Robert Craig
@robcraig400.bsky.social
Coordinator of the "Transforming Curricula" Project in the EUPeace European University Alliance: https://eupeace.eu. Based at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in Germany.
Germanist by training. All opinions borrowed and turgidly rephrased. He/his.
Germanist by training. All opinions borrowed and turgidly rephrased. He/his.
I suspect things will have to get much, much worse first.
January 25, 2026 at 10:31 AM
I suspect things will have to get much, much worse first.
Who is this "Lisa Nandy" whereof you speak.
January 22, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Who is this "Lisa Nandy" whereof you speak.
Would assume she's au fait with the way language works, and I'd say the jury's been out for a while on that little number.
January 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Would assume she's au fait with the way language works, and I'd say the jury's been out for a while on that little number.
Ah that's fab. Good to know they'll have had any faintly lingering concerns assuaged. Time to crack open a cold one.
January 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Ah that's fab. Good to know they'll have had any faintly lingering concerns assuaged. Time to crack open a cold one.
Oh I'd forgotten that Luke Akehurst existed.
January 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Oh I'd forgotten that Luke Akehurst existed.
You've had plenty more shameful days, mate, they've just played out thousands of miles away on other continents.
January 5, 2026 at 10:51 PM
You've had plenty more shameful days, mate, they've just played out thousands of miles away on other continents.
Are other worlds even available?!?!
December 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Are other worlds even available?!?!
Timothy looks unrecognisable.
December 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Timothy looks unrecognisable.
It helps if the product you're trying to sell isn't either completely or partly sh*te, and that one component isn't actively trying to destablise the others.
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It helps if the product you're trying to sell isn't either completely or partly sh*te, and that one component isn't actively trying to destablise the others.
I'd probably agree. Perceived prosperity, and the sense of all boats rising, does a remarkable job of papering over old prejudices.
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'd probably agree. Perceived prosperity, and the sense of all boats rising, does a remarkable job of papering over old prejudices.
I'd say it *felt* true as long as a good proportion of people felt relatively well-off, and/or that things could, by and large, and despite the usual bumps in the road, only...... get better?
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I'd say it *felt* true as long as a good proportion of people felt relatively well-off, and/or that things could, by and large, and despite the usual bumps in the road, only...... get better?
May it run and run and run like a running sore
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
May it run and run and run like a running sore
Orr is one of the creepiest figures in a very creepy crowd.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Orr is one of the creepiest figures in a very creepy crowd.
Pressssssssssure!
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Pressssssssssure!
Simon Jenkins, reliably wrong as ever.
July 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Simon Jenkins, reliably wrong as ever.
Necro-(neo)liberalism, far from the best liberal traditions. I'd like to think otherwise, but am unconvinced British society and the British state are mature enough not to screw up what follows
June 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Necro-(neo)liberalism, far from the best liberal traditions. I'd like to think otherwise, but am unconvinced British society and the British state are mature enough not to screw up what follows
Fantastic initiative
April 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Fantastic initiative
We did, but we also acted on a good-faith, open-source basis with inherently powerful ideas. Interesting and perennial question about how much more cynical and realpolitisch -- dare I say "nastier" -- the left might need to be in future...
April 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We did, but we also acted on a good-faith, open-source basis with inherently powerful ideas. Interesting and perennial question about how much more cynical and realpolitisch -- dare I say "nastier" -- the left might need to be in future...
I hated Brexit too, but sorry, these aren't even nearly the same category, *especially* not re. Trump mark 2.
April 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I hated Brexit too, but sorry, these aren't even nearly the same category, *especially* not re. Trump mark 2.
...and for two of the chapters in short(er) form -- on Döblin's celebrated city masterpiece, "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1929) and on his science fiction epic of 1924, "Mountains Oceans and Giants" -- see: uni-giessen.academia.edu/RobertCraig. (...along with other pieces from my years in academia!)
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March 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
...and for two of the chapters in short(er) form -- on Döblin's celebrated city masterpiece, "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1929) and on his science fiction epic of 1924, "Mountains Oceans and Giants" -- see: uni-giessen.academia.edu/RobertCraig. (...along with other pieces from my years in academia!)
100% this. I'm fortunate to work with great colleagues now, but a previous DE institution effectively protected an obnoxious bully simply because they were an unsackable professor and no one had the guts to confront them. Even those who could and did help were constrained by system and convention
March 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
100% this. I'm fortunate to work with great colleagues now, but a previous DE institution effectively protected an obnoxious bully simply because they were an unsackable professor and no one had the guts to confront them. Even those who could and did help were constrained by system and convention