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Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on UK progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️ Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 18d

I've written a new piece on Eddington and its blackly comical depiction of political ideology, polarisation, and violence in contemporary America. A few reflections on the film... 🧵

#filmsky #polisky #skystorians🗃️

Eddington

This portrayal of a small New Mexico town at the outset of the pandemic meditates on how individual self-interest, ambition, and resentments fuel political ideology, polarisation, and violence.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 23d

Just landed - various strands of my research and activism collected: www.thehortonninethousand.org

The Horton Nine Thousand

www.thehortonninethousand.org

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King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 2d

See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay

'Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in Epsom's derelict Horton Cemetery'

The Friends of Horton Cemetery wants the site to be a memorial to those buried there.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

Great advert jingle though.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

There’s this old boy I sometimes see around who’s the spit of my late grandad, and always heading into my grandad’s spiritual home: the bookies. What makes it even uncannier is the bookies is three doors down from a phone shop run by a bloke who is the spit of my cousin. Like some weird fever dream.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

Not disagreeing with OP’s critique or conflating it with Labour’s position here at all btw; just that I think amid the gotcha-ing and counter-gotcha-ing on the broad left British politics is an inability to accept and articulate the big picture on this.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

…is Labour’s position of unequivocal support for that same institution and for Ukraine’s war effort but a reluctance to concede those same material and ideological links between rising nationalism here and the equivalent politics in Russia (that it opposes) and elsewhere (that it sometimes doesn’t).

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is a fair critique of the Greens’ awkward positioning on this - being willing to recognise and join the dots between Reform and Russian authoritarianism and imperialism but ambivalent towards the (imperfect) principal framework we have for resisting the latter - but the flip side…

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Then maybe now would be a good time to clarify your position on the UK's commitment to NATO and its allies.

In particular, whether you still support collective security as currently envisaged by Article V.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

BOOM.

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 1d

‘Liam. There’s someone on the phone for you’

‘Oh fuck sake. Trying to write this fucking tune man’

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

I am but the problem is there is probably someone out there who will also make it up but unironically and they now have the technology to do it.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

AI-generated videos of Tommies walking through the set of the film Notting Hill captioned with “This is what we’ve lost 🇬🇧”

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 1d

Simpsons screencap. Mr Burns wearing an obvious false moustache. Caption: "Bonjour, je m'appelle Monsieur Unrocel."

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

See, I don’t take issue with actual veterans using Armistice Day as an opportunity for a knees up in the 1920s…just their great-grandchildren using it as an opportunities for a knees up about a different war in the 2020s.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

There is something striking about what I’d almost call a VE Day-ification of remembrance culture in the past few years. It’s gone from an enforced reverence for the dead and the Armed Forces (underpinned by the family history boom) to just wanting to think of the past as an extended national jolly.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

And at the going down of the sun, we will shake our arses.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

Lest we forget…to dance! 💃🏻🕺🏻

Sign says:

On remembrance weekend....
"SATURDAY NIGHT
SWING"
The Great Hall (Historic House), Hall Place, Bexley
(SAT 8th NOV - written on poppy)
Introducing
"BEN BEDDOES BIG BAND"
16 piece band with guest
singer
Saturday 8th November 2025
An evening to enjoy the best in swing, jazz, latin & famous theme tunes with a nod to the music of the 40's.
Door open 1830pm
Band starts 1930pm
BEN BEDDOES BIG BAND
£17.50 per person
Fully licensed bar available
T&C'scan be found at hallplace.org.uk
01322 221159
info@relish.co.uk
reLISH

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d

Zoology, theology…your discipline’s foundations took one hell of a beating.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d

On the way home on the bus he asked me “Who is the strongest person in the world but not God and not the Gods in any other countries because I know there’s three of them: God, Jesus, and I can’t remember the other one.”

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d

The kind of people who took claims of electoral irregularities in the 2019 Bolivian election seriously enough to equivocate about the runner-up launching a coup.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d

We rightly criticise the credulity of some Western leftists for seeing everyone in the Americas who opposes US hegemony as a comrade, but there’s a similarly naive kind of liberal who is equally hostile to left and right populism alike and oblivious to legacies of colonialism and economic warfare.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 2d

A big, bold #envhist article on the seismic impacts of big infrastructure. You’ll
feel the earth move as you read.

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 4d

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene*

Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr

doi.org

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d

And just a correction to our earlier bulletin, it turns out that you do not in fact have to hand it to Presidente Pato de Milkshake

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d

We regret to inform you once again that Latin American politics does not exist as a proxy for your own pet ideological projects and antagonisms.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats, Charlie!

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