Vikram Visana

Relatable. Also Railroad Tycoon 2. Gaming peaked.

Second tattoo idea. Pending. Don’t have enough money or the pain threshold for it yet. But it’s the coolest representation of Kali I’ve seen so far.

To be a columnist at the Times is to be paid a large sum of money to write a paragraph as absurd as this

At least back to 1979.

Midlife crisis still in full swing 😅

This is great

India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups There are fears the crackdown against ‘outsiders’ is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guards

Ethnonationalism always means the othering and persecution of citizens who don’t fit the bigots’ idea of nationality.

Turns out if you cut, cut, and cut some more you start to experience problems

Netanyahu speaks of regime change in Iran. But it’s not the same as regime destruction Israeli president has no interest in Iran’s future beyond weakening and destabilising a regional rival

I'm sure we're going to have earnest interviewers asking the question "Does Iran have the right to exist?" and interrupting to demand yes or no answers as soon as their respondent starts to make a few distinctions. Aren't we?

Kathleen Stock turning into a firebreathing anti-choice campaigner is one of those things that was in retrospect both entirely predictable but is also just so funny to witness

She clearly thinks we’re absolute trash…

My experiments with mullets are at an end. Much to my husband’s relief 😅.

Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: the deceleration of crises in late modernity ‘Crisis’ is a word of ancient coinage whose purchase in modern politics is frequently taken to be diminished in discourses of ‘crisis pessimism.’ This pessimism argues that the proliferation of ‘cr...

Check out this fascinating new article:

Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025)

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Shambolic. If teachers can use AI to mark, why can’t students use AI to write? And here we go: students not doing the work and teachers not doing the marking. Why don’t students not bother to go to school and teachers can stay at home? How about we all don’t get out of bed in the morning?????

On what planet is it rational to spend that much more on infrastructure while British universities go bankrupt? Zero joined up thinking from these people.

Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

UK prioritises health and defence as other budgets face squeeze Chancellor is set to give NHS a 2.8 per cent real-terms rise in annual day-to-day spending over three years

There are risks to going “the big thing we need to do in the first term is fix the NHS” and there are risks to going “let’s just have New Labour’s first term record on the NHS with an older population and a worse inheritance”, but a comparatively meagre NHS increase and cuts elsewhere: 🥶

Prioritise growth by cutting core research funding. Because as everyone knows core research doesn’t do anything for growth 🙄

Quite frankly amazed at any academic actually producing research in a climate where we’re all just trying to not get shit canned as our colleagues around us drop like flies. Not a dig - just genuinely amazed.

The cover of the book with an image of Naoroji

Now online! @tanroopsandhu.bsky.social (@qmul.ac.uk) reviews "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" in the series Global South Asians (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2022) by @vik1004.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If only University management put half as much effort, time, and resources into lobbying Government as they did in trying to cut staff and programmes, we wouldn’t still be in this mess.

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Thanks Tanroop for this very thoughtful and generous review.