@cptrigg

Early Americanist. Occasionally late. Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Puritans, Political Theology, COYS 🐓⚽️.

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Joined March 2014
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My book has a cover! (And a new title). It will be available from @OUPReligion early 2023.
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Simon Harley@simonharleyOct 21
Email from the British Library. "Next year we’ll also begin work on repurposing our Science and Social Sciences Reading Rooms to become a flexible workspace and generate a new revenue stream." I'm sorry, what?
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Richard Johnson@richardmarcjOct 18
It isn't 'left wing' to destroy the public realm. These aren't just 'old buildings'. They belong to the whole community, often built through their collective resources and certainly maintained by them. Socialism, at least my tradition, is in part about conserving and strengthening the public realm for the common good. It is not about destruction. It shows appreciation for civic beauty and pride, a sense of history, connection with those before us, duty for those after us, the importance of place and belonging. The things that make life worth living, being available as widely as possible. Individualists destroy. Selfish utilitarians have no concern for such things. Anarchy breeds inequality, as those with means will shut themselves away and the rest are left to suffer.
Marshall Steinbaum 🔥@Econ_MarshallOct 17
Reactionaries more concerned with old buildings on fire than the disintegration of the social order under their beloved neoliberalism.
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@OzKaterjiOct 15
It doesn’t matter how aggressive Russia is towards us, chemical & radiological terrorist attacks on our streets, attempted assassination attempts on our Prime Minister, full-scale invasion of Europe - Putin’s far-left UK bootlickers like Schneider will always demand surrender.
James Schneider@schneiderhomeOct 15
"Politicians are often accused of playing toy soldiers. Rarely, however, do they actually do it." Excellent review of Sky's militarism propaganda series "The Wargame" by @MccailColl jacobin.com/2026/10/sky-warg…

The Wargame Is Wretched Propaganda

The new docudrama The Wargame imagines Britain responding to a Russian military attack. Its cast is full of real-life politicians — often figures with ties to the weapons industry using the show to...

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Nick Harris@sportingintelOct 9
Request: If you see or hear MCFC current / former employees (especially players and managers) giving pro-City views on the "115" case, pls tweet me examples / links as I research whether they have paid deals with City to do so, for example as paid ambassadors for the club. Thanks
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Oz Katerji
@OzKaterjiOct 8
I hope the images of Zohran Mamdani having people who claim to be pro-Palestine screaming at him in public and calling him a traitor for attending an October 7th vigil will finally wake people up to what I have been warning about for years.
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Stephen Sackur@stephensackurOct 8
I’m sorry to say the BBC is committing multiple acts of self-harm. Current senior management do not seem to understand that in the changing media landscape the BBC should still be providing content the commercial sector is unwilling or unable to invest in.
Matthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweetOct 8
Sorry to inform you that @BBCFreeThinking (and Thinking Allowed) have been cancelled as part of cost-saving measures. Last show will go out in April. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly…

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Very rare (first time?) incidence of Robinson being right.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinsonOct 1
It's incredibly important to aggressively resist the idea that AI can be conscious or have "personhood," not only because it's as ridiculous as believing that a book can think, but because once this is accepted, "AI's interests" will very quickly be prioritized over humanity.
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Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinsonOct 1
It's incredibly important to aggressively resist the idea that AI can be conscious or have "personhood," not only because it's as ridiculous as believing that a book can think, but because once this is accepted, "AI's interests" will very quickly be prioritized over humanity.
David Decosimo
@DavidDecosimoOct 1
Note well, apparently Anthropic tried very hard to get the Vatican to alter the text of "Magnifica Humanitas" just prior to its release so that it would not deny AI personhood.
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Ruth Deyermond@ruth_deyermondSep 25
This is a poor take that suggests he doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's line that it was all the West's fault. Long🧵
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Andrew Connelly@connellyandrewSep 25
Trite, conspiratorial and cynical hack work. Zero expertise or curiosity of the region, just crowbarring another West Bad angle into a money-for-old-rope book.
Owen Jones
@owenjonesjournoSep 24
The West helped create Vladimir Putin. A senior Western diplomat warned in 1994 where capitalist 'shock therapy' would take Russia. They ignored him - and ended his diplomatic career.

How the West helped to create Putin

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Toronto Maple Leafs
@MapleLeafsSep 18
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Appalling of Laura Snape to not mention Macklemore’s history of overt antisemitism. Whatever the reason Sheeran kicked him from the tour, the undeniable antisemitism is clearly relevant.
Stephen Tustin@stustinSep 16
"The decisive actions of every other musician on the tour have made a mockery of Sheeran claiming to be powerless in this situation" - Laura Snape, The Guardian #Sheeran #Macklemore #genocide #music theguardian.com/music/commen…

Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the...

By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those...

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Literary culture belongs to (good) readers.
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN@xlorentzenSep 5
Professors have their own culture, academic culture. Literary culture belongs to writers.
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Just occurred to me that there should be a new Partridge when Coogan retires.
Reel Updates
@worldofreelAug 26
The JAMES BOND shortlist is here, with six actors reportedly set to screen-test in September to play the next 007 (via @PageSix) Jack Barton, Jacob Elordi, Paul Mescal, Callum Turner, Jack Lowden and Harris Dickinson tinyurl.com/4tbu69rk
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Richard Brody@tnyfrontrowAug 15
Bee escapes bonnet: there's a dismaying trend in criticism now—armchair sociology, favoring button-pushing how-"we"-live-now movies like The Drama and The Invite, and ignoring aesthetics; it reflects a writerly-editorial preference for culture, i.e., not art but the arts as news—
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Excellent thread.
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg@ProlapsarianAug 13
🧵It's worth saying that some of what went on in the Arday case has to do with the completely insane way that hiring operates in British universities. As someone who recently went through a couple of years of applying for jobs, I have some expertise in what goes wrong: The first
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Megan Fritts@freganmittsAug 6
What people continuously miss is that if you are not capable of expressing something yourself, then you actually do not have something to say. You just think you do.
Josh Daws
@JoshDawsAug 6
Even proponents of AI are quick to say they don’t let the AI write actual text. Why? I see nothing wrong with a writer with something to say getting assistance crafting the language to express it.
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Quite the claim given the situation with “legacy” places at elite US universities.
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Oz Katerji
@OzKaterjiJul 30
A major nuclear power has been threatening Britain for years. It has invaded our ally, conducted assassinations on our soil using CBRN weapons & is preparing for a long term confrontation with Britain. Listening to Simon Fletcher on defence would be an act of gross negligence.
Simon Fletcher@fletchersimonJul 29
The choices and conflicts caused by rearmament are an unavoidable reality of the current period. The Left must organise its actions, priorities and programme so that opposition to rising military spending and warmongering are central. For @tribunemagazine tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/aga…

Against Rearmament

America is ushering in a new age of militarism and bellicosity — with the British establishment in tow. The Left’s politics should be organised around stopping the relentless drive to war.

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Oz Katerji
@OzKaterjiJul 20
The Corbynites are happy. 800,000 Syrians were murdered by the Assad regime and 10 million displaced from that moment forwards, and they are still celebrating it like they won a football match. They're still uncovering new mass graves in Syria 18 months after the fall.
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