Jeppe Mulich
@jmulich.bsky.social
Teaching history and politics at City St George's. Work on Asia and the Caribbean. Too much time thinking about RPGs. Currently Brighton, previously Hong Kong, New York, Copenhagen.
Everyone's reading the Odyssey at the moment. Not content with a single work, however epic, I am instead declaring it a summer of classics. This August will be dedicated to reading or re-reading the stuff I missed in college, or more likely forgot in the intervening twenty years. First up: Milton
University of Hertfordshire killing off its humanities is a travesty. British higher education continues to be a blazing bonfire.
Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d agoSo a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.
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A Hong Kong independent bookshop that national security police raided this month announced it would close after 50 years in business, while another shut down ahead of schedule.
Hong Kong independent bookstores to close after police raid
Police searched the two bookshops this month and arrested five people on suspicion of displaying and selling “items with seditious intent.”
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1) Update: Wu Chi-wai has successfully entered the UK 2) I really dislike The Times' choice of photo for a former Democratic Party chair and legislative councillor along with political prisoner who often was criticised for being too "moderate" pre-2019. www.thestandard.com.hk/news/article...
Former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai enters Britain after border hold-up
Former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai has been allowed to enter Britain after reportedly being detained at London’s Heathrow Airport and initially told he could be deported back to Hong Kong wit...
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Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 2w agoWu is applying for asylum in the UK under the BNO scheme. • The Home Office says it is aware of the incident, and it is understood to be a paperwork issue which the Border Force is working to resolve www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
The SCMP has pulled an article published online today, indicating that Hong Kong Customs has stepped up checks on book shipments from Taiwan to ensure orders do not breach national security laws. The link to the article below now shows a 404 Not Found. Will update
"I am a bookseller" hits different in Hong Kong.
YTSL@ytsl.bsky.social · 3w agoThis photo is one of the ages. And should be made famous.
BREAKING: Hong Kong police raid 2 independent bookstores, arrest 5 for alleged sedition – local media reports 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/b...
"Attack on Akio Yaita Shows China's Extraterritorial State Violence" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Attack on Akio Yaita Shows China’s Extraterritorial State Violence | New Bloom Magazine
Political commentator and former journalist Akio Yaita was attacked earlier this week by a Chinese man. The attack occurred while Yaita was speaking at a conference organized by the Spring Rain…
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"more than 25 public colleges [in California] own semi-automatic rifles" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns
A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent
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Letting the higher education sector crumble and slowly dismantling the BBC are some of the most frustrating own goals by the UK. There were very few areas in which the country was still world-leading a decade ago. Instead of nurturing those areas successive governments have pissed them away.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 4w agoSources of UK soft power have been taken for granted or ‘actively squandered’ over the last decade
ICYMI on Friday - our statement on the crisis in HE
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last mo.‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
Bookshop raided and former district councilor arrested for sedition in Hong Kong.
Police raid HK indy bookstore, 2 arrested for 'sedition' - report
Hong Kong national security police have arrested a former pro-democracy district councillor and raided her Sham Shui Po bookstore for alleged sedition and money laundering, according to local media re...
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For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up
Are We Friends? What AOC Can Learn from a Taiwanese Historical Romance Novel" — that is the title of my contribution to a recent Positions/Praxis forum asking the question, "What is a Left Position on Taiwan?"
What is a Left Position on Taiwan? - positions politics
What is a left position on Taiwan? This question was posed to us – the three editors of praxis, Rebecca Karl, Aminda Smith, and Fabio Lanza – at a recent social event in New York. The query came from ...
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I published a short essay on positions politics praxis elaborating a left position on Taiwan. It was an honor to be on a roundtable with esteemed Taiwanese scholars Joyce Liu, Yi-yi Hsieh, @kerim.one, and Andy Chih-ming Wang. positionspolitics.org/what-is-a-le...
What is a Left Position on Taiwan? - positions politics
What is a left position on Taiwan? This question was posed to us – the three editors of praxis, Rebecca Karl, Aminda Smith, and Fabio Lanza – at a recent social event in New York. The query came from ...
positionspolitics.org
Norway bans AI access in schools for kids ages 6-13, while also restricting AI for kids 14-16 to prevent academic decline | PC Magazine www.pcmag.com/news/norway-...
Norway Bans AI in Elementary Schools
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre argues that using AI could increase the risk that young children miss important steps in their education.
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I see that Labour is now doing that thing which major British political parties seem so fond of in recent years. Best of luck, guys.
Former UK Border Force official Peter Wai was jailed for 10 years and retired Hong Kong policeman Bill Yuen was given an eight-year term for conducting “shadow policing” in Britain.
UK jails Chinese-Brits for spying on Hong Kong dissidents for Beijing
A British court on Thursday jailed two dual Chinese-British nationals after they were convicted of spying on Hong Kong dissidents in the UK on behalf of China.
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Even more disturbing is what happened at Woolwich Crown Court last week, where the Crown prosecutors chose not to try Palestine Action protesters as terrorists, as the jury would be unlikely to convict. They were convicted as ordinary criminals. But then the judge *sentenced* them as terrorists.
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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A state led by police and former police? I wish we had a good term for that...
Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 2mo agoA reminder that if you would like to pursue a high-ranking career in government in Hong Kong, become a police officer • Albert Yuen Yuk-kin, former deputy commissioner of police (operations) is the new Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...
Our town came out in force today, saying no to fascism and xenophobia. There's nowhere I'd rather live in England than here.
Jeppe Mulich@jmulich.bsky.social · 2mo agoI love Brighton.
Thanks to @mjbayly.bsky.social for the recommendation, this is great stuff. And just the text I needed for my current project.
I realized that it's been 11 years since I finished the phd this month and almost had a heart attack. Because apparently that's something that happens to old people, which I now am.
