@georgebodie.bsky.social
Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Historian of Internationalism, Germany, Socialism, and the Cold War.
▶️ Take action now - write to Goldsmiths senior management and demand they end the lockout and work with @ucu.org.uk to find a resolution to the dispute bit.ly/EndGoldsmithsLockout #StrikeMap #Endthelockout #Goldsmiths
😡 They imposed 100% pay deductions 🤬 They locked staff out of their jobs 👿 They delayed ACAS talks aimed at resolving the dispute As a result, Goldsmiths UCU have called an indefinite strike. It started on June 8th & it's still going strong today. But they need your support!
Goldsmiths is seeking to implement a third round of mass job cuts in the last five years. Workers from @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social stood up and took action to defend jobs, so what did management do?
Count Binface is currently shorter odds to win in Clacton (5.5) than England are to win the World Cup (6)
This sort of snafu is emblematic of this gov's whole approach. I disagree with the political choices being made, fine, but the cack-handed way the whole thing is run really rubs salt into the wound
Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · last mo.Q: by "history" did she mean, uh "archaeology"? Because we have queries about history being in C1.1
Funny to think that 'war by train timetable' was only a century and a bit ago
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.ISRAEL SAID TO BE PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE IMMEDIATE RESUMPTION OF MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST IRAN: i24NEWS
Enjoyed this. Something to add - I was struck by the extent to which the proposals in 'Head North' were inspired by Germany, either implicitly or explictly. The problem is that Germany is now showcasing a lot of the issues that Burnham thinks the German federal structure has tempered or resolved
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · last mo.I'm sure everyone *wants* growth, but the point I concluded my recent LRB piece with is: what is the point of being in power if and when it doesn't arrive? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Solidarity with staff at Exeter. For a long time, people have suggested that it will take the crisis spreading to the higher end of the Russell group for MPs to sit up and take notice. I'm sceptical - but this will certainly get a load more press. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff
The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".
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"As one of Ginzburg’s last pieces of writing, the postscript summed up the value of a legacy that can inspire us to think harder and better about today’s outsiders. In it, he recalled that Menocchio told his interrogators: 'My mind … wished for a new world.'" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the death of Carlo Ginzburg: a historian who taught us to think about outsiders | Editorial
Editorial: The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today
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Intrigued by this (presumably Ai generated) Burnham biography Amazon is trying to sell me. Positives: its only 3 quid. Negatives: that isn't Andy Burnham. Also, that subtitle really rolls off the tongue
It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her
You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.
After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Hearing reports that Baron Glasman (BA Cambridge, MA York, PhD European University Institute, Florence) is on TV again saying that people shouldn't go to university
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
That Hinsliff quote is just such a weird way to think about political intentions: the 'cleaning out' *was* the intellectual content of the project
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5mo agoFrom that Gaby Hinsliff column: it is great to just say right out, loud and proud, that the people now in government spent so much of the last 10+ years determinedly wrecking their own party and hounding their colleagues and members, that they forgot they needed to think up some ideas for governing.
Habermas was wrong about a lot but I've come to think that he was right about the revolutions 1989 being defined by a 'lack of ideas that are either innovative or orientated towards the future' and the implications this had (and still have) for the left newleftreview.org/issues/i183/...
Jurgen Habermas, What Does Socialism Mean Today? The Rectifying Revolution and the Need for New Thinking on the Left, NLR I/183, September–October 1990
There has recently been a spate of articles about the end of the socialist illusion, about the failure of an idea, and even about West European or German intellectuals finally coming to terms with the...
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RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoJürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.
Why didnt they just ask chat gpt
Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 5mo ago"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
Glasman did a PhD at one of the most prestigious institutes in the world, and had a relatively successful academic career before he went into politics. He will have worn lanyards probably hundreds of times. Whether he knows it or not, hes just engaging in past-self disavowal.
Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · 5mo agoYeah, I think Glasman thinks they’re a sign you aren’t Proper Working Class (retail and service industries not counting), but it just shows how little he knows about the modern world.
A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.
Its doubly galling because Starmer and Labour have (and not without reason) spent years insisting Reform curious voters should be respected and taken seriously. Then with the Greens they're all "LOL you've been taken in by those nutters, U morons, don't be daft." Its playground level ignorance.
This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right
Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Their willingness to welcome Galloway's divisive, sectarian politics is a sign that the Greens are not the harmless environmentalists they pretend to be and their position on legalising all drugs shows how unstable this electoral coalition is. It cannot survive a general election campaign. (5/16)
We have organised a series of exciting events throughout March for our Rethinking Internationalism project, including an in-person conference at Birkbeck on 19th-20th. For more details and information on tickets, see our website: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...
March 'Rethinking Internationalism' Events — Centre for the Study of Internationalism
Join us for a series of events throughout March 2026 to conclude our 'Rethinking Internationalism' grant project, including an in-person conference hosted at Birkbeck, a public lecture, and a publishi...
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the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.