This can only end very badly US gunmaker touts Trump-themed ‘MAGA Patriot’ AR-15 assault rifles on.ft.com/4eJ4JQy
Weapon bearing ex-president’s name is same kind that injured him in attempted assassination
The question now is - how fast can I write an article for a top-flight journal?
Feel excited about my research in a way that I haven’t felt in a couple years. Like my idea may actually be original and worth exploring. Reminds me of the days I used to stay up till after midnight click-clacking away during my PhD. Gotta bottle this up for the wet winter days and long nights.
Been loving this: open.spotify.com/album/66lndJ... 'Marching up the Shankill Marching up the Falls It doesn't matter where you're from The Tories f**k us all Bring me wine and porter Send me off to bed Bring me wine and porter For the noise inside me head.'
Success of mixed ed. at Queen's Colleges: 'I am apt to think...in a community like that of Ireland is of an importance which *can scarcely be overrated*, and makes support given to our University resemble the money expended on harbours, roads, and public works for the prosperity of the nation.'🗃️
Oct 1857: The Lord Lieutenant praised Queen's graduates who were heading off to India, imploring them to take 'conspicuous' part in 'restoring upon a firmer, a purer, a nobler basis than it ever yet rested on - the hold of civilised and Christian England upon the regained millions of India'. 🗃️
Faculty Fellowship in Irish History @GIHNYU starting September 2025, renewable annually for a term of up to three years. Details here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ : apply.interfolio.com/154500
In another life, I could see Phil Foden as the lead singer of a very self-reverential emo band.
After a stimulating workshop at Aberdeen on Irish Political Thought yesterday, it was a wonderful coincidence to get to see the John Lavery exhibition in Edinburgh. Learned a lot and really enjoyed just basking in some of these paintings.
Oh Arsenal 🤦♂️