Simon Glendinning
@simonglend.bsky.social
Head of the European Institute and Professor of European Philosophy at LSE.
Leader editorial in the Independent calls for students to be taken out of migration figures, describing UK government policy quite rightly as “asinine”. www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
You don’t need a master’s degree to see Britain depends on foreign students
Editorial: The government’s effort to drive down the number of student visas coming to study in this country is misguided and self-defeating – it will do untold damage to our universities and communit...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Leader editorial in the Independent calls for students to be taken out of migration figures, describing UK government policy quite rightly as “asinine”. www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
Shame on the BBC. Who is the more dangerous? An overpaid racist who should be as invisible as his sense of decency - or the publicly funded news organisation that has utterly lost its sense of public service? #BBC get a grip or you will take our democracy down.
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Shame on the BBC. Who is the more dangerous? An overpaid racist who should be as invisible as his sense of decency - or the publicly funded news organisation that has utterly lost its sense of public service? #BBC get a grip or you will take our democracy down.
The final was never likely to better India’s win vs Australia in the semifinal - but Harmanpreet Kaur asking the 21 year old opener Shafali Verma to bowl at a very difficult time, when the game was getting away from India, was a match winning leap in the dark. www.espncricinfo.com/story/women-...
The night Shafali Verma defied her destiny, and then owned it
Left out, written off, then crowned Player of the Final in a tournament Shafali Verma wasn't even meant to play. If that's not destiny, what is?
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November 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The final was never likely to better India’s win vs Australia in the semifinal - but Harmanpreet Kaur asking the 21 year old opener Shafali Verma to bowl at a very difficult time, when the game was getting away from India, was a match winning leap in the dark. www.espncricinfo.com/story/women-...
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I hope the BBC will challenge Nigel Farage today over the economic damage caused by the Brexit he championed.
He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.
He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I hope the BBC will challenge Nigel Farage today over the economic damage caused by the Brexit he championed.
He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.
He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.
India chasing down Australia’s 338 total in the Women’s Cricket World Cup was utterly mind-blowing.
BlueSky is really rubbish at moments like this…
BlueSky is really rubbish at moments like this…
October 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
India chasing down Australia’s 338 total in the Women’s Cricket World Cup was utterly mind-blowing.
BlueSky is really rubbish at moments like this…
BlueSky is really rubbish at moments like this…
MBOI to
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Professor Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social has published a new article which addresses the fact that the mainstream formation of academic studies of Europe today is dominated by the methods of the social sciences, rather than the humanities.
Discover it below👇
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Discover it below👇
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The formation of European studies
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October 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s Marx day for me. Starting here. But what essential element is missing from this picture? Wrong answers welcome - but the right answer wins a copy of my book, “Europe:A Philosophical History” vol 1, in which I set it all out.
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It’s Marx day for me. Starting here. But what essential element is missing from this picture? Wrong answers welcome - but the right answer wins a copy of my book, “Europe:A Philosophical History” vol 1, in which I set it all out.
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📣 Applications to our MSc and PhD programmes are now open for 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆!
Join us in 3 weeks for our 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to discover postgraduate study in the European Institute.
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Information sessions for prospective students
Join us for our online information sessions at the European Institute to learn more about our postgraduate offering across our MSc and PhD programmes.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📣 Applications to our MSc and PhD programmes are now open for 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆!
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After 20 years of involvement with academic studies of Europe, I have just published an article that sets out my view of its mainstream social science formation. I argue that such studies now stand in need of significant reformation. Read for free:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Formation of European Studies
Academic studies of Europe in the postwar period increasingly focused on aspects of European integration. This development was led by contributions from the social sciences, not the humanities. The...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
After 20 years of involvement with academic studies of Europe, I have just published an article that sets out my view of its mainstream social science formation. I argue that such studies now stand in need of significant reformation. Read for free:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home.” - @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on Conservative proposals to strip people of indefinite leave to remain & deport them
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
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October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home.” - @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on Conservative proposals to strip people of indefinite leave to remain & deport them
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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This well-known aquatint by Goya came to mind as symbolising where we are right now. It’s called The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This well-known aquatint by Goya came to mind as symbolising where we are right now. It’s called The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.
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♻️ Our Assistant Professor @donatodc.bsky.social has co-authored a new article which investigates how European models of capitalism perform and specialise across the green value chain and how national skill formation systems underpin these specialisations.
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The comparative political economy of the green transition: economic specialisations and skills regimes in Europe
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October 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
♻️ Our Assistant Professor @donatodc.bsky.social has co-authored a new article which investigates how European models of capitalism perform and specialise across the green value chain and how national skill formation systems underpin these specialisations.
Read more 👇
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Read more 👇
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The entirety of Brexit is perverse
There was never any rational reason for it to happen
But we chose to leave knowing full well what we were leaving behind
Only we can choose to fix it
There was never any rational reason for it to happen
But we chose to leave knowing full well what we were leaving behind
Only we can choose to fix it
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The entirety of Brexit is perverse
There was never any rational reason for it to happen
But we chose to leave knowing full well what we were leaving behind
Only we can choose to fix it
There was never any rational reason for it to happen
But we chose to leave knowing full well what we were leaving behind
Only we can choose to fix it
Have you seen The Colossus in the Prado? If you have, then among those you should thank is my dad. It’s his birthday today. Do read a crucial contribution by him that came out a year after he died. He did not live to see it exhibited again. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Time to Re-open the Debate about the Reattribution of Goya's Colossus?
In 2008 the Prado Museum took the decision to remove from the Goya canon a well-known painting, long accepted by specialists as an authentic work by the artist, generally called El Coloso (The Colo...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Have you seen The Colossus in the Prado? If you have, then among those you should thank is my dad. It’s his birthday today. Do read a crucial contribution by him that came out a year after he died. He did not live to see it exhibited again. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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🇪🇺 We are delighted to announce the launch of "Global Perspectives on Europe" (GLOPE), a Jean Monnet Chair project led by Dr Mareike Kleine @mkleine.bsky.social at the European Institute (2025-28) and co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.
🔗 Learn more: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
🔗 Learn more: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Meet our Jean Monnet Chair: Dr Mareike Kleine - Global Perspectives on Europe 🇪🇺
YouTube video by LSE European Institute
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October 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🇪🇺 We are delighted to announce the launch of "Global Perspectives on Europe" (GLOPE), a Jean Monnet Chair project led by Dr Mareike Kleine @mkleine.bsky.social at the European Institute (2025-28) and co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.
🔗 Learn more: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
🔗 Learn more: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
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Beyond Vienna. -- The "Wittgenstein-Path" in Trattenbach. He used to walk up here to lunch. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria #philosophy
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Beyond Vienna. -- The "Wittgenstein-Path" in Trattenbach. He used to walk up here to lunch. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria #philosophy
Come along this Tuesday evening to hear a genuinely wonderful philosophical voice for our time. Yuk Hui will be speaking to me about his new book “Post-Europe”. www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
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6.30pm Tuesday 14 October | Yuk Hui | Registration Required | Free hybrid public event at the LSE
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October 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Come along this Tuesday evening to hear a genuinely wonderful philosophical voice for our time. Yuk Hui will be speaking to me about his new book “Post-Europe”. www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
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Only just caught up with Peter Ross’s beautiful review. Going by last night’s London gig, 100% true: “His concerts have become acts of thanksgiving for his life and work. Now, as he plays these songs for the last few times, that feeling is ever deeper. People had come to let him know he is loved.”
"Edwyn Collins is allergic to nostalgia, but gave the impression that he was saying goodbye to these songs, skimming them like stones on a loch."
It was a privilege to attend and write about the Glasgow date of this farewell tour. www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
It was a privilege to attend and write about the Glasgow date of this farewell tour. www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
Edwyn Collins review — a beautiful, five-star goodbye
The Scottish singer’s farewell tour, prompted by ill health at the age of 66, introduced new songs and brought together his old band mates in a stunning concert
www.thetimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Only just caught up with Peter Ross’s beautiful review. Going by last night’s London gig, 100% true: “His concerts have become acts of thanksgiving for his life and work. Now, as he plays these songs for the last few times, that feeling is ever deeper. People had come to let him know he is loved.”
Edwyn Collins leaves the London stage for the last time. What a night at a sold out Royal Festival Hall.
October 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Edwyn Collins leaves the London stage for the last time. What a night at a sold out Royal Festival Hall.
An evening with Edwyn Collins. A testimonial totally deserved. Unforgettable.
That was such a beautiful evening with Edwyn Collins at the Royal Festival Hall. Will share some more pics and vids tomorrow, but here's one of Paul Cook, Edwyn, Dennis Bovell and Vic Godard at the end of the show
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
An evening with Edwyn Collins. A testimonial totally deserved. Unforgettable.
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Goethe: A Life in Ideas by @matthewgbell.bsky.social gets a sharp, illuminating review from Ritchie Robertson in @litreview.bsky.social! “Deeply learned, crisply written.” Read it here: literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-light-2
Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light
Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell
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October 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Goethe: A Life in Ideas by @matthewgbell.bsky.social gets a sharp, illuminating review from Ritchie Robertson in @litreview.bsky.social! “Deeply learned, crisply written.” Read it here: literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-light-2
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‘Structures designed to diffuse power are utterly inappropriate if the ambition is to deploy hard power.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon
Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not that, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
‘Structures designed to diffuse power are utterly inappropriate if the ambition is to deploy hard power.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Happy first day of the Autumn Term! 🍂
This academic year is an extra special one as we are celebrating LSE’s 130th anniversary 🎂
The theme is centred around LSE’s impact, past and present. Look out for celebratory events, freebies, exciting announcements, and much more from October onwards! 🎉
This academic year is an extra special one as we are celebrating LSE’s 130th anniversary 🎂
The theme is centred around LSE’s impact, past and present. Look out for celebratory events, freebies, exciting announcements, and much more from October onwards! 🎉
September 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Happy first day of the Autumn Term! 🍂
This academic year is an extra special one as we are celebrating LSE’s 130th anniversary 🎂
The theme is centred around LSE’s impact, past and present. Look out for celebratory events, freebies, exciting announcements, and much more from October onwards! 🎉
This academic year is an extra special one as we are celebrating LSE’s 130th anniversary 🎂
The theme is centred around LSE’s impact, past and present. Look out for celebratory events, freebies, exciting announcements, and much more from October onwards! 🎉
Very sad to hear about the death of Jonathan Lear. So readable and wise. The quote in this article on mourning is wonderful (even if I might disagree that it is exclusively human). dailynous.com/2025/09/22/j...
Jonathan Lear (1948-2025) - Daily Nous
Jonathan Lear, Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, has died. Professor Lear was well-known for bringing moral and social phil...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Very sad to hear about the death of Jonathan Lear. So readable and wise. The quote in this article on mourning is wonderful (even if I might disagree that it is exclusively human). dailynous.com/2025/09/22/j...