Fantastic podcast from @fioncudmore.bsky.social & @tomjturner.bsky.social. Demonstrating the depth our students’ understanding and their access to our fabulous network. First episode with Ed Balls. Listen: open.spotify.com/show/033vuT0... Join the cohort in 26/27: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

In a State

Podcast · Fion Cudmore and Tom Turner · For young people in the UK, ‘political stability’ is an oxymoron. Our generation has grown up alongside a series of so-called ‘once-in-a-generation’ crises, and...

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Join us on 23 July when Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Permanent Secretary & our Visiting Professor Emran Mian will give his inaugural lecture on 'Building UK advantage in science and technology'. Apply for places here: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/emran-...

Emran Mian: ‘Building UK advantage in science and technology’ - The Strand Group

The eighty-first Strand Group event, where our new Visiting Professor Emran Mian will give his inaugural lecture.

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Only on @strandgroup.bsky.social's MA Government Studies @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social can you ask a former British Prime Minister to help you with your essays. A huge privilege to chair an exceptional final session of our No.10 and Conservative Years modules with Lord Cameron this year.

Delighted that Visiting Prof Sir Iain Lobban, former Director of GCHQ, joined our class on PMs and National Security to talk about the long history of cyber security. Applications for the next academic year are open: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr....

We are delighted to announce that @emranmian.bsky.social, Permanent Secretary of DSIT, joins us as Visiting Professor Applications now open for this Autumn’s MA Government Studies: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

We are delighted to announce @suzannahb.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief of @civilserviceworld.bsky.social, joins us as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow & will be a guest lecturer on our ‘History of the Civil Service’ postgraduate module MA Government Studies: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Chuffed to have Sir Simon Gass, former Chair of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee at Visiting Prof Lord Simon Case and I’s class on the History of Defence, Intelligence and Security Decision-Making. Superb insight on intelligence in UK government decision making on Ukraine and much more!

Join us on 18 March when Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH will give the 2026 Attlee Foundation lecture Apply for places here: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/attlee... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social

Attlee Foundation Lecture delivered by Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH - The Strand Group

The Attlee Foundation, in partnership with The Strand Group of King’s College London host the 2026 Attlee Foundation Lecture, to be delivered by Sir John Major on Wednesday 18 March at 1830.

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Delighted to have the inimitable Visiting Prof Sir Kevin Tebbit to talk all things UK Defence at our class on Defence, Intelligence and Security Decision-Making with Visiting Prof Lord Simon Case. Applications for the 2026/27 academic year now open: lnkd.in/e27J7UHC. @strandgroup.bsky.social

Together with Visiting Prof Simon Case and Sir Jonathan Phillips, former Perm Sec of the Northern Ireland Office, this week our students dived into the political, security & diplomatic history behind “The Troubles”. Applications for 2026/27 are now open! www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Great to have the masterful Professor Sir David Omand at our class on the History of Prime Ministerial and Whitehall Defence, Intelligence and Security Decision Making. This week students learned about how governments have survived crises in the recent past. @strandgroup.bsky.social

Join us @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on 26 February when David Williams (Permanent Secretary Ministry of Defence 2021-25) will be in conversation with Visiting Professor Lord Case (Cabinet Secretary 2020-24) Tickets: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/in-con...

In Conversation with David Williams - The Strand Group

The seventy-ninth Strand Group event, where David Williams, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence from 2021-2025, will be in conversation with Visiting Professor Lord Simon Case, Cabinet Secr...

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Great to kick off "Prime Ministerial & Whitehall defence, intelligence and security decision-making", co-taught with Lord Simon Case. This week’s guest was Professor John Bew, former Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to the PM. Applications open for MA Government Studies 2026/27 👇 lnkd.in/e27J7UHC

So pleased to be joined for the first time by ace new teacher and @strandgroup.bsky.social PhD @clearys.bsky.social for our 'Conservative Years, 2010-24' module. And what better way to kick off than discussing the inner workings of the Coalition with former Deputy Chief of Staff Baroness Fall...

All smiles as we're back underway with our 'London: Governing the Global City' module on @strandgroup.bsky.social MA Government Studies - Prof Tony Travers delivering his masterful '2000 years of London history in 45 mins' lecture to kick off... (1/2)

PhD thesis is finished, checked, and ready for one final proof read. 🥳

Looking forward to discussing my new book ‘The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain's Public Services’ with Sir Michael Barber 28 May 1830 @strandgroup.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Do join us! Sign up here 👇

Strand Group KCL@strandgroup.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us on 28 May for @mlclem.bsky.social's book launch - 'The Art of Delivery: The Inside Story of How the Blair Government Transformed Britain's Public Services' Dr Clement will be in conversation with Sir Michael Barber. Tickets: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/book-l...

Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

It's like how a lot of people think historians' job is to memorize historical facts!

Ben Lockwood, PhD@benlockwood.bsky.social · last yr.

Maps are inherently political. Whenever I tell people I'm a geographer I usually get a version of that Arrested Development bit, like "haven't we already mapped everything?". But people don't realize how much maps are part of their every day lives. And mapping is never finished.

And here we go. Mostly a PR stunt for now, but cumulative radicalization is a thing and we have it going mainstream. Once it fully does, rolling it back would be extremely hard.

Israel's defense minister orders army to prepare for Gaza residents' departure, media reports

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan to allow the "voluntary departure" of residents from the Gaza strip, Israeli media reported.

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Eugene Finkel@efinkel.bsky.social · last yr.

Hate sounding like a broken Cassandra record, but I don't think most people realize how dangerous the Trump rhetoric on Gaza is. Not because the US will take over Gaza, that's nonsense. But because it creates a real opening for the Israeli far right government to do it themselves. They might

Myles Lewis-Skelly, by the way, is unreal.

Restores my faith in brutalism (pun intended)

Alexander Luckmann@aluckmann.bsky.social · 2y ago

#100: Gottfried Böhm, Church of Mary, Queen of Peace, Velbert-Neviges (1966-68)

'Beigel Bake, Brick Lane' (2020) by Marc Gooderham marcgooderham.co.uk

Just been reminded of this piece by Beth McKernan, less than six months old - and from a different era.

‘We can’t take any of this for granted’: Gaza’s fight to keep its treasures safe at home

Local archaeologists dedicate their lives to protect priceless artefacts from smugglers, Hamas and Israeli attacks in a land at history’s crossroads

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“The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time.  It was present at its own making.”   EP Thompson. Were he still alive he would have been 100 today.