Now is the time 8 million have not registered to vote You have until 11.59pm tomorrow Tuesday June 18th 2024

Don’t forget to register to vote. Whoever you put the ❎ for, you have to register first. 👍🏻 gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

🥇Happy to attend the ceremony for the Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award 2024, by The Anglo-Hellenic League in partnership with King's Centre for Hellenic Studies. Congratulations to the winner, the undergraduate student Ella Morgan! Thank you Professor Mary Margaret McCabe for the engaging speech on “Socrates in Prison”

Congratulations to Ella Morgan, a graduating student King's Centre for Hellenic Studies, for winning the #LentakisAward2024, with an excellent dissertation on #Iphigenia & #Brauron. Thanks too to Mary Margaret McCabe for a brilliant, moving Lentakis Lecture on #Socrates in Prison. A lovely evening King's Classics

We just saw Green Border. It should be compulsory viewing for anyone who seeks to put forward an opinion about refugees, about asylum and about how we should treat those in trouble who ask us for help. #greenborder

A new day in Westminster has dawned...

James Timpson OBE James Timpson has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation) in the Ministry of Justice Ministry of Justice.

Timpson’s are well-known for employing ex-offenders to help them back into work. They pay their tax. They value their staff. And then there’s this. CEO James Timpson (who’s also Chair of the Prison Reform Trust) is the new Prisons Minister. Great appointment

3/ as ever @eurostar that patronising ‘Madame’ to someone trying to wear their age well is not appreciated.

From my new translation of #Homer #Odyssey, forthcoming April 2025 from UChicagoPress #ClassicsTwitter #classics #poetry #epic #literature #Greece

BREAKING FAR RIGHT REJECTED in France after tactical voting between Left-Green Alliance in 1st place and Macron’s party in 2nd place Far right with Le Pen in third Just as in the UK, the country has gone centre and left 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Beautifully put.

Just a wonderful man and such a fine and thoughtful philosopher. His courage over the last years has been extraordinary and a mark of his amazing humanity. He will be so missed by so many.

My paper 'Moral Testimony and Epistemic Privilege' is out now in Metaphilosophy and free to read. It genuinely started with a discussion about boiled eggs: doi.org/10.1111/meta.1…

Delighted to have an extract from my book ‘An Architecture of Hope’ as a ⁦The Guardian Long Read⁩ today. ‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope | Prisons and probation | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought Volume 41 Issue 3 (2024) brill.com/view/journals/… De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Brill Classics ➡️ Bluesky / Facebook Derek Duplessie Review Symposium – A Discussion of Melissa Lane’s of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political