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In Florence on 7th February 1497, devotees of the crusading Dominican friar Girolamo Savaronola consigned countless works of art and literature (along with some cosmetics, mirrors, fine clothing and musical instruments) to the flames, in the famous ‘Bonfi…

Here is a survey paper I wrote in June 2021, on intersection problems in Extremal Combinatorics.

Here is a briefing note with estimates of how the vaccine rollout (and vaccine uptake among young people) may affect the basic reproduction number of the coronavirus among UK university students during the Autumn Term of the Academic Year 2021/2022.

Iraqi Jews displaced in 1951.

I welcome applications from students interested in doing a PhD in Combinatorics with me at the University of Bristol.

The following proposals have been suggested by a combination of world-renowned scientists (in several different fields), and ordinary people.

Posted here due to popular demand: here are lecture notes for some past undergraduate-level, masters-level and graduate-level Mathematics courses I have taught.

Theodor Herzl, 1860-1904 Last Saturday, the French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was shouted at in the street by several gilet jaunes protestors; one of them called Finkielkraut a ‘dirty Zionist sh*t’ and told him to ‘Go back to Tel Aviv’.

Nazism Watch — a private blog posting and commenting on news about Nazism, neo-Nazism, Fascism and the far-right in the UK, the US and mainland Europe.

Nazism Watch — a private blog posting and commenting on news about Nazism, neo-Nazism and Fascism and the far-right in the UK, the US and mainland Europe.