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All smiles as we're back underway with our 'London: Governing the Global City' module on @strandgroup.bsky.social
MA Government Studies - Prof Tony Travers delivering his masterful '2000 years of London history in 45 mins' lecture to kick off... (1/2)

PhD thesis is finished, checked, and ready for one final proof read. 🥳

Tell you who and what's profoundly un-English - anyone adopting a Blood And Soil definition of it.

ISRAEL BOMBS IRANIAN STATE TV Israel launches new attacks on Tehran as confrontation escalates and death toll rises.

‘Israeli military says… it has bombed the building of Iran’s state broadcaster in Tehran. centre was used by the armed forces to promote military operations under civilian cover, while using its own means and assets,” it said, without giving any evidence’ www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Looking forward to discussing my new book ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain's Public Services’ with Sir Michael Barber

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Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.

More dodgy maths, too. "An extra 0.2% of GDP is around £6bn [i.e.] the cut to the aid budget. Yet [Starmer] trumpeted a £13 billion increase in defence spending...seems to make sense if one thinks the defence budget would otherwise have been frozen" ifs.org.uk/articles/ifs...

It's like how a lot of people think historians' job is to memorize historical facts!

And here we go. Mostly a PR stunt for now, but cumulative radicalization is a thing and we have it going mainstream. Once it fully does, rolling it back would be extremely hard.

Myles Lewis-Skelly, by the way, is unreal.

Restores my faith in brutalism (pun intended)

'Beigel Bake, Brick Lane' (2020) by Marc Gooderham
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‘We can’t take any of this for granted’: Gaza’s fight to keep its treasures safe at home Local archaeologists dedicate their lives to protect priceless artefacts from smugglers, Hamas and Israeli attacks in a land at history’s crossroads

Just been reminded of this piece by Beth McKernan, less than six months old - and from a different era.

“The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time.  It was present at its own making.”
 
EP Thompson. Were he still alive he would have been 100 today.

Looks fascinating! Straight on to my ‘read once the PhD is (finally) finished’ reading list.

Calling all potential students! King’s College London’s MA in Government Studies launches this September.

Aid officials believe there are ‘pockets of famine’ in Gaza UN agencies issue joint plea for entry routes to Gaza, where Israeli attacks have destroyed swaths of territory

“Doctors in Gaza said that children, weakened by lack of food, had died from hypothermia and that several newborn babies with mothers who were undernourished had not survived for more than a few days.”

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What book are these excepts from? Many thanks

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The Strand Group at King's College London on LinkedIn: Policy Making for the Age of AI - The Str... Join us on 6 March at King's College London where Visiting Professor and Permanent Secretary at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Sarah Munby…

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Looking forward to this very much indeed.