Steven Curtis
@stevencurtis.bsky.social
Diplomatic Studies | Public & Diaspora Diplomacy | Higher Education | International Relations | Learning & Teaching in Politics | Film | Classical Music & Jazz
Associate Professor of IR at London Metropolitan University | National Teaching Fellow 2011
Associate Professor of IR at London Metropolitan University | National Teaching Fellow 2011
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Will Russia’s diplomatic recognition of the Afghan Taliban government have a domino effect?
#GI5051 #GI7037
#GI5051 #GI7037
Will Russia’s diplomatic recognition of the Afghan Taliban government have a domino effect?
Russia’s recent formal recognition of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan is a landmark moment and raises questions over who will be next to do so amidst increasing global engagement with the state.
www.iiss.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
My daughter’s choice for our film tonight: British Agent (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1934). It’s based on the memoir by R. H. Bruce Lockhart on his attempts to influence the Soviet Union immediately after the revolution
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My daughter’s choice for our film tonight: British Agent (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1934). It’s based on the memoir by R. H. Bruce Lockhart on his attempts to influence the Soviet Union immediately after the revolution
12/6/2025- The Boat Strike www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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If you look closely the badge reads "Fifa fixed it for me".
Couldn’t get the real peace prize but got the soccer one
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you look closely the badge reads "Fifa fixed it for me".
Marco Rubio says that Trump is the only leader who can end Russia’s war on Ukraine, as Trump clearly struggles to stay awake
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Marco Rubio says that Trump is the only leader who can end Russia’s war on Ukraine, as Trump clearly struggles to stay awake
Ain’t that the truth: the first time the US has kissed Russia’s arse
Marco Rubio says that under Trump, "the most transformational year in American foreign policy since the end of the second World War"
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Ain’t that the truth: the first time the US has kissed Russia’s arse
Bitter rows and overnight talks: how a fragile #Cop30 deal was agreed – podcast #GI5052 #GI7037 #environment
Bitter rows and overnight talks: how a fragile Cop30 deal was agreed – podcast
After bitter arguments, threatened walkouts and heated all-night negotiations, delegates eventually reached a deal this weekend at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil. To unpick what was achieved and w...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Bitter rows and overnight talks: how a fragile #Cop30 deal was agreed – podcast #GI5052 #GI7037 #environment
Of course, they couldn’t hold Cliff’s leaving do in Cheers because the studio set of the bar was replaced with Frasier’s apartment (season nine, episode 21)
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Of course, they couldn’t hold Cliff’s leaving do in Cheers because the studio set of the bar was replaced with Frasier’s apartment (season nine, episode 21)
You, maybe, but I don’t touch the stuff
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
You, maybe, but I don’t touch the stuff
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London film lovers!
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
London film lovers!
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
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OTD in 2013 CIA began its “coup” by sending group of unarmed students to repeatedly headbutt the batons & boots of peaceful riot policemen so as to start Euromaidan so Nyland could give them cookies.
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
OTD in 2013 CIA began its “coup” by sending group of unarmed students to repeatedly headbutt the batons & boots of peaceful riot policemen so as to start Euromaidan so Nyland could give them cookies.
Tom Service on Mozart's Prague symphony. There are few pieces I find more exhilarating. It unfailingly has me leaping out of my chair to wave about my imaginary baton. Does anyone else shout ‘FUCK OFF’ to the final two notes of the first movement, or is that just me? I recommend you give it a try
Symphony guide: Mozart's 38th - 'Prague'
In the third in his symphony series, Tom Service goes back to 1786 Prague and Mozart's 38th symphony, in which you can hear the composer straining at the limits of what his orchestra, and the form, ca...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tom Service on Mozart's Prague symphony. There are few pieces I find more exhilarating. It unfailingly has me leaping out of my chair to wave about my imaginary baton. Does anyone else shout ‘FUCK OFF’ to the final two notes of the first movement, or is that just me? I recommend you give it a try
Surely it needs to be called “Against All Forms of Racism, Including Antisemitism”
Your Party reveals new name options after months of indecision
Members of the fledgling party will be able to vote between the four options
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Surely it needs to be called “Against All Forms of Racism, Including Antisemitism”
Season eight is so poor someone is having another go at Humboldt’s Gift
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Season eight is so poor someone is having another go at Humboldt’s Gift
President George H W Bush distributing tie clips to US troops based in Saudi Arabia as part of Desert Shield, Thanksgiving 1990. Can’t imagine him telling the troops they were “full of shit”
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
President George H W Bush distributing tie clips to US troops based in Saudi Arabia as part of Desert Shield, Thanksgiving 1990. Can’t imagine him telling the troops they were “full of shit”
In the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
My clever son has just shown me how to slide a shop-bought pizza from its cardboard base straight onto the oven shelf, rather that pick the thing up at the sides with all the toppings tumbling into the middle
I am 57
I am 57
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My clever son has just shown me how to slide a shop-bought pizza from its cardboard base straight onto the oven shelf, rather that pick the thing up at the sides with all the toppings tumbling into the middle
I am 57
I am 57
My colleague Dr Wendy Sloane on the travails and resilience of The Moscow Times
President Putin is not a loyal reader - London Metropolitan University
Dr Wendy Sloane, Associate Professor of Journalism at London Met, discusses the future of The Moscow Times in a new article to be published December 1st in the British Journalism Review
www.londonmet.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
My colleague Dr Wendy Sloane on the travails and resilience of The Moscow Times
One of these prizes is not like the others. I’m not sure Mearsheimer does himself any favours by noting he won the 2019 book prize awarded by one of Putin’s propaganda platforms
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
One of these prizes is not like the others. I’m not sure Mearsheimer does himself any favours by noting he won the 2019 book prize awarded by one of Putin’s propaganda platforms
Inside COP climate change negotiations: a good interview with Camilla Born, former advisor to the COP26 president, starting just after four minutes in #GI5052 #GI7037 #environmentaldiplomacy
BBC Inside Science - What’s in the wording of the COP 30 negotiations? - BBC Sounds
As COP 30 draws to close in Brazil, we speak to a former negotiator.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Inside COP climate change negotiations: a good interview with Camilla Born, former advisor to the COP26 president, starting just after four minutes in #GI5052 #GI7037 #environmentaldiplomacy
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All this shows is that the US has no idea what it’s doing and it’s being played by Moscow. Complete humiliation.
#BBCNews - Trump says US plan to end Ukraine war not 'final offer' for Kyiv
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#UkraineWar
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#UkraineWar
Trump says US plan to end Ukraine war not 'final offer' for Kyiv
US President Donald Trump says the plan is not his "final offer" for Kyiv, and security officials are set to meet in Geneva on Sunday.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
All this shows is that the US has no idea what it’s doing and it’s being played by Moscow. Complete humiliation.
The records show he wasn’t even working on his Shakespeare book, but just eating and dicking around
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The records show he wasn’t even working on his Shakespeare book, but just eating and dicking around