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Prof of International Political Theory at the University of Exeter. Author of Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (new ed), and lots more on anarchy, anarchism, and IR theory. Exeter UCU branch co-chair, UCU Commons, and #lfc.
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Perhaps a good moment to revisit this. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I dunno guys, creating a society which allows our leaders to slaughter millions of people rather than redistribute a little bit of their wealth was probably not a great move

Native American Women Tell Border Patrol To Fuck Off for Harassing Them About Being Citizens.

Some light reading: Graeber and Sahlins, On Kings press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

You have got to be f**king kidding me

We're delighted to share that 2 of our climate researchers have been honoured in the King’s Birthday List! Prof @coxypm.bsky.social‬ has been appointed CBE for services to science & climate modelling. Prof Tim Lenton has been appointed OBE for services to understanding climate tipping points. 1/7

I join all who want Iran to become a flourishing democracy. I join all who want regime change in Iran. I join all who want Gender Apartheid in Iran to end. I join all who want all of this - all of it - without wanton violations of international law & mass civilians casualties.

Iran now has even more of a reason to develop nuclear weapons.

A fascist administration is following supremacist dogma to scapegoat guest-workers and their families. Maybe the solidarity and bravery amongst protesters in Los Angeles and elsewhere is the start of true mass resistance to the MAGA cult. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/13/n...

David, famous for his undisclosed nuclear arsenal

NEW: Florian Wirtz transfer to be completed next week – medical scheduled #lfc

This compares to when Citeh signed De Bruyne. It’ll be that level of game-changing for the team (I hope). Look out, PL. #lfc

Kevin de Bruyne was never the same after he met Wataru Endo. #LFC

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

The NYT likes fascism, it is a fascist enabling organisation.

But it’s the anarchists you need to worry about, says Pelosi

I told you we’d be back

Van Bronckhorst joining our coaching team. Imagine he teaches Kerkez how to do this... 🚀 #LFC

Paying tribute to a legend. 🫶 #LFC

Now available in paperback! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191526/

The most popular thing I did on the old site was telling people about my rejections. Failure and rejection is a big part of academic life. It happens to all of us -- well, at least everyone I know. This thread lists mine and is founded on the hope it helps other people cope better with their own.

The Democrats are fucked. This is childish ignorance

This lively 1912 discussion of Proudhonian social thought, centered on Bouglé's book The Sociology of Proudhon, is excellent, in my view. As the discussion shows, Bouglé was among the first to bring attention to Proudhon's sociological theories, which had been largely overlooked until this point.

BISA, PSA and UACES Open letter to the UK Government: The future of International Studies and funding pressures in higher education

We have some great news this morning - the University of Exeter is now ranked 11th in the UK in the 2026 Complete University Guide league table! www.thecompleteunive...

“No matter what a peaceful protestor may intend, it’s police who are deciding when to use violence and whom to use it against—and nothing we saw this weekend indicates their violence was confined to those who were not “peaceful.”” - @melissagiragrant.com newrepublic.com/article/1963...

Let's fucking gooooooo!

There is no more concrete a guarantee that an autocrat is doing something wrong than when they start whining about paid, or outside, agitators. Erdogan, Putin, Orban, Mubarak etc have all tried it on for size.

The US is on the verge of martial law. In due course, and if he thinks he will lose them, Trump will suspend the mid-term elections. The excuse, as now, will be the “emergency” of illegal migration, possibly combined with terrorism, drugs or disease. Mark my words.

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

‘The language is part of my life’: Gwenno shares songs in Cornish to inspire new generation

The official title of this mighty fine shindig is Forum Future 2050. @radchenko.bsky.social and I have been wasting our Sunday morning reading their programmatic vision and talks and let me tell you, it's wild. Unfortunately, in Russian only, no idea how Musk senior, Jeffrey Sachs, George Galloway

I bet it'd be easier for Americans to see ICE agents as just regular folks if they weren't, you know, wearing black masks and hiding their names and identities from the public out of shame.

Writing '[sic!]' when quoting another writer is the academic's version of the 😂 emoji.

ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾 This was about an hour ago…

Bernie Sanders, with @organizeworkers.bsky.social, is holding a training next Tuesday for you to learn how to organize your workplace 🙌

Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now Should be hitting shelves in October! www.sup.org/books/theory...

That’s three lettuces, in English money

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Words cannot express how overwhelming it feels to announce that I passed my PhD viva today! I am beyond grateful to my wonderful examiners: Pamela Radcliff & @lauracking.bsky.social.

Great - if belated! - news from a wonderful scholar of anarchist feminism and intimacies 👇