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Personable, high energy - and focused on effects. Strong appointment by HMG at a time of change for the UN. Congratulations Christian!

Excited to read Nick Chesterley's new book - out today.

Alisdair MacIntyre was one of the most fruitfully provocative thinkers in the English-speaking world of the last century, especially in dismantling dominant models of social science. I am not aware of a more acid, more humorous opening to a philosophical essay. RIP.

There is one way for colleges to defeat AI cheating—and it’s every student’s worst nightmare. Blue books are back. wsj.com/business/chatg…

“I’ve known several good clever people who went sour”. J.B. Priestley in his 1947 play The Linden Tree

Looking forward to The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange on 10 June: a compelling line-up of speakers on cyber threats: thehagueprogram.nl/the-hague-tix/…

My take on University reform in an FT letter today: on.ft.com/43EOwrL Letter: Radical change may be needed in higher education

“If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures’ Robert Sapolsky on the importance of thinking beyond disciplines - (the value, imo, of policy schools)

Quiet #diplomacy:

Our new LSE AI Law, Policy, and Governance Online Certificate Course launches this month tiny.cc/i40m001 LSE School of Public Policy LSE

Ross Douthat in the ⁦Wall Street Journal Opinion⁩:

The neuroscience of vengeance shows that it can be as addictive as drugs—and forgiveness works like detox, writes James Kimmel Jr. wsj.com/science/this-i…

We've been here before: what the 1930s teach us about rearmament telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/0…

Growing cyber risk needs more senior attention and responsibility. So why shouldn't UK boards have a Chief Cyber Risk Officer to focus minds (and boost resourcing)? tiny.cc/kqhm001 LSE School of Public Policy Peter Kyle Susannah Storey Zoe Kleinman Ben Goggin Laurens Cerulus

UK diplomats look set to have their allowances cut and pay grades restrained to help FCDO reduce its budget by 5% assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68492799…

First-rate EISS gathering this week in Thessaloniki. Searing temperatures, subtle insights. Hugo Meier and colleagues have generated an important European gathering on security policy.

Five Eyes fellowship for National Security professionals - 2026 NSCT Cohort - open now: tinyurl.com/tsdvx4un #nationalsecurity #counterterrorism #statecraft

Professor Alexander Evans, Director of the LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum and Professor in Practice in Public Policy at @lsepublicpolicy, introduces this year’s LSE Ratiu Dialogues taking place in Romania from the 6-7 September 2025 under the heading: “Realigning for a Post-2025

Thoughtful piece on the political impact of the ‘overeducated and underhoused’.