Holger Nehring

@holgernehring.bsky.social

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Contemporary historian #ColdWar #diplomacy

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 7h

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

news.wisc.edu

Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 1d

Agree with the sentiment. But it's a mystery to me why people didn't see the risks. Perhaps too many still believe in magic.

The student loan system — and its danger for Keir Starmer and Labour - www.ft.com/content/7bf5...

The student loan system — and its danger for Keir Starmer and Labour

Growing anger among millions of graduates who face decades of debt is causing unease in Westminster

www.ft.com

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 2d

Sir Guenter Treitel came to the UK on the Kindertransport. He became the foremost authority on English contract law.
Famously, he held the Rolling Stones to their contract to play the Magdalen Ball in 1964 for £100 - they had suddenly become superstars after being booked as unknowns in 1963.

Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 2d

Magdalen launches Sir Guenter Treitel Scholarships.

Each year, three Sir Guenter Treitel Scholars will be provided with full funding (fees and maintenance) to study the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at Magdalen College.

Read more: www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/magdale...

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Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 2d

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

On the Labour side, there’s a lot of “the public are not able to face up to Hard Choices” - you never gave them the chance to! You instead presented a manifesto that was either an act of self-deception or just of regular deception!

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3d

In retrospect outsourcing a governing party's strategic thinking to the apprentices of a Dark Lord is a terrible idea

Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 3d

What if the main story is not sex, but money?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4d

Very much so. There was never anything more to the "Starmer project" than competence and probity and he's not proved particularly competent either.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 4d

The Mandelson saga is doubly bad for Starmer & co. First because it goes against their supposed brand of probity. Second because it fits their actual brand of not listening to concerns from their colleagues and majoring on ideas that only make sense in transactional terms or getting through the week

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 4d

What is the point of Keir Starmer staying as prime minister?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

Morning.

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 4d

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?

"Pull factors" on steroids.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 4d

Wasn't Sue Gray supposed to be the source of all of the PM's problems?

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klaus radke @kradke.bsky.social · 4d

Essen, Zeche Zollverein
4. Februar 2026

#UNESCO-Welterbe
www.zollverein.de

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4d

Gets worse and worse

A very Labour weakness

When Keir Starmer first entered Downing Street as Prime Minister, appointing Peter Mandelson ambassador to Washington wasn't part of the plan. Sue Gray, Starmer's then chief of staff, had compiled a shortlist of two for that crucial diplomatic role, and Mandelson -despite media reports linking his name to the role - was not on it.

"Keir doesn't even like him, and never really has," one Labour insider now insists. "He's not Keir's sort of person." True or not, the shortlist Gray had drawn up contained the existing post-holder, Karen Pierce, and an intriguing potential political appointment: David Miliband. And yet, five months later, the man Starmer apparently never liked got the job. How that happened - and what changed in the intervening months - is now a question whose answer may determine whether Starmer survives as Prime Minister...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to the standard mealy mouthed response from Jacqui Smith about this.

‘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

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d

‘While much of the Western media debates 'desirable' versus ‘realistic' peace scenarios, for Ukrainians… the latter often represents a distortion of the very concept of peace.’ Our new paper by Daryna Dvornichenko and @holgernehring.bsky.social
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

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The British
Academy
CARNEGIE
ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Global DisOrder international policy programme
The social foundations for peace: violence, peace, and (dis)order in Ukraine
Daryna Dvornichenko, University of Oxford and Holger Nehring, University of Stirling

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NateintheWild @nateinthewild.com · 6d

Tomorrow I fly back to the Lofoten Islands in the Norwegian Arctic. Last year the first night we arrived I filmed this outrageous combination of full moon rainbow combined with Northern Lights. Hard to imagine how this year could top it, but fingers crossed!

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 7d

Interested in writing as a way of 'doing' politics? Then read this new collection of essays, Writing Politics in Modern Britain, edited by @richardtoye.bsky.social & @garylove.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

Writing Politics in Modern Britain

Cambridge Core - British Government, Politics and Policy - Writing Politics in Modern Britain

www.cambridge.org

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 7d

Man I forgot how powerful Gilroy's criticism of the New Left and Cultural Studies is, of Williams, Thompson and Hobsbawm who remained beholden to an English cultural nationalism and parochialism he undermined.

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 7d

Extraordinary: Mandelson told Epstein that JP Morgan should "threaten" then cabinet colleague and chancellor Alistair Darling over tax on bankers' bonuses. In plain language: "Minister conspired with US bank against own government".
More brilliant FT reporting
www.ft.com/content/91e8...

Mandelson told Epstein JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK government over banker tax

Then business secretary advised sex offender on how Jamie Dimon should lobby chancellor

www.ft.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

Quite extraordinary how little discussion of risks universities are engaging in before they sign all their staff and students up for new AI tools, at extraordinary cost, Given universities' known deficits and repeated claims of financial exigency, this is surely problematic.

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Dr. Stephanie Seul @stephanieseul.bsky.social · 8d

Still thinking LLM are smart?

"Last spring, security experts raised concerns that malign actors, including Russian propaganda networks, were churning out massive volumes of disinformation in an effort to seed AI models with lies, a process called “LLM grooming”.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

www.theguardian.com

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 8d

From the Epstein documents: The FBI having to Google where Wisconsin is???

The FBI not knowing where Wisconsin is, apparently?

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 10d

Btw these include the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Gaza. www.cwgc.org/our-work/car...

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 10d

We are very sad to hear that Jim Wallace, Liberal MP & MSP from 1983-2007, and Deputy First Minister of Scotland from 1999-2005, has passed away.

In 2022-25, Lord Wallace participated in our #OralHistory project, contributing over 5 hours of reflections on his life and career.

Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 10d

The other question is: has policing improved as a result? I think the answer is: no.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 10d

I found this weird image and need help to understand what's going on in it. Taken at Lorimer & Clark's Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh, 1982, and features:
⛏️A miner holding a pint and keg
👩A young woman wearing a sash
🧑‍🚀A large inflatable astronaut called "COAL AGE MAN"
🚗A Rover SD1
🍺A Camra poster