Robert Craig
@robcraig400.bsky.social
Coordinator of the "Transforming Curricula" Project in the EUPeace European University Alliance: https://eupeace.eu. Based at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in Germany.
Germanist by training. All opinions borrowed and turgidly rephrased. He/his.
Germanist by training. All opinions borrowed and turgidly rephrased. He/his.
Timothy looks unrecognisable.
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Timothy looks unrecognisable.
It helps if the product you're trying to sell isn't either completely or partly sh*te, and that one component isn't actively trying to destablise the others.
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It helps if the product you're trying to sell isn't either completely or partly sh*te, and that one component isn't actively trying to destablise the others.
I'd probably agree. Perceived prosperity, and the sense of all boats rising, does a remarkable job of papering over old prejudices.
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'd probably agree. Perceived prosperity, and the sense of all boats rising, does a remarkable job of papering over old prejudices.
I'd say it *felt* true as long as a good proportion of people felt relatively well-off, and/or that things could, by and large, and despite the usual bumps in the road, only...... get better?
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I'd say it *felt* true as long as a good proportion of people felt relatively well-off, and/or that things could, by and large, and despite the usual bumps in the road, only...... get better?
May it run and run and run like a running sore
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
May it run and run and run like a running sore
Orr is one of the creepiest figures in a very creepy crowd.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Orr is one of the creepiest figures in a very creepy crowd.
Pressssssssssure!
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Pressssssssssure!
Simon Jenkins, reliably wrong as ever.
July 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Simon Jenkins, reliably wrong as ever.
Necro-(neo)liberalism, far from the best liberal traditions. I'd like to think otherwise, but am unconvinced British society and the British state are mature enough not to screw up what follows
June 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Necro-(neo)liberalism, far from the best liberal traditions. I'd like to think otherwise, but am unconvinced British society and the British state are mature enough not to screw up what follows
Fantastic initiative
April 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Fantastic initiative
We did, but we also acted on a good-faith, open-source basis with inherently powerful ideas. Interesting and perennial question about how much more cynical and realpolitisch -- dare I say "nastier" -- the left might need to be in future...
April 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We did, but we also acted on a good-faith, open-source basis with inherently powerful ideas. Interesting and perennial question about how much more cynical and realpolitisch -- dare I say "nastier" -- the left might need to be in future...
I hated Brexit too, but sorry, these aren't even nearly the same category, *especially* not re. Trump mark 2.
April 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I hated Brexit too, but sorry, these aren't even nearly the same category, *especially* not re. Trump mark 2.
...and for two of the chapters in short(er) form -- on Döblin's celebrated city masterpiece, "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1929) and on his science fiction epic of 1924, "Mountains Oceans and Giants" -- see: uni-giessen.academia.edu/RobertCraig. (...along with other pieces from my years in academia!)
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March 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
...and for two of the chapters in short(er) form -- on Döblin's celebrated city masterpiece, "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1929) and on his science fiction epic of 1924, "Mountains Oceans and Giants" -- see: uni-giessen.academia.edu/RobertCraig. (...along with other pieces from my years in academia!)
100% this. I'm fortunate to work with great colleagues now, but a previous DE institution effectively protected an obnoxious bully simply because they were an unsackable professor and no one had the guts to confront them. Even those who could and did help were constrained by system and convention
March 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
100% this. I'm fortunate to work with great colleagues now, but a previous DE institution effectively protected an obnoxious bully simply because they were an unsackable professor and no one had the guts to confront them. Even those who could and did help were constrained by system and convention
I don't disagree... but the man with the golden gun says hi.
February 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I don't disagree... but the man with the golden gun says hi.
This is too optimistic a take, and we need to be realists to resist effectively. They will very likely do profound irreversible damage, Trump will - for all the wrong reasons - go down in history as one of the few *truly* consequential, epoch-shifting US presidents.
February 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is too optimistic a take, and we need to be realists to resist effectively. They will very likely do profound irreversible damage, Trump will - for all the wrong reasons - go down in history as one of the few *truly* consequential, epoch-shifting US presidents.
Because Keir Starmer doesn't really believe in anything strongly enough not to junk it as soon as it looks expedient to do so. How is it this not obvious to you by now?
February 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Because Keir Starmer doesn't really believe in anything strongly enough not to junk it as soon as it looks expedient to do so. How is it this not obvious to you by now?
I don't know how much respect is due to those, like Soubry, who blocked any attempts at a softer Brexit for the sake of the lost cause of reversing the vote itself?
January 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I don't know how much respect is due to those, like Soubry, who blocked any attempts at a softer Brexit for the sake of the lost cause of reversing the vote itself?
I'm not a party pooper, but this is kinda irresponsible and also kinda weird coming from a supposed cheerleader of The Sensibles Everywhere.
January 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I'm not a party pooper, but this is kinda irresponsible and also kinda weird coming from a supposed cheerleader of The Sensibles Everywhere.
Ha, I got out of Bradford just time on Saturday, but rainy and windy Gießen is making me slightly regret it....
January 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ha, I got out of Bradford just time on Saturday, but rainy and windy Gießen is making me slightly regret it....