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Another national scandal.

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A nice surprise in the post from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social in the shape of a reprinted edition of @gillint.bsky.social's 'The Townscape of Darlington' which tracks the development of the town from the Middle Ages to the Millennium. More here: boydellandbrewer.com/978190435621... 🗃️ 1/2

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No emotion just facts and undeniable truth‼️ Exactly this. The glorification of wealthy people and the excuse of their evilness‼️

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“That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such massive power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.” Robert Reich

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So nice to see this new printing of 'The Townscape of Darlington', a book that does what @vchlondon.bsky.social is known for: to mesh the documentary record with archaeological research and the built environment. Great to see that it's available again! #LocalHistory

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Yay! Is my considered opinion.

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That tedious trip to Lidl has its compensations. #whitby

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And here we have it….

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Wait til they hear all the women’s parts were originally played by boys

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The Heist By @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Half of ‘red wall’ voters disapprove of Labour’s handling of benefits, says poll. Labour must declare war on poverty, not the poor. Work doesn't pay enough. 37% of universal credit claimants are in work. 16m Britons live in poverty. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

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BHO is having intermittent downtime at the moment. We're being hammered by AI bots and scrapers, overloading our servers. Our server engineers will be back on the case after the long weekend. Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is due to third-party bad actors.

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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

submitted 23 days ago • 2074 comments

Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

submitted 29 days ago • 170 comments

For those at the back - Brexit was done when the UK left the EU. The task of fashioning a set of mutually beneficial relationships with the world including with the EU has proved much more difficult than the act of leaving. 1/5

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

😆 from @dccartoonist.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 235 comments

He’s got private golf resorts, personal jets, and towers with his name on them and yet he’s still begging oil despots for a luxury plane instead of helping people working two jobs who can’t make rent.

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The Royal Historical Society currently invites applications for 9 fellowship and funding programmes to support historical research: bit.ly/4jWMCcQ Grants are open to historians across a range of career stages and professional backgrounds. Applications between late May and September 2025 #Skystorian

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$20 billion in seized crypto is… missing. Pakistan may have shot down a cutting-edge Indian air defence system. And a North Korean hacking syndicate just helped itself to $50 million in Ether. History doesn’t repeat—but it definitely mutates. Here's a🧵 about South Asia, crypto, and chaos 1/7

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

People who never read books now in charge of books.

submitted 37 days ago • 631 comments

They wanted a Pope as evil as Donald. Instead, they got one who follows Christ. And lo, what a rich bounty of papal schadenfreude was found for thine enjoyment.

submitted 38 days ago • 82 comments

#History, maybe, is the circle of light. But the key we are looking for is likely to be in a place un-illuminated by the street-lamps. From Erich Heller, The Disinherited Mind.

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See, also, the Labour party in the UK.

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When life’s a shit-show, it’s time to bake some #bread

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Slavery was legal. Segregation was legal. Never use legality as a guide to morality.

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www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...

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Trump Pressures Ukraine to Accept Peace Plan Favoring Russia. Russia gets land, US gets minerals. Akin to Germany and Russia carve-up of Poland in the 1930s Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in return for worthless security guarantees from US, UK, Russia More states will go nuclear archive.ph/iK5ww

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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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That Wile E. Coyote lull before the storm www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04... Trump has already driven the USA off a cliff. Sometimes soon, people there are going to look down and realise that there is nothing left beneath them. That's when the crash will happen.

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“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh #WritingSky #AcademicSky

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so much for those who claimed - back in july last year when the six labour rebels had the whip withdrawn for voting in favour of the snp amendment - that this government really wanted to get rid of the cap & just needed time to work out how to go about doing it. you were wrong, and so predictably so

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Away from news of greed, hatred and destruction… What humans can do when they set their mind to it. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-magic-...

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#ProudBlue Chris Hedges is saying plainly something that seriously needs to be said. The Christian Right has departed so far from anything Jesus taught it's unrecognizable, and it's providing its adherents excuses for perpetrating serious harm on society.

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Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

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