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It’s the same process that happened elsewhere in Europe, so no reason to think the UK is that different (despite smug belief that we are). @valentimvicente.bsky.social wrote about that normalisation process (from people sharing some racist beliefs that are marginal to said beliefs becoming central)

Oh definitely. But I also saw how “being online” hasn’t been entirely good for certain colleagues either. It’s weird to see how being “too online” actually poisons their being.

I think there’s an idea that “everything that’s more effective should be cheaper,” but that’s also often… false? I think the reason non-renewables have been so popular is because they’re cheaper. Bad things are often cheaper.

Yeah. But why would renewables be cheaper though?

I don’t think the general public cares much. Media coverage of the academic crisis is what it is because most people consider academics to be people who got a good deal despite not really doing any “work.” I don’t know how that can be changed, but that’s kinda where we are?

Nothing to see here folks, just a radicalised far-right charlatan (who is still seen as a serious scholar by chunks of the media), now going full racial purity.

I’m trying not to make it about me, but still looking at it and thinking: “oh yeah, he means me, right? I’m the Mischling.”

I had the same thoughts back then. I think it’s partly that for many, he was not that different to other “patrician” academics (like Robert Tombs) who had gone down the same path of radicalisation. I also think that many just tried to ignore him and did not realise it just gave him more visibility.

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But that’s always the thing: less essentialising means more tedious thinking about exact words (which should be our job, actually).

Yup, I feel that with writing media it’s just about finding the right verb that doesn’t make it actually look like a newspaper thinks. I find it much worse with nations, because it actually foster what I see as dangerous thinking (and easily avoidable, even though it means less clickbaity writing).

I know this type of writing usually comes from a desire to critique a government / social norms, but it’s actually really corrosive to scholarly writing? I already deal with students who read newspapers that use that language and feel like generalising about “nations” is ok. I don’t want more of it.

Might be me being petty, but one thing I hate with lots of humanities research is when someone both pretends to challenge categories of The Nation and simultaneously uses sentences like “France published” as if France were… a person with individual agency? so actually reifying national categories?

It's a mark of what's gone wrong with British politics that it's regarded as some kind of career-ending humiliation when a govt has to make concessions to Members of Parliament.

We'd be much better governed if MPs found their backbones more often, & govts routinely had to respond to their concerns.

Why anyone wants to live close to their parents is not something I’ll ever get (and might be saying more about me than anyone else here).

Zohran Mamdani stuns Democratic establishment in New York mayor race Early results point to upset win for the leftwing candidate over former governor Andrew Cuomo

Think the lesson here globally is very simple: don’t run candidates who are regarded as unfit for the office they are seeking.

Ok. What’s all the “we have to learn from NYC” bollocks? Mamdani is as radical as Andy Burnham and is light years behind just about every European city in terms of transformative programme. Can it be that we’re just unable to let go of thinking the US (let alone NY) always “leads” in any way?

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Thing is, he’s not even really in the thralls of middle aged yet. It is sad to be turning instant coffee into a part of your identity at the ripe old age of… only 43.

(Sadly I was expecting the racism, not the instant coffee).

I am old enough to remember the days when Matt Goodwin was still doing real scholarship rather than just spewing racist awfulness. Still, I never thought he’d sink to the depth of the instant coffee rabbit hole?

« Un certain charme » me paraît comme un coup d’auto-conviction réussie 😉

Du coup j’ai ajouté Salzgitter juste pour être malin. Il faut être très motivé pour y trouver du charme.

Faut dire, au moins on n’est pas encore à Bielefeld. Ou Salzgitter.

An unpopular but important analytical truth:

A war can achieve its military objectives regardless of how much one might oppose it and the people who made the decision to wage it.

That doesn't mean it is worth the human, material and political cost.

But not everything is Iraq 2003 or Ukraine 2022.

Could everyone stop with the Iraq War analogies?

This is a different kind of crisis with distinct risks and strategic blunders from the US and its Iranian adversaries. Remaining analytically stuck in the world of 2003 is a sign of intellectual laziness.

Eliminate ChatGPT from the humanities and humanities education

And that means that with the growth of slop and of “wrong sequences,” it becomes less probable that mimicking existing patterns would result in “correct” information.