It is especially dismal to hear of the demolition of so many Humanities subjects at the University of Kent. Does VC Karen Cox have any idea of the ambition of the founding project? ⁦Gavin Esler⁩ ⁦University of Kent⁩ ⁦University of KentArts⁩ ⁦Kent and Surrey Bylines⁩

Our panel 'Hijacking Memory: The Holocaust and the Siege of Gaza' is live now, with Linda Kinstler in conversation with Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב, Jelena Subotic, and Raz Segal.

Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3-k2…

For reasons I will never understand, when I was a first year at uni, a middle-aged Doctor from Gaza moved temporarily into the room opposite mine in halls.

We weren't sure what to make of our new neighbour. But after a day, I decided to knock on his door and say hello... 1/🧵

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Sources of MAGA Madness and Congressional Kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/michaelpod…

Semaphore for ‘the Unbearable Sheerness of Being’? Although The Medway poet Barry Fentiman Hall has already written that one…

‘Blurbing’ should only be done occasionally but I was delighted to liken Lutz Seiler’s In Case of Loss to a magical artisanal workshop where wheels turn and views keep changing. A model of what writing can and should be doing now. andotherstories.org/in-case-of-los…

I have long wondered about the ‘Jazz’ jumpers worn by volunteer strike breakers in the General Strike of 1926. Guardian fashion writers should have been there first. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Sheerness Dockyard Church - Matthew Andrew’s photos of the renewed building. Furniture by Race Furniture, present incarnation of the company that manufactured the ‘Sheppey’ chair here in the early Sixties. matthewandrews.co.uk/sheerness-dock…

KCBH Workshop 2023: Regional & Local Perspectives on Modern British History Tickets, Tue 6 Jun 2023 at 11:00 | Eventbrite eventbrite.com/e/kcbh-worksho…

I see that the LRB’s correspondence about the origins of the ‘iron curtain’ has arrived at Vernon Lee, who used the phrase a few months into the First World War. Was going to write to correct the source, but then found I had done it already . @lrb theguardian.com/books/2007/nov…

More popular than a Del Shannon tribute band? Thanks to Medway River Lit for the questions - and also for inviting me to speak about The Sea View Has Me Again at The Glass Box, Gillingham, 8pm, 5 June. medwayriverlit.co.uk/post/interview…

I know estuary language is sometimes on the crude side but every house needs a copy of Billy Childish’s latestJohnson print

Late to this great piece by Annie Ernaux mondediplo.com/2023/02/14pens…

Intrigued to find myself cited here. I prize readers but have never knowingly darkened a longlist in my life. orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/meet-our-jud…