VERY IMPORTANT. The Paul Foot Award is free to enter, insanely credible and career-enhancing and judged impeccably fairly and on merit.
This is how to enter www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/pau...
I've been struggling with how to express my dismay at the war coverage by our top newsrooms, and how it dances around the central fact that Trump is deranged and unfit to command. I finally wrote something. Please read it. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...
Athlete, arboriculturist, philanthropist, teacher, poet … and MP – find out more here about the varied career of William Henry Hyett, who died #OnThisDay 1877: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/s...
New Swingometer! With the dust settling after the seismic Green victory two weeks ago, I take a look at the implications of this historic by-election for the local and devolved elections now less than two months away: open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
With Trump openly threatening to commit war crimes on a historic scale, I am making this piece I wrote last November free. It hypothesizes that the future of war will be a combination of ranged fires and war crimes. It has come faster than expected. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
What I've learned in 45 years of reporting on the military.
And why that makes the current reckless folly even worse than it looks.
(Most before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com/p/the-arroga...
Really interesting re Reform's benefits messaging that Reform tend to overperform in seats ranked higher for worklessness and Greens in seats with more in-work poverty. By @warringfictions.bsky.social
And you can read the whole review on Substack too.
substack.com/@rostaylor24...
Presentation I gave for the Warsaw Spatial Humanities Seminar on Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social as an example of applied Deep Mapping is now live on Vimeo vimeo.com/1161792658
Delighted to contribute to this special issue and hats off to Naomi Lloyd-Jones for organising such a great conference and being a fab editor!
This is really worth reading, not least as it highlights how the 'Hero Voter' idea has been twisted beyond all recognition in most commentary and Westminster briefing.
Finally, you can also see and hear our former Director, Professor John Beckett outlining the contribution and context as part of the 2017 conference held @ihr.bsky.social, London’s women historians: a celebration and a conversation, discussing these women, here: #Skystorians
And, thanks to @amalexathorn.bsky.social and @beyondnotables.bsky.social, you can learn more about Eliza Jeffries Davis and many of our early women contributors here:
The single most succinct, true, honest summary of our time & task. From @barackobama.bsky.social. No-one can say it any better.
To quote Michelle: When they go low, we go high.
[speech at Jesse Jackson's funeral service]
After eight days of this war, here is my essay for @prospectmagazine.co.uk about Benjamin Netanyahu's politics of war, with no end in sight
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
LSE librarian @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating 100 years of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
@fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @whitproject.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones.
Russia helps Iran track American forces.
And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil.
Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.
This Women's History Month we are highlighting the long history of female involvement in Parliament and politics.
Below, Dr Kathryn Rix overviews the political involvement of women in the years leading up to some women gaining the right to vote in 1918.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WHM
All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"
From September last year...
It's about ethos, as Henry Drucker explained in 1979.
Plans to make refugee a status of perpetual limbo will do nothing to stop people who need help seeking it nor make it possible for them to rebuild their lives and contribute. I call for humane and effective asylum reforms because I am true Labour, not blue Labour. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
I love the cover image for this special issue (which I may have had a hand in choosing). It shows 11 survivors of Peterloo assembled at Failsworth near Oldham in 1884 in support of parliamentary reform, and speaks to many of the themes contained in the special issue.
Over the past eighteen months, the political science consensus on the nature of Labour's vote has been absolutely correct - and yet also completely ignored by pundits and strategists who continue to get it wrong.
This is a serious and seriously reported sounding of the shallowness and hollowness of the Trump war machine’s pretexts for attacking Iran.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...
Congratulations to Fiona McCallion @lsehy.bsky.social for winning our LSE MSc dissertation prize. Her thesis was 'Women, Solidarity and Politics: the Chile Solidarity Campaign
and the Women’s Movement in Britain, 1973-1982'.
On which, I see @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social had a G&D query from a reader yesterday and mentioned "wonderful collection" of political articles.
"Wonderful" - the Guardian
Our #1832AtoZ has reached X. We don’t have any x-ray or xylophone-related posts to draw on, so X is for the mark on a ballot paper. Here’s our post on the first use of the secret ballot at a parliamentary election: historyofparliament.com/2013/08/15/f...
