Nicholas Guyatt (@nicholasguyatt) 's Twitter Profile
Nicholas Guyatt

@nicholasguyatt

I teach American history at Cambridge. Opinions strictly personal; for sober & authoritative tweeting consult @Cambridge_Uni, @CamHistory & @JesusCollegeCam

ID: 177688732

linkhttps://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-nicholas-guyatt calendar_today12-08-2010 20:27:32

18,18K Tweet

14,14K Followers

2,2K Following

Paul Lewis (@paullewismoney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today’s stories in numbers £60,000,000 - basic cost of one F35A jet to carry USA nukes £60,000,000 - annual cost of 15,614 people on lower rate PIP

Nicholas Guyatt (@nicholasguyatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Buying books for "destructive scanning" and then throwing them away when you've scavenged the contents is such a perfect metaphor for the rapacious villainy of AI companies arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/ant…

Nicholas Guyatt (@nicholasguyatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's incredible how quickly the world has normalised the horrors of the genocide in Gaza; in any sane universe we'd already be imposing sanctions and withdrawing ambassadors, but instead we just shrug and let the slaughter continue bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Foreign Policy (@foreignpolicy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Leonard Benardo Stephen Walt Julia Lovell and Nicholas Guyatt write that “America First” points in a very different direction from the global Maoism platformed by the Cultural Revolution. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/30/mao…

Nicholas Guyatt (@nicholasguyatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An excellent piece by John McDonnell arguing that Starmer's contempt for democracy within the Labour party was always going to end in his humiliation; it's extraordinary that this has happened within a year of his election, though theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Nicholas Guyatt (@nicholasguyatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Would respectfully suggest that we start clawing money back by cancelling last week's ÂŁ1 billion order for F-35 bombers which are totally unnecessary and which spend most of their time in the maintenance hangar

Foreign Policy (@foreignpolicy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The second Trump presidency and the Cultural Revolution present a few superficial likenesses, but the points of divergence are more compelling, write Julia Lovell and Nicholas Guyatt. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/30/mao…

Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-tea…

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now. 

Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-tea…
Farrukh (@implausibleblog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Baron Hain, "Palestine Action members spraying paint on military aircraft is moderate by comparison to what the suffragettes did" "Treating young people as terrorists because they feel frustrated about the failure to stop mass killings and bombings of civilians in Gaza" "I've

Nicholas Guyatt (@nicholasguyatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The fact that the world continues to allow Israel to murder starving civilians is a moral outrage bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Adil Haque (@adhaque110) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.

The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.
Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸 (@lalehkhalili) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is horrific shit, and Tony Blair's staff were working with Israeli genocidaire capitalists to ethnically cleanse and fully colonise Gaza:

This is horrific shit, and Tony Blair's staff were working with Israeli genocidaire capitalists to ethnically cleanse and fully colonise Gaza:
William Dalrymple (@dalrymplewill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

More than 20 years ago Ilan Pape commented, "Putting Tony Blair in charge of the Quartet's Palestine Peace Process is like putting Dracula in charge of a blood bank." How right he was...

Nicholas Guyatt (@nicholasguyatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Crimes against humanity are just casually trailed by Israeli ministers these days, safe in the knowledge that Western governments won't do anything to halt the genocide. Every single one of our leaders should be in the dock for their complicity bbc.com/news/articles/…