Liverpool friends - I’m giving this talk on Wednesday!
09.03.2026 12:21
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Liverpool friends - I’m giving this talk on Wednesday!
bro its ok just one more enactment, just one more attempt to master the horror of vulnerability to mass trauma by perpetrating it ourselves, just one time and the repressed will never return again, we fuckin got this bro
It is always worth reading Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi's extraordinary writings on Iran. But this one is particularly urgent. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
This morning in seminar I was explaining to students that a key difference between Enoch Powell and mainstream 1960s Tories was his plan for financing re-emigration. An hour later a student put her hand up and told us all that this had just been announced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Also can anyone recommend anything something and student-friendly written about Britain's postwar relationship with Iran, particularly (but not necessarily limited to) the 1953 coup?
He's literally right, in the sense that Churchill, as Air Minister, was one of the pioneers of indiscriminate arial bombing in the middle east in 1919. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
What if the David Abulafia bot is the Skynet style singularity tipping point? Vast hulking killing machines burning down the earth to source barely coherent content for Spectator columns. Levelling cities to eradicate wokeness. Maybe that already happened some years ago?
What if the David Abulafia bot is the Skynet style singularity tipping point? Vast hulking killing machines burning down the earth to source barely coherent content for Spectator columns. Levelling cities to eradicate wokeness. Maybe that already happened some years ago?
David Abulafia: [ad infinitum] Have you considered prefacing this piece of writing with a slurry of racist diatribes?
Very much looking forward to reading and assigning this - @benjamin-bland.bsky.social's new article on music as a site of racial formation (rather than liberal integration) in modern Britain: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Also can anyone recommend anything something and student-friendly written about Britain's postwar relationship with Iran, particularly (but not necessarily limited to) the 1953 coup?
Labour "shifting left" update: Agreeing to participate in a massive destabilising regional war while, *the same hour* announcing tighter border restrictions to limit future refugees from the same war. Somehow both infinitely barbaric and breathlessly provincial. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
As I knew it would be, it is just so fucking funny reading these posts today. Toeing this line, to the point of alleged electoral fraud, is the tactical equivalent of putting your entire head inside the cannon to make sure its working as the fuse ticks down.
Not to mention flooding the public sphere with nonsense, reactionary sensational garbage about drug decriminalisation.
I have deleted to be safe. The image of the van in the original tweet likely depicts Labour canvasser with a Labour sticker. It could be some crank but its in line with a) Labour's bizarre enthusiasm for committing fraud in this election and b) their absurd hard right recent messaging.
Source seems fairly legit. Also pretty li line with their recent message - that attack video etc… happy to be proven wrong of course I’ll keep an eye on original source x.com/turnleftmedi... a
A political project pitched to a pliant media as one that would fundamentally remake a nation in terminal decline in a ten year phase of government, resorting now simply to repeating "they want to smoke drugs!" in an increasingly panicked voice.
This is slightly more recent. Can't remember if it was written after the transfer or not. www.jstor.org/stable/43917...
Teaching this today. If I had an infinite budget I've always thought the best way to teach students about British archives, power and decolonisation would be to give them 1 million sheets of paper and tell them they have a week to destroy them all with no a trace.
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From @jonathanliew.bsky.social’s thoughtful piece on Goodwin and Gorton and Denton. It is so obvious that the catastrophe of Reform is in part a response to Labour’s desperate lack of political imagination. Farage will be Starmer’s primary political legacy. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
My three year old twenty minutes after I’ve called nursery to say she is too sick to come in, then cancelled all my work meetings.
Two times this week my three year old has done this incredibly adorable, hilarious thing where she wakes up for no reason for the day at 3am.
What America did through ideology, the UK does in order to get a budget projection that we don't even really care about
Congrats Theo great to see this out in the world!
Just published open access in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social
‘Inside the belly of the monster’: The politics of race in Britain, transnational anti-colonialism, and the Black Liberation Front
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That's the long answer. The short answer is he could have said words to the effect that Ratcliffe is a risible racist clown without making any historical claims at all.
I mean my job is not to write press releases for Andy Burnham. But I do think my/our role is, to some extent, to critically interrogate the claims made about the past by senior political officials and the basis made for those claims, right?
