Episode #232: The War on Iran
The war on Iran launched a week ago by Israel and the United States is spiraling into a regional conflict with implications for the global economy. Hosts @adamtooze.bsky.social and Cameron Abadi discuss: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
New October 2026 dates for my Advanced RSE / CSE / #SexEd training course. More details here bishtraining.com/advanced-rse...
Also, if you're an RSE practitioner in need of supervision, I'm going to run a group supervision session on 15th April 10am on zoom. Get in touch if you want more details
I've listened to some very good Iran war analysis today. This is really good pca.st/episode/7bdf... this is pretty good pca.st/episode/e2a6... this is very helpful www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv7n... and this is really really good pca.st/episode/49b8...
Here's my very lengthy response to the 'young men are being captured by toxic masculinity' discourse. It starts out a bit 'academicy' but scroll for the advice for practitioners and educators bishtraining.com/the-effect-o...
Young men aren't more misogynistic than older men. The prominence of anti-women influencers like Andrew Tate is an artifact of the algorithms og oligarch controlled social media platforms rather than reflecting a change in attitudes or producing a change in attitudes.
"Let’s be real, when we’re on our phones we are probably not really relaxing. We’re constantly attentive, thinking, clicking, and working. We might be having a sit or a lie down but, we’re probably a bit activated and maybe a bit stressed."
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
"Let’s be real, when we’re on our phones we are probably not really relaxing. We’re constantly attentive, thinking, clicking, and working. We might be having a sit or a lie down but, we’re probably a bit activated and maybe a bit stressed."
www.bishuk.com/relationship...
"The key to enjoyable sex is to do it in ways where you can both be relaxed and excited at the same time. This means that at the very first sign of it feeling a ‘bit much’, you may need to breathe out, slow it down a bit, or try something else."
www.bishuk.com/your-questio...
Migration is part of what makes this country great.
We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.
The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
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At this point, honestly, what are "Labour values" apart from a truly sadistic adherence to "hard choices" that always come crashing down on the most vulnerable?
"The key to enjoyable sex is to do it in ways where you can both be relaxed and excited at the same time. This means that at the very first sign of it feeling a ‘bit much’, you may need to breathe out, slow it down a bit, or try something else."
www.bishuk.com/your-questio...
Just catching up with this now. It's really really good.
(These folks must really hate what I do: socialist, materialist, pleasure focused, queer, inclusive, pro choice, pro decrim, feminist, critical sexology, sex and relationships education. www.bishuk.com/support/ )
This is really excellent expert analysis and well explained and should be part of a public service broadcaster's remit. As it is CPP is another lefty crowdfunded project (that I'm happy to support). If I win Euromillions I'll become the Rupert Murdoch of left wing media.
Nice
The spike in the gas price (a prime driver of UK electricity prices) is substantial in the context of the last six months, but as the second image shows it isn't a Ukraine war type spike. CONT
It's assumed that it’s the ‘top or dom’ that does the aftercare, but everyone should offer to give/receive the aftercare. That doesn’t mean that everyone should do the same amount of aftercare at the same time. They do, what I’m going to call, Triage Aftercare.
www.bishuk.com/sex/aftercare/
It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.
"Check-ins can be really helpful, but it shouldn’t replace the care that should happen before and during a scene, or any kind of erotic activity. Care and consent go hand-in-hand, because it’s all about how you make something feel as good as it can all the way through."
www.bishuk.com/sex/aftercare/
"Check-ins can be really helpful, but it shouldn’t replace the care that should happen before and during a scene, or any kind of erotic activity. Care and consent go hand-in-hand, because it’s all about how you make something feel as good as it can all the way through."
www.bishuk.com/sex/aftercare/
Quite!
It's assumed that it’s the ‘top or dom’ that does the aftercare, but everyone should offer to give/receive the aftercare. That doesn’t mean that everyone should do the same amount of aftercare at the same time. They do, what I’m going to call, Triage Aftercare.
www.bishuk.com/sex/aftercare/
😂 😂 😂
This doesn’t replace ‘before care’ or ‘during care’ but is in addition. From start to finish, in any erotic encounter, there should be care all the way through.
www.bishuk.com/sex/aftercare/
And the podcast version, with added theory and complexity is here www.patreon.com/posts/151809...
This doesn’t replace ‘before care’ or ‘during care’ but is in addition. From start to finish, in any erotic encounter, there should be care all the way through.
www.bishuk.com/sex/aftercare/
Israeli media reporting that the US and Israel have divided up the Iran attack thus: the US is targeting infrastructure, Israel is focussed on taking out Iran's leadership
It should go without saying that the aim here is to collapse Iran - a country of ninety million people - into ungovernable chaos and Mad Max-style warlord catastrophe, much as they have every other country from Libya to Afghanistan that they could not buy off.
At least with the Iraq war, they prepared a dossier
