Nick Pearce

Ukraine Reaches a Milestone: Making ‘China-Free’ Drones

Ukraine Reaches a Milestone: Making ‘China-Free’ Drones www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

A4 proofs of The Disraeli Myth

In case you were wondering if there was a time when people across the political spectrum used the past to think creatively and constructively about present-day problems, may I present the incontrovertible proof(s)!

Cover of The Disraeli Myth

Thrilled to announce that Dizzy's got his beard back!

Electoral reformers should look beyond proportionality The UK’s political landscape means the electoral system is increasingly in need of review. Dr David Klemperer, IPR Research Assistant, explains why proportional representation isn’t the only …

I've written for the @uniofbathipr.bsky.social blog about why de-alignment and party system breakdown poses challenges for PR as well as FPTP, and why a French-style two-round electoral system might therefore now be optimal for the UK

This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station.

📷 Vyro Media

Iran After Khamenei An interview with sociologist Asef Bayat on the U.S.-Israeli war, democratic opposition to the Islamic Republic, and the country’s uncertain future.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/ira...

Ballymore to Buenos Aires: Spotlight on Midlands links From Ballymore to Buenos Aires: For around 100 years, there was large-scale emigration from Ireland to Argentina.

This is basically my family story. My grandfather was born in Argentina then moved back to rural Longford as a child

But I hadn’t realised that the Longford Argentinians were responsible for Peron!

www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards ahead of the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei - remarkable reporting here by Mehul Srivastava and James Shotter. ie "Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel." www.ft.com/content/bf99...

Repositioning care in economics: concepts, measurement, and policy implications Abstract. Care work, encompassing childcare, eldercare, disability care, household maintenance and emotional support, sustains the human capabilities upon

Repositioning care in economics: concepts, measurement, and policy implications url: academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

I wonder if he'll stop being to complain all over the place about economic policy everywhere being done wrong.

In fact........

......might we say......

.......that we've heard.....

.....the last of the Summers whine?

I'll get my coat.

Long Ling · Diary: Divorce, Beijing Style My husband and I agreed to divorce on the Minor New Year, the day that marks the beginning of preparations for the...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Fascinating. I now fear the Kitchen God.

Black and white photo of young people in a protest crowd in West Bromwich, 1979 Young black man in the centre with a short afro with bleach streaks is holding a large sign on a long stick which reads "NO TO NAZIS IN WEST BROMWICH 28 APRIL 4PM HARDWARE ST MASS PICKET OF NF" (National Front) Young white man with close cropped hair has his arm protectively around the sign holder and a defiant grimace on his face Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979. Photo © Virginia Turbett, all rights reserved https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/virginia-turbett-uk-protests-1970s/

British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979.

Photo © Virginia Turbett

via @britcultarchive.bsky.social
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Radio 3 in Concert - Víkingur Ólafsson performs Adams - BBC Sounds The Philharmonia is joined by Víkingur Ólafsson to perform John Adams's new Piano Concerto

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... I was lucky enough to be at this concert. After the wonderful Adams piano concerto, listen (32 mins in) to Olafsson’s exquisite Air on a G String encore.

We’re hiring a Policy Engagement Manager!

We’re seeking a Policy Engagement Manager to strengthen and enhance engagement with #PublicPolicy across the University of Bath’s research portfolio.

🔗 www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

#PolicyJobs #HigherEducation #ResearchImpact #JobVacancy

Inside Ukraine’s ‘kill zone’ Drones are reshaping the frontline with Russia — and the future of warfare

ig.ft.com/ukraine-kill...

Remarkable report on drone warfare - on what Ukraine endures and how it fights.

Welsh comrades, led by South Wales National Union of Mineworkers, are currently in Ukraine delivering vehicles and aid and meeting Ukrainian trade unionists (pictured). And we have another USC delegation going on Friday.

Please contribute to help fund the aid: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-uk...

Once reviled, now celebrated, London’s Southbank Centre is a genuine civic wonder The cultural complex’s national importance has belatedly been recognised

www.ft.com/content/93a0... Once reviled, now celebrated, London’s Southbank Centre is a genuine civic wonder.

Also a Review of Habermas Is Habermas a titan of recent philosophy or a stodgy academic lacking a burning political vision?

"At the core of both books is a portrait of Habermas as a philosopher whose traumatizing experiences forged a strange beast: an ultra bookish and still ultra worldly thinker. This remains true of him no matter how many volumes he produces on Christian scholasticism."

Flavor Flav watching Women's Skeleton at the #WinterOlympics is not a phrase I ever saw myself saying

This is big positive news, a true turning point on global emissions :-)

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Look what's arrived! It seems crass to be talking about it after everything that's happened this week, but I think my new book on the Blair years is fair, balanced and judicious. Available at all good bookshops: www.amazon.co.uk/New-Labour-B...

The Long Goodbye: A California Couple Self-Deports to Mexico Enrique Castillejos and his wife, Maria Elena Hernandez, raised a family in California. But they were undocumented immigrants, and after President Trump’s crackdown began, they decided to return to Me...

The Long Goodbye: A California Couple Self-Deports to Mexico www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I just re-read, for the first time for years, the memoir I wrote for the British Academy for Jerry Cohen, shortly after his sudden, shocking, death in 2009. Here it is a Word file for those who don't have access to the British Academy volume.

www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctyjow/CPB...

FT: #Pompey 3-0 WBA

🔵 Chaplin
🔵 Alli
🔵 Adams

🤩 Excellent win against a poor Baggies side. Let’s have your thoughts! #PO4cast

📸 Jason Brown

Let's all take a moment to stop and drink a toast to the wonderfulness and luminosity of Catherine O'Hara. Here's to her.

City Talks: Perspectives on Place - Centre for Cities Andrew Carter is joined by Professor Will Jennings to discuss his latest paper Perspectives on Place: what the English think about their local area.

Good morning! If you want to hear more about place, towns and high streets - and the findings from my recent report - this podcast with @andrewcities.bsky.social @centreforcities.bsky.social is now available to listen to...

He was acting First Minister twice and quipped that he would get to keep the title if he held it a third time.

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!

Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!