Peter Good

FRHistS. Historian in Norway, editor, translator. Sometime musician. All views very much my own.🇬🇧🇱🇧🇮🇷🇩🇪🇫🇷

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

Full article: The East India Company in Persia: trade and cultural exchange in the eighteenth century

A very generous review of my recent book!
https://t.co/Toa5wZtg3v

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

Not the result that we hoped for, but proud of #England nonetheless

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

@theodorebeers @yejaazy Isn’t that just “The News”?

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

I have lived in 4 countries outside the UK, none allowed me to collect any state benefit. In two of them, I paid into schemes for out of work support, but it was strictly limited in time. In Japan, my visa was contingent on my having a job. The UK system is globally generous.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Labour plans to withhold benefits to people who have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Performative cruelty and total cowardice.

That’s why the Greens will replace Labour.

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

@lcmporter Wishing you all the best for your treatment and a speedy recovery!

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

It’s just a game, John…

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Argentina v England is important way beyond football. If Argentina wins tomorrow night, it’ll put real fire behind the demand for the Falklands. If England wins, that should put the lid on it — for now.

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Not a single mention of higher education in the UK in this interview, frankly a rather deferent and soft exchange where @bphillipsonMP was left unchallenged on her myriad failures while in office. Disappointed.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"I seem to be living rent-free in Kemi Badenoch's head. I don't know why," @bphillipsonMP tells @lewis_goodall.

With 93% of UK children in state schools, she says she "owns" the 'spiteful class warrior' dig over Labour's 20% private school fees increase

https://t.co/Kq7kZbHYC2

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

I read the Hobbit when I was given it for Christmas at 7 years old. Read LoTR through for the first time at 12 or 13 (tried and failed earlier). I’d read many of the Redwall books in primary school years, and many others. I’m not remotely unusual in having done this.

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

I’ve watched several interviews with Stevenson, it’s increasingly obvious he is just another populist who claims to not want the spotlight, but delights in a teenage radicalism that has accrued him wealth and notoriety while avoiding the need for substance. This solves nothing.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

I don't usually write personal stuff, but a few words about my experience of being interviewed by Gary Stevenson.

It started with a nice chat, comparing taste in hoodies... then the tone changed. He demanded to know why I'd deleted a tweet criticising him.

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

https://t.co/sqAlYX9lwZ

Totally unsurprising news, but still shocking. Universities are likewise failing this large and massively underserved demographic.

[日本学術振興会（学振／JSPS） @jsps_sns]

Applications now open for the FY2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships (Standard (1st)). Please submit application forms via Japanese host institutions to the JSPS Electronic Application System.
🕔Deadline: 5 p.m. on August 28, 2026 (JST)
🔗https://t.co/oXNeGojJHs
#fellowship #postdocs

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

@MartinSkold2 Not really true about Scandinavia and buildings, I’m afraid. It’s true to a certain extent for residential buildings, but not at all for building of any historical pedigree or heritage. Littered with stave churches etc

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@samueljenkinson Sounds like a threat…

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

@bphillipsonMP Hi Bridget, would love to know what you’re doing for the university sector in the UK, which appears to be imploding at an ever increasing pace. From the outside it looks a lot like nothing. This is a huge UK industry and global success that is dying in your hands

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

@OJLonTweets We’re bailing with thimbles while the pumps are unmanned and while we can see the leaks, no one wants to stop them up.

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

The rhös grassland at Fernworthy, for example, relies on ponies. I was there this weekend and read the info board!

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

As a regular visitor to Dartmoor, I find the idea that @NaturalEngland would suggest culling over any number of other measures to protect habitat utterly baffling. Wild grazing and fertilisation are key parts of the landscape. Perhaps they need to consult their own literature!

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Exclusive from @oliver_wright

Dartmoor ponies could be subject to mass culling to reduce the impact on biodiversity after a controversial ruling by the government’s environmental quango

Natural England has demanded that all livestock grazing on the moor is reduced by about 75 per cent to protect other habitats, plants and species

The move looks set to result in the culling of up to nine in ten of the semi-wild ponies as farmers prioritise their own cattle and sheep to remain within Natural England’s limit to minimise the impact on their own livelihoods

Natural England argued that the move was necessary to protect the diversity of Dartmoor, which is a designated site of special scientific interest

However, the plan goes against a government commissioned review into the future of Dartmoor, published two years ago, which concluded that Natural England “should not take actions likely to result in a reduction in pony numbers”, adding they were “invaluable for conservation grazing”

The move has led to claims that the quango is acting as judge, jury and executioner of the ponies — a species which is itself seen as endangered

Dartmoor ponies could be put to death under biodiversity plans

https://t.co/s8L8nBJwlk

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

@DavidAstinWalsh Is it just because ANOM is there and what you’re hearing are actual Oxbridge voices?

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

@Pyrrrhos Against all Gods by Miles Cameron

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

https://t.co/oJAGBPqz6l

Great opportunity to work with a truly fascinating collection!

[Peter Good @PeterGood7]

@mejitwo But only if you don’t read the vast majority of them