Friday 31 July, 2026

Beached! The Law Faculty building in Cambridge. Designed (wouldn’t you guess) by Norman Foster, who also designed the Terminal building at Stansted airport. But it always reminds me of a beached cruise liner. Quote of the Day ”If you want to get stuff done, dance to the available music.” Marlon Brando , advising the maverick film director, Tony Kaye. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Abdullah Ibrahim | Mannenberg Link Historic track, first released in 1974. Long Read of the Day The Perils of the Billionaire Bubble Nice essay by Daniel Drezner on the aphrodisiac effect of great wealth and great power. t’s been a little more than a year since I started my gig as Academic Dean at the Fletcher School. Looking back the biggest surprise — and let me stress here that it should not have been remotely surprising, given that I’m a political scientist, but sometimes I can be a bit thick — is how even a minute amount of power and status affects how colleagues treat you.…