Simon Glendinning
@simonglend.bsky.social
Head of the European Institute and Professor of European Philosophy at LSE.
Typo: should be “reports that the BBC censored” not “accuses the BBC of censoring”.
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Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
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November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Typo: should be “reports that the BBC censored” not “accuses the BBC of censoring”.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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We are still buzzing from Tuesday night’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture with Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister (1990–1997) 🇬🇧
🎥 Video and podcast out soon!
🎥 Video and podcast out soon!
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
We are still buzzing from Tuesday night’s Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture with Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister (1990–1997) 🇬🇧
🎥 Video and podcast out soon!
🎥 Video and podcast out soon!
Sir John Major gave the Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture at LSE on Tuesday. He did not pull his punches on Brexit, calling it “an act of collective folly” and calling out the timidity of our political leaders who fail to speak out about the damage it has done to the UK, politically and economically.
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Sir John Major gave the Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture at LSE on Tuesday. He did not pull his punches on Brexit, calling it “an act of collective folly” and calling out the timidity of our political leaders who fail to speak out about the damage it has done to the UK, politically and economically.
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Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.
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John Major yesterday at LSE: 1. “In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to lead to European Union across the world, our enemies celebrated and our friends despair.”1/
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
John Major yesterday at LSE: 1. “In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to lead to European Union across the world, our enemies celebrated and our friends despair.”1/
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
The splicing of Trump’s speech by the BBC is really shitty journalism.
The airtime devoted to the Reform agenda on migration by the BBC is really dangerous journalism.
#BBC - you are becoming a danger to this country. Lightweight and Lazy.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
The airtime devoted to the Reform agenda on migration by the BBC is really dangerous journalism.
#BBC - you are becoming a danger to this country. Lightweight and Lazy.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Newsnight accused of selectively editing same Trump Capitol riots speech as Panorama
BBC show accused of editing speech to make it appear as if Trump made a more explicit call for violence from his supporters
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November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The splicing of Trump’s speech by the BBC is really shitty journalism.
The airtime devoted to the Reform agenda on migration by the BBC is really dangerous journalism.
#BBC - you are becoming a danger to this country. Lightweight and Lazy.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
The airtime devoted to the Reform agenda on migration by the BBC is really dangerous journalism.
#BBC - you are becoming a danger to this country. Lightweight and Lazy.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
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…
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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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October 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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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....
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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
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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.
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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.
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🔗 Learn more: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Meet our Jean Monnet Chair: Dr Mareike Kleine - Global Perspectives on Europe 🇪🇺
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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...