Matthew Ford
@warmatters
Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
Let’s take out the rubbish. It is a straight fight #FarageVBinface Every other party has now stood down. #votebinface. Vote for change.
Congratulations to Andy Burnham. I think this is the choice Starmer / Burnham will need to put to the whole of the UK. Either vote for someone you might not like or else get a reform government. Will that be enough?
Mighty fine in London today. Last day in Blighty for a bit. Looking forward to getting back to Stockholm. It won’t be so hot!
Did you have an entourage and were you as glammed up as this? The bin guys would have been very impressed!
I might have ended up at the Lamb Tavern in Leadenhall Market afterwards.
Did lots of interesting things on Wednesday past week. Opened with a workshop on Conflict and Societal Resilience at the IWM Institute. And ended with the Firebreak conference put on by @howgatepublishing.bsky.social. Got to meet several Howgate authors and hear some fantastic discussion of MDO.
My afternoon of football with AIK. Currently 1-3. Second goal disallowed as offside. No VAR in Sweden but telly shows it was defo a goal. Djurgårdens went up pretty quickly after that. Second half started but fireworks have stopped play!
I thoroughly enjoyed talking to folks at Post och Telestyrelsen, Sweden’s telecoms regulation authority, this morning. I was thinking it would be a small seminar room but no, 60 people turned up to hear me talk about War in the Smartphone Age! 😀
Have a bit of Martin Luther King: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
I am very pleased to say, “La guerra en la era del smartphone: Un nuevo campo de batalla al alcance de nuestras manos” ya está disponible hoy. 29 April 2026 cc: @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social @esferalibros.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/0agxuwRm