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Historian at the University of Warwick Writing a global history of urban disasters for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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Disinformation, blackmail, betrayal. Would a Russian operative in the White House do anything different than Trump and Musk? Ah! Yes… that’s right… www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Andrew Tate’s alliance with Trump has been in the making for a long time www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

🇬🇧 Réunion publique à #Londres en présence d’ @arthurdelaporte.bsky.social, député socialiste #PS, et membre du groupe d’amitié franco-britannique à l’Assemblée Nationale. 🗓️ lundi 24 février à 19h00 🗺️ Mary Ward House, Tavistock Pl, London WC1H 9SN 👉 Inscription: eventbrite.co.uk/e/reunion-pu...

Aussi prévisible que contre-productif… plus son mandat avance, moins Macron se montre à la hauteur des enjeux européens. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

« Aucun mot n’a été prononcé de votre bouche alors que 2 personnes ont été frappées, poignardées et envoyées à l’hôpital. C’est une extrême droite décomplexée qui parcourt aujourd’hui les rues de nos villes. » 🗣️ @pouriaamirshahi.bsky.social interpelle Bruno Retailleau youtube.com/shorts/gYTIc...

i feel like this is evidence for my view that people experience trump through a strong form of ironic detachment. they literally do not perceive him as real.

Peace talks about Ukraine, without Ukraine at the table, are not peace talks. They are imperialist powers, sitting down to carve up the world. Image detail from “En Chine: Le gâteau des Rois et... des Empereurs” Le Petit Journal Supplément Illustré, January 16, 1898. Artist: H. Meyer. #skystorians

Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

Some reporting which offers much needed nuance by contrast to the @newstatesman.com rather curious coverage of the Schools Bill and its opposition. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started. It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians. Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓

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Good advice ⬇️

Insanity! Free University Berlin (FU) cancels lecture by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, after critique from "pro-Israel" actors.

The kids - at least - are alright. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

That Sterling hat-trick at Anfield is going to feel special… www.nytimes.com/athletic/612...

Laurent Joly répond parfaitement au compte-rendu du Figaro qui lui reproche de trop parler de Vichy (et surtout de trop en dire du mal). Cet article confirme à quel point des journaux en principe modérés sont tentés de se rallier à la croisade réactionnaire qui menace de submerger l'Europe.

Scandale en perspective. Il ne faudra s’étonner quand Le Pen nommera le doberman de Wallerand de Saint Just au Conseil Constitutionnel… 🤦‍♂️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

This is a really good piece. And yet more evidence that process-oriented party strategists irremediably fail to offer a coherent ideological response to a coherent ideological challenge. How many social-democratic parties have died or are dying fighting the battle on the enemy's ground? 👇👇👇

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...

Fellowship opportunities!📢 MUP and the Society for the Study of French History have announced TWO book development fellowships for early-career researchers preparing their first book for publication. Includes: - Mentoring from editors - £1000 grant Apply now: tinyurl.com/53amvrv7

🚨History job in the Department of History at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Research Fellowship ‘Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953’ 🗃️ 👇👇👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

"One of the evils inherent in the accumulation of wealth is that it is not necessarily associated with intelligence" G. C. Holland, 1841 🗃️

I recently spoke to a student journalist here @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social about the LA fires, climate change, and the disasters we produce. #disaster 🗃️ theboar.org/2025/01/a-co...

Jesus Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1670, 📸 by @Stuart_PhotoAFC

What a team! What a club! I don’t know what superlatives you need to celebrate Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri at this stage… 🙌🙌🙌 COME ON YOU GUNNERS!!!

Really interesting piece by @amylawrence.bsky.social 👇👇👇 www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...

In retrospect, the timing of the Softbank Stargate announcement is one of the funniest bits a business has ever produced

Une victoire sémantique. Une victoire politique aussi. Parler de « submersion », c’est parler non seulement des migrants mais des étrangers légalement présents sur le territoire. C’est une dérive idéologique majeure.

War as environmental disaster or when acute and slow violences combine to prolong the victimisation of Lebanon. 👇👇👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/w...

EVENT: For the start of our Spring Lecture Series, author and historian Paul Greenhalgh takes us on a journey through the World’s Fairs & Expositions from 1851-2010, their changing formats and ephemeral vistas. 🗓️ Thu 30 Jan 2025, 6:30pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online 🎟️ www.c20society.org.uk/events

Really interesting thread. 👇👇👇

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

So frustrating that Mcsweeney and Labour aren’t courageous enough to take Brexiteers and Farage on. Ask the British people, are you better off since #Brexit? Make the argument; don’t wait till you no longer can make it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#COYG

So my 13-year-old son announced at dinner he wants to study biopolitics at uni. I haven’t worn a turtleneck in 20 years and I have a full head of hair. So do not look at me. This has NOTHING to do with me. Nothing.

Don’t we all, Kemi, don’t we all… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Am I EXCITED??! #COYG #Arsenal

I’ve just done my #eXit! the X exodus is massive. Don't lose any of your followers. Thanks to #HelloQuitX I've registered 7101 new passengers for a journey to #BlueSky & #Mastodon. Join us on app.helloquitx.com and automatically find your communities on #January20!

Hi everyone, can you help one of my students with her MA dissertation? Amy is exploring the motivations, influences & ambitions of those who practice history (from professionals to amateurs, paid to hobbyist). Fill in her survey to add your experience (& please share): forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn

En réduisant l’union de la gauche à l’alignement sur Mélenchon, @francoishollande.bsky.social @nicolasmayernmr.bsky.social se trompent de stratégie et masquent mal le vide sidéral de leur offre politique. Parlez-moi et bossez plus, camarades ! Amitiés socialistes 🌹 www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

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