Early Americanist. Occasionally late. Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Puritans, Political Theology, COYS 🐓⚽️.
Joined March 2014
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28 Jun 2022
My book has a cover! (And a new title). It will be available from @OUPReligion early 2023.
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29 Jun 2025
It never ceases to amaze me how we have culturally memory-holed the fact that before c. 1920 it was perfectly normal to believe seriously that intelligent life existed on other planets in the Solar System
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This is just silly, and untrue. Every academic historian I know wants to write trade books, and the vast majority of trade books in history are written by academic historians
"Somewhere along the line, academia parted company with readers. Academics sniff at history books that the public enjoys."
— Catherine Nixey, Culture correspondent, @TheEconomist.
How did we get to this point in writing history?
ALT "Somewhere along the line, academia parted company with readers. Academics sniff at history books that the public enjoys." — Catherine Nixey, Culture correspondent, @TheEconomist. How did we get to this point in writing history?
ALT "Somewhere along the line, academia parted company with readers. Academics sniff at history books that the public enjoys." — Catherine Nixey, Culture correspondent, @TheEconomist. How did we get to this point in writing history?
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May 18
Not reading Ulysses isn't an achievement, yet quite a few people seem to boast about it. Joyce's main aesthetic strength is his exuberance, his work is pretty easy to enjoy if you have a bit of life in you and an ear for language.
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1/x This is just nonsense. Firstly, the English are a mix of Brythonic and Saxon, as well as other groups. The “Celtic” element in the English has been shown over and over again in genetic studies.
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May 10
It’s because professional football’s origins are working class so the biggest clubs in most major European countries are from their old industrial heartlands rather than their capitals.
Amazing stat I’ve learnt about the Champions League Final.
Arsenal vs PSG is the first final to be played between teams from different capital cities since 1971 when Panathinaikos played Ajax.
How?!
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May 3
The simple truth is that Zack Polanski’s supporters are bending over backwards to lessen the explicitly antisemitic nature of this attack.
They are doubling and tripling down just to avoid acknowledging that Jews are being targeted, and it is shameful.
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Apr 25
RT @JohannaBaxter: Zac Polanski’s comments that Putin ‘has never threatened to wipe out a civilisation’ are a disgrace.
In March, the UN c…
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Italy are just a terrible team. 🤷🏼♂️
Apr 1
Is Curacao being in the World Cup and Italy not, ultimately, a good thing?
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Mar 30
Jill Stein now calling Putin a "humanitarian." Mask completely off.
We told you!
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Mar 25
The puritans, including Cromwell, smoked. 🤷🏼♂️ They drank too!
Mar 24
✍️ 'The puritanical spirit of Oliver Cromwell again stalks the land' I Writes @Nigel_Farage
Read Farage's full piece below 🔗
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03…
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Feb 28
Just incredible putting these two statements side by side.
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Jan 16
All the British Right do is complain about how much they hate Britain. That’s basically all they do, every day, even when they are governing the country.
Jan 16
This might be the truest thing ever uttered in British politics.
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The decent thing to do would be to apologise for presenting shows on Press TV, and donate the £20,000 fee received to a suitable Iranian human rights organisation.
I won't hold my breath...
Jan 11
Your reminder that Jeremy Corbyn worked as a presenter for, and was paid by, Press TV, the English-language "news" channel belonging to the brutal Islamic Republic regime in Iran that millions of Iranians are trying to finally overthrow.
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29 Oct 2025
High treason.
29 Oct 2025
The craziest thing about this photo isn't that Harry and Meghan showed up to cheer for the Dodgers at the World Series game last night.
It's that his father is literally Canada's Head of State.
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28 Oct 2025
It would be nice to have a left party in Britain that wasn’t dangerously stupid on foreign policy (especially on Russia).
27 Oct 2025
"Putin is a dictator, a gangster, and there are war crimes that have been committed, but Zelenskyy isn't a friend of the working class either."
@zarahsultana says all efforts need to be put in to ending the war in Ukraine, not pumping money into arms manufacturers.
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21 Oct 2025
Number one in the American League.
American League Pennant.
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9 Oct 2025
WE'RE GOING TO THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES! #WANTITALL
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4 Oct 2025
The bitter and uncharitable tone of Catholics opposed to female ordination and Anglican orders etc is almost alone enough to show that they are in the wrong. If their sort of religious positivism were Christianity, I’d just stick with pagan neoplatonism. But of course it isn’t.
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18 Sep 2025
We’re witnessing vintage Corbyn with this new party stuff. A man in pure flow state. Simply unplayable at this level
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5 Sep 2025
It is impossible to take any delight in how beleaguered this Labour government is because every week a Reform government gets ever more likely. They have to get a grip.
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