Paul C(innamon) Kirby
@paulcinnamon.bsky.social
International theory, feminist political thought, “Women, Peace and Security”, masculinities and the governing of them, critical war studies, statecraft, pop cultures, another university might still be possible. Gender detective.
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It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
A depiction of the ‘faculty lounge’ so alien to my experience that I guffawed and rewound twice.
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A depiction of the ‘faculty lounge’ so alien to my experience that I guffawed and rewound twice.
Complaints that Labour is doing Reform’s work for them often seem pitched at the level of electoral calculus, media discourse or the harms to non-citizens (increasingly the ‘wrong’ citizens). But anti-migrant triangulation will tank the economy as well as poison our culture!
One big risk to the OBR forecasts has already materialised -migration is falling more quickly than their projections and that will hit growth and tax revenue.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration fell by around two-thirds - from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Complaints that Labour is doing Reform’s work for them often seem pitched at the level of electoral calculus, media discourse or the harms to non-citizens (increasingly the ‘wrong’ citizens). But anti-migrant triangulation will tank the economy as well as poison our culture!
Every business with a toilet must navigate the distinction between “an individual's physique or physical appearance, [or] behaviour" (❌) and “clothes or other forms of presentation conventionally associated with one or other sex” (✅) without discriminating against transfolk. Dangerously absurd.
The draft code of practice tells businesses to judge who can access toilets and services based on appearance, behaviour or “concerns” from others.
Read our full explainer:
www.wearequeeraf.com/misogynistic...
Read our full explainer:
www.wearequeeraf.com/misogynistic...
"Misogynistic" leaked guidance would ban people from toilets based on appearance
Leaked EHRC code of practice is "misogynist’s charter" that will enforce gender stereotypes in public life with "a license to discriminate"
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Every business with a toilet must navigate the distinction between “an individual's physique or physical appearance, [or] behaviour" (❌) and “clothes or other forms of presentation conventionally associated with one or other sex” (✅) without discriminating against transfolk. Dangerously absurd.
This level of institutional commitment to reputational self-harm is intriguing, sociologically speaking.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Former ANU boss Genevieve Bell receives $400,000 exit pay
The university paid the former vice-chancellor a severance package of more than $400,000 in income and superannuation.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This level of institutional commitment to reputational self-harm is intriguing, sociologically speaking.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
An intelligence great enough to have memory-holed Liz Truss.
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
An intelligence great enough to have memory-holed Liz Truss.
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
I for one welcome our new crybaby god emperor.
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I for one welcome our new crybaby god emperor.
Welcome to the machine slop arms race.
How dare my lecturers use AI!
Why shouldn't I use AI for lectures no one pays attention to?
Why shouldn't I get help on my assignments?
Why should I waste my time marking when 90% of students are using AI for essays?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
How dare my lecturers use AI!
Why shouldn't I use AI for lectures no one pays attention to?
Why shouldn't I get help on my assignments?
Why should I waste my time marking when 90% of students are using AI for essays?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Welcome to the machine slop arms race.
How dare my lecturers use AI!
Why shouldn't I use AI for lectures no one pays attention to?
Why shouldn't I get help on my assignments?
Why should I waste my time marking when 90% of students are using AI for essays?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
How dare my lecturers use AI!
Why shouldn't I use AI for lectures no one pays attention to?
Why shouldn't I get help on my assignments?
Why should I waste my time marking when 90% of students are using AI for essays?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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We're going to see more stories like this until universities wake up and comprehend the financial and reputational implications, only then will they suddenly and massively crack down on the very same things they're heavily pushing on us right this instant.
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We're going to see more stories like this until universities wake up and comprehend the financial and reputational implications, only then will they suddenly and massively crack down on the very same things they're heavily pushing on us right this instant.
It’s obvious what Trump gains from further debasing the UN Security Council. Less obvious what champions of liberal multilateralism France and Britain think they’re up to in authorising use of force by an unknown military body in a fiefdom ruled by the President of the United States and Tony Blair.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It’s obvious what Trump gains from further debasing the UN Security Council. Less obvious what champions of liberal multilateralism France and Britain think they’re up to in authorising use of force by an unknown military body in a fiefdom ruled by the President of the United States and Tony Blair.
Is there even a mainstream political journalist who would think to ask? Or, while we’re at, to have prepared a follow-up on the relative prevalence of genocide and civil war in different periods to test the inevitable reply that such danger no longer exists?
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Is there even a mainstream political journalist who would think to ask? Or, while we’re at, to have prepared a follow-up on the relative prevalence of genocide and civil war in different periods to test the inevitable reply that such danger no longer exists?
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
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what i have learned from the email dump: the most pretentious, snobby, aloof academic will gladly entertain the theories and thoughts of an ignoramus if they happen to be a very wealthy, well-connected sex trafficker
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
what i have learned from the email dump: the most pretentious, snobby, aloof academic will gladly entertain the theories and thoughts of an ignoramus if they happen to be a very wealthy, well-connected sex trafficker
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"UK no longer sharing intel with US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes & believes the attacks are illegal..."
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Good.
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Good.
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"UK no longer sharing intel with US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes & believes the attacks are illegal..."
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Good.
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Good.
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
“What some Democrats would prefer is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing Abundance over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to Pod Save America.)”
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“What some Democrats would prefer is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing Abundance over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to Pod Save America.)”
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Cognitive offloading pass-the-parcel.
And you don’t even need an actually good bit of tech, which “Objector” may or may not be, to do this! If you just ask the free version of any genAI to do something plausible it still louses up everyone else’s productivity to work out it is bollocks!
The automated problem factory!
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Cognitive offloading pass-the-parcel.
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
Easily missed: the decision not to fund a more expansive atrocity prevention effort was taken *before* the cuts to the aid budget. Sudan is on paper a remaining priority, but is nevertheless scheduled for an 18% cut in funding this year alone (with worse to come).
www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/07...
www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/07...
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Easily missed: the decision not to fund a more expansive atrocity prevention effort was taken *before* the cuts to the aid budget. Sudan is on paper a remaining priority, but is nevertheless scheduled for an 18% cut in funding this year alone (with worse to come).
www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/07...
www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/07...
David Lammy, Aug 2025: “It grates that there isn’t more interest in the war in Sudan, which affects him personally. Privately, he’ll say it’s because those dying are African and black.”
FCDO, Oct 2024: chooses least ambitious option for atrocity prevention.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
FCDO, Oct 2024: chooses least ambitious option for atrocity prevention.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
David Lammy, Aug 2025: “It grates that there isn’t more interest in the war in Sudan, which affects him personally. Privately, he’ll say it’s because those dying are African and black.”
FCDO, Oct 2024: chooses least ambitious option for atrocity prevention.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
FCDO, Oct 2024: chooses least ambitious option for atrocity prevention.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Just in terms of admin, all HEIs will scramble post 'pause'. Many/most will scramble while shrinking PS and/or academic staff. An important but exceptionally tricky time to change/enhance institutional cultures. The most important thing the REF2029 pause can do is not to set us all up to fail. 2/2
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Just in terms of admin, all HEIs will scramble post 'pause'. Many/most will scramble while shrinking PS and/or academic staff. An important but exceptionally tricky time to change/enhance institutional cultures. The most important thing the REF2029 pause can do is not to set us all up to fail. 2/2
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Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
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Darfur genocide took place at peak early 2000s American primacy, current Sudan genocide being done by forces backed by top US ally UAE, but sure let’s blame it on “post-American world” SMDH
In Sudan, @anneapplebaum reports, the post-American world has already arrived. A brutal civil war has left a vacuum—and no international organizations, no diplomats, and certainly no Americans are coming to fill it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth
Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Darfur genocide took place at peak early 2000s American primacy, current Sudan genocide being done by forces backed by top US ally UAE, but sure let’s blame it on “post-American world” SMDH