Dear Boris Johnson - if you’ve had a problem with Voter Suppression from the measures introduced by the Government of Boris Johnson, please do contact us a [email protected] We’ll document your case and look for answers from the Electoral Commission

'You saw a lot of young people...not even take a moment to really acknowledge what had happened in Israel,' says Frank Bruni of campus protests after Oct. 7.

'They just kind of immediately...began advocating not just for Palestinians but in a perverse way, at times, for Hamas.'

NEW: The UK is increasingly vulnerable to the threat of missiles and drones after decades of cost-saving cuts eroded its once world-class air defences, military sources and Cold War veterans have warned. 1/🧵

news.sky.com/story/uk-incre…

Sadly had to spoil my ballot paper again in protest at the introduction of voter ID. If the ruling party can impose restrictions like this on a whim in a naked attempt at voter suppression, elections are no longer free and fair.

If you're a BISA member, please vote for Tim Edmunds and Jack Holland as Trustees. They're both absolute diamonds who would really help oversee BISA - British International Studies Association in the interests of all members.

Worth a read.

Good enough to disagree with.

And there’s a lot to disagree with - constructively. Starting with an admiring nod to Jon Cruddas’ awful book.

Everyone should read Luca Trenta’s new book on CIA and assassination.

It’s richly researched, fully evidenced, balanced AND also a cracking read full of fascinating new material.

(another) Job Klaxon!

Permanent lectureship in Political Theory at School of Politics & IR at Queen Mary.

Any area of political theory considered but we are particularly interested in finding someone who can contribute to our new MA in Applied Global Ethics.

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Yesterday we hosted an event for the launch of our new paper on the trilateral initiative between Britain, Poland and Ukraine 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇺🇦

We were delighted to welcome Hanna Shelest, Marcin Terlikowski, Maria Piechowska and James Rogers to present the Report and Lord Risby as our moderator

Consistently hopeless on universities. My favourite proposal = 'changing low-quality universities into institutes focused on STEM, technical and vocational education'. Cause you really want supposedly bad unis teaching unimportant stuff like, erm STEM and vocational training..

Everyone in the world gets paid at the beginning or the end of the month. Barclays Bank - so your mortgage payments will come out on the 16th. That way you have to spend ages on the phone getting it changed. It's fun for us.

Huge turnout for ANZAC day Dawn Service at Wellington Arch. Honoured to join Australian and New Zealand High Commissioners, forces personnel and so many London-based Aussies and Kiwis to commemorate all who’ve served in conflicts since the 1915 Gallipoli landings at Anzac Cove

Fantastic resource!

A promise to increase the budget by 0.2% in 6 years is not a serious announcement. Both major parties need to wake up to the hard power world we're in and drop the 90s nostalgia for soft power and US hegemony.

Very sobering reading.

Happy St George's Day people. I think after 2000 years we should have worked up a bit more of a tradition. Collectively drinking a yard of mead? Tipping a ceremonial cow? Riding a horse through a ring of fire clutching a plate of cherry bakewells? Let's live a little.

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Some thoughts on the last few days headlines on the protests. 🧵
1. Gideon Falter showed up to that protest to provoke. I don't understand why he has not just said this.

In the future, someone will resign from the Conservative Party every fifteen minutes....

Mmm, not sure Imperial defeat worked out great for the Chinese, Indians or Japanese in the 19th century. Or for Russians post-1917...