Earlier this year, E3G released a big report with the Department of War Studies at Kings College which showed that our dependence on gas is a major national security risk. Cutting heat pumps to fund defence is like not paying for a flu jab so you can buy lemsip. It makes no sense.

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

A great advocate for historians in general, often unsung, as well as a nice person and a superb historian of the early Middle Ages.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Labour's candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali was a clear asset to Labour in the by-election: on her personality and approach. Voters felt she had strong local connections to the area - as she of course did, having lived in the area since she was a child, after being born 4000 miles from Camden in Somalia

Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education

NEWS: We’re pleased to announce that Berthold Lubetkin’s Festival of Britain bus shelter in Hillesley, Gloucestershire, has been listed Grade II, following a recent application by C20. The Cotswold vernacular structure is believed to be a unique example of Lubetkin working in a traditional manner.

A lot of the cheap academic books of the past were driven by very large sales to HE (especially in the US)...no longer so available to publishers. I leave as an open question whether there is a large non-HE sale available to publishers for the likes of Schumpeter...

We are delighted to announce that Greg Perry, CEO of the Association for Art History, and Kathryn Tempest, Chair of the Council of University Classical Departments (CUCD) have officially started their tenure as Co-Chairs of the AHA. More from Kathryn and Greg soon! 🎉

Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land: