The table of contents to Lord Wilberforce's memoirs, who may be the only judge to admit to use cocaine in print.

fellas are you serious. i work in the same building as you.

To spin a theory, attacks on students, artists and 'liberal elites' serve a particular social function - they identify social 'indulgence' as the reason for sociopolitical failure, disguising the lack of institutional and state capacity and putting it on a set of blame objects.

With great pride, we congratulate Stephen Sawyer, the CCDS Director, on his new book: 'Demos Rising: Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800–1850' (forthcoming in January, UChicagoPress)
Preorder here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Tonight at 7pm. You can still register

#StandWithUkraine

Cool that my university Outlook puts every New York Review of Books newsletter into quarantine but treats *this* as entirely unsuspicious

'Prime Minister Starmer is now being held in an undisclosed location, and the National Salvation Committee will be publishing its Martial Law Guidelines over the coming days.

We appreciate your concern, understanding, and patience, as we work through this matter.'

I like to imagine that it would be with the same awkward and stilted tone that the formation of a Junta would be announced

Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist. It’s fake. Made up. A bogeyman to scare Tory MPs and make them go to bed on time economist.com/britain/2024/0…

For Bloomberg, I wrote about the charge that Labour has too few policies, which I don't think is true: trust and clarity problems stem instead from having too many half announced, half communicated pledges, all of them seemingly liable to u-turn.

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This is right. The even darker thing is that if you tell people, over and over, that to be outraged about Israel is to hate the Jews, they might start to believe you.

Just the Conservatives after 1979; Labour after 1997; and the Conservatives after 2010. 🤷‍♀️

My book 'Democracy Tamed' is now shipping from OUP and Amazon! Use my code below to receive 30% off on the OUP website.
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No one under 18 should have access to a smartphone

No words… my friend from Gaza has now lost his father and a 18 year old sister in this disgusting war… 18 years old…

It was an absolute privilege to visit Utrecht to lecture on 'The Challenge of Democracy in Britain, 1830-1928'.

A gorgeous city, with lovely people in the department and a really engaged audience. I shall definitely be back! Thanks to Frank, Devin and Utrecht University for having me.

I really love facts like this that capture just how much history can be experienced in a single lifetime

in terms of animals roaming round a city nothing will ever beat the thieving Berlin hog