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Reminder that this is on Wednesday! Can’t wait to talk to Janaya about how Liverpool’s history helps us rethink the twentieth century in the beautiful concert room of St. George’s hall as part of the incredible Writing on the Wall

Looking forward to this with Sam Wetherell in conversation with Janaya Pickett about his fascinating book Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain on Wednesday 21st as part of Writing on the Wall writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/sam-w…

Starvation - a public relations problem.

With the time saved by reading AI summaries of documents I've been able to relax more and kick back with AI summaries of novels and AI summaries of movies.

This is true of course, to the very real extent that barbarism, mass famine, displacement, genocide and settler colonial violence are constitutive features of "Western Civilisation" however we may wish to define it.

What if Liverpool unmade Britain? 📖 Join Sam Wetherell in conversation with Janaya Pickett at #WoWFEST25 as they explore the radical history behind Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain. 📷 St George’s Hall | TONIGHT 📷 writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/sam-w…

Had so much fun on Wednesday talking about Liverpool with the amazing Janaya Pickett for Writing on the Wall in the absurdly opulent St. George's Hall concert theatre.

Priya Satia's new essay on the difficulty of unlearning the categories inherited from empire is an extraordinary, urgent read, particularly this passage. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I hate the Labour Party so, so much. They hang on this guys every word when it comes to scapegoating immigrants, but of course, if he says he’ll help alleviate poverty it’s all “fuck you dickhead”. Just utterly useless bastards.

Do people have any reading recommendations for great works (situated anywhere in the world) about the management (or non-management) of populations deemed surplus or disposable? On the lines of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, James Boggs, the literature on "sacrifice zones" etc?

Kind of amazing that one of the most consequential legacies of DOGE might be the massive destruction of private rather than public wealth because of Musk's own stupidity.

Given that Britain's mid-century social democratic moment operated with an effective colour bar, it is no surprise that this nostalgic, provincial and desperately naive attempt to partially rehabilitate it would come with similar kinds of exclusions. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

If someone out there in this ruined landscape of surreal dropshipping adverts and far right clickbait wants to review any of a wonderful crop of new books for Urban History journal, I've made a thread of them all on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/samwet…

Amanda Staveley had *no idea* the microphone was still on while she read through this recent list of cutting edge urban scholarship. People around the world are now scrambling to understand what this means.

Be good if we could force the hack scum at LBC to watch a video explaining what journalism is supposed to be.

Nice example of political geography: the Canary Islands are only 100km from the coast of Africa but the main airport has no flights to destinations in Africa, only to Europe and North America.

29 years ago today.

Events in California make me think we desperately need a reissue of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Golden Gulag, one of the most important and beautifully written analyses of place written this century and essential to understanding California's modern formation.

On top of anything else, the New York Times long read on history and AI is a reminder of just how little work US professors actually do. “Using AI to do my research has saved my graduate students hundreds of hours” is just an amazing thing to read.