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History, Politics & IR at the University of Leicester @hypirleicester.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Join us for a Black History Month panel discussion on 21st October at 3pm Attenborough Lecture Theatre 1!

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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch to Times Radio: “We haven't called it an Iron Dome” The Conservative press release:

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Vikram Visana @vikram-visana.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Equally worrying is the need for today’s “strong” right-wing leaders to model themselves after Israel in this, frankly, cringe way. She’s not the first…

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Vikram Visana @vikram-visana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You pay for universities through general taxation and accept that they are a public good or you pay for them like this. That’s the choice. I know which I prefer.

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🖖🏳️‍⚧️T'Lynn🦇David🦇Cooper🏳️‍⚧️🖖 @awholedamntown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's my pitch for a Star Trek show: A bunch of competent people solving problems competently, and sometimes they don't even get to save the day, even when they do everything right. But they try. Also there's lizard men and Clint Howard and studio backlots everywhere. #StarTrek

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Vikram Visana @vikram-visana.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Had a wonderful experience contributing a chapter on “Race and Caste in Indian Political Thought” to this great new volume.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the uk media's staggering increase in anti-trans coverage shows they can bite & hold they're *choosing* not to for fascist street violence

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for

in North Cambridge, and a daughter. The
outbuildings and at least two other flats on the same road, which are owned by the family,
are home to a select group of postgraduate students from a range of faculties including
divinity. In a podcast interview in December 2024, Orr described having “10 students living
with us. They’re mainly PhD students or postdoctoral fellows.” He explained that they
always gather for Sunday lunch and often for dinner. “That’s amazingly stimulating,” he
said. “They’re . . . the cream of their generation in their respective subjects.”
The residents pay rent and do chores. Helen has fashioned a small chapel from a shipping
container, in which she holds morning prayers.

The housing of students raises potential conflicts of interest. Over the past academic year, there were three divinity scholars lodging at the Orrs’ community, according to several
people familiar with the living arrangements. One is a postgraduate student who is directly
supervised by Orr. Cambridge’s staff and student relationship policy stipulated that its
employees are “strongly discouraged” from entering into close personal relationships with
students. Any relationship which involves “any form of dependence, whether emotional,
practical, financial or otherwise”, must be declared.

Among the complaints upheld by the investigator are that Orr allegedly made belittling
remarks to the student, and had demanded an “excessive” and “unreasonable” amount of
written work in an effort to refine a thesis proposal. The report also criticised “at worst
inappropriate and at best thoughtless comments made [by Orr] in the equally
inappropriate context of [Orr’s] own home”. This was in reference to a dinner that the
student, who comes from a Christian, conservative background, had attended at Orr’s
house.

While the society was established long before Orr had any formal role in Reform, it has
taken on new significance as his political activities gathered pace. Orr has described
Cambridge as a useful recruiting ground for Reform, boasting last autumn in an interview
with The Telegraph that he had met “hundreds” of highly able students he thought would
make suitable allies. He has also, according to The Spectator magazine, been tasked by the
party with “building a pipeline” to bring talent to staff a future Reform administration.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Farage is making it very plain that if Reform wins power they will permit no change or scrutiny to their plans from parliament, the judiciary or officials, under a state of emergency. Anyone who objects will be replaced.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I fear that the decisive moment in this government’s life was appointing John Healey as Chancellor. I know what Pat McFadden, Ed Miliband, or Darren Jones (the other serious options) think Starmer and Reeves got wrong. This seems to be “what if we had Rachel Reeves, but a man?”

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John Healey puts Britain on notice for tough Budget in ‘more dangerous world’

New chancellor tells the FT that he and Prime Minister Andy Burnham are determined ‘to meet the fiscal rules’

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i say this as someone who doesn't like him, but "dems must condemn hasan piker" has to be the most juiceless of juiceless media fixations

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As always, @johntheduncan.bsky.social has a superb new video on Andy Burnham and ‘Manchesterism’. Another instance in how neoliberalism sets forward PR for political programmes that bear little resemblance to the consequences of those programmes: it’s called ‘lying’ youtu.be/2vCLs8FuCGU?...

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Manchesterism: A Neoliberal Death Machine

YouTube video by JohntheDuncan

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry should also be remembered for featuring in the best between takes photo of an actor in recorded history.

Tim Curry in full clown make up holding an umbrella between takes during the filming of the tv miniseries of It

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In which fearless LGBTQ+ and women’s-rights advocate, BLM-supporting, vaccine-funding, literacy activist Dolly Parton is propagandised as ‘neutral’.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Another BBC piece in which bad things just happen, but no-one‘s really responsible: eg it seems there’s an online backlash against Pride events, but by whom? Is it…the far right? Who can say. And some councils are withdrawing support. Again, is this a phenomenon beyond the far right? Truly a mystery

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The backlash Pride faces from inside and outside the LGBT community

Big companies used to go out of their way to support Pride. Now, there's a nervousness in the air, Darren Milby writes

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Vikram Visana @vikram-visana.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What’s happened to India since 2010s is heartbreaking.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🚨BREAKING🚨 In more serious news, I have been told on good authority by a third source that Flemish media has revealed the racist academic, de Vries, is the real author behind the pseudonymous article, 'Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential' Thank you to all the sources that contacted me

Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential
Tavren Oshal (pseudonym)
How to Cite: Oshal, T. Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential. Controversial Ideas 2025, 5(3), 6; doi:10.63466/jci05030006.
Received: 18 December 2024 / Accepted: 23 September 2025 / Published: 11 November 2025
Abstract: Responding to an article by Rindermann et al. (2024), which reports that refugees in Germany, on average, have significantly lower intelligence than the German host population, Bradley Hillier-Smith has argued that such cognitive disparities – if they exist – are irrelevant to states’ moral duties toward refugees. This article challenges his position. It further contends that even if we adopt a cosmopolitan perspective that denies states the right to prioritize the interests of their own populations, it is not clear that states in the Global North are morally required – or even permitted – to admit large numbers of relatively low-IQ refugees from the Global South. This, I show, is especially true given that assistance could instead take the form of supporting their relocation to a safe country within the region.
Keywords: refugees; migration; intelligence; hereditarianism; innovation; Global South; nationalism; cosmopolitanism

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Vikram Visana @vikram-visana.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A salutary reminder of why we left twitter. Jesus wept…

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