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.
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.
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.
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.
The sons and daughters of people who may have fought in World War II.
October 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The sons and daughters of people who may have fought in World War II.
Congratulations to the Home Secretary, Parliament and the Metropolitan Police for clamping down so swiftly on terrorists and their supporters. Scum like, um, *checks notes*, Reverend Sue Parfitt have been free to preach hate for too long.
July 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Congratulations to the Home Secretary, Parliament and the Metropolitan Police for clamping down so swiftly on terrorists and their supporters. Scum like, um, *checks notes*, Reverend Sue Parfitt have been free to preach hate for too long.
Keep thinking on the LSHTM-JHU estimate of excess mortality in Gaza (paid for by FCDO, all but ignored). In the *six months* from Feb last year, between 67,000 and 86,000 likely already died.
Before the ceasefire. Before the full invasion. Before the UN warning today.
And they didn’t count famine.
Before the ceasefire. Before the full invasion. Before the UN warning today.
And they didn’t count famine.
May 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Keep thinking on the LSHTM-JHU estimate of excess mortality in Gaza (paid for by FCDO, all but ignored). In the *six months* from Feb last year, between 67,000 and 86,000 likely already died.
Before the ceasefire. Before the full invasion. Before the UN warning today.
And they didn’t count famine.
Before the ceasefire. Before the full invasion. Before the UN warning today.
And they didn’t count famine.
The figureheads of the alt-reich prattle on about the lost traditions of valour and masculinity, but reveal their true brute eugenics hand. America reflects in the glory of “the boys at Normandy” because of what they did; it is not that the boys were just glorious because they were born in America.
May 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The figureheads of the alt-reich prattle on about the lost traditions of valour and masculinity, but reveal their true brute eugenics hand. America reflects in the glory of “the boys at Normandy” because of what they did; it is not that the boys were just glorious because they were born in America.
I look forward to finding out how this is all academics’ fault.
May 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I look forward to finding out how this is all academics’ fault.
The hard man impotence act. You’re the government of the United Kingdom! You dictate the fee and loan structure, the regulatory framework, the subsidies and research sums, the visa restrictions, the assessment frameworks and the student number caps. And you want to blame the economy on fat-cat VCs?
May 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The hard man impotence act. You’re the government of the United Kingdom! You dictate the fee and loan structure, the regulatory framework, the subsidies and research sums, the visa restrictions, the assessment frameworks and the student number caps. And you want to blame the economy on fat-cat VCs?
The people of Runcorn and Helsby have had enough of uncontrolled immigration.
May 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The people of Runcorn and Helsby have had enough of uncontrolled immigration.
Of course, Pete knows nothing about WPS and badly mangles the origin story (he could more plausibly claim that WPS in the USA is a Hillary Clinton thing). And yet even he must salvage some vitality amidst the failure*, a neat and securitised WPS that Biden “ruined”.
* see Kirby and Shepherd 2024.
* see Kirby and Shepherd 2024.
May 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Of course, Pete knows nothing about WPS and badly mangles the origin story (he could more plausibly claim that WPS in the USA is a Hillary Clinton thing). And yet even he must salvage some vitality amidst the failure*, a neat and securitised WPS that Biden “ruined”.
* see Kirby and Shepherd 2024.
* see Kirby and Shepherd 2024.
Only the policy statement would seem to constrain an academic in any way and on the face of it not by defunding their research or barring their speech but by disapproving of the terminology they might use around students and others. That this didn’t “chill” Kathleen Stock at all is I think obvious.
March 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Only the policy statement would seem to constrain an academic in any way and on the face of it not by defunding their research or barring their speech but by disapproving of the terminology they might use around students and others. That this didn’t “chill” Kathleen Stock at all is I think obvious.
Sussex can hardly be responsible for the general public agitating for my firing, but even in the case of students and colleagues this would surely be an issue of dignity at work rather than freedom to research.
Sussex never said Stock should be prosecuted for illegal speech so, um, non sequitur.
Sussex never said Stock should be prosecuted for illegal speech so, um, non sequitur.
March 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Sussex can hardly be responsible for the general public agitating for my firing, but even in the case of students and colleagues this would surely be an issue of dignity at work rather than freedom to research.
Sussex never said Stock should be prosecuted for illegal speech so, um, non sequitur.
Sussex never said Stock should be prosecuted for illegal speech so, um, non sequitur.
Students opposing my political affiliations and memberships is not a violation of my freedom to research or take controversial views.
Open letters by my colleagues questioning honours bestowed by the state is not a violation of my academic freedom but an expression of theirs.
Open letters by my colleagues questioning honours bestowed by the state is not a violation of my academic freedom but an expression of theirs.
March 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Students opposing my political affiliations and memberships is not a violation of my freedom to research or take controversial views.
Open letters by my colleagues questioning honours bestowed by the state is not a violation of my academic freedom but an expression of theirs.
Open letters by my colleagues questioning honours bestowed by the state is not a violation of my academic freedom but an expression of theirs.
Amidst the horror an evening of joy, welcome Rahul Rao’s THE PSYCHIC LIVES OF STATUES into the world. A book about statues that also bursts open the parochial statue debates, a comradely reckoning with the decolonial iconoclasts, and a surprisingly intimate and moving memoir.
March 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Amidst the horror an evening of joy, welcome Rahul Rao’s THE PSYCHIC LIVES OF STATUES into the world. A book about statues that also bursts open the parochial statue debates, a comradely reckoning with the decolonial iconoclasts, and a surprisingly intimate and moving memoir.
The seventeenth most important story on the New York Times website right now. A war crime, unremarked, though the story explains that this obvious attack on civilian infrastructure won’t have much effect because of all the prior attacks on civilian infrastructure.
March 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The seventeenth most important story on the New York Times website right now. A war crime, unremarked, though the story explains that this obvious attack on civilian infrastructure won’t have much effect because of all the prior attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Spotted at UN HQ. Get them while it lasts. @drljshepherd.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Spotted at UN HQ. Get them while it lasts. @drljshepherd.bsky.social
Not at #ISA2025 and glad of it but if you’re in town, take a diversion to have your feet give way at the site of the first nuclear chain reaction, the subterranean pile that tilted the world.
March 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Not at #ISA2025 and glad of it but if you’re in town, take a diversion to have your feet give way at the site of the first nuclear chain reaction, the subterranean pile that tilted the world.
Why did the British government choose appeasement? Someone should look into that!
March 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Why did the British government choose appeasement? Someone should look into that!
It is true that cutting the aid budget is popular, but for people, parties and movements concerned about mis- and dis-information, this shouldn't mean much without also noting that the British public have been led to massively overestimate what the aid budget actually is.
February 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It is true that cutting the aid budget is popular, but for people, parties and movements concerned about mis- and dis-information, this shouldn't mean much without also noting that the British public have been led to massively overestimate what the aid budget actually is.