Pierre Purseigle

Disorientation Is the Point: How Permanent Unpredictability Broke Democratic Politics Chronic uncertainty does not mobilise democratic publics — it paralyses them, and that paralysis is itself a tool of power.

I wrote for Social Europe:

Fear of a known enemy mobilises democracies.
Fear of nothing in particular destroys them.
The most dangerous force in global politics today is the inability to know what comes next and who benefits from that confusion.

#AcademicSky

www.socialeurope.eu/disorientati...

We could certainly do with a more accurate representation of their actual political weight and therefore with greater diversity. I am not sure no platforming is the solution though. We need more robust and systematic rebuttal of their BS arguments.

👇👇👇

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

The cruel stupidity of these “policymakers” is staggering.
👇👇👇

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

Yes, it was uncomfortable and stressful tonight, but this won’t dim my unreserved and irrational support for this team. And why would it? Why?!
🔴⚪️
#uptheArsenal

L’esprit du capitalisme numérique – sur les discours néoréactionnaires de la tech - AOC media Présentés comme figures-clés des « Lumières sombres » et de la politique trumpiste, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin et autres noms de la tech états-unienne saturent le débat public. Que comprend-on en s’in...

À lire 👇

L’esprit du capitalisme numérique – sur les discours néoréactionnaires de la tech aoc.media/analyse/2026...

Des PMU dans leur jus à la vogue du bleu de travail : la ruée vers l’authentique, un nouveau « tourisme social » Popularisés par des « chasseurs d’authentique », les lieux et objets ringards d’hier deviennent hautement désirables. Une quête de vrai rassurante pour la jeune génération, en perte de repères. Mais a...

www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/arti...

In 2022, the world had moral clarity over Russia’s invasion. Now in Ukraine we ask: where has that gone? | Sasha Dovzhyk We could never have imagined such tolerance of Putin’s criminal war. We normalise the horror just to survive, says Sasha Dovzhyk, a writer, editor and cultural manager

h/t @dovzhyk.bsky.social
👇👇👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Philippe Marlière, politiste : « Après le meurtre de Quentin Deranque, la gauche est prise en étau » TRIBUNE. Tandis que la mort du jeune militant d’extrême droite crée un effet d’aubaine pour le RN, qui prétend reprendre le flambeau de l’antifascisme, Jean-luc Mélenchon tourne le dos à l’éthique de ...

A lire. Le dernier papier de @phmarliere.bsky.social
👇👇👇

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

This is what leadership looks and sounds like. A must-watch indeed.
👇👇👇

The Arsenal will win the league. They will.
🔴⚪️

Refuser la violence politique ÉDITORIAL. Le meurtre du militant d’extrême droite Quentin Deranque à Lyon vient assombrir encore un peu plus le paysage politique français et renforce la nécessité d’un sursaut démocratique à quatorz...

Refuser la violence politique

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Urban Catastrophes with Dr Pierre Purseigle

I talked urban history, history of war, and critical disaster studies on the great Warwick History Hour podcast; another excellent project run by our fantastic students.
Give it a listen and subscribe! 🗃️
👇👇👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7kB8...

I'm still looking for editing projects for March and beyond. Most recently, I've worked on a special issue of the Journal of East Central European Studies, a volume on 15th-cent. conquest for Amsterdam UP, and a couple of book proposals. Please RT and email me if your project could be my next! ✍️

You’re privileged enough to watch two of the best football teams in the world and you leave more than 5mn before full-time?!! 🤷

Half-time: 1-0 to the Arsenal.

Back at the home of the World Champions!!!
Come on you Gunners!
🔴⚪️
#ArsenalWFC

Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran : « A qui doit bénéficier l’argent créé par les banques centrales, a fortiori lorsqu’il est gratuit ? » CHRONIQUE. La remise en cause de la rémunération des réserves versée par la Banque d’Angleterre aux banques commerciales, au détriment des citoyens, ouvre un débat qui concerne aussi les pays de la zo...

“La monnaie, la politique monétaire et les banques centrales sont, avant tout, des choix politiques.”
👇👇👇

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
👇👇👇

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

My dear friend Nader alerted me to two Iranian members of the Arsenal family, Aref Jafarzadeh and Amir Housein, who were killed while seeking freedom in Iran. We remember them. ❤️

Arsenal Women celebrate their victory on the podium. Club captains Little and Williamson lift the trophy in front of their ecstatic teammates and supporters.

CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD !!!

Arsenal Women win the Club World Cup!!!
🔴⚪️

www.arsenal.com/sites/defaul...

Baffling. He’s doing his best to validate the case against himself.

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race by Labour ruling committee Decision likely to set off ferocious row between Keir Starmer loyalists and allies of Greater Manchester mayor

Hard to think of a stupidest way to guarantee a leadership challenge.
If you’re not confident enough to campaign successfully within your own party, you cannot hope to win the wider electorate over.
👇👇👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In my view, repression at home and thuggery abroad - most recently Greenland - are two sides of the same coin. Both reflect the worldview of people who think violence, power, threat and coercion are all that's required to push your agenda through & secure your interests.

The Land Worker, journal of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, used striking images - photos, engravings & cartoons - to help get their message across.

On Plough Monday, this short 🧵 shows just a few examples of the plough as a symbol of rural life through the pages of The Land Worker...

Sadly, they didn’t. Thanks anyway.

Not yet. Thanks for your help!

Posted this on FB and immediately got approached by scammers and touts.

Hoping a legit fan will contact me in time.

🔴⚪️