Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
This biopic frames the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska in the context of his own psychological turmoil, at the omission of the broader social and political strife it also channelled.
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New piece on ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’, the biopic about Bruce Springsteen making his 1982 album Nebraska amid his own worsening mental health crisis, and how it frames that album in relation to his life and career. A 🧵 on my take on the film.
#filmsky #skystorians #polisky
#filmsky #skystorians #polisky
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Stumbled across this article from 2008. How times have changed – not just the policies but also the tenor of political discourse 😔
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
February 4, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Stumbled across this article from 2008. How times have changed – not just the policies but also the tenor of political discourse 😔
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The thing with conspiracy theorising is it routinely involves leaping from reasonable premises and evidence to far fetched conclusions, through unchecked prejudices and assumptions and a monomaniacal worldview, in exactly this way.
Russian spies did not force the rich and powerful in America to be sex trafficking pedophiles please be serious
February 4, 2026 at 9:24 PM
The thing with conspiracy theorising is it routinely involves leaping from reasonable premises and evidence to far fetched conclusions, through unchecked prejudices and assumptions and a monomaniacal worldview, in exactly this way.
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*Ross Geller voice* "I was tricked into all those things"
Russian spies did not force the rich and powerful in America to be sex trafficking pedophiles please be serious
February 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
*Ross Geller voice* "I was tricked into all those things"
(I've Had) The Time of My Life (Well I’ve Bloody Not)
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
February 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
(I've Had) The Time of My Life (Well I’ve Bloody Not)
Absolutely vital Arsenal win the League Cup as my 10yo asked me if we’d won it before and I said “yes twice” and he laughed and said “What was that like back in the 90s?” YES IT WAS IN THE BLOODY NINETIES WHAT’S YOUR POINT. Cannot be having these discussions again.
February 4, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Absolutely vital Arsenal win the League Cup as my 10yo asked me if we’d won it before and I said “yes twice” and he laughed and said “What was that like back in the 90s?” YES IT WAS IN THE BLOODY NINETIES WHAT’S YOUR POINT. Cannot be having these discussions again.
Are the media divorced from conventional moral attitudes to associating with notorious child sex traffickers? No, it is the public who are wrong!
This is an unbelievable thing to write today. It seems unreal. A staggering act of fealty to a rightly disgraced and discredited man. Does every important argument in the politics of the left include the one about closely associating with oligarchic financiers and convicted child sex offenders? T
February 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Are the media divorced from conventional moral attitudes to associating with notorious child sex traffickers? No, it is the public who are wrong!
Real competition this season as to whether The Discourse about Arsenal is more unhinged outside the club’s fanbase - “worst could-be champions ever” (with a record in all comps of P38 W29 D6 L3 F82 A 25) - or within it - “Player X is finished, we’ve no good forwards, etc”.
there is some kind of mass psychosis going on in Arsenal fandom about Martin Odegaard
he's an obviously highly productive football player who also works hard and also does beautiful things with the ball
and people afaict disproportionately *within the fandom* have decided they think he sucks now
he's an obviously highly productive football player who also works hard and also does beautiful things with the ball
and people afaict disproportionately *within the fandom* have decided they think he sucks now
Imagine if this unnamed footballer were widely acknowledged to be in the midst of a major slump in form...
February 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Real competition this season as to whether The Discourse about Arsenal is more unhinged outside the club’s fanbase - “worst could-be champions ever” (with a record in all comps of P38 W29 D6 L3 F82 A 25) - or within it - “Player X is finished, we’ve no good forwards, etc”.
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there is some kind of mass psychosis going on in Arsenal fandom about Martin Odegaard
he's an obviously highly productive football player who also works hard and also does beautiful things with the ball
and people afaict disproportionately *within the fandom* have decided they think he sucks now
he's an obviously highly productive football player who also works hard and also does beautiful things with the ball
and people afaict disproportionately *within the fandom* have decided they think he sucks now
Imagine if this unnamed footballer were widely acknowledged to be in the midst of a major slump in form...
February 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM
there is some kind of mass psychosis going on in Arsenal fandom about Martin Odegaard
he's an obviously highly productive football player who also works hard and also does beautiful things with the ball
and people afaict disproportionately *within the fandom* have decided they think he sucks now
he's an obviously highly productive football player who also works hard and also does beautiful things with the ball
and people afaict disproportionately *within the fandom* have decided they think he sucks now
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Looking for an academic article that opens with an MP hitting another MP in the head with a steel chair? Look no further … 🏴 🤼
📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 28, Issue 1
'National gimmicks as soft power strategy: WWE’s Clash at the Castle and the performance of the Cymru Wales Brand' by @daimoon.bsky.social
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'National gimmicks as soft power strategy: WWE’s Clash at the Castle and the performance of the Cymru Wales Brand' by @daimoon.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/QlKbKbM
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Looking for an academic article that opens with an MP hitting another MP in the head with a steel chair? Look no further … 🏴 🤼
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Good to see this up!
In this piece itself, I argue the problem is not *just* Keir Starmer.
In this piece itself, I argue the problem is not *just* Keir Starmer.
A useful reminder on today of all days from our @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague @colmpm.bsky.social
Labour's problem isn't Keir Starmer | LSE British Politics
Labour's dismal performance in the polls has lead to Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party being openly contested. But Colm Murphy argues that, while Starmer is a flawed politician, many of th...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Good to see this up!
In this piece itself, I argue the problem is not *just* Keir Starmer.
In this piece itself, I argue the problem is not *just* Keir Starmer.
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In a thousand years, people will assume "George Osborne" was some sort of mythic person, honourary role, or qualification that was considered for, or made you elligible for, every senior job in early 21st century Britain.
Dismissing Katen Pierce was also a poor decision by Starmer. They do keep piling up.
February 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
In a thousand years, people will assume "George Osborne" was some sort of mythic person, honourary role, or qualification that was considered for, or made you elligible for, every senior job in early 21st century Britain.
Although I think the flipside of, or at least maybe orthogonal to this, is to compare it to previous scandals whose coming to light seemed very much the gift of the British media in its timing, e.g Partygate. And the timing related to the intersection between domestic news and political cycles.
This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
February 4, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Although I think the flipside of, or at least maybe orthogonal to this, is to compare it to previous scandals whose coming to light seemed very much the gift of the British media in its timing, e.g Partygate. And the timing related to the intersection between domestic news and political cycles.
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Again reminding people in Bristol especially that we do not need to extend our gaze to other countries to look for case studies for civil rights movements.
February 4, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Again reminding people in Bristol especially that we do not need to extend our gaze to other countries to look for case studies for civil rights movements.
“Im not a cat.”
“…I can see that.”
“…I can see that.”
February 4, 2026 at 11:27 AM
“Im not a cat.”
“…I can see that.”
“…I can see that.”
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One thing I’m struck by is how much of a surprise it seems to have been to the MP (I get the sense the surprise is genuine not disingenuous). Why are some, perhaps most, MPs not plugged into the conversation on HE - even in areas where the local impact is severe enough to risk their own re-election?
A good piece on the closure of Essex’s Southend campus: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:54 AM
One thing I’m struck by is how much of a surprise it seems to have been to the MP (I get the sense the surprise is genuine not disingenuous). Why are some, perhaps most, MPs not plugged into the conversation on HE - even in areas where the local impact is severe enough to risk their own re-election?
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My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Selling Education in England, 1650–1715*
Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang
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February 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy
New Intervention in TIBG:
'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
February 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy
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Another important article from a great scholar who is much missed
New article, by the late Aaron Graham, 'Glorious Autarky? Foreign Resources and the British Fiscal-Military State, 1688–1815'
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Glorious Autarky? Foreign Resources and the British Fiscal-Military State, 1688–1815*
Abstract. Studies of state formation and state-building in early modern Britain have almost overwhelmingly focused on how domestic resources were mobilised
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February 3, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Another important article from a great scholar who is much missed
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📢 📢 Out now and open access! My article on resisting white nationalism and dystopia in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man, part of a special issue on postcolonial genre. Thanks to the editors and reviewers at LCET for steering this through. 📢 📢
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 4, 2026 at 8:40 AM
📢 📢 Out now and open access! My article on resisting white nationalism and dystopia in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man, part of a special issue on postcolonial genre. Thanks to the editors and reviewers at LCET for steering this through. 📢 📢
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Tbf, his team did spend the game punching themselves in the nuts.
Paul Merson calling Estevao ‘Steve-o’ on Sky was pretty amazing 😂
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Tbf, his team did spend the game punching themselves in the nuts.
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Post match v comms is like they watched two different games, with post match people actually having watched the match we all watched.
February 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Post match v comms is like they watched two different games, with post match people actually having watched the match we all watched.
You mean sticking ten men behind the ball for an hour in a game they had to win wasn’t a tactical masterclass after all? #RIPNarrative
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
You mean sticking ten men behind the ball for an hour in a game they had to win wasn’t a tactical masterclass after all? #RIPNarrative
🎶 Sixty million down the drain… 🎶
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
🎶 Sixty million down the drain… 🎶
Ryan Tripp interviewing Duncan Kelly about his book 'Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics' on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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February 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Ryan Tripp interviewing Duncan Kelly about his book 'Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics' on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Today will mostly be working on my chapter on Ugandan Asian dialogues on BBC radio, focusing on contextualising the programme within the wider context of the BBC in the 2010s and of the panellists' lives and other narratives of expulsion and resettlement. Hopefully into the home strait now... 🤞
February 3, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Today will mostly be working on my chapter on Ugandan Asian dialogues on BBC radio, focusing on contextualising the programme within the wider context of the BBC in the 2010s and of the panellists' lives and other narratives of expulsion and resettlement. Hopefully into the home strait now... 🤞