There's also the element of successive governments putting ambitious brown women into the post of Home Secretary to be the front for increasingly xenophobic policies and the Hostile Environment.
Little Teckel pup does good.
This is breaking the fundamental social compact between writer and editor it's like the Red Wedding for people who write for a living
“I do think there is that element of it which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’
No Shabana Mahmood, it's more like "How dare you, a Labour MP, spout far-right white nationalist talking points and remove rights from refugees"
Given recruitment difficulties and losses from disease, George Washington literally mandated smallpox inoculation for all troops in 1777
The only time Middle England is interested in universities and values them properly is when their offspring are making applications, and it’s all they will talk about. The rest of the time we’re a lefty, out-of-touch scandal.
Personally I think "You have one shot at an academic career and too bad if that happens during a world-historical collapse in research funding" is maybe not a great long-term professional incentive structure
I would like a Secretary of Defense who has read one (1) book on the history of warfare; preferably one that discusses the impact of disease on armies.
THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER : une œuvre contemporaine ouvre triomphalement le Festival du Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
"Quinze minutes d’ovation debout récompensent le travail des artistes. Une soirée qui restera dans les mémoires".
More than 70 Minnesota children detained during Operation Metro Surge
ICE detained over 70 of Minnesota’s children - ripping them out of school, forcing them into inhumane detention centers, and traumatizing them forever.
We need to bring all our babies home.
Then, the federal government must repair and restore all the harm they’ve done.
WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?
KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed
ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve
WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question
WARSH: I believe this body certified the election
WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking
you might be surprised by how often Tesla's data recording systems randomly break, fail to function properly, go missing, or are otherwise mysteriously unable to perform their functions precisely when they are needed most
then again, you might not be surprised at all
electrek.co/2026/04/13/t...
honestly i’m really struggling with the shallow acceptance of the michael biopic. from peers even!!!! i feel insane.
More on the state of British academia.
Such cruelty and brutalisation effected through these processes that are dismantling disciplines and universities in the face of governmental indifference
Israeli minister's convoy hits and kills Palestinian boy in occupied West Bank - www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-boy-kil...
Terrifying. Governments need to get a grip of this
Many have expressed alarm at the book’s emphasis on cultural hierarchies and what it calls “regressive” cultures
Palantir has a track record of flagrantly disregarding international law & standards, both in violations of human rights of migrants
That Olly Robbins testimony in full:
"Everyone was at fault. Nobody was to blame"
🙏 Thank you.
15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.
The Maggio Musicale production of The Death of Klinghoffer, directed by Luca Guadagnino is now the point of reference against which future productions will be judged. Gratitude and applause to all involved.
Begging folks with open ended academic jobs not to forget there’s a whole underclass of permanently casualised academics who’ve been facing redundancy as standard for years. 12+ in my case.
I get it’s awful facing redundancy ofc! Just…this isn’t unprecedented for us. It’s the norm.
The trouble with Russia today is that one reads a story like this and thinks "Was it murder?"
"Christ, who suffered for us,
has left us an example of goodness and mercy;
May we all follow in his steps,
and listen only to his voice.
We bring all our prayers in Christ’s name".
#LectionaryPrayers for Easter 4, April 26 2026
YESTERDAY: Farage pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of refugees including those who have been given asylum stays. & he did so on the anniversary -58 YRS AGO-that Enoch Powell delivered his infamous & highly divisive “rivers of blood” speech
www.ft.com/content/b9d9...
Over the past two years, 3,000 Ukrainian children in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, starting from age 14, have undergone military training as part of the teenager program by the Warrior (Voin) center.
We must require ALL data centers and other extremely large corporate users of electricity to generate their own electricity at their own expense If we don't do this, we are either idiots and/or masochists.
In scena 'The Death of Klinghoffer': Prima trionfale per Guadagnino e Renes con la partitura di John Adams
The Death of Klinghoffer (music, Adams; Libretto, Goodman)
