Generational change, I guess…

🎶 Ebony and Ivory/ and I'll probably still be out LB.... 🎶

Hard to know where to begin with this. Short thread 🧵- Firstly academia has often played a central role in national security - those recruited from universities to work at Bletchley Park, intellectuals who lent their names to anti-communist propaganda throughout the Cold War 1/

'Go back to Poland'
Testimony from the Eichmann trial, reported #OnThisDay 1961

On the bright side, at least someone's investing in UK Higher Education... bbc.co.uk/news/uk-689026…

#OnThisDAy 1957: Aneurin Bevan in Israel with a characteristically mixed bag of advice and observations (he was, at that time, Shadow Foreign Secretary)

Not that it would be any less racist, but they never say “Go back to Iraq. Go back to North Africa”. Funny that.

Still traumatised by the private sector Arriva Trains sandwich I once bit into that contained frozen chicken…

So sad. Andrew Defty is the world’s leading expert on U.K. parliamentary oversight of intelligence (a hugely important topic). His work on U.K. covert propaganda is genuinely pioneering and a huge influence on my own research. Outrageous to be in this position.

“What then, is the meaning of Zionism? It is just producing a framework for Jewish existence… the means for gaining our political independence.”
(Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, in The Guardian, October 1976)

The chutzpah of Susan “I was pickpocketed” Hall knows no bounds 😅. Londoners do your thang next Thursday & send her back from whence Zac Goldsmith came. What is it with Tories & dog whistle politics in the world’s greatest city? Sad, pathetic, corrosive.

Oh Master Splinter, where did it all go wrong ? 😑 🐀

And that the vast majority of British people don't know this should be a moment for embarrassed reflection

One of the great 20th century British intellectuals and historians. RIP.