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What a fabulous piece of writing.
I gave Geoffrey Hill’s posthumous Baruch a largely disappointed review (in Stand) when it came out. My reservations remain - but it does contain great things, like this section on Yeats and ‘Easter 1916’.
August 27, 2026 at 10:10 AM
What a fabulous piece of writing.
Delighted that our special number of
@HistHum on the history of the medical humanities in France and the English-speaking world is now available with many of the papers being open access, thanks to Jisc. It's been a long but very exciting haul. journals.sagepub.com/toc/HHS/curr...
@HistHum on the history of the medical humanities in France and the English-speaking world is now available with many of the papers being open access, thanks to Jisc. It's been a long but very exciting haul. journals.sagepub.com/toc/HHS/curr...
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August 21, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Delighted that our special number of
@HistHum on the history of the medical humanities in France and the English-speaking world is now available with many of the papers being open access, thanks to Jisc. It's been a long but very exciting haul. journals.sagepub.com/toc/HHS/curr...
@HistHum on the history of the medical humanities in France and the English-speaking world is now available with many of the papers being open access, thanks to Jisc. It's been a long but very exciting haul. journals.sagepub.com/toc/HHS/curr...
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I was attacked in Thetford riots for trying to do my job
By Henry Durand
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644352...
By Henry Durand
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644352...
I've been attacked as a journalist twice in a year... I'm just trying to do my job
I was attacked for a second time in a year while covering the Thetford riots, here's what happened and why I'm going back.
www.edp24.co.uk
August 7, 2026 at 9:39 AM
I was attacked in Thetford riots for trying to do my job
By Henry Durand
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644352...
By Henry Durand
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644352...
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Will Iran be remembered as Biden's Vietnam?
July 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Will Iran be remembered as Biden's Vietnam?
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Admittedly a US thing, but I think folks should reflect that Kimi, the open-weight AI model by $20b-valued Moonshot AI everyone is freaking out about, was developed by someone who went to CMU and then didn't stay in the US mostly because visas would prevent him setting up a US business
July 18, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Admittedly a US thing, but I think folks should reflect that Kimi, the open-weight AI model by $20b-valued Moonshot AI everyone is freaking out about, was developed by someone who went to CMU and then didn't stay in the US mostly because visas would prevent him setting up a US business
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If true, we get 3 things. None good.
1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration.
2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy.
3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.
1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration.
2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy.
3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.
The Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration
July 18, 2026 at 8:58 AM
If true, we get 3 things. None good.
1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration.
2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy.
3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.
1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration.
2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy.
3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.
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A remarkable speech from Naz Shah opening the King's Speech debate:
"Someone like me who spent her formative years fighting a campaign to release her mother from prison, who did not have a formal education beyond 12... forced into a marriage at 15... attempting suicide... Yet, here I stand."
"Someone like me who spent her formative years fighting a campaign to release her mother from prison, who did not have a formal education beyond 12... forced into a marriage at 15... attempting suicide... Yet, here I stand."
May 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
A remarkable speech from Naz Shah opening the King's Speech debate:
"Someone like me who spent her formative years fighting a campaign to release her mother from prison, who did not have a formal education beyond 12... forced into a marriage at 15... attempting suicide... Yet, here I stand."
"Someone like me who spent her formative years fighting a campaign to release her mother from prison, who did not have a formal education beyond 12... forced into a marriage at 15... attempting suicide... Yet, here I stand."
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Let he who has not released a song called Heil Hitler within the past year cast the first stone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
April 6, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Let he who has not released a song called Heil Hitler within the past year cast the first stone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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GB News: its *important* to AIR the view that migration is genocide + to AIR the view that increasing diversity inevitably means violence+death. ("I would love to know where you are planning to go when THEY really turn on US. Because it has happened before + *WILL* HAPPEN AGAIN")
Ofcom: Don't Know.
Ofcom: Don't Know.
March 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
GB News: its *important* to AIR the view that migration is genocide + to AIR the view that increasing diversity inevitably means violence+death. ("I would love to know where you are planning to go when THEY really turn on US. Because it has happened before + *WILL* HAPPEN AGAIN")
Ofcom: Don't Know.
Ofcom: Don't Know.
Delighted that my paper with Céline Lefève and Patrick ffrench comparing the history of the medical humanities in the USA and France is now out and free to download here:
doi.org/10.1177/0952...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Delighted that my paper with Céline Lefève and Patrick ffrench comparing the history of the medical humanities in the USA and France is now out and free to download here:
doi.org/10.1177/0952...
@frenchstudies.bsky.social @frculturalst.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @bmj.com
doi.org/10.1177/0952...
@frenchstudies.bsky.social @frculturalst.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @bmj.com
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Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.
Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
October 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.
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I’m talking about Don Trump, the New York cartoonist.
September 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I’m talking about Don Trump, the New York cartoonist.
I'm so grateful to Coline Garré of Le Quotidien du Médecin for this fab account (in French) of a seminar I was honoured to give at Institut la Personne en Médecine on how the isolation of the ill helps articulate the links between the medical humanities, psychology and epidemiology.
bit.ly/3TipqtQ
bit.ly/3TipqtQ
Ce que la maladie nous dit de notre rapport à l'autre
« À la suite d’un AVC, un de mes amis, journaliste, n’a plus pu parler ni écrire un anglais clair. Il a tout perdu : son emploi, son mariage, son logement. Tous ses amis l’ont abandonné. Paradoxalemen...
www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr
June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'm so grateful to Coline Garré of Le Quotidien du Médecin for this fab account (in French) of a seminar I was honoured to give at Institut la Personne en Médecine on how the isolation of the ill helps articulate the links between the medical humanities, psychology and epidemiology.
bit.ly/3TipqtQ
bit.ly/3TipqtQ
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Baroness Kidron in the House of Lords today:
"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
June 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Baroness Kidron in the House of Lords today:
"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
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Looking forward to the #NNMHR conference on ‘Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers’ beginning tomorrow. It’s a daunting honour to have been asked to give one of the keynotes. nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
May 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Looking forward to the #NNMHR conference on ‘Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers’ beginning tomorrow. It’s a daunting honour to have been asked to give one of the keynotes. nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
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Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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May 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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May 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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📗📚📖 Pleased to have signed, with Co-Editor Larry Duffy, the contract for our book ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections’, to appear in Liverpool UP’s Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series next year.
May 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
📗📚📖 Pleased to have signed, with Co-Editor Larry Duffy, the contract for our book ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections’, to appear in Liverpool UP’s Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series next year.
This is a really terrific piece.
Blogged: Labour's (partial) bias towards manufacturing industry reflects an outmoded view of the economy: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
Labour's manufacturing bias
Lots of you have pointed out the contrast between the government's keenness to support British Steel and its reluctance to help universities despite the fact that the latter have been cutting even mor...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is a really terrific piece.
I'm so delighted and thrilled by Jürgen Pieters' profound and perceptive review of my book (with Derek Bolton) Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment (Reaktion, 2024) in The Polyphony. You can read it here:
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment Book Review
Jürgen Pieters reviews Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment by Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion, 2024).
thepolyphony.org
March 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm so delighted and thrilled by Jürgen Pieters' profound and perceptive review of my book (with Derek Bolton) Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment (Reaktion, 2024) in The Polyphony. You can read it here:
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
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it remains quite mad to me that this post was made over a decade ago - I remember seeing it at the time! - and it just got....pretty much everything about the online hellscape of 2020's right
March 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
it remains quite mad to me that this post was made over a decade ago - I remember seeing it at the time! - and it just got....pretty much everything about the online hellscape of 2020's right
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2025: Brexit party MEP in court for taking bribes from Russia
2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin'
Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️
2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin'
Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️
February 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
2025: Brexit party MEP in court for taking bribes from Russia
2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin'
Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️
2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin'
Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️