Merry Christmas from Rosa, @ppfideas.bsky.social team & me 😍! In the latest episode of the podcast, David & I discuss von Trotta's film "Rosa Luxemburg" & the life and politics of “the most brilliant intellect of all the scientific heirs of Marx and Engels Marx and Engels", as Franz Mehring put it.

Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )

The details of the announcement reveal that Britain is not just rejoining Erasmus, but also the EU internal energy market, a first small step to reversing the economic damage of Brexit: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Official confirmation of the UK rejoining Erasmus+ in 2027. As someone who studied in the UK (though not via Erasmus) very pleased to see this particuarly severing of connection at least partially rebuild:

'I'll play you Donald Trump lying, and the Met Commissioner doing what every patriotic Brit should be doing...' @mrjamesob.bsky.social cautions against 'treachery', as Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Trump's claims about safety under Sadiq Khan last month.

Should what are still called universities just admit that they are no longer that, abolish themselves and reopen as training schools? But simultaneously to create institutions where the uni goal is to displace humans into the sphere of influence of what is great? thecritic.co.uk/the-purpose-...

Nixon speaks of a “twin-pronged assault on Europe from America and Russia”. Europe (once more and still) “caught in a pincer between Russia and America” as Heidegger said in 1935. It seemed easier to understand back then - when the two appeared to be so clearly emanations from a declining Europe.

“The crowd was joyous, excited and mostly over 60.” — And already feuding. Are there any good accounts of the apparent tendency for the rate of party division to rise as you move left? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

I wonder if anyone who is interested in LLMs (@leifw.bsky.social for example) has picked up on Heidegger's remark on machine thinking in Ponderings XIV (pp. 153-4). It's so good.

Typo: should be “reports that the BBC censored” not “accuses the BBC of censoring”. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

We are still buzzing from Tuesday night’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture with Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister (1990–1997) 🇬🇧 🎥 Video and podcast out soon!

Sir John Major gave the Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture at LSE on Tuesday. He did not pull his punches on Brexit, calling it “an act of collective folly” and calling out the timidity of our political leaders who fail to speak out about the damage it has done to the UK, politically and economically.

Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.

John Major yesterday at LSE: 1. “In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to lead to European Union across the world, our enemies celebrated and our friends despair.”1/

Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.

The splicing of Trump’s speech by the BBC is really shitty journalism. The airtime devoted to the Reform agenda on migration by the BBC is really dangerous journalism. #BBC - you are becoming a danger to this country. Lightweight and Lazy. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

Leader editorial in the Independent calls for students to be taken out of migration figures, describing UK government policy quite rightly as “asinine”. www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

Shame on the BBC. Who is the more dangerous? An overpaid racist who should be as invisible as his sense of decency - or the publicly funded news organisation that has utterly lost its sense of public service? #BBC get a grip or you will take our democracy down.

The final was never likely to better India’s win vs Australia in the semifinal - but Harmanpreet Kaur asking the 21 year old opener Shafali Verma to bowl at a very difficult time, when the game was getting away from India, was a match winning leap in the dark. www.espncricinfo.com/story/women-...

I hope the BBC will challenge Nigel Farage today over the economic damage caused by the Brexit he championed. He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.

India chasing down Australia’s 338 total in the Women’s Cricket World Cup was utterly mind-blowing. BlueSky is really rubbish at moments like this…

MBOI to @simonhix.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social @abbyinnes.bsky.social @ygursoy.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @antvalentim.bsky.social @valentimvicente.bsky.social

It’s Marx day for me. Starting here. But what essential element is missing from this picture? Wrong answers welcome - but the right answer wins a copy of my book, “Europe:A Philosophical History” vol 1, in which I set it all out.

📣 Applications to our MSc and PhD programmes are now open for 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆! Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute. 👉 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

After 20 years of involvement with academic studies of Europe, I have just published an article that sets out my view of its mainstream social science formation. I argue that such studies now stand in need of significant reformation. Read for free: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home.” - @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on Conservative proposals to strip people of indefinite leave to remain & deport them www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

This well-known aquatint by Goya came to mind as symbolising where we are right now. It’s called The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.

♻️ Our Assistant Professor @donatodc.bsky.social has co-authored a new article which investigates how European models of capitalism perform and specialise across the green value chain and how national skill formation systems underpin these specialisations. Read more 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

The entirety of Brexit is perverse There was never any rational reason for it to happen But we chose to leave knowing full well what we were leaving behind Only we can choose to fix it

Have you seen The Colossus in the Prado? If you have, then among those you should thank is my dad. It’s his birthday today. Do read a crucial contribution by him that came out a year after he died. He did not live to see it exhibited again. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🇪🇺 We are delighted to announce the launch of "Global Perspectives on Europe" (GLOPE), a Jean Monnet Chair project led by Dr Mareike Kleine @mkleine.bsky.social at the European Institute (2025-28) and co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme. 🔗 Learn more: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Beyond Vienna. -- The "Wittgenstein-Path" in Trattenbach. He used to walk up here to lunch. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria #philosophy

Come along this Tuesday evening to hear a genuinely wonderful philosophical voice for our time. Yuk Hui will be speaking to me about his new book “Post-Europe”. www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

Only just caught up with Peter Ross’s beautiful review. Going by last night’s London gig, 100% true: “His concerts have become acts of thanksgiving for his life and work. Now, as he plays these songs for the last few times, that feeling is ever deeper. People had come to let him know he is loved.”

Edwyn Collins leaves the London stage for the last time. What a night at a sold out Royal Festival Hall.

An evening with Edwyn Collins. A testimonial totally deserved. Unforgettable.

Goethe: A Life in Ideas by @matthewgbell.bsky.social gets a sharp, illuminating review from Ritchie Robertson in @litreview.bsky.social! “Deeply learned, crisply written.” Read it here: literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-light-2

‘Structures designed to diffuse power are utterly inappropriate if the ambition is to deploy hard power.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy first day of the Autumn Term! 🍂 This academic year is an extra special one as we are celebrating LSE’s 130th anniversary 🎂 The theme is centred around LSE’s impact, past and present. Look out for celebratory events, freebies, exciting announcements, and much more from October onwards! 🎉

Very sad to hear about the death of Jonathan Lear. So readable and wise. The quote in this article on mourning is wonderful (even if I might disagree that it is exclusively human). dailynous.com/2025/09/22/j...

I try to keep a measure of respect for people whose views I disagree with. I am rarely confident that there is absolutely nothing whatsoever to be said even for outlooks that look totally off to me. But I have to say I think Farage is genuinely dangerous - and the BBC really needs to get a grip.

One of the best GOP impersonations ever?

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

The problem is that ‘this is not who we are’ is coming to feel a little empirically unconvincing. It might help if the PM actually stood up and made the case for a liberal, tolerant and inclusive country.

Keir Starmer really needs to move away from his strategy of legitimising the anti-immigration hostility. It's unbelievably dangerous.

Objective data show BBC & ITV bias. Reform featured in 49 bulletins between January-July 2025 whereas Lib Dems(with 72 MPs) were in 18% of bulletins, with 35. Reform referenced in nearly 1 in 5 ITV News At Ten bulletins, but 6% for Lib Dems www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

So very sad to hear that my much loved colleague Conor Gearty has died. What a loss to LSE - and far beyond.