It’s unusual to see an organisation see Conquest’s second law - that you can explain organisations’ behaviour by assuming they are controlled by their enemies - embraced so enthusiastically and literally
30.11.2025 11:29 — 👍 71 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 0
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SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
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Now out on First View!
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The IfG's public service performance ratings, October 2025
NEW | Public Services Performance 2025
The government has high ambitions for public services. But with patchy progress, it needs to get a grip to make a success of its reforms.
Read the final instalment our our annual stocktake of nine key services www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
19.11.2025 10:40 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Charlotte! 😁
18.11.2025 13:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust
Woop! I've got a new article out with @modamhist.bsky.social!
"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
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18.11.2025 11:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Opinion | I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.
"Tech encourages the instrumentalization of emotional life, by which I mean that our feelings seem real only if they translate into actions that help us achieve specific goals." How technology is slowly killing our humanity...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
12.11.2025 08:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
10.11.2025 18:40 — 👍 4132 🔁 1322 💬 76 📌 84
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Bill Bailey's message to Metallica
I bet you didn't know what you needed on this Friday was Bill Bailey playing Metallica's Enter Sandman on a set of classic car horns
youtu.be/98xNx87hRbU?...
07.11.2025 11:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Also, I never answered your Q about the books my second years are reading... Wharton, _The Age of Innocence_; Doctorow, _Ragtime_; Hurston, _Their Eyes Were Watching God_; Williams, _Stoner_; Roth, _The Plot Against America_ ... all catnip for history buffs
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In just three years, powered by AI craziness, Nvidia's has gone from a value of $400bn to becoming the world's first $5 trillion dollar company
on.ft.com/4odIaZc
29.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'd love to have that kind of resilience. I'm basically non-functional after a slightly disappointing night's sleep
28.10.2025 08:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'A completely “average” character would be able to take... 30 “hits” of damage in the chest (30 “hits” capacity) from a high-powered rifle and have it count as a “slight” injury (less than or equal to the body area’s hit capacity) and thus have no effect on combat performance.' 😬
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Congrats! Nice piece!
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Vorasidenib is the first, and right now the only, drug that has been shown to slow tumour progression. MHRA has approved it, FDA has approved ... it's just NICE that's refusing. Without it, "life becomes a cycle of MRI scans, surgery and years of uncertainty about when their tumour will progress."
23.10.2025 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sign the Petition
Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
500 signatures reached for this petition to reverse NICE's vorasidenib decision - please RT/sign so we can raise the volume on this
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23.10.2025 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
Petition: Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
Please read and think about signing
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20.10.2025 22:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
😂😂
19.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seen at Russell Square today
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Nigel Farage says"gotta shoot" down Russian jets | The Mishal Husain Show
I've had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mishal Husain three times. One of the most intelligent and accomplished people I've ever met.
Here's Nigel Farage trying to shut her down with the words "Listen, love ..." like it was still the 1970s. I'd say it was unbelievable, only it isn't.
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It’s me! Playing with my glasses and saying smart stuff!
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My autumn chilli haul is starting to look like a military arsenal!
15.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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