in Europe, other than Russia or Hungary.

You can make the lives of minorities extremely difficult and impose ever mounting misery on them. But no injustice can last forever, and the refusal of trans people to stop existing, or their allies to stop fighting, means this will, in time, only end one way.

Solidarity with all trans, non-binary & intersex people facing the harsh and ill-considered guidance issued by the EHRC. It’s full of holes & has clearly been written without input from trans people. I will push for this to be withdrawn until thought-out guidance can be produced.

Labour is a disgrace. Tories 2.0, and not even the centrist Tories.

Where is the emergency Saturday legislation for the rapidly disintegrating British higher education sector? Where is the emergency Saturday legislation for our unaffordable, poisoned water supply?