International theory, feminist political thought, “Women, Peace and Security”, masculinities and the governing of them, critical war studies, statecraft, pop cultures, another university might still be possible. Gender detective.
Paul C(innamon) Kirby
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Eventually the innovator of this shameful policy - Queen Mary University of London - will have to answer at an employment tribunal for aggressive dedications made back in 2023. Only (maybe) then will others be deterred. You might think a Labour government could tool up a regulator to stop it but 🤷🏻♂️.
What was the dangerous ideology that you think stormed the beach at Normandy Pete?
In the spring of my eighteenth year I’d managed to grow some upper lip fuzz. Pompous deputy head pulled me aside *before* the first exam of the season and told me if I didn’t shave it by the next day he’d have me barred from all my A-Levels.
In which an expert in how students cheat torches her reputation for a few thousand words worth of opinion column. The brain rot is spreading fast.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@oliverbullough.bsky.social reckoning that 80% of the luxury watch trade is for money laundering unlocked something for me.
(this is a fantastic piece all around)
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
88 people were murdered by the IOF in Gaza last weekend, and this is how the enablers of this violence evade accountability, by criminalising the word 'Palestine'. In my workplace, 'Stop the Genocide' posters were removed because the word 'Stop' implied an institutional opinion on said genocide.
RIP Marjane Satrapi. Wonderfully insightful note here x.com/nsamimi9/sta...
Paul C(innamon) Kirby
Paul C(innamon) Kirby
for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades
Paul C(innamon) Kirby
It's okay to use citation software. It's okay not to. Using citation software isn't even a little bit like using Gen AI to write, read, or summarize (citation software is deterministic: same inputs, same outputs).
These are actually easy things to know and understand and avoid Discourse about.
