Alex Goodall
@alexinternational.bsky.social
International historian at UCL. Author of Loyalty and Liberty (2013) and The Open Door Era (2017). Current project is on late-nineteenth-century US imperialism in the Caribbean from the bottom up.
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RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
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SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
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Now out on First View!
Woop! I've got a new article out with @modamhist.bsky.social!
"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
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"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
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Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust
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November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Now out on First View!
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NEW | Public Services Performance 2025
The government has high ambitions for public services. But with patchy progress, it needs to get a grip to make a success of its reforms.
Read the final instalment our our annual stocktake of nine key services www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
The government has high ambitions for public services. But with patchy progress, it needs to get a grip to make a success of its reforms.
Read the final instalment our our annual stocktake of nine key services www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
NEW | Public Services Performance 2025
The government has high ambitions for public services. But with patchy progress, it needs to get a grip to make a success of its reforms.
Read the final instalment our our annual stocktake of nine key services www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
The government has high ambitions for public services. But with patchy progress, it needs to get a grip to make a success of its reforms.
Read the final instalment our our annual stocktake of nine key services www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
Woop! I've got a new article out with @modamhist.bsky.social!
"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Woop! I've got a new article out with @modamhist.bsky.social!
"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Soot, Palm Trees, and Zinc: The Port System of the Greater Caribbean, U.S. Empire, and the Geopolitics of Disgust" - open access on First View
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Tech encourages the instrumentalization of emotional life, by which I mean that our feelings seem real only if they translate into actions that help us achieve specific goals." How technology is slowly killing our humanity...
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Opinion | I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"Tech encourages the instrumentalization of emotional life, by which I mean that our feelings seem real only if they translate into actions that help us achieve specific goals." How technology is slowly killing our humanity...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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I bet you didn't know what you needed on this Friday was Bill Bailey playing Metallica's Enter Sandman on a set of classic car horns
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Bill Bailey's message to Metallica
YouTube video by MyTicket
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November 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I bet you didn't know what you needed on this Friday was Bill Bailey playing Metallica's Enter Sandman on a set of classic car horns
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RIP Richard Gott
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Richard Gott obituary
Journalist, historian and author who served as a foreign correspondent and features editor of the Guardian
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November 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
RIP Richard Gott
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In just three years, powered by AI craziness, Nvidia's has gone from a value of $400bn to becoming the world's first $5 trillion dollar company
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October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In just three years, powered by AI craziness, Nvidia's has gone from a value of $400bn to becoming the world's first $5 trillion dollar company
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A new Philip Roth biography... second time lucky after the Blake Bailey disaster?
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Awe and Shmutz - Jewish Review of Books
The greatest challenge for a Philip Roth biographer is that Roth was there first.
jewishreviewofbooks.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A new Philip Roth biography... second time lucky after the Blake Bailey disaster?
jewishreviewofbooks.com/literature/1...
jewishreviewofbooks.com/literature/1...
Vorasidenib is the first, and right now the only, drug that has been shown to slow tumour progression. MHRA has approved it, FDA has approved ... it's just NICE that's refusing. Without it, "life becomes a cycle of MRI scans, surgery and years of uncertainty about when their tumour will progress."
500 signatures reached for this petition to reverse NICE's vorasidenib decision - please RT/sign so we can raise the volume on this
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Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
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October 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Vorasidenib is the first, and right now the only, drug that has been shown to slow tumour progression. MHRA has approved it, FDA has approved ... it's just NICE that's refusing. Without it, "life becomes a cycle of MRI scans, surgery and years of uncertainty about when their tumour will progress."
500 signatures reached for this petition to reverse NICE's vorasidenib decision - please RT/sign so we can raise the volume on this
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Sign the Petition
Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
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October 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
500 signatures reached for this petition to reverse NICE's vorasidenib decision - please RT/sign so we can raise the volume on this
www.change.org/p/urge-nice-...
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Petition: Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
Please read and think about signing
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Please read and think about signing
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Sign the Petition
Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
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October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Petition: Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib
Please read and think about signing
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Please read and think about signing
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Seen at Russell Square today
October 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Seen at Russell Square today
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I've had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mishal Husain three times. One of the most intelligent and accomplished people I've ever met.
Here's Nigel Farage trying to shut her down with the words "Listen, love ..." like it was still the 1970s. I'd say it was unbelievable, only it isn't.
Here's Nigel Farage trying to shut her down with the words "Listen, love ..." like it was still the 1970s. I'd say it was unbelievable, only it isn't.
Nigel Farage says"gotta shoot" down Russian jets | The Mishal Husain Show
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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October 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I've had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mishal Husain three times. One of the most intelligent and accomplished people I've ever met.
Here's Nigel Farage trying to shut her down with the words "Listen, love ..." like it was still the 1970s. I'd say it was unbelievable, only it isn't.
Here's Nigel Farage trying to shut her down with the words "Listen, love ..." like it was still the 1970s. I'd say it was unbelievable, only it isn't.
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It’s me! Playing with my glasses and saying smart stuff!
Talking with @renatakeller.bsky.social about the Cuban Missile Crisis in Latin America. Check out our latest podcast and her new book from @uncpress.bsky.social in the thread below
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It’s me! Playing with my glasses and saying smart stuff!
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Vorasidenib not approved for treatment of low-grade glioma
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Vorasidenib not approved for treatment of low-grade glioma
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has not approved vorasidenib for treatment of low-grade glioma on the NHS. Find out what this means.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Vorasidenib not approved for treatment of low-grade glioma
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Good to see history lectures are just as off-putting when Vladimir Putin delivers them to the US President...
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How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine
Fraught summit in Anchorage marked a nadir that reshaped how the presidents approach each other
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October 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Good to see history lectures are just as off-putting when Vladimir Putin delivers them to the US President...
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My autumn chilli haul is starting to look like a military arsenal!
October 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My autumn chilli haul is starting to look like a military arsenal!
Softer jobs market due to attacks on immigration; but higher inflation due to tariffs. That's a galaxy brain bingo!
Jay Powell signals support for more rate cuts as US job market cools - on.ft.com/3KIUz8T
Jay Powell signals support for more rate cuts as US job market cools - on.ft.com/3KIUz8T
Jay Powell signals support for more rate cuts as US job market cools
Federal Reserve chair says inflation expectations are close to central bank’s 2% goal
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October 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Softer jobs market due to attacks on immigration; but higher inflation due to tariffs. That's a galaxy brain bingo!
Jay Powell signals support for more rate cuts as US job market cools - on.ft.com/3KIUz8T
Jay Powell signals support for more rate cuts as US job market cools - on.ft.com/3KIUz8T
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There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.
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Equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors of power over a decade... OpenAI is making us dumb _and_ destroying the environment
OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn - on.ft.com/4pZsGcF
OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn - on.ft.com/4pZsGcF
OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn
Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence
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October 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors of power over a decade... OpenAI is making us dumb _and_ destroying the environment
OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn - on.ft.com/4pZsGcF
OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn - on.ft.com/4pZsGcF