William Carruthers

Reading this and reminded, among other things, of the point where many people genuinely thought that the Prime Minister was about to die

Every time I walk past Tower Bridge I think of this cursed film

Have once again turned down the free upgrade to Windows 11 and am wondering how much longer I can hold out

What does it mean ‘to jailbreak’ them exactly?

University management suddenly getting very excited about the one remaining poet in the English dept

Having lived in a Victorian semi for six years now I’m starting to get eager to leave for these reasons

Covid Inquiry finds Cummings created a culture of fear and likely contravened the SPAD code.

Gary 'Mani' Mounfield of Stone Roses dead at 63 - latest tributes The musician rose to fame with the Stone Roses in the 1980s

Holy heck, Mani from the Stone Roses has died.

#JobAlert 📯

📢 Das Deutsche Historische Institut London sucht

zum 1. April oder 1. Mai 2026

zwei Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (w/m/d) (2. Qualifizierungsphase)

🔍 mit einem Forschungsinteresse
• in der britischen Geschichte des späten 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts
und/oder
1/3

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He is so reminiscent of so very many deeply unpleasant people I have come across—the thin skin is the ultimate giveaway

(No offence to anyone speaking out, but it is really unsurprising.)

Farage was a public school bully SHOCKER

Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72

Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Find it hard to believe that there’s a single person in the UK who doesn’t know someone who’s had to deal with immigration rules here now. Which is one reason why the government should be being a lot more positive about immigration.

for comparison (and it's not a direct comparison): when my wife arrived here at the start of 2016, they added a third language test but you only had to do it if you'd arrived within 6 months of it being introduced. expanding that out to "major rules can change inside of a 5 year period" is very bad

We went through the looking glass a long time ago, I think

Or, um, food delivery apps suddenly becoming a social good

Get them, MacArthur Fellow Jeffrey Miller

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

Horrifying and true

The irony that world ‘cultural’ heritage wouldn’t exist without global environmental destruction and extraction

The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.

Annoyingly, does not require updating

Key points include:

High exit rates among carers and early to mid-career workers: Professionals aged 35 and under are significantly more likely to leave & Those with caregiving responsibilities - often women - face disproportionate challenges of low pay, out-of-hours work and limited flexibility.

If my group chats are anything to go by, Treasury briefing "we're going to end the cycle to work tax break that enables people to buy a large family-sized e-bike" has done more than any other advertising campaign to boost the uptake of family-sized e-bikes. Sales must be through the roof this week.

The Bilbao effect

Postdoctoral Position in Science, Technology and Society (STS)

Postdoc in STS

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A magazine cover in black and white and red: a huge swastika flies over a black and white map of Africa, with Germany's old colonies marked out in red. Some gratuitous palm trees frame the image.

A 1940 issue of an Italian fascist magazine, dedicated to Germany in Africa. It advocates the overthrow of the Versailles treaty & the restoration of the German colonial empire; sings the praises of pre-1918 German colonialism; attacks the mandate system.

There is ... a lot going on here.