Dan Waterfield
@danwaterfield.bsky.social
SWE / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿.
Still active, it’s where some of the mount doom scenes were filmed in lotr
November 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Still active, it’s where some of the mount doom scenes were filmed in lotr
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The For Beginners series was usually excellent, but I expect this is why they changed it to the Introducing... series. (I had The Holocaust For Beginners.)
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The For Beginners series was usually excellent, but I expect this is why they changed it to the Introducing... series. (I had The Holocaust For Beginners.)
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Living / Building
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Living / Building
On Monday and Tuesday Nyika and I drove down from Auckland down to Wellington so I could attend the Living/Building conference and Nyika could use the University archives.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Living / Building
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I just would not title a book this.
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I just would not title a book this.
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Okay, but also, this is not that unreasonable?
The story of the last 15 years is a government pursuing a superficially popular but practically very damaging effort to shrink the state, followed by a series of government's failing to restore the public sector.
The story of the last 15 years is a government pursuing a superficially popular but practically very damaging effort to shrink the state, followed by a series of government's failing to restore the public sector.
The fact that every single PM this century has been more unpopular than the previous one shows that the electorate is impossible to please. We are simply predisposed to automatically hate every government no matter what. I don't know how that's sustainable long-term.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Okay, but also, this is not that unreasonable?
The story of the last 15 years is a government pursuing a superficially popular but practically very damaging effort to shrink the state, followed by a series of government's failing to restore the public sector.
The story of the last 15 years is a government pursuing a superficially popular but practically very damaging effort to shrink the state, followed by a series of government's failing to restore the public sector.
Went to another bookstore.
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Went to another bookstore.
An actively and aggressively malicious man
Tony Smith on Ch4News saying international students should be limited because they’re “economically inactive”.
International students pay around £27k p.a. in fees to their universities, at least half again to landlords and they spend their parents’ hard-earned money in local shops.
International students pay around £27k p.a. in fees to their universities, at least half again to landlords and they spend their parents’ hard-earned money in local shops.
November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
An actively and aggressively malicious man
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Quick, they can’t have gotten far
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Quick, they can’t have gotten far
Living / Building
open.substack.com/pub/danwater...
open.substack.com/pub/danwater...
Living / Building
On Monday and Tuesday Nyika and I drove down from Auckland down to Wellington so I could attend the Living/Building conference and Nyika could use the University archives.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Living / Building
open.substack.com/pub/danwater...
open.substack.com/pub/danwater...
Presented paper, went to the bookstore.
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Presented paper, went to the bookstore.
Paper done; didn’t beclown myself.
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Paper done; didn’t beclown myself.
Enormous fun at the first day of living / building conf. One highlight was the terrifyingly accomplished undergrad panel
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Enormous fun at the first day of living / building conf. One highlight was the terrifyingly accomplished undergrad panel
Passing through a town called Bulls.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Passing through a town called Bulls.
Saw a Chinese guy go for a swim here while his family discussed why the hell he would do that.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Saw a Chinese guy go for a swim here while his family discussed why the hell he would do that.
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Well Budapest is a good place for a stag do, or a solo city break in Toby's case.
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Well Budapest is a good place for a stag do, or a solo city break in Toby's case.
WHAT NOW TALEB
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
WHAT NOW TALEB
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children of men: the society
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
children of men: the society
this is bloody incredible writing.
They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.
November 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
this is bloody incredible writing.