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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve got 6 excitable 8 year olds running around my house.

I’ve just made a tactical switch from man marking to zonal marking.

Wish me luck!

a man in a jeep jersey is standing next to two other men

ALT: a man in a jeep jersey is standing next to two other men

media.tenor.com

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nottspolitics.bsky.social @nottspolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social recently contributed to this @thetimes.com piece on the priorities of the new MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli

Read it here 🔗 tinyurl.com/4puhmcud

Find out more about Dan and his research on intelligence services 🔗 nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas

MI6’s new chief aims to restore British influence in Middle East

Blaise Metreweli, 48, is the youngest ever boss of the Secret Intelligence Service

tinyurl.com

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 2d

What a lovely review. Congratulations!

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. My dad is a massive grammar pedant and it’s been drilled into me since birth. My “language evolves” argument really wound him up!

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nottspolitics.bsky.social @nottspolitics.bsky.social · 2d

📚 Congratulations to @rorycormac.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention'

📖 Read more here🔗 tinyurl.com/3cdbynaa

ℹ️ Find out more about Rory and his research 🔗 nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/rory.cormac

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 2d

My copy editor has (correctly) put loads of em dashes into the book but now it looks like it’s been written by chat gpt!!

Grammatical errors are now a weird sign of authenticity. We are artisanal writers

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 3d

Me writing: I’ll fact check that at the revisions stage

At revisions: I’ll check it at copy edit

At copy edit: I’ll check it at proofs

At proofs: if it’s still here by now I must’ve fact checked it already

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 6d

@lucatrenta.bsky.social I got a message saying you DM’d me but I don’t have direct messenger on here anymore since they did that age verification thing so can’t read it. Sorry

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 7d

“The geographies of the information research department”

Enjoyed this “critical geographical analysis” of British covert operations

And there’s me thinking that geography was just oxbow lakes and erosion!

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). To date, there has been no geographical study of IRD and through...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 7d

Oh turns out it’s on preorder.

Loving the blurbs from early readers:

“Often laugh out loud”;
“Monty Python meets le Carré”;
Fun, fascinating and absurd;
“Spy thrillers have nothing on Fakers”

Can’t wait to share it!

www.amazon.co.uk/Fakers-Top-S...

Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line: Amazon.co.uk: Cormac, Rory: 9780198917007: Books

Buy Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line by Cormac, Rory (ISBN: 9780198917007) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligib...

www.amazon.co.uk

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 9d

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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social · 9d

Enjoyed this study on anglocentrism in covert action scholarship. It says I’m wrong merely to point to an evidence bias. Shame it didn’t come out before we did the below 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Daniela Richterova @drichterova.bsky.social · 11d

1/3 📕 #CovertAction: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention is now out!

I am delighted to have co-authored the chapter “Czechoslovakia: Covert Measures in Peace and War.”

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 9d

Good news! You can now download the open access (free) ebook of Age of Decption from @CornellPress !

(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press

At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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