Simon Rushton
@simonrushton.bsky.social
Professor of International Politics at University of Sheffield, UK. He/Him.
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Nominations for our annual BISA prizes have opened today! 🎉
Recognising excellence & achievement through research & teaching in the field of International Studies! 🌟
Open until the 3 February & presented at our annual conference find all info here 👉https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes
Recognising excellence & achievement through research & teaching in the field of International Studies! 🌟
Open until the 3 February & presented at our annual conference find all info here 👉https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes
January 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Nominations for our annual BISA prizes have opened today! 🎉
Recognising excellence & achievement through research & teaching in the field of International Studies! 🌟
Open until the 3 February & presented at our annual conference find all info here 👉https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes
Recognising excellence & achievement through research & teaching in the field of International Studies! 🌟
Open until the 3 February & presented at our annual conference find all info here 👉https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes
More good things for London. Screw the north. 🤬
If you’re going to Leicester, Derby, Nottingham or Sheffield, enjoy your fumes
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
End of the line for diesel fumes at London St Pancras as new trains arrive
East Midlands railway will switch to bi-mode Aurora fleet to cut emissions and noise but elsewhere electrification is delayed
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:18 AM
More good things for London. Screw the north. 🤬
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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
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Unbelievably, it's been 25 years since we lost Kirsty MacColl yet the beauty of her music and her memory still resonate. Here's a song I wrote for her to sing in the 1995 movie 'Mad Love'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjl...
Kirsty MacColl - As Long As You Hold Me
YouTube video by PassionateFriend
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December 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Unbelievably, it's been 25 years since we lost Kirsty MacColl yet the beauty of her music and her memory still resonate. Here's a song I wrote for her to sing in the 1995 movie 'Mad Love'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjl...
Like the Post Office Horizon scandal before it, a story that has been covered for years and years by Private Eye without national newspapers apparently noticing. Lots more money siphoned off while everyone else looked away.
Auditors and new officials have been turning over stones at the body in charge of Teesworks. Turns out the Tees Valley Combined Authority has been lending hundreds of millions of £ to connected orgs, without loan agreements, and those orgs are now struggling to repay
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Auditors raise red flags at public body run by Ben Houchen
[FREE TO READ] EY said errors included ‘material misstatements’ in latest setback for Conservative metro mayor Lord Houchen
as.ft.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Like the Post Office Horizon scandal before it, a story that has been covered for years and years by Private Eye without national newspapers apparently noticing. Lots more money siphoned off while everyone else looked away.
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Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Sensible universities see their staff as assets to be nurtured and protected.
Foolish universities see them as a cost to be minimised.
Really stupid universities see them as an enemy to be defeated.
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
Foolish universities see them as a cost to be minimised.
Really stupid universities see them as an enemy to be defeated.
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Sensible universities see their staff as assets to be nurtured and protected.
Foolish universities see them as a cost to be minimised.
Really stupid universities see them as an enemy to be defeated.
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
Foolish universities see them as a cost to be minimised.
Really stupid universities see them as an enemy to be defeated.
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Opportunity for #students :
@mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social Holdstock-Piachaud Student #Essay #Prize opens & encourages students to explore the themes covered by the #journal who will be shaping the future.
#Disarmament #climate #nowar #medact #competition #research #publichealth #publication
@mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social Holdstock-Piachaud Student #Essay #Prize opens & encourages students to explore the themes covered by the #journal who will be shaping the future.
#Disarmament #climate #nowar #medact #competition #research #publichealth #publication
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Opportunity for #students :
@mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social Holdstock-Piachaud Student #Essay #Prize opens & encourages students to explore the themes covered by the #journal who will be shaping the future.
#Disarmament #climate #nowar #medact #competition #research #publichealth #publication
@mcs-medact-ippnw.bsky.social Holdstock-Piachaud Student #Essay #Prize opens & encourages students to explore the themes covered by the #journal who will be shaping the future.
#Disarmament #climate #nowar #medact #competition #research #publichealth #publication
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The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Starmer’s Labour and the BBC both show what attempting to appease the far right leads to: stronger demands to move even further right. Who could have guessed?
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Starmer’s Labour and the BBC both show what attempting to appease the far right leads to: stronger demands to move even further right. Who could have guessed?
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#BISA2026 submissions deadline is TODAY at 11:59pm 🌟
We cannot wait to see you all in Brighton as we look at the next 50 years in IR 🎉
Today is your final chance to get your submissions in 👉https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0
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We cannot wait to see you all in Brighton as we look at the next 50 years in IR 🎉
Today is your final chance to get your submissions in 👉https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0
VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#BISA2026 submissions deadline is TODAY at 11:59pm 🌟
We cannot wait to see you all in Brighton as we look at the next 50 years in IR 🎉
Today is your final chance to get your submissions in 👉https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0
VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social
We cannot wait to see you all in Brighton as we look at the next 50 years in IR 🎉
Today is your final chance to get your submissions in 👉https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0
VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social
Last call for BISA 2026 Conference submissions - get your abstracts in asap. 👇
This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨
Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉
Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0
VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social
Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉
Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0
VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Last call for BISA 2026 Conference submissions - get your abstracts in asap. 👇
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Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest
October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest
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Announcing our #BISA2026 conference keynote as leading scholar Professor Kimberly Hutchings @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social 🎉
The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp
@simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp
@simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Announcing our #BISA2026 conference keynote as leading scholar Professor Kimberly Hutchings @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social 🎉
The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp
@simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp
@simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
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Authors -it’s worth checking this to see if your work is included, -though seems there’s much less on the eligible works list here than work downloaded from LibGen or PiLiMi -though this might be the beginning of legal action over AI theft of copyrighted work, rather than the end. Good Luck 🤞
The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
ANT Homepage | ANT
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Authors -it’s worth checking this to see if your work is included, -though seems there’s much less on the eligible works list here than work downloaded from LibGen or PiLiMi -though this might be the beginning of legal action over AI theft of copyrighted work, rather than the end. Good Luck 🤞
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It's time to start planning for next year's conference! Get in touch if you want information on the process, or if you'd like us to share a call for papers!
Reminder that our #BISA2026 call & homepage is OPEN NOW - we can't wait to see you in Brighton! 🎉
🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It's time to start planning for next year's conference! Get in touch if you want information on the process, or if you'd like us to share a call for papers!
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I feel like putting together a Loss and Damage panel I think. Time to think about it still, but feel free to reach out if you want in.
Reminder that our #BISA2026 call & homepage is OPEN NOW - we can't wait to see you in Brighton! 🎉
🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I feel like putting together a Loss and Damage panel I think. Time to think about it still, but feel free to reach out if you want in.
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Brighton here we come! Very excited for BISA2026. Let’s start thinking about panels and roundtables to submit and see if we can reach the 375 that were accepted onto the 2025 programme. See our call below.
@mybisa.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social
🎉 Our #BISA2026 call and homepage is OPEN NOW 🎉
Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟
We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟
We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Brighton here we come! Very excited for BISA2026. Let’s start thinking about panels and roundtables to submit and see if we can reach the 375 that were accepted onto the 2025 programme. See our call below.
@mybisa.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social
@mybisa.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social
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🎉 Our #BISA2026 call and homepage is OPEN NOW 🎉
Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟
We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟
We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🎉 Our #BISA2026 call and homepage is OPEN NOW 🎉
Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟
We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟
We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk
@visitbrighton.bsky.social
@simonrushton.bsky.social
@julietdryden.bsky.social
The Labour Party: incredibly slow learners.
How has pandering to the far right gone so far?
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
How has pandering to the far right gone so far?
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Ministers considering human rights reform in bid to head off Reform as defence secretary say Starmer going ‘up a gear’ – UK politics live
New home secretary Shabana Mahmood expected to to say asylum seekers will be moved from hotels to barracks
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Labour Party: incredibly slow learners.
How has pandering to the far right gone so far?
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
How has pandering to the far right gone so far?
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Snapshots podcast: episode nine - Professor João Nunes from Universidad Pontificia Comillas 🎉
With @bisa-global-health.bsky.social and hosted by Christopher Long Snapshots reveals the nature of work and life in global health 🌎
Listen here 👉 buff.ly/8zCIffZ
@apapamichail.bsky.social
With @bisa-global-health.bsky.social and hosted by Christopher Long Snapshots reveals the nature of work and life in global health 🌎
Listen here 👉 buff.ly/8zCIffZ
@apapamichail.bsky.social
Snapshots podcast: episode nine - Professor João Nunes- Global Health (GHWG) | BISA
- Global Health (GHWG) Working Group
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September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Snapshots podcast: episode nine - Professor João Nunes from Universidad Pontificia Comillas 🎉
With @bisa-global-health.bsky.social and hosted by Christopher Long Snapshots reveals the nature of work and life in global health 🌎
Listen here 👉 buff.ly/8zCIffZ
@apapamichail.bsky.social
With @bisa-global-health.bsky.social and hosted by Christopher Long Snapshots reveals the nature of work and life in global health 🌎
Listen here 👉 buff.ly/8zCIffZ
@apapamichail.bsky.social
Job opportunity: IR lectureship at Uni Western Australia with some great people. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52091...
Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au
August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Job opportunity: IR lectureship at Uni Western Australia with some great people. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/52091...
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Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
August 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)