Very pleased to have received the print version of my new book with @OUPAcademic @OUPPolitics, “North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays”, which examines North Korea’s delinquent behaviour in the post-Cold war world.

As AI continues to advance, herewith my latest contribution to @Telegraph, on why universities should use this moment wisely to consider what and whose purposes they serve.

RT @stedavies: @JoshReynoldsSL6 It's not a wax seal. It's a thousand-year tradition. If you see only matter, you miss what matters.

RT @Jacob_Rees_Mogg: MPs and Peers are not bound by any super injunction when speaking in the Chamber. They have an absolute privilege of f….

RT @VictorDCha: Coming soon! From @ColumbiaUP

Afternoon.

Ambassador Suzuki is not only an excellent Ambassador for Japan, but also for the United Kingdom: his enthusiasm for Britain is just what is needed amidst the gloom of the present. Paddington must be getting a fair few airmiles. I wonder whether he preferred whiskey to whisky.

RT @lukedepulford: How humiliating for the UK that foreign think tanks are now producing reports and doing events about the national securi….

An excellent and insightful discussion at a crucial moment in the politics of the Korean Peninsula!.

The film has not even been released yet, and there are errata. The “Vice-Chancellor” is wearing an incorrect hood; sub fusc standards are horrendous (a bow tie and a ribbon?); and—yes, I know this will irk many on here—the producers have split an infinitive in the trailer.

The “makeover” to parliament’s “confusing” language sets a concerning precedent. Whatever next? Dumbing down what students are taught at schools and universities because it is “alienating” or “outdated”? It is slippery slope. My small contribution to today’s @thetimes,

What codswallop. A slippery slope, which will also be witnessed in the education sector: the literary canon will not be read in schools on the grounds of “alienating” students; and when students come to university, their literacy levels will be paltry. Decline and fall.

My latest for @EngelsbergIdeas on what North Korea will have learnt--or not--following the recent US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites.

An excellent piece by @edcumming; academic freedom and freedom of speech must be protected and defended. It is hardly a coincidence that the“decolonisation” of reading lists—in the name of diversity—has actually hindered diversity. Viewpoint diversity, where art thou?.

Morning.

An important milestone. Freedom of speech and academic freedom are essential components of any university. These values must be upheld and defended, otherwise they will succumb to pernicious ideologies and groupthink.

How have we reached a stage where public advertisements—in this case, for Oxford’s Official Walking Tours—are not only devoid of punctuation but contain glaring spelling errors?. If I were Mark, I would be most irked.

Thank you, @OliverJia1014! My latest for @SpecCoffeeHouse @spectator on the challenges for South Korea's new President. Will the South Korean "Bernie Sanders" cause calm or tumult?.

Exactly “10-odd” days (as North Korean state media made clear) after the 25 May launch disaster.

RT @SungYoonLee1: Kim Jong Un must be elated,.And Putin exhilarated,.Xi Jinping quite satiated;.While Ishiba's deflated,.Zelensky rather fr….

As South Korea veers leftwards, a Lee government's foreign policy--if based upon Lee's past pledges--is likely to have far-from-positive implications on the Korean Peninsula and the East Asian region, at a time of heightened political threat.