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Étiquettes

1956

Vignette. Gallivanting in 1956

7 October

Letter. Letter to Jom.

11 January 2025

absolute generality (2)

Note. Naïve set-theoretic dialetheist absolutism

30 September 2026

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

administrative detention

Vignette. Who are you, officer?

14 November 2025

Afghanistan

Vignette. Rory Stewart in the TLS on Afghanistan and plans.

18 January 2024

AI (2)

Note. Prolegomenon to a strategy to become the third AI power

Note. The only applied maths worth doing is in one head

ANC (3)

Vignette. African renaissance

Vignette. Are those eggs in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Vignette. On Paul Mashatile.

antisemitism

Letter. Letter to Jom.

11 January 2025

arabe (3)

Vignette. Café arabophone

Vignette. Arabic signs.

11 January 2025

Vignette. Décret 71.

9 November 2024

architecture

Vignette. ‘It would be difficult to say which is worse in Saxony, of their Publick or Domestic Architecture.’

arms to Iraq

Vignette. ‘“Ready, Steady, Cook” will follow at 5pm.’

Assad (2)

Vignette. British commentators on Syria in early December.

11 January 2025

Vignette. The world’s worst champagne pour.

11 January 2025

AUB

Vignette. Café arabophone

audio

Vignette. Indira Gandhi recognises Bangladesh.

authoritarianism

Vignette. Hoy día es once de septiembre.

11 September 2025

Bandar Abbas

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

Bangladesh (2)

Vignette. Baffling internal Pakistani communications in the Bangladesh liberation war

Vignette. Arabic signs.

11 January 2025

Bangladesh Liberation War

Vignette. Baffling internal Pakistani communications in the Bangladesh liberation war

Belarus

Vignette. Never believe anything until it is an official statistic.

Belgique (2)

Vignette. Et in Kakania ego.

14 November 2025

Vignette. The Circulaire Peeters.

9 November 2024

BelTA

Vignette. Never believe anything until it is an official statistic.

Bengali

Vignette. Arabic signs.

11 January 2025

bicycles

Vignette. Land Rover made bicycles.

1 February 2024

bookbinding (2)

Vignette. Books that lie flat.

13 September 2025

Letter. A letter on binding.

Britain (6)

Note. Prolegomenon to a strategy to become the third AI power

Vignette. Plodwatch I.

Vignette. High commissions and embassies.

11 January 2025

Vignette. Sino-British relations.

Vignette. On the A1.

5 February 2024

Vignette. Chris Mullin’s diary in the LRB.

Budapest

Vignette. Gallivanting in 1956

Budapest 1956

Vignette. Gallivanting in 1956

Burkina Faso

Vignette. Interpellation(!) helmets(!) watermelons(!)…

Burma (3)

Note. A grand unified theory of Chinese foreign policy when the zhongnanhai doesn’t really care

Note. Might Burmese military intelligence know what they’re doing?

Vignette. No retreat.

11 January 2025

Burmese MI

Note. Might Burmese military intelligence know what they’re doing?

C++

Vignette. ‘The Oxford variadic comma’

café

Vignette. Café arabophone

Cambridge (2)

Vignette. Whose letters are published in the LRB?

Vignette. Bernard Williams on Maurice Cowling.

17 December 2021

Canada (2)

Vignette. Le mouton noir.

Vignette. « Le dernier gay ».

champagne

Vignette. The world’s worst champagne pour.

11 January 2025

Champs-Élysées

Vignette. The ‘posthumous kidnapp[ing]’ of Pétain.

11 January 2025

Chile

Vignette. Hoy día es once de septiembre.

11 September 2025

China (5)

Note. Prolegomenon to a strategy to become the third AI power

Note. A grand unified theory of Chinese foreign policy when the zhongnanhai doesn’t really care

Note. Might Burmese military intelligence know what they’re doing?

Vignette. No retreat.

11 January 2025

Vignette. Sino-British relations.

Chingola

Vignette. Meanwhile in Chingola…

classical Chinese

Vignette. Classical Chinese poems in English.

colonialism

Vignette. Two reviews.

1 February 2024

Commonwealth

Vignette. High commissions and embassies.

11 January 2025

computational complexity (4)

Note. Learning-theoretic results of linguistic interest.

Vignette. Talk at Puddle • Computational and statistical learning theory for language.

14 November 2025

Note. Computational complexity and philosophy

Vignette. The Levesque–van Em Boas invariance thesis.

conceptual rôle semantics

Vignette. Drafts in progress.

13 September 2025

conditionals

Vignette. Daniel Rothschild on Timothy Wiliamson.

Copenhagen

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

dialetheism (2)

Note. Naïve set-theoretic dialetheist absolutism

30 September 2026

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

diplomacy

Vignette. Presenting…Iran as coherent…was viewed with suspicion’

Dresden

Vignette. ‘It would be difficult to say which is worse in Saxony, of their Publick or Domestic Architecture.’

drones

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

Dubai

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

EEUU

Vignette. High commissions and embassies.

11 January 2025

Empire ottoman

Vignette. Ottoman senators.

empiricism

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

en cours (5)

Vignette. Drafts in progress.

13 September 2025

Bibliography. To (re)read.

13 September 2025

Note. Computational complexity and philosophy

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

et in Kakania ego (4)

Vignette. Et in Kakania ego.

14 November 2025

Vignette. Zone de confinement « Deleuze ».

13 September 2025

Vignette. Doors.

Vignette. The Circulaire Peeters.

9 November 2024

États-Unis

Note. Chad and the Rome Statute.

expressibility

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

films

Vignette. ‘Perhaps it is the sun in the belly.’

Films Division

Vignette. ‘Perhaps it is the sun in the belly.’

flags

Vignette. A ‘conundrum of visual perception’.

18 January 2024

français (7)

Vignette. Et in Kakania ego.

14 November 2025

Vignette. Correspondence on the tomb of Esther and Mordechai.

Vignette. Lorsque la télévision française pouvait s'assurer que ses entretiens à l'étranger se déroulaient en français.

Vignette. Le mouton noir.

Vignette. Ottoman senators.

Vignette. Décret 71.

9 November 2024

Vignette. The Circulaire Peeters.

9 November 2024

France (3)

Vignette. Programme on Jean Cavaillès, résistant.

Vignette. The ‘posthumous kidnapp[ing]’ of Pétain.

11 January 2025

Vignette. Henriette Caillaux.

France Culture

Vignette. Programme on Jean Cavaillès, résistant.

francophonie quelque peu inattendue (3)

Vignette. « La population de Jerusalem souhaite la bienvenue au pape Paul VI ».

Vignette. Correspondence on the tomb of Esther and Mordechai.

Vignette. Lorsque la télévision française pouvait s'assurer que ses entretiens à l'étranger se déroulaient en français.

free speech

Vignette. Srinivasan on free speech in universities.

1 February 2024

German

Vignette. Multilingualism in Trentino–Alto Adige/Südtirol.

grammar

Vignette. ‘The Oxford variadic comma’

Greek

Vignette. The plural of octopus…

Hamas

Letter. Letter to Jom.

11 January 2025

history (2)

Vignette. Two reviews.

1 February 2024

Vignette. Bernard Williams on Maurice Cowling.

17 December 2021

Hizbullah

Vignette. « C’est mon devoir. »

Hungary

Vignette. Zone de confinement « Deleuze ».

13 September 2025

Hyphen Press

Letter. A letter on binding.

India (6)

Vignette. Zone de confinement « Deleuze ».

13 September 2025

Vignette. Puducherry Police website inauguration parade

Vignette. ‘Perhaps it is the sun in the belly.’

Vignette. Indira Gandhi recognises Bangladesh.

Vignette. Calcutta and Mumbai locals.

Vignette. ‘I have no quarrel with your decision to close the correspondence on the editorial policy of the EPW (in fact, I suggested it.)’

18 January 2024

Indian Institute

Vignette. The Indian Institute.

11 January 2025

industrial relations

Vignette. Doors.

inflexions

Vignette. The plural of octopus…

infrastructure

Vignette. On the A1.

5 February 2024

Iran (6)

Vignette. Presenting…Iran as coherent…was viewed with suspicion’

Letter. Pahlavi and Rajavi

Note. Arguing with an imaginary vulgar Marxist, and other notes on the Iran war

Bibliography. To read du bon côté de la planète.

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

Vignette. Correspondence on the tomb of Esther and Mordechai.

Iraq

Vignette. ‘“Ready, Steady, Cook” will follow at 5pm.’

Israel (6)

Note. Chad and the Rome Statute.

Vignette. Who are you, officer?

14 November 2025

Vignette. « La population de Jerusalem souhaite la bienvenue au pape Paul VI ».

Vignette. Lorsque la télévision française pouvait s'assurer que ses entretiens à l'étranger se déroulaient en français.

Letter. Letter to Jom.

11 January 2025

Vignette. Ariel Rubinstein…

9 November 2024

Italian

Vignette. Multilingualism in Trentino–Alto Adige/Südtirol.

Italy

Vignette. Multilingualism in Trentino–Alto Adige/Südtirol.

Jom

Letter. Letter to Jom.

11 January 2025

Jowett Society

Vignette. Minute books of the Philosophical and Jowett Societies in the Bodleian archives.

Kachin Independence Army

Vignette. No retreat.

11 January 2025

Karakalpakstan

Vignette. Desert castles of ancient Khorezm

Khmer Rouge

Note. Might Burmese military intelligence know what they’re doing?

Khorezm

Vignette. Desert castles of ancient Khorezm

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Vignette. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: the fifty-first state?

11 January 2025

Kulturkampf

Vignette. Two reviews.

1 February 2024

Kyrgyzstan

Vignette. A ‘conundrum of visual perception’.

18 January 2024

la Résistance

Vignette. Programme on Jean Cavaillès, résistant.

Land Rover

Vignette. Land Rover made bicycles.

1 February 2024

LaTeX (2)

Vignette. A live wordcount for LaTeX.

13 September 2025

Vignette. LaTeX for philosophers.

Latin

Vignette. The plural of octopus…

learning theory (4)

Note. Learning-theoretic results of linguistic interest.

Vignette. Talk at Puddle • Computational and statistical learning theory for language.

14 November 2025

Vignette. Drafts in progress.

13 September 2025

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

Lesotho

Vignette. High commissions and embassies.

11 January 2025

Liban (7)

Vignette. Café arabophone

Bibliography. To read du bon côté de la planète.

Vignette. « Un député du Nord appelle à l’intégration du Liban... dans l’OTAN. »

Vignette. The world’s worst champagne pour.

11 January 2025

Vignette. Le décès de Gebran Tuéni.

12 December 2024

Vignette. À nous qui demandons aux Libanais « comment ca va ? »

9 November 2024

Vignette. « C’est mon devoir. »

liberalism

Vignette. ‘I have no quarrel with your decision to close the correspondence on the editorial policy of the EPW (in fact, I suggested it.)’

18 January 2024

libraries

Letter. A letter on binding.

linguistics (3)

Note. Learning-theoretic results of linguistic interest.

Vignette. Talk at Puddle • Computational and statistical learning theory for language.

14 November 2025

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

logic (2)

Note. Naïve set-theoretic dialetheist absolutism

30 September 2026

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

Lok Sabha

Vignette. Indira Gandhi recognises Bangladesh.

London

Vignette. Whose letters are published in the LRB?

Mali

Vignette. Suspension totale des activités politiques ?

maps

Vignette. Whose letters are published in the LRB?

marxism

Vignette. ‘I have no quarrel with your decision to close the correspondence on the editorial policy of the EPW (in fact, I suggested it.)’

18 January 2024

mathematics (2)

Note. The only applied maths worth doing is in one head

Vignette. Zone de confinement « Deleuze ».

13 September 2025

Megiddo Prison

Vignette. Who are you, officer?

14 November 2025

nativism

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

néerlandais

Vignette. The Circulaire Peeters.

9 November 2024

NFB

Vignette. Le mouton noir.

octopus

Vignette. The plural of octopus…

OTAN

Vignette. « Un député du Nord appelle à l’intégration du Liban... dans l’OTAN. »

Oxford (11)

Vignette. ‘The Oxford variadic comma’

Vignette. C.A.R. Hoare at Jowett

13 September 2025

Vignette. Drafts in progress.

13 September 2025

Vignette. From the University Act 1854.

Vignette. Minute books of the Philosophical and Jowett Societies in the Bodleian archives.

Vignette. The Indian Institute.

11 January 2025

Vignette. Whose letters are published in the LRB?

Letter. A letter on binding.

Vignette. Srinivasan on free speech in universities.

1 February 2024

Vignette. Circular and miscellaneous walks thence and possibly thither.

Vignette. Oxford exam results and school status.

Pakistan (4)

Vignette. Baffling internal Pakistani communications in the Bangladesh liberation war

Note. A grand unified theory of Chinese foreign policy when the zhongnanhai doesn’t really care

Vignette. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: the fifty-first state?

11 January 2025

Vignette. ‘Missing persons bill has gone “missing”’.

Palestine (2)

Vignette. Who are you, officer?

14 November 2025

Letter. Letter to Jom.

11 January 2025

panarabisme

Vignette. Café arabophone

parliamentary history (3)

Vignette. An unlikely feminist.

Vignette. ‘“Ready, Steady, Cook” will follow at 5pm.’

Vignette. Indira Gandhi recognises Bangladesh.

philo (15)

Note. The only applied maths worth doing is in one head

Note. Naïve set-theoretic dialetheist absolutism

30 September 2026

Vignette. Talk at Puddle • Computational and statistical learning theory for language.

14 November 2025

Vignette. C.A.R. Hoare at Jowett

13 September 2025

Vignette. Drafts in progress.

13 September 2025

Vignette. Zone de confinement « Deleuze ».

13 September 2025

Note. Computational complexity and philosophy

Vignette. Minute books of the Philosophical and Jowett Societies in the Bodleian archives.

Vignette. LaTeX for philosophers.

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

Vignette. Programme on Jean Cavaillès, résistant.

Vignette. The Levesque–van Em Boas invariance thesis.

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

Vignette. Daniel Rothschild on Timothy Wiliamson.

Vignette. Bernard Williams on Maurice Cowling.

17 December 2021

philo maths

Vignette. Drafts in progress.

13 September 2025

Philosophical Society

Vignette. Minute books of the Philosophical and Jowett Societies in the Bodleian archives.

philosophy

Note. Learning-theoretic results of linguistic interest.

plans

Vignette. Rory Stewart in the TLS on Afghanistan and plans.

18 January 2024

plebiscito 88

Vignette. Hoy día es once de septiembre.

11 September 2025

Plodwatch

Vignette. Plodwatch I.

plurilinguisme (9)

Vignette. Et in Kakania ego.

14 November 2025

Vignette. Multilingualism in Trentino–Alto Adige/Südtirol.

Vignette. « La population de Jerusalem souhaite la bienvenue au pape Paul VI ».

Vignette. Correspondence on the tomb of Esther and Mordechai.

Vignette. Lorsque la télévision française pouvait s'assurer que ses entretiens à l'étranger se déroulaient en français.

Vignette. Le mouton noir.

Vignette. Ottoman senators.

Vignette. Décret 71.

9 November 2024

Vignette. The Circulaire Peeters.

9 November 2024

police (2)

Vignette. Meanwhile in Chingola…

Vignette. Puducherry Police website inauguration parade

Pondichéry

Vignette. Puducherry Police website inauguration parade

poverty of stimulus

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

printing

Letter. A letter on binding.

Privy Council

Vignette. The twilight of Privy Council appeals.

quantification

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

Québec

Vignette. Le mouton noir.

rationalism

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

recettes (6)

Vignette. Fresh cookies on demand.

Vignette. Lentils with sausages.

Vignette. A chicken stew.

9 November 2024

Vignette. Crispy purple broccoli.

9 November 2024

Vignette. Lentils for the garlic-addled.

Vignette. A salmon recipe.

rule of law (3)

Vignette. Hoy día es once de septiembre.

11 September 2025

Vignette. ‘Ahem! Your Excellency, you are in contempt of court.’

11 January 2025

Vignette. Edwin Cameron on L.C. Steyn.

Russia

Letter. Professor Chenoy on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

18 January 2024

SAC

Note. Might Burmese military intelligence know what they’re doing?

SACP

Vignette. African renaissance

Saxony

Vignette. ‘It would be difficult to say which is worse in Saxony, of their Publick or Domestic Architecture.’

set theory (2)

Note. Naïve set-theoretic dialetheist absolutism

30 September 2026

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

Singapore

Letter. Letter to Jom.

11 January 2025

Sit-tat

Vignette. No retreat.

11 January 2025

South Africa (4)

Vignette. Are those eggs in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Vignette. On Paul Mashatile.

Vignette. High commissions and embassies.

11 January 2025

Vignette. Edwin Cameron on L.C. Steyn.

St Petersburg

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

statistics (2)

Vignette. Café arabophone

Vignette. Never believe anything until it is an official statistic.

Sublime Porte

Vignette. Ottoman senators.

Sudan

Note. Chad and the Rome Statute.

Swe family

Note. Might Burmese military intelligence know what they’re doing?

Syrie (2)

Vignette. British commentators on Syria in early December.

11 January 2025

Vignette. The world’s worst champagne pour.

11 January 2025

talks

Vignette. Talk at Puddle • Computational and statistical learning theory for language.

14 November 2025

Tchad (2)

Note. Chad and the Rome Statute.

Vignette. Décret 71.

9 November 2024

TCS

Note. Learning-theoretic results of linguistic interest.

TCSP (4)

Note. The only applied maths worth doing is in one head

Note. Naïve set-theoretic dialetheist absolutism

30 September 2026

Thesis. The asymptotics of language

Note. Computational complexity and philosophy

Tehran

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

Terrorism Act

Vignette. Chris Mullin’s diary in the LRB.

traduction

Vignette. Classical Chinese poems in English.

trains (2)

Vignette. Doors.

Vignette. Calcutta and Mumbai locals.

Turkmenistan

Vignette. Songs of the President of Turkmenistan.

typography

Vignette. LaTeX for philosophers.

UAE (2)

Note. Chad and the Rome Statute.

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

Uganda

Vignette. ‘Ahem! Your Excellency, you are in contempt of court.’

11 January 2025

Ukraine

Letter. Professor Chenoy on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

18 January 2024

UN

Vignette. Baffling internal Pakistani communications in the Bangladesh liberation war

universities

Vignette. Srinivasan on free speech in universities.

1 February 2024

unpublished letters (2)

Letter. Pahlavi and Rajavi

Letter. Which side’s Tehran on?

Uzbekistan

Vignette. Desert castles of ancient Khorezm

Vichy

Vignette. The ‘posthumous kidnapp[ing]’ of Pétain.

11 January 2025

vulgarisation (2)

Vignette. A rough sketch of a BPhil thesis.

Vignette. My thesis, explained.

walks

Vignette. Circular and miscellaneous walks thence and possibly thither.

Westminster (3)

Vignette. ‘“Ready, Steady, Cook” will follow at 5pm.’

Vignette. A ‘review without expedition’.

Vignette. The Elizabethan, meticulously digitised.

Zambia

Vignette. Meanwhile in Chingola…