Alex Prichard
@profalexp.bsky.social
Prof of International Political Theory at the University of Exeter. Author of Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (new ed), and lots more on anarchy, anarchism, and IR theory. Exeter UCU branch co-chair, UCU Commons, and #lfc.
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Terry Jones, Michael Moorcock, and Anthony Wigens talk anarchism:
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Terry Jones, Michael Moorcock, and Anthony Wigens talk anarchism:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038x9t
in Dec 2006 the BBC did an interview of several academics about what is #anarchism and the history of #anarchist thought. You can download the MP3 here and listen yourself, it gives a decent historical background going back from antiquity and going […]
in Dec 2006 the BBC did an interview of several academics about what is #anarchism and the history of #anarchist thought. You can download the MP3 here and listen yourself, it gives a decent historical background going back from antiquity and going […]
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038x9t
in Dec 2006 the BBC did an interview of several academics about what is #anarchism and the history of #anarchist thought. You can download the MP3 here and listen yourself, it gives a decent historical background going back from antiquity and going […]
in Dec 2006 the BBC did an interview of several academics about what is #anarchism and the history of #anarchist thought. You can download the MP3 here and listen yourself, it gives a decent historical background going back from antiquity and going […]
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Accidentally amazing photo from fireworks night a couple of years ago
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Accidentally amazing photo from fireworks night a couple of years ago
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Dons #UCU HEC member hat. UK academics on teaching-focused/teaching-only contracts: how, if at all, does your employer support you in doing research? Are there any good local policies on this I should be aware of? My DMs are open and confidentiality assured. #UKHE #academicsky
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Dons #UCU HEC member hat. UK academics on teaching-focused/teaching-only contracts: how, if at all, does your employer support you in doing research? Are there any good local policies on this I should be aware of? My DMs are open and confidentiality assured. #UKHE #academicsky
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Have soft-relaunched my website at punkacademic.org
In honour of that, and Rachel Reeves' continued tribulations, I'm resharing my article on the ideological issues of the Labour right from 2021.
punkacademic.org/2021/07/06/s...
In honour of that, and Rachel Reeves' continued tribulations, I'm resharing my article on the ideological issues of the Labour right from 2021.
punkacademic.org/2021/07/06/s...
Sneering at Marx
The context of Rachel Reeves’ failure to read the author of Capital hints at the intellectual bankruptcy of the contemporary Labour right In 1956, Anthony Crosland, revisionist theorist and future …
punkacademic.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Have soft-relaunched my website at punkacademic.org
In honour of that, and Rachel Reeves' continued tribulations, I'm resharing my article on the ideological issues of the Labour right from 2021.
punkacademic.org/2021/07/06/s...
In honour of that, and Rachel Reeves' continued tribulations, I'm resharing my article on the ideological issues of the Labour right from 2021.
punkacademic.org/2021/07/06/s...
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Over the next two weeks, our climate scientists will be playing an important role at #COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference that is being held in Brazil.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Over the next two weeks, our climate scientists will be playing an important role at #COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference that is being held in Brazil.
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The shortlist for the new BBC DG should be the cast of Celebrity Traitors
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The shortlist for the new BBC DG should be the cast of Celebrity Traitors
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Kash Patel permanently looks like Scott Bakula seconds after he transports into a new body in Quantum Leap. He makes Guy Goma look like Peter Ustinov.
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Kash Patel permanently looks like Scott Bakula seconds after he transports into a new body in Quantum Leap. He makes Guy Goma look like Peter Ustinov.
Tax him ‘till he bleeds
🚨 BREAKING: Tesla shareholders just voted to make Elon Musk the world's first TRILLIONAIRE.
Only the world’s biggest loser would would have the ability to end world hunger several times over and choose not to.
Just tax billionaires. Duh.
📍 Tottenham, near Tesla's flagship London dealership
Only the world’s biggest loser would would have the ability to end world hunger several times over and choose not to.
Just tax billionaires. Duh.
📍 Tottenham, near Tesla's flagship London dealership
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Tax him ‘till he bleeds
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Wear a poppy --> 'This foreigner has no right to wear the poppy!'.
Don't wear a poppy --> 'This foreigner is not showing due respect to our veterans!'.
Schrödinger's 'foreigner' strikes again ('stealing our jobs'/'not working' style).
Don't wear a poppy --> 'This foreigner is not showing due respect to our veterans!'.
Schrödinger's 'foreigner' strikes again ('stealing our jobs'/'not working' style).
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Wear a poppy --> 'This foreigner has no right to wear the poppy!'.
Don't wear a poppy --> 'This foreigner is not showing due respect to our veterans!'.
Schrödinger's 'foreigner' strikes again ('stealing our jobs'/'not working' style).
Don't wear a poppy --> 'This foreigner is not showing due respect to our veterans!'.
Schrödinger's 'foreigner' strikes again ('stealing our jobs'/'not working' style).
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If you think democracy will survive the emergence of trillionaires, you are dreaming.
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
If you think democracy will survive the emergence of trillionaires, you are dreaming.
enshitify everything!
Northumbria University attempts to move employees to cheaper pension scheme to bring down sky-high contribution rates
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northumbria-freeze-staff-pay-if-they-refuse-switch-pensions
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northumbria-freeze-staff-pay-if-they-refuse-switch-pensions
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
enshitify everything!
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Better support systems needed for scholars facing political threats, according to Rutgers historian labelled ‘domestic terrorist professor’
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academics-forced-flee-us-could-become-new-normal-says-bray
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academics-forced-flee-us-could-become-new-normal-says-bray
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Better support systems needed for scholars facing political threats, according to Rutgers historian labelled ‘domestic terrorist professor’
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academics-forced-flee-us-could-become-new-normal-says-bray
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academics-forced-flee-us-could-become-new-normal-says-bray
Excellent set of reflections on the macro-economic structural problems and drivers shaping (or not) Labour higher education policy policy
If you are wondering what Labour plans to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you! isrf.org/blog/labours...
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Excellent set of reflections on the macro-economic structural problems and drivers shaping (or not) Labour higher education policy policy
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If you are wondering what Labour plans to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you! isrf.org/blog/labours...
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you are wondering what Labour plans to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you! isrf.org/blog/labours...
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We can't meet our climate change targets by exporting emissions. That's why we've taken the first formal step in legal proceedings against the Government. goodlaw.social/s87x
We’re challenging Starmer on climate failure
As Keir Starmer heads for Brazil, his government is failing to meet the challenge of global heating – so we’re taking legal action.
goodlaw.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We can't meet our climate change targets by exporting emissions. That's why we've taken the first formal step in legal proceedings against the Government. goodlaw.social/s87x
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This is, by some distance, the longest and most expensive legal letter we've ever sent. It involves a team of multiple KC and junior specialist environmental barristers. It's taken us 18 months to draft and has cost us a substantial six figure sum.
We can't meet our climate change targets by exporting emissions. That's why we've taken the first formal step in legal proceedings against the Government. goodlaw.social/s87x
We’re challenging Starmer on climate failure
As Keir Starmer heads for Brazil, his government is failing to meet the challenge of global heating – so we’re taking legal action.
goodlaw.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is, by some distance, the longest and most expensive legal letter we've ever sent. It involves a team of multiple KC and junior specialist environmental barristers. It's taken us 18 months to draft and has cost us a substantial six figure sum.
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Our Town Hall to discuss the proposed merger with Greenwich Uni is underway - there over 80 people online and more in person in Grimmond Lecture Theatre 1.
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Our Town Hall to discuss the proposed merger with Greenwich Uni is underway - there over 80 people online and more in person in Grimmond Lecture Theatre 1.
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Instead of imagining that they can manage this market-wide problem out of existence, managers could commit to being more transparent & accountable to their own staff & students, thereby preventing disasters like what happened to Laura Murphy at Sheffield Hallam.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Model code of conduct: protection of academic freedom and the academic community in the context of the internationalisation of the UK HE sector
Published in The International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 26, No. 10, 2022)
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Instead of imagining that they can manage this market-wide problem out of existence, managers could commit to being more transparent & accountable to their own staff & students, thereby preventing disasters like what happened to Laura Murphy at Sheffield Hallam.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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University of Nottingham says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
#AcademicSky #highered
#AcademicSky #highered
Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
University of Nottingham says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
#AcademicSky #highered
#AcademicSky #highered
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Hard to think that anybody with experience of UK university senior managements would have confidence that, left to themselves, they'd back academic freedom over an income stream.
China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing
Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Hard to think that anybody with experience of UK university senior managements would have confidence that, left to themselves, they'd back academic freedom over an income stream.
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I was once on a validation panel for a partnership degree with a uni in Malaysia. The documentation promised that staff / students in Malaysia would have the same rights & protections as in the UK. I asked how this was possible in a country where same sex relationships were illegal.
Tumbleweed.
Tumbleweed.
Note the ‘British soil’ bit. My uni has plans to open a campus in China. The VC scoffed at me when I expressed concern that staff and students wouldn’t be able to speak freely, and that - as he said - the curriculum would be censored. It’s the price of doing business.
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I was once on a validation panel for a partnership degree with a uni in Malaysia. The documentation promised that staff / students in Malaysia would have the same rights & protections as in the UK. I asked how this was possible in a country where same sex relationships were illegal.
Tumbleweed.
Tumbleweed.
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An interview with author Tomas Rothaus ( @batallonbakunin.bsky.social ) on his recently publish memoir, "Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era", out this year from @pmpress.bsky.social
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08...
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August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
An interview with author Tomas Rothaus ( @batallonbakunin.bsky.social ) on his recently publish memoir, "Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era", out this year from @pmpress.bsky.social
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08...
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08...
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We've published our first translation in Gallego (Galician), bringing the total number of languages represented on our website to 44.
If you can help us with translation into any language, please get in touch!
You can find a list of all our work arranged by language here:
crimethinc.com/languages
If you can help us with translation into any language, please get in touch!
You can find a list of all our work arranged by language here:
crimethinc.com/languages
Epílogo arredor do legalismo
Boa parte da oposición a Trump segue a paralizar a resistencia ao concentrarse en cuestións de legalidade e outras sutilezas, fracasando á hora de captar a realidade da situación.
crimethinc.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 AM
We've published our first translation in Gallego (Galician), bringing the total number of languages represented on our website to 44.
If you can help us with translation into any language, please get in touch!
You can find a list of all our work arranged by language here:
crimethinc.com/languages
If you can help us with translation into any language, please get in touch!
You can find a list of all our work arranged by language here:
crimethinc.com/languages