After reading Three Revolutions, turn to these extraordinary books for more on 20th century revolutions - including Alex Fernandes on Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.

'The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ Much better than our version

"I didn't get where I am today by canoodling with the head of HR on the jumbotron at a Coldplay gig."

We’re thrilled to share that our Primary Campus PE Department has achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for 2024/25! This award recognises our commitment to school sport and community competition. Huge congratulations to everyone involved. #WeAreRoundhay #PrimaryCampus

First time I’ve enjoyed anything remotely to do with Coldplay

And for super-pedants, an even more detailed explanation of why you can call our national flag a jack or a flag: flaginstitute.org/wp/wp-content/…

We forced a bot to watch 10,000 hours of academic writing then asked it to produce an article. It told us it would start next month when things will have probably settled down but it also has a new idea for an interesting, unrelated article

London friends, followers! Come and hear me speak! housmans.com/event/book-lau…

The Many Political Interpretations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/… via @NYTimes Thanks to Kurt Streeter for interviewing and citing me in his timely New York Times piece on the uses and abuses of MLK’s legacy.

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOT 🐐 What an achievement! Joe Root surpasses Ricky Ponting and now sits in 2nd on the most Test runs of all time.

.Neil Munro 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇦(.º\=/º.). On the contrary, people paid to come into your house and perform tasks you could perform yourself are servants. Of course leftists don't like it when their servants are called servants, because they don't think they are that sort of person. But they are.

This remarkable picture of the pavilion at Leyton was taken at midday on the first day of Essex's match v the Australians, May 5th 1926. Rain and fog left the ground in semi darkness and there was no play all day

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It was an honour and a privilege to work with experts from Jordan, Israel and Palestine, developing ideas to alleviate the environmental crisis in the #DeadSea leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5… תמר זנדברג Arava Institute for Environmental Studies Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley Alex Worsfold Sanjoy Bhattacharya

80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past. Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.

Very few people seem to understand university finances and, distressingly, this includes many academics and most policymakers. This is an attempt to condense the key points you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/profseriou…

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⚽️⚽️ Happy publication day to David Goldblatt's INJURY TIME ⚽️⚽️ Football, history and the state of the nation – and why it matters Out now with Mudlark

This is incredible. Fiction in four dimensions. Sentences like oceans. You’re with Dostoevsky in Baden Baden. You’re having sex with his wife & trying not to think of Siberia. You’re in the Soviet 70s where Tsypkin wrote, thinking nobody would ever read his work. Faber Books

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association up to £50,000. Time is running out following Imperial War Museums’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.