Nicholas Guyatt

remember that if you share this link with your colleague who writes a book a year you WILL be shrinking the size of the settlement pot

ICYMI: link to the database of books stolen by Anthropic - NB this is a smaller list than the previous database so check this one to see if you can join the settlement and begin the fight with your publisher/agent about the size of their cut secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Very amusing when conservatives try to gotcha a left-wing person by traducing... BILL CLINTON

Why is it that critics on the left, grad student Nicholas Guyatt among them, insist on mocking President Bush's physical fitness? Four years ago, the elites fell in love with Bill Clinton's MTV underwear shenanigans and less-than-stellar sax solos, only to back off of Clinton's ability to "connect with young people" some time in 1998. Now, it seems, the private doings of public figures are once more fair game for pundits. Recently, Guyatt dropped a snide remark in the Prince about Bush's appearance on the cover of Runner's World, which raises an interesting point: if the ability to run a six-minute mile is laughable to Guyatt, then how does he feel about the ability to lie under oath?

Inspired to see if Pete Hegseth (with whom I overlapped at Princeton) and his Princeton Tory magazine had ever targeted me with the energy and lethality of true warfighters and whaddya know!? (from September 2002...)

He's properly lost it

Maintenance grants only for priority courses ‘deeply concerning’ Using financial incentives to influence student choice risk undermining Labour’s widening access goals, critics fear

'Graeme Atherton, head of the Ruskin Institute for Social Equity (Rise) at the University of West London, said the policy “is giving with one hand and taking with another” and will “exacerbate” the problems being faced by humanities and arts departments and disadvantaged students.'

Battle of the Sexes | Jasper Craven Pete Hegseth has used his many perches—from Princeton to the Pentagon—to agitate for a kind of trickle-down masculinity.

ICYMI, the jaw-dropping piece on Hegseth from the Baffler. Incredible to think that he was confirmed, and to consider how this administration has destroyed even the most basic expectations of competence and decency in public service thebaffler.com/salvos/battl...

The UK government is addicted to regulating higher education -- here offering maintenance grants only to students on "priority courses" - but completely immune to every demand actually to fund universities properly

I appreciate the existential dread of this headline

My kid just sent me this with no context whatever, what a relief to be taller than Mario and that elf bloke

just incredible how Starmer can find a political disaster even in a donkey sanctuary

UK political discourse right now

I think that's a certainty if there's actually a vote on this at UEFA's meeting next week; but the more interesting question is whether FIFA will try to find a way to include Israel regardless, since FIFA president Infantino now literally works out of Trump Tower. If that happens, all bets are off

love that this got flagged as 'adult content', which I guess in a way it is

World Cup 2026: US State Department vows to block attempts to ban Israel from tournament The United States government say it will try to block any attempts to ban Israel from competing at the 2026 World Cup.

Amazing to think that after World Cup finals in Russia and then Qatar, the finals in the United States might prove even more controversial - and likelier to result in countries and fans boycotting the tournament

Just filing away images like this for my eventual survey-course lecture on the madness of 2025

Chotiner interviewees at this point are like people who still agree to sit down with Ali G or Borat

tbh I look like this without being Raptured

that's the spirit!

(From Hagee's underrated 1996 classic)

How will you know when the real Jesus comes to earth? He won't take out an ad in the New York Times. He won't speak through some theologian or some charismatic personality who stands on the Mount of Olives or Hollywood Boulevard in a white suit proclaiming that he is the king of the new Israel. He won't come through some warlock who calls down fire from heaven. I'll know Jesus has reappeared when my glorified body sails through the heavens past the Milky Way into the presence of God. I'll know I'm with the real Jesus when I stand in His glorious presence with my brand new disease-proof, never-dying, fatigue-free body that looks better, feels better, and is better than Arnold Schwarzenegger's.

Happy Rapture Day, everyone!

If you're unsure about whether the Rapture has taken place, or even whether you have personally been Raptured, here's some advice from megachurch pastor and trusted expert John Hagee

Williamson wrong to force universities to abide by antisemitism definition, say lawyers Letter accuses education secretary of ‘improper interference’ after instruction on IHRA text

Also the Tory government's bullying of universities in 2020 to adopt the controversial IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which in turn has had a chilling effect on freedom of speech since Israel began its genocide in Gaza www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Someone I know, apply for this, and let me live vicariously though you. 🥰

But some academics worry that the focus on foreign students is going too far. At Queen Mary, some lecturers say the university is prioritising recruitment over support for existing students. “Money isn’t going to the actual work of research and education,” says Liesbeth Corens, a history lecturer at Queen Mary, but towards surplus reserves that help the university maintain its estates and act as a buffer against sector volatility. 

Core work hollowed out to feed the beast.

I have a lot of sympathy for how hard it is to run a uni in this messed-up funding system. But that should lead managers to advocate to changes to the system, not knowingly push the risk & the pain on some of the most vulnerable. www.ft.com/content/3f49...

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

Ironic to see him invoke armies when one of the major drivers of the refugee crisis is western military adventurism

people because we are the country that we are. It proves our quality and dignity. But in practice it has been abused very badly. It is deeply serious." Born in 1939, Bragg has lived through previous decades with high levels of migration. What is different now? "People are more nervous at the moment, the economy is more fragile, and they feel that they want to know they can hold on to what they've got." What's to be done? "This is completely unfashionable, but why should people come here and get benefits that several generations of my family, who lived in terraced houses, have worked for, and been in armies for. It's a complicated problem that-has to be addressed without fear or favour. We need to regulate it." Also currently on his mind is the state of our broadcasting industry, which he first joined back in 1961. In particular, 11rrth0 ront

Honestly so disappointed by this, it’s on a par with Rylan’s rant

Melvyn Bragg profile headlined with immigration concern

Et tu, Melvyn?

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing.

Consequence of policies of successive govts, real cut in university income, hard to recruit foreign students.

Science subjects cut as they require heavy investment. Skills shortages will deepen.

Aww, thanks! Let me know where to send the bitcoin…