Good piece!
Thought I’d flag a typo because it changes the meaning - the quote from Boot at end of section 1 says ‘Iraq’ instead of ‘Iran’.
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Good piece!
Thought I’d flag a typo because it changes the meaning - the quote from Boot at end of section 1 says ‘Iraq’ instead of ‘Iran’.
Front page of Telegraph with a story on Cabinet ministers stopping Starmer following Trump.
Hate to break it to the Telegraph and its readers but (for the moment anyway) the UK is not a presidential but a parliamentary democracy in which a Prime Minister tends to need the support and consent of 'big beasts' in the Cabinet before acting. If they don't like it, then maybe move to DC?
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If Badenoch’s key takeaway from the 2003 war in Iraq is that you need to plan better - rather than don’t fight illegitimate wars based on lies - then she’s even more unfit to be PM than we realised.
Unfortunately, I don’t really feel like it’s made it less prevalent. At least not around where I am.
I (hopefully) have a co-authored paper coming out this year that tries to disaggregate what is meant when people say some issue has been ‘geopoliticised’ vs ‘securitised’, at least in the context of what’s been labelled as the EU’s geopolitical/geoeconomic turn.
Yes, I think the term is bandied around too often, too easily. It’s become a buzzword for almost anything that isn’t domestic politics. I think it’s unhelpful.
Five minutes after losing a by-election when voters defected en masse because of their pandering to the right: what if we were *more* racist
An illegal war in the Middle East without the UK? Not on my watch!
- Starmer, probably
They’ve really set themselves up for a lot of “epic fail” headlines down the road.
No question on the BBC of what exactly is being preempted, or what the legal basis for a preemptive strike is. But at least one mention of maybe this time military action can bring about positive regime change!
Good thing governments spent the last decade telling young people they all had to learn how to code and universities that they were useless unless they were churning out IT grads.
What formal mechanisms are available to academia to collectively reprimand, disown, and shame Goodwin?
Maybe munching a few pages of his book could cheer him up.
Who could’ve predicted…
Oh, yeah. Everyone.
Another 200 job losses have been announced at the University of Dundee.
Read our response here news.stv.tv/north/dundee...
Ooooooooooft
Shocker of a half from Scotland.
So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w
Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?
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Since it’s his birthday, they should order him something from Pizza Express.
But only give him the empty box. Obviously.
This list is coming from WH, so take it with a grain of salt. But if true, holy shit what an embarrassment for Europe.
Apparently half of EU countries have suddenly decided to send representatives to Trump's inaugural #BoardofPeace meeting today, mostly as observers.
As predicted, Meloni's(🧵1/5)
Email: Launch of a new voluntary severance scheme
🎵 Let’s go round again
Maybe we’ll turn back the hands of time
Let’s go round again,
One more time🎵
That’s right! Dundee Uni’s executive group are re-releasing the same tired, old record ‘Voluntary Severance (2026 remix feat. DJ Outtaideas)’ -
despite being a miserable flop the past 2/3 times.
Ah, surprise, surprise. Our VC's second job at a UoE spin-off *is* paid after all. We'd like to know since when, and why his SFC declaration of interests has only recently been updated.
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Wow.
I cannot overstress how fucking constantly we were working
The stresses that staff have been under at the University of Dundee for 16 months are explained here by Dundee UCU Co-President, Melissa D’Ascenzio.
She outlines some measures that could help relieve this stress.
The University of Dundee has still not ruled out compulsory redundancies until the summer.
This is despite the conditions of £40m funding explicitly stating that redundancies cannot go ahead until they have submitted a new strategy and workforce plan.
This is causing huge stress to all staff.
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro
Biffy fuckin’ Clyro!
The best band on the planet, and it’s not even close.
Oops! What she actually meant to say was “the far-right people voting, electing the far-right leaders”.
Visited the Austrian Parliament today (how else to spend Valentine’s Day in Vienna with my wife?).
Here’s a quiz for you from the library: guess the book contained in each box.
