Europe is going to have to stop pretending the US is an ally

Perhaps I lack the analytical abilities of our football pundits, but then I also lack their capacity to reason backwards from the score to an interpretation of what happened so as to produce an narrative of inevitable destiny

Liverpool toe-to-toe with the cheats until the red card. With Gakpo and Isak would have been a different game. Sickening

Do you mean Margaret Boden?

5€ at the brocante

Oh no, Alan Thornett has died. A great working-class leader

And there's always the chance to win the FIFA Peace Prize two years running

Malta, Lithuania, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Poland and Germany all have parties roughly in these traditions in government, usually as coalition members

This is drivel, and dangerous drivel when there are actual fascists among us.

US and France often seen as opposites, but their fiscal crises have the same central cause: big pro-rich tax cuts introduced by Trump and Macron, combined with ineffectual attempts to cut spending.

One the one hand they want to livestream executions but on the other some students wanted to include some blacks authors on the curriculum, so really, who can say?

Though the Watersons are from Hull!

Thank you!

Strange clouds

Most fash would struggle to tell you who Fairport Convention are, let alone the Watersons and actual attendees at Shakespeare plays skew heavily left-liberal

"The government accuses [LFI] of fomenting chaos .... If so, this must count as an unintended paean to the hypothetical organizing capacity of LFI, which ... has allegedly managed to shut down half the high schools in France and bring 250,000 students, parents, and teachers into the streets."

First the Labour government wants to send the working-class kids down the apprenticeship route and keep HE for the posh ones, now life-long learning is under threat. I'm old enough to remember when Tony Crosland was considered right-wing

Adam Tickell, formerly of Bristol and once my FB-"friend". A protegé of Nigel Thrift (also a one-time Bristol geographer also turned HE supremo). Radical geography has a lot to answer for.

Hegseth's decision to live-stream an execution also responds to and fosters these "fantasies of violent retribution"

This Vanderbilt report on music is a happy reminder that as philosophers we are entitled to sit as supreme judges over all other fields of inquiry. Bow down before us.