Did you know that, on average, your enemies have more enemies than you do? It's known as the "enmity paradox" in social network analysis. And in this time of polarization in our society, it's interesting to contemplate. nature.com/articles/s4159…

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Lake Michigan summers

“One of those people with a deep sense of injustice but no sense of love” - a line from a David Downing novel. We all encounter people like that from time to time.

That Biden would withdraw was the view in Brooklyn last night. But who next for the Democrats?

In a volatile world deliberately choosing to be more future-focused is material. Super to be back at United Nations in New York today to discuss #anticipatorypolicymaking.

Bew in Brooklyn

A reminder of the scale of #regulatorydiplomacy and the effect it now has

'Evita meets Thatcher: the woman fighting Venezuela’s autocracy' - an article about the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado by #LSEPhilosophy Guest Teacher Paola Romero for The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/evita-… #Venezuela #Machado #Maduro #Elections

Summer, reading

Happy Chinese Valentine’s Day! 💘 According to a Chinese folktale, a weaver girl (織女) from the sky fell in love with a cowherd (牛郎) on earth. Their love led them to neglect their duties, and as punishment, they were separated, only to meet once a year on a bridge of magpies

This is what AI is for. Just this use case alone is worth every dollar invested in it.

Summer fires in Athens are a recurrent risk - I remember watching planes swooping to dump water to quell them when I lived in Erithrea. But are we seeing more climate #volatility - with implications for more frequent and damaging extreme weather events?

A beautiful essay on Solzhenitsyn by Gary Saul Morson in the ⁦The New Criterion⁩ - a powerful reminder of tyranny: newcriterion.com/article/the-ma…

Grammars come ahead of private schools for top GCSEs... data.spectator.co.uk/education

Join us on 7 October at LSE for a public event on Are we entering a 'Westless' world? with Samir Puri, Lindsey Hilsum and Rohan Mukherjee: tinyurl.com/4r5u3r9y LSE School of Public Policy LSE IDEAS

Participants at the first ⁦LSE School of Public Policy⁩ Cybersecurity Regulatory Dialogue at ⁦Wilton Park⁩ enjoying a brief break. Excellent discussions with officials from six governments and tech companies partnering with ⁦Microsoft⁩ and ⁦Charter of Trust⁩

"We don’t stand at the end of history, from where we can look back and see the ‘inevitable triumph’ of freedom." It's been a year since Christopher Coker died, and his work is a firm reminder of the contingency of history. And of how precious both freedom and peace are.

Smashing to welcome the MPA in Data Science for Public Policy class of 2026 to ⁦LSE⁩. The most #competitive MPA programme. They dive into their coding boot camp. ⁦LSE School of Public Policy⁩ #datascience

Rereading Christopher Coker in Transylvania: