President Catherine Connolly has warned that the world is drifting towards a “might is right” approach to global affairs, as she delivered her first address abroad at an international summit in Barcelona
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Rumours zine back cover
Queer Map of Margate from zine
Front cover of zine ‘Rumors’ - person posing
Zines
Teaching today with the Dan Thompson Collection @kent.ac.uk Special Collections - students on the MA module Activism & Adaptation spent some time thinking about zines as reparative artefacts #Zines #Margate #queer
Who is actually going to say that this is detrimental to British interests?
Good luck!
We have a Teaching Fellow in Classical Language and Literature (Latin) job that is now open; fixed term from Sept 26 to June 28. Deadline is tight (24th April). The post covers a colleague's career break. There's some team teaching with me; happy to answer any questions folks might have.
Greens making a habit of taking on Reform - and winning!
Robert Jenrick came to visit - as did Emily Thornberry. And their vote share both dropped.
Huge congratulations to the entire Green Party team. People power wins the day once again! 💚🙌🏽
There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.
You are being lied to
Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities?
I make beautiful indexes (yes, such a thing does exist!)
I have space to take on 1-2 additional projects in April/May. Get in touch!
PM Sanchez with all the great lines:
“Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket.”
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash.
Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do?
Suspend US bases on UK soil now.
Picture of Canterbury cathedral in the sun - my home office view
Good morning! This week is a lot of marking for me and trying to get writing projects sorted in the evening. Hope everyone has a productive week! #ukhighered #acwri
Happy birthday!
Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith mostly in this essay.
A child with a hot cross bun stuffed in his mouth
This would be me
Wow the penal laws weren’t designed to persecute Catholics. That is hand washing on an industrial level.
Thank you!
Lives and Adventures 2 Irish Men and the Eighteenth-Century Novel DECLAN KAVANAGH If novels by and about women in the eighteenth century initiate a new literary form for the exploration of interiority, the opposite case might be made for many of the novels by and about Irish men. The long-held belief that the eighteenth century inaugurated a new language of interiority or subjectivity associated with the joint rise of empiricism and the novel has been challenged by scholars such as Jonathan Kramnick who argue that for many writers in the period, the 'ostensible privacy or interiority of mental states is often not at issue' in their writing.' More particularly, the precarity of the novel-reading (and -writing) classes in Ireland, and their awareness of living in a culture in which definitions of a 'gentleman' were dangerously unfixed, seemingly produce literary forms that are constantly veering towards the unstable and anti-mimetic territory of satire, allegory, and the picaresque. One of the best known such works by an Irish writer (if not actually set in Ireland) is Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759-67); unique as it might appear, it sits in a context of other works by Irish writers of the period.* Novels by Anglo-Irish men in the eighteenth century, more often than not, disrupted the very project of bourgeois masculinity that the new literary form of the English novel promulgated as the century progressed." Any survey of Irish men and the novel in eighteenth-century Ireland must thus begin by qualifying what is meant by Irish' and what is meant by 'the novel'. The designations of 'Irish' or "Anglo-Irish' have a contested history both in the historical context of eighteenth-century Ireland and in its ancillary scholarly field of Irish eighteenth-century studies. As James Ward articulates in his essay Irish and Anglo-Irish Writing' (2024):
Proofs! Forthcoming chapter in *The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel* amongst stellar company & excellently steered by Prof Chris Morash. I’ll be doing these with some Easter chocolate to power me through #IrishLiterature #Novels #speirgorm #GulliversTravels
awful discrimiantion against people with disabilities, we need to fix this by mandating black boxes for every driver under 30. and then fix that discrimination by mandating black boxes for every driver. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Council tax increase - yikes! And I thought reform would bring council tax down in Kent? #ukpolitics
BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees.
Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out.
It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.
For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country.
The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so.
I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.
Me: I'm going to be so productive today
Me an hour later: I can't cope with any of this 🫠
Too late as always. The propaganda effect is complete. Thousands of voters will believe that Muslim men’s coercion swung the vote and corrupted “our” democracy because false allegations were reported. This is how right-leaning media have rolled the pitch for Reform.
news.sky.com/story/politi...
if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have
Is it not news-worthy…
That an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler was allegedly held in detention for 10 hours
Tortured by Israeli soldiers using burning cigarettes and nails
All to force a confession from his father?
Look at him
Because our press will rather you didn’t.
"The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans men in prisons has the aim of preserving their fertility."
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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