Oh dear. I seem to have voted for the neo-Nazis. I think I'll have a lie down and a piece of cake. #VeryBritishProblems

As Labour heads for a wipeout, a lesson: never fall for the 'adults in the room’ line again | Aditya Chakrabortty

How can supposedly serious people do this? English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing....

Exactly what I talk about in my @isrfoundation.bsky.social piece this week. Increasingly Arts and Humanities will be limited to so-called 'top' universities, with large cold spots across the country which mean that students from lower income backgrounds simply cannot access them. Do you want that? 🤷‍♂️

At first I thought this was just another home-town moment, but as I read through I realised that it's actually a rather brilliant piece of avant garde poetry.

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I very much know it's not the main point here, but it tells us something that whoever made these mugs can't spell Sandford.

Or there's this if not in Philadelphia this weekend.

If you're at #OAH2026 please check out the UVA Press booth (The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States is right in the middle there).

Yesterday I was earwormed by Roger Whitaker's The Last Farewell and thought to myself, well, it can't get any worse than this. And guess what: today I am earwormed by Leo Sayer, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. It seems I must have taunted the Earworm God and am now paying a terrible price.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I see Radio 4 Today is investigating asylum seekers pretending to be gay and cancel culture in US universities. Thank goodness the BBC keeps reminding us how neutral they are or else I might think they had a very right-wing political agenda.

Happy Birthday to the great James Garner. Would have been 98 today.

I used to think Dubya was an insult to the office of President. Turns out I had noooooo idea.

Happy #pubday to "The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding," edited by Francis D. Cogliano! The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birth www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10183/ #skystorians #readUP

Publication day! Really thrilled with this. Edited volumes can be a challenge to complete but @uvapress.bsky.social and all of the contributors were amazing!

And he's one chicken nugget away from the Oval Office.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

There was a Wembley Country Music Festival every year throughout the 70s and 80s and, before the streaming that has, according to this article, newly brought the genre to these shores, people bought ... records.

Greens and Allies reelected in Lyon 👍

Thank you to Lige Gould, Hannah Grieving, Patrick Griffin, and Adam Smith for organizing a wonderful conference on “The American Revolution in a Global Context, 1776-1826" at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University. And the dinner at Queen's College certainly added to the experience 😋

I'm hugely confused.

The second episode of the two-part Rothermere American Institute "Last Best Hope" podcast on the Declaration of Independence, with me, Lige Gould, Grace Mallon, and others, hosted brilliantly by Adam Smith. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/article/why-...

"alive in some form...."

Happy International Women's Day, which, as per tradition, coincides with International Men-Asking-When-Is-International-Men's-Day Day. 🎈

Banjo vs Billy in shelf-space face-off.

Grotius is dead?

My talk on "The Original Declaration of Independence" at University College Cork. Thanks to host Clodagh Harrington, to Hiram Morgan too, and all who came along. Thursday 26 February 2026 at 17:05:01 share.google/xQGtYb5u5KSE...

Happy St David's Day!

Keep hearing that the by-election result is a disaster for Starmer and fine, yes, but a near 20,000 combined vote for Labour and Green with just over 10,000 for Reform is pretty much a disaster for the fascists, right?

It was a delight to do this podcast on the Declaration of Independence (The Last Best Hope, Rothermere American Institute at Oxford) with Adam Smith interviewing Lige Gould, me, and others. Part 1 today, Part 2 next week :) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Very happy to be heading to Ireland today for a talk tomorrow on "The Original Declaration of Independence" at University College Cork 😀

Reminder that this happens in Paris today--John W. Boyer Center, U of Chicago. Me, Eric Slauter, et al on a Round Table about the US Declaration of Independence in 1776 and beyond, 5pm onwards. You can register up to 4pm using QR scanner in the poster below. www.eventbrite.fr/e/the-declar...

Good morning from St Cyr au Mont d'Or.

Doesn't look good....

Really enjoyed doing this recording with Clodagh Harrington (UC Cork) and Alex Waddan (U of Leicester) for their A Chicken in Every Pot podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

Lovely sky in St Cyr tonight :)

Extremely looking forward to going to University College Cork for a book talk--the Irish launch of The Course of Human Events :)

Oh my goodness. Rest in Peace, Jesse Jackson. Saw him speak twice and he was mesmerising (in a good way) 😢

Very much looking forward to this Round Table on "The Declaration of Independence in 1776 and Beyond" at the John W. Boyer Center of the University of Chicago, 41 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris: Monday 23 February, 5pm-6pm. You can register via the link below. www.eventbrite.fr/e/the-declar...

Beautiful weird sky over Lyon tonight.

Off to Oxford tomorrow for UK book launch at the Rothermere American Institute. Long train rides but well worth it.... www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/the-co...

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

Well, that's toold me. I am noow convoonced that I was wroong.

I am being admonished by Billy for having a bath on #Caturday

I'm doing a course this semester about Thomas Paine and tomorrow I'll be talking about his statue in his birthplace of Thetford. So, obviously, I have meticulously prepared an improvisation about the same town's Captain Mainwaring statue and Dad's Army Museum.