writing a book about Davos; reps RCW (UK), MMQ&A (USA); editorial committee @newleftreview; PhD @CambridgeHPS
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On Wednesdays, I’m hosting a ten-part radio series on English Culture through the mind of Professor Stuart Hall @ResonanceFM
Features never-before-heard recordings from lectures delivered in the mid-1980s - the height of Thatcherism.
11am-midday (BST)
resonancefm.com
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'He liked to tell journalists he was brought up in a house with 15 servants, then add that his parents were two of them.'
-- ft.com/content/32e4c2d6-9afe…
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'The monetary order cannot be re-made peacefully. The escalation already underway—reserve seizures, payments exclusion, technology embargos, militarized logistics and proxy wars—is not a temporary disturbance but the early phase of a deeper conflict.'
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delighted to be joining @lsehistory as the inaugural David McClure Visiting Fellow from September
We extend a warm welcome to Dr Caitlín Doherty @caitdoherty who is joining us for the 2026-27 academic year as the inaugural David McClure Visiting Fellow.
Read more about Caitlín and the fellowship here: lse.ac.uk/International-Hist…
#fellow #staff #academic #book #history #lse
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I have a piece out in @phenomenalworld which charts the history of anti-imperialism in South Lebanon and assesses the prospects of a US-brokered postwar settlement between Israel and Lebanon
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“I wanted to see whether globalization was dying, dead, or might yet recover from the blow delivered to it by a concatenation of historical events.”
@caitdoherty wrote last year about the World Economic Forum and Davos.
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on Mary Gaitskill, for this week’s @NewLeftReview Sidecar
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Jan 12
Very very good by @caitdoherty. thebaffler.com/salvos/bog-tr…
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Once central to Irish life, turf is falling out of favor as a fuel source. In our new issue, @caitdoherty considers how peat figures into Ireland’s rural past and green future.
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for the latest issue of @thebaffler, I reviewed the new book from @PBresnihan & @patbrodie337, and reported on fuel politics in Ireland
Once central to Irish life, turf is falling out of favor as a fuel source. In our new issue, @caitdoherty considers how peat figures into Ireland’s rural past and green future.
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21 Nov 2025
Wrote about the reopening of the Lumumba-dossier for @NewLeftReview
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23 Nov 2025
now online: my response to Helen Andrews’s essay ‘The Great Feminization’ (@compactmag)
23 Nov 2025
The feminisation mystique: who ruined the West?
If we must blame something, blame capitalism
@caitdoherty
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21 Nov 2025
I'm in this week's @NewStatesman, responding to the 'Great Feminisation' thesis:
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20 Nov 2025
'He dissimulated even when the truth would have served him. Disclosure invited scrutiny; scrutiny invited limits; limits imperilled the office.'
Grey Anderson on Dick Cheney (1941–2025):
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27 Sep 2025
Martin Barnay on the Sarkozy trial:
‘Beyond a tale of Sarkozy's venal appetites, this episode opens a window onto how French political life has operated for half a century.’
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18 Sep 2025
brilliant work from @Cmmonwealth, & bleak reading
17 Sep 2025
Who owns Britain?
How does privatisation of essentials services like energy and water shape your life?
How does it impact the cost-of-living crisis?
We’ve been digging into the data on these very questions — and what we’ve found will shock you. 🧵
common-wealth.org/interactiv…
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18 Sep 2025
'One might object that the story did not start on 7 October, and that is absolutely right: for the past century, extreme and disproportionate Israeli violence against Palestinians has been one of the striking features of the historical record.'
10 Sep 2025
Raymond Geuss on Israel:
‘Making peace can be very difficult, especially when one side insists on assassinating or imprisoning the adversary’s potential negotiators…’
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11 Aug 2025
Gracias, Communis, por la traducción!
11 Aug 2025
Cait Doherty's "Everything else" for Sidecar now in Spanish translation on Communis.
A blazing piece of finely crafted and yet immediate, urgent writing.
communispress.com/para-todo-…
@caitdoherty
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