Yuan Yi Zhu

I'm teaching a new course on Chinese foreign policy and it's been some time since I've taught it. Any reading list recommendations?

A Canadian MP has announced a campaign to prevent the expansion of assisted suicide and euthanasia to people with mental illness.⚠️

https://righttolife.org.uk/news/canadian-mp-launches-campaign-to-block-expansion-of-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide-to-people-with-mental-illness

Sorry sorry I was just trying to buy a book from Cambridge University Press.

Pleased to announce that I'll be leading a new SSHRC- funded project on supreme military command authority and Commanders-in-Chief in a historical and comparative perspective.

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Research Assistant - Horizon Europe at Birkbeck, University of London An academic position as a Research Assistant - Horizon Europe is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Jasmine Bhatia at Birkbeck and I are hiring a research assistant for our project on irregular migration, organised crime and European asylum governance. If you're a postgraduate or early postdoc and have an interest in those areas, send us a CV! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT307/r...

Labour to 650 seats if they do this.

What a view. Imagine how many houses you could build here.

What if Sir Keir Starmer promises Dame Esther Rantzen that he will cut welfare? I am trying to be helpful to No 10 here.

Of course I would be a legitimist in Persia as elsewhere!

Although in general people I work with think the realities of the bill are of greater importance than tone policing.

You should have joined our campaign. It's still not too late. I have worked with people I never thought I'd agree on literally anything.

A very mediocre writer who was praised as a genius. I wonder who will be the Shah of our times.

This is the heart of the question. This Bill. Is it safe? No.

Like Disraeli and Salisbury I think patronage is a great thing.

I'm genuinely amused at the idea that more than maybe 5 Tory MPs know who Vermeule is.

I oppose assisted dying precisely because my values are collectivist. I believe we are not just individuals but people who live in community with one another. Mine are the politics of “we” not “I”.

Atchoo!

I think George would be an adornment to the House of Lords. That's nasty?

I'm sorry George but you have piled on so much stwaw on your strawman that I'm having sneezes.

And the progressive tradition always has had an eugenicist element to it.

Shame so many of your MPs have no idea what this means. How many of them do you reckon will vote for Leadbeater and benefit cuts?

As I said in the other place, in substantive terms Diane Abbott (are you allowed to acknowledge her existence these days?) is more of a conservative than Rishi.

As I said in the other place, in substantive terms Diane Abbott (are you allowed to acknowledge her existence these days?) is more of a conservative than Rishi.

You're assuming I think Kit Malthouse is a conservative in any meaningful sense.

But in any case I hope Sir Keir thinks of you in his resignation honours list.

I'm not a partisan on assisted dying. As a matter of fact I have been harsher, if anything, on Tory MPs who voted for this than on their Labour peers. I appreciate that, as the chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, you may not understand that some issues transcend partisanship.

Yes, I thrive on people calling me chink, Colin.

Yes, I thrive on people calling me chink, Colin.