Nicholas Guyatt

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I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review

If you want to understand the United States, go to Cambridge
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I knew Wes when I was a student and he was the NUS president - always been a right wing lickspittle cunt
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It is time for a third way. I am happy to call it the Trump Plan to Save Lebanon. Push Israel to pull entirely out of south Lebanon and have heavily armed NATO troops help take over the area in partnership with, and under the symbolic authority of the Lebanese army
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MANDELSON FACES £300 FINE FOR URINATING IN STREET
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The UK Ministry of Defence says it supported US efforts to seize the Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic today, including with RAF aircraft. Here's a statement from UK Defence Secretary John Healey: "Today our UK Armed Forces showed skill and professionalism in support of a successful U.S. interception of the vessel Bella 1 while on its way to Russia. "This action formed part of global efforts to crack down on sanctions busting. "This ship, with a nefarious history, is part of a Russian-Iranian axis of sanctions evasion which is fuelling terrorism, conflict, and misery from the Middle East to Ukraine. "The UK will continue to step up our action against shadow fleet activity to protect our national security, our economy, and global stability - making Britain secure at home and strong abroad."
Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted. "Nobody's going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland," Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper, the CNN host, after being asked repeatedly whether he would rule out using military force. The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest. "We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power," he said. "These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time"
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Vanessa Neumann, a Venezuelan defence industry entrepreneur and former opposition envoy with close ties to the US security establishment, said: "The plan now is a capture of Nicolás Maduro. Capture-kill or capture-arrest and take him out, one way or another." Washington insiders describe a hardening of the government's position on Venezuela in recent months, with Florida hawks such as Marco Rubio, secretary of state, and Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, in the ascendant. Others who negotiated with Caracas earlier this year, such as special envoy Richard Grenell, have been sidelined, at least for now.
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1. Before the United States Joyce E. Chaplin 2. The American Revolutions Honor Sachs 3. The Path to Peace, 1790-1820 Nicholas Guyatt 4. The Antebellum Era Christa Dierksheide 5. Slavery and Antislavery in the United States Justene Hill Edwards 6. The Civil War and Reconstruction Ari Kelman 7. U.S. Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century Karine Walther 8. Progress and Its Discontents: The United States, 1880-1930 Chad L. Williams 9. From Depression to Civil Rights, 1929-1968 Kathryn Olmsted and Eric Rauchway 10. The Civil Rights Movement
Keir Starmer has dismayed press regulation campaigners by confirming he has no plans to revive the second part of the Leveson inquiry into the British newspaper industry. The prime minister told reporters on Thursday that other issues would take precedence: "We set out in our manifesto our programme for action for this government. We've laid that out in the king's speech. That clearly sets out our priorities and the second half of Leveson is not among them. "I've been clear that one of the purposes of a mission-driven government is to be clear about what we can achieve - the time frame, the purpose we need to put to it - but also that it dictates our priorities in government." Labour and News UK have declined to comment on claims that he reached an understanding before the election with the Murdoch family's News UK, owner of the Times and the Sun, to avoid restarting the public inquiry.
Mr McCann told the Today programme: "It's quite obvious that press barons can meet the prime minister, but the people who have suffered at the hands of them can't." News UK, the UK branch of News Corp, declined to comment. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told BBC Breakfast the government had "ruled out" a second phase of the inquiry. She said the media landscape was now "very different", with most people consuming their news online. But she added: "I do recognise that action is needed" ", and said she would meet with Mr McCann. The first part of the Leveson Inquiry was held from 2011 to 2012, in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal. Its findings were published in 2012, and led to the creation of the industry- funded press regulator Ipso. Mr McCann told the BBC that the inquiry's second phase had "almost certainly" not happened because he believes that politicians in the UK are fearful of the press.
Sedition accusation: President Trump accused a half-dozen Democrats of sedition — "punishable by DEATH" — on Thursday after the lawmakers implored members of the military to reject any illegal orders they may receive. Mr. Trump, whose presidency is facing challenges on many sides, was responding to a video post Tuesday by the lawmakers, all veterans of the military or intelligence community. Hours after Mr. Trump's posts, including one that amplified a call to "HANG THEM," the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, denied that Mr. Trump wanted to execute members of Congress.
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The prime minister's supporters are telling Labour MPs they should be careful what they wish for. They argue a leadership contest would plunge the party into the chaos associated with the final years of the Conservative Party's stint in office which came to an end last year, and install a leader who does not have their own mandate from the country. They are trying to convince their colleagues that a contest could destabilise the international markets too, and would jeopardise the good relationship the prime minister has established with President Trump. But others, including some ministers, fret about what they perceive to be the desperate position the government is in. "It's terrible. He [Starmer] is hated out there. It is worse than it got under Corbyn. I don't see how this is sustainable until May," one minister said. Opinion polls suggest Sir Keir is deeply unpopular, perhaps even the most unpopular British prime minister in the history of modern opinion polling. Polls also suggest the Labour Party has commanded the support of no more than a fifth of the electorate in recent months.
Executives were dismissive when Oxbridge dons raised issues with 'politically motivated' programming, internal memo says By Gordon Rayner, Associate Editor 05 Nov 2025 - 07:00AM GMT BBC bosses were "dismissive" and defensive when Oxford and Cambridge profes- sors accused the corporation of rewriting history to promote a woke agenda, a Leaked internal memo says. In December 2022, The Telegraph reported on complaints by leading academics that the BBC was allowing "politically motivated campaigners" to present tenden- tious views of British history as fact. Rather than acknowledging that documentaries on subjects including slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine distorted the truth, BBC executives accused the academics of "cherry picking" examples. It is the latest in a series of disclosures to come from a letter sent by a former BBC standards adviser to members of the BBC Board that implored them to act on alleged bias within the corporation, and which is now in the hands of the Govern- ment. Previously, The Telegraph has revealed that a BBC Panorama documentary doc- tored a speech by Donald Trump, making it seem as though he incited the Capitol Hill riot, and that BBC Arabic allegedly downplayed the suffering of Israelis in the war with Hamas in order to paint Israel as the aggressor. In 2022, university dons who were members of an organisation called History Reclaimed said that documentaries on subjects including slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine distorted the truth about Britain's past through inaccuracy or the omission important facts. Rather than seeking a balanced view of history from the country's most knowl- edgeable historians, they said, the BBC sought out fringe figures who agreed with its woke view of Britain's imperial past.
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Cuomo's election night party in a large event space in Midtown Manhattan is largely empty except for reporters and a few supporters. A spokesman for Cuomo, Rich Azzopardi, said doors would not open until 8:30.
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Processes will be established to provide that foreign students likely to engage in anti-Western, anti-American, or antisemitic disruptions or harassment are not recruited or admitted to UCLA. The Resolution Monitor shall review such processes by September 30, 2025, and regularly thereafter. Moreover, UCLA will ensure that the University is not financially reliant on foreign student admissions or partnerships with foreign entities. The reforms should be made durable by adoption of necessary organizational and personnel changes. UCLA will also develop training materials to socialize international students to the norms of a campus dedicated to free inquiry and open debate.
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Outlining the proposals, Phillipson said: "Universities charge significant fees for their courses. If they are going to charge the maximum, it is right that they deliver the world-class education students expect. "These reforms will ensure value for money, higher standards across our universities and colleges and a renewed focus on the skills our economy needs." Tuition fees in England went up for the first time in eight years in September, taking annual payments for each student up to a record £9,535.
Why is it that critics on the left, grad student Nicholas Guyatt among them, insist on mocking President Bush's physical fitness? Four years ago, the elites fell in love with Bill Clinton's MTV underwear shenanigans and less-than-stellar sax solos, only to back off of Clinton's ability to "connect with young people" some time in 1998. Now, it seems, the private doings of public figures are once more fair game for pundits. Recently, Guyatt dropped a snide remark in the Prince about Bush's appearance on the cover of Runner's World, which raises an interesting point: if the ability to run a six-minute mile is laughable to Guyatt, then how does he feel about the ability to lie under oath?