One paradox of our fragmented politics is that Labour going directly after Reform may make defeat to Reform more likely, if such a strategy alienates progressives who have exit options but doesn’t win any reform voters, who will generally prefer OG Farage to a half-hearted tribute act

If you voted for him, you've done this.

"would" "shows"

They've lost the 9yos

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A poorly thought out, vindictive and completely unworkable policy by Reform UK fell apart the moment it brushed up against reality? I am shocked. Shocked I tell you. It’s almost as though they have, yet again, proven they are not in any way or form a serious party.

For the umpteenth time, this bears absolutely no relationship to law enforcement or border control. This is brownshirt thuggery.

Hi All, Just released my latest free weekend update. The big story of the last month was not the original Russian infiltration near Pokrovsk--but the speed and effectiveness with which Ukraine reacted to it. The Russian military could not do what the Ukrainians did. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

Excellent article about the incoming civil rights nightmare facilitated by the UK’s Online “Safety” Act. US fascists are already trying to use it against free speech. (Annoyingly, the article lacks spaces on either side of dashes, which are thus almost indistinguishable from hyphens.)

One of my least Blueskyist opinions is that there should be more conservatives in academia, as well as the Arts. There should be more liberals and socialists in the military and police, as well as more trans columnists. Intellectual diversity is good in itself, not only for representation reasons

And Portugal announces they are buying French jets rather than F-35s. Great idea to send Vance and Don Jr on a scouting mission as a precursor to a Greenland takeover.

This is wonderful.

Best cover of APSA?

From our latest issue: "Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration" by Humeira Iqtidar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Less than 20 more days until the submission deadline!! Please apply if interested:)

The finest visual demonstration of Brexit that you will ever see.

This is 100% going to be used to put ICE agents outside polling stations in areas where they want to suppress the vote.

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky. @xphijournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/xphi... Please share!

My review of Sir Nicholas Clegg's new book, 'How to Save the Internet', in today's @thetimes.com. Unpaywalled link. www.thetimes.com/article/b68c...

If you’re a PhD student working on politics, philosophy and/or economics, consider applying for the KCL PPE grad conference! The form can be found here: forms.office.com/e/ZC0MXYhMVk

The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.

A fundamental challenge for the BBC is threading itself into the lives of the next generation. Why? Because, as I set out in my chapter for 'The BBC: After the Licence Fee' 🧵:

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Vitally important thread.

As JD Vance demonstrates, the far-right does not learn lessons from history (because it doesn’t know it); it simply retells it according to their own vibes (intuitions are too intellectual) and get away with it because because so many journalists do not know enough.

On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a 600 km long human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to leave the Soviet Union and Communism.

That’s fine with me!

We’re hiring—one year post in Ethics—urgent—deadline this time next week www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/122985-...

Here is what I fear: The UK, and not Germany or France, will be the next epicentre of radical right government in a major European country. Why? A unique combination of electoral system, lack of constitutional checks & balances, total capitulation of the center-right & failure of the centre-left.

Russia is bombing Ukraine right now. Threat of Russian ballistic missiles attacking Ukraine right now. Is this how you try to convince the world that you want peace? Russia thinks we are fools. But hopefully no one is falling for it … Russia is an aggressor state. Facts not fools!

A very exciting new John Locke find by @davidrarmitage.bsky.social now published in the @historicaljnl.bsky.social!

'Locke argued that linen manufacture ‘should not be put into the management of a Company’ because ‘the Greediness of gaine, occasions stock jobbing’.' David Armitage: Discovering a new manuscript by John Locke

if you're British, I strongly suggest doing what I just did and registering a formal complaint with the BBC about this, and about the editing of the remarks. Absolutely disgusting failure to defend their speakers or basic values.

That would definitely work… 🤣🤣🤣

I made this comparison when Palestine Action was first banned - and I've yet to hear any rationale for distinguishing between the two contexts. IMHO a telling comparator when it comes to measuring the illiberal turn in Western politics.

Methods of Analytic Philosophy, open source: philpapers.org/archive/HORA... #philosophy

✨CfP✨ Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies 12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025 @rosariolopez.bsky.social

The situation in many UK universities is awful, but the news coming out of Lancaster is especially bad: 1/4 jobs to go, with senior management either leaving or not taking a pay cut. Please sign and share this petition to support colleagues there: chng.it/X6g46TjMSC

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

I'm very excited and proud that my dept @kingsdh.bsky.social is hosting this major conference in 2026. There are many streams of DH, some old, some new, and I've always believed that the future of the field is dialogue between them. This landmark event will do that www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

For the 248th day in a row, Rustaveli Avenue is blocked in Georgia. ✔️🇬🇪 Protests continue in 8+ cities. ✊ Freedom to political prisoners. Down with the Russian regime.

According to the just-released Google Scholar Metrics 2025, if you care about people citing your work, you could do worse than publishing in EJPT, fwiw:

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths. This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻 A little background 🧵 1/ yle.fi/a/74-20174831

We desperately need to get more savvy about the value judgements that suffuse all science. This is especially true of social scientists. And even more true for anybody who wants to comment on policy issues. Please at least dabble in philosophy of science, eg: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Journal of Political Philosophy is dead. Long live Political Philosophy!