Crooked Timber
Occasional paper: Blue Angels, Devil Hands
Sunday photoblogging: l’Abbaye de Valmagne
On Reinforcing Cynicism in the Academy
Occasional paper: Inconstant moon
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas street
Bobby, I hardly Knew Ye
Global science equity – towards solutions
Music break: Baba Yetu
History Nerd Bucket List: The Jenny Geddes Stool
How many babies do we want? How many will we have?
Good news from Hungary
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, old town
Cosmic Alchemy
Extreme wealth concentration — as strong as ever
Older but not sicker
Ravens and robots
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, Porte Faugères
Habermas, democratic discourse, and class
Sunday photoblogging: shed
Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 3 (and last)
Fifteen years after Fukushima
Women have been crazy successful at building spaces for themselves in the economy. Thing is, that is often exploited too.
Sunday photoblogging: VW reflection
Every child should be wanted
Golden (missed) opportunities
In the Next Great Transformation AI will not eliminate genuine expertise; rather it will make it more valuable
Sunday photoblogging: car reflection
Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 2
Sunday photoblogging: Life in the UK
The US state has proved itself dispensable
Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 1
Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road
Runciman’s Rawls
The Stone Pillars of the Sons of Seth
A modest proposal for the use of AI
Occasional reason to be cheerful: Babies
A big thank you …
20th anniversary of the Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican.
Sunday photoblogging: Cumberland Basin
A New Hope
WHO: An anecdote
Sunday photoblogging: Tattoo Time
A very short post about heroin voice
The social media ban that wasn’t
Sunday photoblogging: East Street
Utilitarianism: it all went wrong with Sidgwick
On West Coast Straussianism and the Imperial Presidency
The Tories are dead, long live the Tories (Reform version)!
Sunday photoblogging: Derrynane Strand, Co. Kerry
How to make sure the writing gets done
Changing beliefs, moving house – suggestion for a change of metaphor
Sunday photoblogging: Windmill Hill
A note on the threat to art from AI
For 2026, let’s hope…
Some thoughts on charitable donations
Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road
L’Établi (2): the book
Sunday photoblogging: Southville houses
Bankers (not money) make the world go around? Towards a labour/tech history of finance
Housework for singles
Adventures with Deep Research: success then failure
Sunday photoblogging: Braunton Road
l’Établi
The Pub at the End of the University
Will Fewer Kids mean Fewer Scientists*
Sunday photoblogging: Altona pavement and leaves
Occasional artwork: Because It’s The Dream
Your Thanksgiving Gen AI use case
Musk’s last grift
“Core Protection”
Online discussion on Lisa Herzog’s The Democratic Marketplace
Sunday photoblogging: Clevedon pier shadow (2007)
Armistice Day
Fiction and non-fiction to move citizens on climate change
What should academics wear? Musings on regalia
Sunday photoblogging: Hamburg cobblestones
Death and Capitalism (Part 4 of 4)
Tuesday photoblogging: Hamburg crows
Death and Capitalism (Part 3 of 4)
No (Despotic) Kings, but maybe Constitutional Monarchy?
Occasional paper: A planet from 2007
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas bunting
Death and Capitalism (Part 2 of 4)
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas
Death and Capitalism (Part 1 of 4)
Does “forward” still make sense? A hypothesis on protest
Delighted to be proved wrong
Chat control in Europe, an open letter to the Irish Minister who wants to scan all our messages
Sunday photoblogging: Marseillan
Paper reactors and paper tigers
Against Campus ‘Debate’
Rambouillet, part 1: The State of Play
The care economy, or radical economic growth?
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas 1653 (some more)
On the philosophical – moral implications of a 1989 Honda Civic
The Peter Principle, and the unintended consequences of financial work motivation
Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas 1653
Is Deep Research deep? Is it research?
My down the back of the sofa theory of the emerging stage of capitalism. Plus, Australian magpies.
Five technological achievements! (That we won’t see any time soon.)
Sunday photoblogging: Trieste (2009)
Occasional paper: It gets on your nerves
The crash of 2026: a fiction
Sunday photoblogging: Clevedon pier