Alix Mortimer
@alixmortimer
I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands. 🚢 ships 🏺archaeology 🏰 medieval history 🇭🇷 učim Hrvatski
Doesn’t look like much but this turned out great btw, hence the fact that a lot of it is already gone
Me waking up bright and early and delivering important football discourse to people who stayed up all night
Always fun to hear a morning sound check going on in the park and look up to see who I’ll get a free if faint concert from later
Ooh we are almost exactly the same except i think everything is terrible and somehow that makes me Mamdani, was this methodology even peer reviewed?
While we are swapping eco tips can I highly recommend buying a huge job lot of Marseilles soap once a year and not only do you fit out shower and sinks for about £70 for the whole year (1 person with 2 sinks here), you also get to play this unbelievably healing fragrant game of Tetris
Post-structuralists have done some kind of PPI deal with the council
Even that list of suggestions is getting a little too productive by the end, multitasking puzzles and chatting??
Boycotting the World Cup will be easy as I’ll inevitably be upset somehow right from the start
I should have put the vote shares on which shows the Reform vote is very inefficient, classic lack of ground ops problem, compare the LDs who successfully targeted Bromley town and Beckenham last time round and have held and extended.
Bit of an uptick for Reform here and corresponding reduction for Labour but mainly one is struck by staid old Bromley’s total failure to be seismic in any way, did not get the old politics is finished memo
Beseeching Your Lordship to address this My Petition, Humble Man though I bee, I remain Your Servant and Bondsman,
Where we are: Iran is now putting pressure on the United States in order to secure peace in the Middle East
Oh I like this @kcl-spe.bsky.social paper a lot. Partly as a former archaeology student and therefore fan of Middle Range Theory, and also as a helpless citizen. It’s hard to sense these bigger dynamics behind even expert reporting and analysis. kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
Also this is hilarious from London “we have been doing this since the Seven Years War, sit down”
Yes yes tapping my own sign: you can insure *anything* at Lloyd’s, yes including wars, the obstacle is IMO’s commercial seafarer safety code, the possibility of losing reputation, getting reprimanded, fined or disbanded altogether as well as bogged down in lawsuits if you allow harm to your crew