I like how a publication that helped drive Universities ranking-mad, stoke competition, helped made the life of academics more difficult is now shocked at the state of UK HE.
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I like how a publication that helped drive Universities ranking-mad, stoke competition, helped made the life of academics more difficult is now shocked at the state of UK HE.
New euphemism just dropped for ‘President has no idea of what he is doing.’
McConnell’s as responsible for the rise of Trump as the current obscene crop of Republicans.
On fire lately.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Trump’s War now providing a massive influx of cash for Iran’s ally Russia so they can continue to bomb civilians in Ukraine while we ask Ukraine for help against Iranian drones. Trump’s foreign policy in a nutshell.
For the youth out there. This is the cycle of American politics.
So, we replace the woman who shot her own dog, with the guy who thinks the US killed Khomeini last weekend. Excellent.
Haven’t we had enough of this half-gloating articles? Look, China and Russia so weak they won’t help their allies. Would we want them to? What’s the deal here? They sure benefit from the death of international order already.
www.chathamhouse.org/2026/03/iran...
Watched Dirty Business on @channel4tv.bsky.social. To say it's infuriating doesn't get close. As usual, @labouruk.bsky.social is as bad as its predecessors, having fully drank the neoliberal Kool-Aid. Great to see that one of the greatest villains is now in charge of Welsh Water.
Currently have a paper under review on the very topic. Iran-Kurds scandal coming soon (if we ever go back to doing scandals)?
Watching in Jimmy Carter.
This is a pendulum swing that has a clear precedent in recent US history. After the scandals of Watergate and the abuses of the intelligence community, voters turned to someone who was earnest and kind, who did 'look like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you.' Jimmy Carter.
Tell me about it.
Michael Schmitt has always been adamant that as long as the US does it, it’s not assassination.
I see lessons have not been learned from the spectacular loss of Gorton and Denton.
If Labour insists on continuing down this route, then they do honestly deserve to lose the next GE.
Utterly infuriating.
Remarkable to hear Colby say to Congress that regime change isn't a war aim because killing Khamenei was an Israeli decision. In his Feb 28 statement Trump himself made clear that it was essentially a joint action. Meanwhile the administration appears to be actively arming a Kurdish ground force.
Yes, that’s understandable. But the Trump administration didn’t even make an effort to claim this was legal. They started with imminence and dropped it, and already provided 7-8 different and contradictory justifications.
I wrote at the end of my book: ‘assassination is something the US government does not do, except when it does.’ This process has been abetted, in no small part, by lawyers, both within the executive branch and internationally lawyers.
Also, because of this we can’t possibly claim it’s an assassination. I’m sure if Russia had managed to kill Zelenskyy we would adopt the same rigorous standard. International lawyers continuing to make a career out of legitimating uses of violence.
Summary: a state (but make sure it’s one we like) can start an illegal war of choice. That very fact means that everything that follows is under LOAC, so said state can kill whomever it wants even a foreign head of state with limited to none military role.
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.
And Congress has helped him.
Sure.
I do not think we, as lawyers, should engage in doctrinal exercises that end up making a case for the legality of surprise decapitation strikes between states not otherwise engaged in an armed conflict
Especially when the strike at stake remains unlawful under jus ad bellum and, therefore, unlawful.
You should not blame Trump. Trump has always been Trump. For everything, from normalising his political career, to the Epstein files, and the current mess, you should blame Republicans.
While not an international lawyer, and I would love to hear from one, I find this analysis obscene. If anyone can start an illegal war and - all of a sudden - kill whomever they want, then what’s the point of international law? @justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/133171/ayato...
I might be distracted posting some great (if I say so myself) content on my niche obsessions (covert operations and assassinations), will you give me a nudge when I need to start stockpiling for WWIII? Ta.
Boy, I have the article for you on imminence meaning whatever people want it to mean. 😀