Well it looks like the presentations from Connections UK are (mostly) up on their website. Lots of professional wargaming goodness there... professionalwargaming.co.uk/2024.html

Worth the read -- professional wargamers respond to “Games Behind Your Government’s Next War." paxsims.wordpress.com/2024/09/15/res…

Pre-PhD: imposter syndrome Post-PhD: Dr Imposter Syndrome

My latest piece of work! theconversation.com/when-russia-an…

We’re in an episode of The Thick of It right…right?? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Apparently I just need to stop talking…I mentioned in a discussion with students that “as long as Iran remained restrained” there were avenues to limit the expansion of conflict beyond Lebanon…

Re-reading Richard Evan’s’ “In Defence of History” for the umpteenth time. At a time where I’m teaching outside my home discipline and feeling a little dislocated from my historical research it’s like a big, warm familiar hug.

Proud moment for myself at the London Transport Museum today…all those years of studying finally paying off 😇😁

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Really great thread. Not just on the dangers inherent in how war games are reported, but also how context is everything- something that any budding analyst needs to keep at the front of their mind!

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A slightly delayed post, but a great three days with MIT’s security studies team! linkedin.com/posts/iain-far…

Recently, SSP’s Wargaming Lab collaborated with Brunel University of London to host the first UK Wargaming Institute. Working with Dr Iain Farquharson, security studies lecturer at Brunel, the institute included three days of sessions covering wargame design, economic wargaming, and

All checked in and ready to head off to Mobile, Alabama for the SMH Historians conference repping Brunel University of London. I’ll be talking Wargaming and education with amazing colleagues and spending 3 days in my happy place - talking and thinking about history. #happydance #historianontour

Well that wasn’t a bad find for lunch!

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.