@crookedfootball
Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
We were interviewed as part of the research for the Brexit Couples project, housed at Bristol, report now out: I burst into tears during the interview and apparently that happened fairly often - brexitcouples.ac.uk/publications...
Well, I’m sure THIS passage from Schelling won’t raise any eyebrows during this conflict in my predominantly Middle Eastern classroom on Monday!
“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake”
Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway
Read it in English here:
verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin...
And in German here:
verfassungsblog.de/die-weigerun...
That tactics, without a compass, always end with you getting lost, could just as well apply to Morgan McSweeney
N Korea, surely.
If I'm guessing correctly, the three remaining ones are India, Pakistan and China.
Two rogue states led by criminals are engaged in a war of aggression against Iran but also against Lebanon. And yet the tone and framing of most news coverage invites us to identify with the aggressors, even if we disagree with the particular action. It is always, tacitly, "us" against the other
Not really about the new border rules, more about how irrationally the UK handles questions of nationality and how pig-headed the Home Office can be. Very distressing cases for the victims.
Police intelligence once again seems to be a contradiction in terms. The last time they did this, nobody was charged in the end.
True, but the dynamics are different insofar as people get their attention focused on necessary alliances after R1. So not sure about the same effect in practice.
If Labour doesn't want to introduce PR then a French-style 2-round runoff system would at least enable voters to bin the Faragists
There was quite a fashion for short books a few years ago: Polity/Wiley did some (I published one with them) and Palgrave did their Pivot series
Nice to know that there are still a few Labour MPs with principles, such as @stellacreasy.bsky.social. But like Cassandra their warnings will be ignored and Labour’s leaders will blame everyone but themselves for what follows
Ghastly stuff. And though Mahmood herself is terrible, successive PMs have chosen Home Secretaries from minority backgrounds (Javid, Patel, Braverman, Cleverly, Mahmood) to deflect anti-racist criticism of objectively racist policies
There’s been a murder…
Congratulations!
Excellent research from Katharine Charsley and her team. The Home Office has been sitting on the MAC MIR recommendations for months and has done, nothing.
World Book Day
Because being opposed to Trump's war makes you a supporter of the Iranian regime? Disgusting stuff, but they do it every time.
Saw Le belle Hélène in 2024: French G&S isn't it?
"Fam. The Spear-Danes in, like, pre-Boomer days
And the kings who ruled them served courage and greatness, straight facts.
We have heard of these princes’ GOAT campaigns"
Rétropédaler is an excellent verb
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Just his pick-up line, I suppose.
" 'More Labour.' These two words sprang from the postmortem into last week’s Gorton and Denton byelection loss."
I don't even know what the beginning of Shabana Mahmood's article means. Maybe it means that she thinks doing more of the same will bring the voters flooding back?
"Europeans have chosen ... to reconcile their values and beliefs by inventing a parallel reality. They continue to profess norms but apply them to an imaginary world in which Iran woke up one morning and attacked Israel and its Gulf neighbors"
BBC News: Shabana Mahmood is introducing harsher restrictions on asylum, Conservatives think she hasn’t gone far enough. That’s the framing. No place in the story for those of us who think she has gone too far then.
