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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 01/10/2026

On rejoining the EU Support: 55% Oppose: 34% ... but on the conditions of single currency and Schengen membership Support: 35% Oppose: 43% via YouGov, Jun 2026 britainelects.substack.com/p/is-rejoin-...

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Is Rejoin happening anytime soon?

Ten years on from the EU referendum

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Three years without Kate. Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. -Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides #everynightapoem #fragment

a stack of letters and photos with Kate Laird, 1968-2023.

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 Check out the new courses we've just launched to accompany our Philosophers and Great Essays series! For anyone wanting to go deeper into some of what we cover. Completely free for anyone to use. And more to come. Do please spread the word! www.ppfideas.com/courses

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Courses | Past Present Future

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Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Delighted we could do our bit to make this fabulous thing happen. Don't miss!

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's never too late to return that overdue library book... 😊

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Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ach wunderbar - herzlichen Glückwunsch: im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes sehr verdient!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FT asking the big questions here - could Anthropic maintain its growth trajectory if AI destroys humanity? www.ft.com/content/96d0...

Investors are questioning whether
Anthropic can sustain its extraordinary growth as competition, price-sensitive customers and the potential for Al to destroy humanity cloud its blockbuster IPO.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 20/09/2026

Latest - and possibly final - numbers out of Mecklenburg Vorpommern now a true catastrophe for the CDU which looks like it won’t make it into the regional parliament at all

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And the winner of the biennial book prize is 🥁 🥁 🥁 Chloe Ireton and her book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic! 🎉 Congratulations @chloeireton.bsky.social!! Find authors’ videos and our judges’ comments for all shortlisted books here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Rigorously researched, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is a model for how to excavate the archive and how to find and reanimate the lives and hidden voices latent in letters, trials and petitions. It uncovers the rich and varied experiences of those whom European legal codes racialised as Black in the Iberian world. Ireton attends sensitively to the violence and trauma of the history of slavery while unearthing how those with African heritage negotiated the legal ecologies of enslavement and liberation in Spain, its colonies, and other Atlantic colonised spaces. The book brilliantly uncovers a conceptual and intellectual history of Black thought in the evidence of these legal and logistical documents. Its command of materials is impeccable and its blueprint for approaching archival research will be felt across disciplines for many years to come. The committee were unanimous in its decision to award this book the prize.

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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oxford’s Centre for Democratic Resilience, in partnership with @buceriuslaw.bsky.social and @verfassungsblog.de, has launched the Higher Education and Democratic Resilience Programme. Find out more: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/higher-educat…

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Please join us for a presentation of 'Inner Zone: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo' (@pennpress.bsky.social), the new book by Jelena Golubović. 🗓️ 14 October at 11am 📍 UCL SSEES www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Inner Zone: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo

Please join us for this PIMs book presentation by Jelena Golubović (Northeastern University)

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thread worth reading just for the relayed intensity of it.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And, whatever comes of it all, makes the UK situation — where the date of the next summit has not even been agreed — look all the more peculiar.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Discussion included that fundamental issue: do we leave higher education to the market, and if we do, what happens. There was wide consensus that the market has failed and that if we do not find shared means if intervening, the future of universities is bleak, not least for social opportunity.

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New choices: Revisiting futures for higher education in England - HEPI

English universities face ‘unstable hybrid’ future as funding model collapses faster than predicted, warns new report. English higher education is heading into a future nobody planned, according to a ...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Report outlines worsening trends in repression of academics in 22 countries and documents 382 attacks on scholars, students, and institutions in 59 countries/territories www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

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Free to Think 2026 | Scholars at Risk

Free to Think 2026 is the 12th installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 382 attacks on higher education communities around the world.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was such - in the Arendtian sense - FUN.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It would be quite 'something' if, after all the talk of leaving the EU to create CANZUK, there ends up being CANZEU without the UK

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kindly disagree on this one. In my view, you could go quite far legally with an Associate Agreement based on Art. 217 TFEU. Still requires unanimous support from member states and political will to go far, but in my view not treaty change or referenda.

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Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In today's news: Canada wants to join the EU, and an English village wants to leave the UK. Welcome to 21st century politics.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i bear witness to no thing more human than hate i bear witness to no thing more human than love apples and honey apples and honey what is not lost is paradise -Lucille Clifton, "Rosh Hashanah" 2001 No words suffice, so sharing Clifton's. #everynightapoem

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i bear witness to no thing more human than hate
i bear witness to no thing more human than love
apples and honey apples and honey
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).

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Science and maths degrees offer most value to the nation, says minister

Chris McDonald told a room full of vice-chancellors that science, engineering and mathematics ‘offer the greatest personal, social and economic value’

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Important new study in the UK showing: 1. scientists are highly trusted 2. people mainly trust scientists who they think agree with them This is why, increasingly, everyone has their own "experts".

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Data: Public trust in scientists

King’s Policy Institute survey finds polarisation by values, identity and politics

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

State honours for a war criminal shake Serbia's EU ambitions. Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová discusses Ratko Mladić's legacy and whether the funeral could become a turning point in relations between Belgrade and the European Union. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ojL...

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State honors for a war criminal shake Serbia's EU ambitions | Jessie Barton-Hronešová

YouTube video by TALKING WITH TVP WORLD

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Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thought-provoking intervention that also profiles the opinion of three outstanding FBAs

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Britain and Europe: how close should we get?" Published today @britishfuture.bsky.social Most voters say they would choose a closer UK/EU future relatiomship than the Labour government's 'red lines' would allow but there is no settled view of the destinaton www.britishfuture.org/uk-eu-relati...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AfD’s huge gains in Saxony-Anhalt are the latest in a series of far-right electoral gains across Europe, while mainstream parties are struggling. 2027 brings major elections in 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸🇵🇱 Europe is heading towards a political stress test. How does this matter for the EU’s ability to act? 🧵 1/10

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

„Wie stark, aber auch wie einfach wäre ein Satz gewesen wie: »Unser eigenes Ergebnis ist mir an einem solchen Abend scheißegal.« Stattdessen aber hörte man nur die leeren Floskeln der Parteipolitik in dutzendfacher Variation.“ Exzellentes Kommentar! 👇 www.zeit.de/2026-09/wahl...

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Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt: Wenn das die Mitte ist, dann gute Nacht

Bei dieser historischen Wahl offenbarte sich die ganze Leere der politischen Kommunikation. Die Elite des Landes redet, als käme sie von einem anderen Stern.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In the 90s S-A saw the best result of a far-right party in Germany before the AfD. 13% for the DVU in 1998. S-A should not be the basis for sweeping conclusion about the electoral sociology of the AfD. The consequences might be far-reaching but your reporting will contribute to these consequences.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Any move by the Sachsen Anhalt and Sachsen CDU towards deals with the AfD would be fiercely opposed by the NRW CDU. The party would fall apart

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Renatus Deckert @renatusdeckert.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wie Menschen als „nicht zugehörig“ gebrandmarkt, wie sie ausgegrenzt und entrechtet wurden: Victor Klemperer erlebte es am eigenen Leib. Sein Tagebuch erinnert uns daran, was geschieht, wenn die Würde des Menschen mit Füßen getreten wird. Das sollten wir nie vergessen, gerade an einem Tag wie heute.

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Höllenzeit

Über Nadelstiche, die sich anfühlen wie Keulenschläge, und das Bibliotheksverbot für Victor Klemperer, über Feigheit und Mut an einem Wintertag 1938 in Dresden

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm blaming @anandmenon.bsky.social for this kind of thing

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Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Una reivindicación de aquellas personas de origen africano que a lo largo de la historia han dejado su huella en Europa: 'Europeos africanos. Una historia jamás contada', de Olivette Otele @historianmemory.bsky.social. Coeditado con @casa-africa.bsky.social buff.ly/WGsMVlg

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Does academic freedom protect racism? My Eastern Eye column this week explores the controversies in Belgium & Cambridge over the race science of Dr Cofnas and what they reveal about legal & political clashes over acadenic standards www.easterneye.biz/academic-fre...

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How much academic freedom should racists enjoy?

Ghent University in Belgium is the epicentre of the latest furore – but with an umbilical link to Cambridge, and the recent controversy and tragedy of Professor Jason Arday.

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

'Russian House' in Berlin Friedrichstraße will be closed - FINALLY The German federal government takes an important step in the right direction. Stand with Ukraine!

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

She remembered it was August and they say August brings bad luck. But September would arrive one day like an exit. And September was for some reason a lighter and more transparent month. Clarice Lispector (trans. Katrina Dodson) #everynightapoem #september as ever, for my favorite month

red door with latticed peep hole and hand-shaped door knocker (our house in macanet)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Russia has been doing this across Europe, because the logic is that countries won't escalate to military reprisals and have exhausted all other forms of punishment. Its a smart logic and Europe has to figure out how to collectively organize to disincentivize. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe

How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across the Continent.

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

NEW PAPER Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026) Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain

Draft chapter - a version of this essay is forthcoming in Duncan Bell and Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature. <div> <br> </div> <

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Slavery Abolition Act of got Royal Assent on this day in 1833. It freed about 800,000 people. 45,000 slave owners (3000 in the UK) were paid compensation for human property: a total of £20 million in 1833 - about £3 billion by inflation (or much more 40% of Treasury income, or 5% of GDP in 1833)

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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I was asked by @newlinesmag.bsky.social to write about the death of Bosnian Serb genocidaire Ratko Mladić. He was a war criminal but above all he was a coward. And it is on his cowardice, and the courage of those he sought to exterminate, that we should reflect. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

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The House Ratko Mladić Could Not Destroy

Ratko Mladić, the commander in charge of the Srebrenica genocide and architect of the Sarajevo siege, died serving a life sentence. He died a coward, much as his political progeny today still live as ...

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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Many thanks to EIBF for hosting us, and to the Ukrainian Institute London, UCL SSEES and the UCL European Institute for co-producing The Ukraine Shelf podcast. The episode will be on your favourite streaming platforms soon. Watch this space!

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