Rebecca Spang

rlspang.bsky.social

06 August 2026 14:51

How do people become revolutionaries? Nearly all the leading figures of the early French Revolution were successful in the Old Regime: lawyers, doctors, many nobles. But they faced people who were intransigent, arrogant in their opposition to ANY change. Screw it! We have to revolutionize it all.

UCL History

uclhistory.bsky.social

06 August 2026 14:51

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom this November! 📚 A powerful new contribution to the history of slavery, resistance and the Atlantic world. Congratulations, Chloe! 👏 shorturl.at/TsSpH

Chai Patel

chaipatel.net

19 March 2026 07:58

The thing is once you have implicitly accepted that your immigration reforms are a horrible unprincipled mess that everyone hates, you cannot try and hold on to random bits of cruelty within them without looking very foolish. And everyone will still hate them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dave Andress

davidandress.bsky.social

14 January 2026 10:26

It’s increasingly clear that “AI” has rotted the brains of the managerial class at exceptionally high speed.

France Culture

franceculture.fr

13 January 2026 15:36

En 1823, les États-Unis se posaient en défenseurs des jeunes nations américaines. Deux siècles plus tard, la doctrine Monroe symbolise l’ingérence et la domination. Comment un discours anticolonial a-t-il servi de fondement à une politique impériale durable ? ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/PpB