1. The recording of a good lecture by Lea Ypi that I went to on Monday evening, Are Revolutions Justified? https://www.youtube.com/live/wuMJTLOaCb4?si=BWvZeV-5l34RtMg- Guest appearance by David Miliband at the beginning, whose father, Ralph, Lea Ypi’s professorial chair at LSE commemorates. Listen out for Miliband’s Cambridge anecdote!

Moralists think that if the ends of revolution are right, revolution cannot be wrong. Legalists think that since the means of revolution are wrong, revolution cannot be right. In this lecture Lea Ypi revisits their arguments and offers an alternative that cuts across the divide. She examines revolution not in relation to the justice demanded by specific agents but grounded on a philosophical theory of history that focuses on collective progress.

2. Analysis by Terry Moran of “a worldview of domination without leadership, power without trust, and America diminished by its own president”, Donald Trump and the End of American Power https://terrymoran.substack.com/p/donald-trump-and-the-end-of-american

And here’s the Mark Carney speech Moran refers to, in case you’ve not yet had chance to watch https://youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10

3. An open-access article from Language Teaching Research, Language teacher stress and growth during trauma throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating roles of resilience and well-being by Andrew Hay, Peter D. MacIntyre, Tammy Gregersen & Sarah Mercer https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13621688251400725 (PDF below as well.)

The teaching profession has undergone a dramatic shift in pedagogical practices due to COVID-19. Already facing numerous challenges prepandemic, language teaching in particular has become significantly more difficult, and the effect on language teacher stress and well-being is still being explored.

4. Exploratory Action Research (EAR) in Thailand is an account by Rachanee Dersingh & Sonthida Keyuravong of a thriving, multi-partner EAR project in Thailand that has now been running for over four years https://mentrnet.net/ear-thailand/

There’s also a recording of a talk about the project given last year by Sonthida & Rachanee, together with a number of other project participants, here https://youtu.be/1J_pnBnF90Q

and more general information about the project here https://www.britishcouncil.or.th/en/teach/our-work/exploratory-action-research-thailand

5. And, finally, a song by Bruce Springsteen about the Streets Of Minneapolis https://brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/streets-of-minneapolis/