Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾

The EU’s Court of Justice is not just pro-integration – it is politically divided - LSE European Politics New research shows that behind the Court of Justice of the European Union's unified voice lies a politically divided institution.

‘The EU’s Court of Justice is not just pro-integration – it is politically divided’, by @silje-hermansen.bsky.social, Matthew Gabel & Jay N. Krehbiel, for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social.

Every time a player takes a dreadful chipped penalty like that Ouattara one, they should be forced to pay royalties to old Antonín Panenka by way of penance.

Who is Chinatown for? Xiao Ma unpacks the layers of London’s Chinatown. Illustration by Kenn Lam.

'Who is Chinatown for?', by Xiao Ma, for @vittles.bsky.social.

How Chinese Students Transformed British Chinatowns The New Chinatowns. Words by Barclay Bram. Photographs by Chan Yang Kim.

'How Chinese Students Transformed British Chinatowns', by Barclay Bram, for @vittles.bsky.social.

The Seeds of Scotland’s Highland Clearances In the eighteenth century, landlords in the Scottish Highlands began to exert greater control over what their tenants planted and how they planted it. Cat Scothorne shows how these 'reforms' actually ...

'The Seeds of Scotland’s Highland Clearances', by Cat Scothorne, for @historyworkshop.org.uk.

Proper Arsenal, him.

Who is the new Supreme Leader of Iran Mojtaba Khamenei, who was his famous father, how much is he worth, what is he wearing to this weekend’s Oscars ceremony

Her best mate is Sicilian, lol, so yes, multiple times.

Just finished looking at Banglatown and histories of Bengali migration with my Postcolonial London students; next up, legacies of imperialism with my Historical Controversies class. Otherwise, a bit of marking, a bit of writing, a bit of other admin the order of the day.

An idiot (me) driving a boat.

WOKE 2! WOKE 2!

COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

I’m in favour of people parading through London with prominent images of Dionysios to announce the arrival of Woke 2.

Modern French History Seminar

You can also hear much more about the book at my book launch tonight!

It takes place at the IHR in Senate House, from 5.30pm. If you can't attend, you can always watch along online!

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🗃️ #skystorians

Cover of Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 by Morgan Golf-French

My last couple posts have gotten way more traction than usual, so I guess now's the time to say my first book is coming out with OUP in April (ebook) and May (hardback)!

You can pre-order (or ask your library to pre-order) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Genuinely if I was unfamiliar with the show and someone told me it was a big 80s one hit wonder in the US that had just somehow never crossed over to the UK, I’d believe them.

An Accidental Hit 'Begins To Shine' — And Only Because Of 'Teen Titans Go!' In 2005, a group called B.E.R. was commissioned to write a 1980s-style pop song. "The Night Begins To Shine" was unearthed by TV show Teen Titans Go! as a joke; now, years later, it's a Billboard hit.

(The song is obviously real but was written as an 80s-type stock song for WB's music library, and had an elaborate back story invented for it as part of a running joke on the cartoon Teen Titans Go!)

The Night Begins to Shine

One of the greatest fake songs of all time.

#ScholarSunday Thread 266 (3/8/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Not ready to emerge into the "daylight" yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add mor...

Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

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So circa 2002, around the time A Little Deeper was released, I remember one of the jingles being “Miss Dynamite, we wish you would just blow up! Here on Virgin Radio we only play Real Music.”

Younger Gerry Adams.

“I am not and never have been a member of the Inflation Reduction Act.”

I find the geographic decontextualisation of social media at its most amusing when I have to do a double take at an American’s post about the Inflation Reduction Act (acronym).

“What’s to be done about the Sudetenland? We ask former Kaiser Wilhelm II.”

Tony Blair: 'West should focus on radical Islam' Tony Blair warns Western leaders they must put aside their differences with Russia over Ukraine to focus on the threat of Islamic extremism.

How’d this one turn out, oh great sage?

When Saint Tony makes a foreign policy intervention

Semi automated offside because someone's shoulder is ahead of the last defender.

Did the merciful father judge the prodigal son so?

Was there a part of Lewis Brunt's body that he could score with ahead of the last defender? Geometrically yes. But what about spiritually? Draw all the lines you want, but no freeze frame ever showed the precise positioning of one's soul.

Offsides should be awarded or not entirely based on moral considerations. 'Was the player truly offside in their heart or not?' is the only question the officials ought to wrestle with in reaching a decision.

Reactionary Feminisms with Jilly Kay part 1

'Reactionary Feminisms (Part 1)', w/ @jemgilbert.bsky.social & Jilly Kay, on the Culture, Power, Politics.

Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Jie-Hyun Lim interviewed by @ginsengamericano.bsky.social about his book, 'Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age', for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

When the Spurs Go Marching Down Tottenham are facing up to the threat of relegation, but what happened last time they went down? How did they go from the Uefa Cup final to Division Two in three years?

'When the Spurs Go Marching Down', by @jonawils.bsky.social.