When I hear Trump declare a “complete victory”, I’m reminded of the time the USA played England in a football match.

End of an era. Martin's last regular column for the Grauniad.

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Financial Aid and Study Opportunities for Palestinian Students

A list of around sixty institutions/scholarships etc offering financial support for Palestinian students to study at undergraduate, MA and PhD level

A tremendous compilation by Dr Tom Walsh & other academics

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Financial Aid and Study Opportunities for Palestinian Students

A list of around sixty institutions/scholarships etc offering financial support for Palestinian students to study at undergraduate, MA and PhD level

A tremendous compilation by Dr Tom Walsh & other academics

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A perpetrators peace with colonial terms and conditions

Farewell the Responsibility to Protect? False death, grave crisis, future opportunities Is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm dead? Critics of R2P have focused on its lack of influence upon recent humanitarian crises. Exploring the false

Latest article (open access) argues R2P norm death narrative is problematic for both critics and defenders of the norm

academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

The U.S., reduces funding to the United Nations (UN). The UN scales down peacekeeping in countries such as the Central African Republic which undoubtedly increases the risk of mass violence

If governments were genuinely committed to mass atrocity prevention they would plug the gaps left by the U.S.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lectureship in Political Theory Are you a political theory academic with an open and inclusive approach to the discipline? Are you passionate about delivering an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group U...

Job: the University of Leeds is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Political Theory to a fixed-term position for 12 months. Closing date Friday 11 July

It’s a warm, friendly, respectful working environment in a diverse & vibrant city.

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

In one year, the number of Brits seeing the US as a threat to world peace has doubled

US strikes only delayed Iran’s nuclear progress, says intelligence report Leaked assessment casts doubt on Trump’s claims to have ‘obliterated’ facilities

This is how you get distorted intelligence assessments, where dissenting analysis is deterred or suppressed. Hegseth: “anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the president and the successful mission” www.ft.com/content/023c...

If international law was a place, Trump would bomb it

Bombs #Gaza

See the article “Organised Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War” by Sinisa Malesevic and Lea David in the Journal of Genocide Research, 2025, pp.1-25

I didn’t know they were/are best friends. Even ‘Joe’s’ vegetables won prizes. A fitting tribute.

Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One. Is the Yale historian a prophet, as his supporters say? Or is he stripping the word ‘fascism’ of its meaning?

Great read
www.thefp.com/p/timothy-sn...

I missed this post last week as I was busy falling down & fracturing my arms & ankle (!) but pleased to finish Z before the accident

Huge thanks to @mybisa.bsky.social for the support. I’ll add some comments from the public below, academics should def do these things more

A proud moment as one of my former phd students publishes a new open access article . .

X for X article (socialism v capitalism). YouTube video by Adrian Gallagher

The A-Z series in international politics (online for free) rumbles on to X for the X article

youtube.com/shorts/5uAAs...

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

As Duterte was arrested last week, my former co-author @euanraffle.bsky.social wrote a thread. I posted a video about his arrest on TikTok & had around 70 angry messages from the public in the Philippines telling me Duterte is the best leader the country has ever had. Says a lot about populism.

Thank you to @mybisa.bsky.social for the on-going support. I think the series has had around 500,000 views across all platforms & I’d be happy to run a public engagement workshop for those interested.

Nothing to worry about, I'm sure.

Humbled. For those interested in the data. Q for Queer Theory generated 4,600 views on Instagram with 39 comments.

FYI: I do include ‘books to read’ on Instagram but they aren’t on the YouTube videos shared by BISA because of YouTube’s copyright threshold.

On World Book Day, the first ever book from the Central African Republic translated into English

Co-wives, Co-Widows reflects the struggle for justice that two women face when their husband dies.

It would make a nice gift & one hopes, would help authors in the Central African Republic.

Farewell the Responsibility to Protect? False death, grave crisis, future opportunities Is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm dead? Critics of R2P have focused on its lack of influence upon recent humanitarian crises. Exploring the false

My latest article, 'Farewell the Responsibility to Protect? False death, grave crisis, future opportunities', is now out in International Affairs. Thank you to the team at IA, reviewers and those that offered comments along the way.

May interest those at #ISA2025

academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...