Dublin-born, Bristol-dwelling, Exeter-working.

Joined April 2017
Replying to @elonmusk
Funny how your class analysis stops exactly at the Russian border. In Russia, billionaire wealth has just hit a record $696.5 billion. Meanwhile, two-thirds of the confirmed Russian war dead come from towns with fewer than 100,000 people, and the poorest regions suffer the highest losses. There is one other small difference. Ukrainians are in trenches because their country was invaded. Russians are in trenches because Putin sent them across the border to invade somebody else’s. If you really want to talk about elites getting richer while ordinary people die, Moscow would be a remarkable place to start. But somehow you never do.
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My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨
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Excited for a new series of talks from our friends at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association (NCFS) 🎉
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Final call to apply for our Tim Unwin Early Career Research Grants, closing on 1 September! Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to assist with research projects related to 19th French studies.
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I often think about this photo, about who the girl is and what she's doing now. If she's alive, is she injured, what happened to her family. I've seen so many moving photos but this always stays with me #Gaza
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I am not sure if this post about the redundancies @UniofExeter has seeen the light of day on this platform? Here is is anyway. johnheathershaw.substack.com…
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This is a very interesting listen for anyone who struggles with Houellebecq, as I do.
Think Houellebecq is just a depressive realist? France’s most famous living novelist is obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, Wicca subplots, and 19th-century occultism. On French Weird we dive into the uncanny cosmic horror hiding at the heart of his books: tinyurl.com/2tsvfhbf
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Reported while female. Didn’t work for a right-wing newspaper. Dismissed & ridiculed by men who did. Gaslit for a decade. Sued through the courts. But I’m not the loser here. This decade of denial has caused Britain irreparable harm.
It's maybe time for a long story on @carolecadwalla who had warned and done the work on potential corruption around Farage et al years ago but was instead hounded and insulted and later sued. Even worse, she wasn't listened to at the time. Why not?
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Indeed. Any input from influential accounts can be nothing other than helpful. I do fear however, that time is running out too fast to turn the situation around. @RoryStewartUK @UniversitiesUK @bphillipsonMP
sad but politics podcast guy paying attention to this crisis might mean there’s the tiniest sliver of hope the government / msm will care more
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I and most of my Exeter Humanities colleagues are at risk of redundancy because of financial pressures on HE, weathered well until now. These are high-performing Depts, by all the usual metrics. Up to 1 in 4 jobs marked at risk will go. Please sign change.org/p/stop-redundanci…
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition c.org/2mbQJzJS2k
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10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist. At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk
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Calling all our George Sand scholars! There will be a conference on “George Sand dans la Troisième République” on 18 and 19 June at ENS Lyon. Further details, including the programme, can be found below and in the following link: fabula.org/actualites/134831…
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What happened in Belfast was what Lucy Connolly called for in Southport. She was, quite rightly jailed. Only for Reform to give her a heroes welcome at their conference, which normalised and applauded racial incitement. Now look at where we are. It’ll be lynchings next.
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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 R. Gapper Book Prize is Helena Taylor for her book, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press). sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-bo…
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Evil rarely announces itself. Hannah Arendt didn’t warn us that the greatest danger would come from monsters. She warned us it would come from ordinary people who stop asking questions. People who trade conscience for slogans, curiosity for certainty, and morality for obedience. The lesson of the Holocaust was never just about one man. It was about what happens when a society decides that thinking is optional. Every generation believes it would have stood against evil. History keeps asking the same question: Would you have? Or would you have simply gone along because everyone else did? That’s why Arendt still matters. And that’s why this conversation matters. Because the opposite of evil isn’t outrage. It’s the courage to think for yourself.
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AI could be used for REF, says Royal Society president. The president of the Royal Society has suggested that artificial intelligence could ease the burden placed on academics by the Research Excellence Framework and peer review. researchprofessionalnews.com…
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