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What do Johnson, Farage, Truss, Jenrick & Anderson have in common❓ Happily attending a diner hosted by Guido Fawkes, laughing at Nazi jokes & the host singing “we’re all racist now” Others songs inc “We’ve lost our way, long past our best… maybe we should have let the Nazis win.” #TraitorsWithin

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The Mirror: Tory Robert Jenrick forced to correct CV - after accusing Labour MPs of embellishing theirs www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Jenrick and Philp put UK judges’ ‘lives at risk’ with attacks on integrity, former extremism tsar says

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STORY Tory Robert Jenrick forced to correct his own CV - after accusing Labour MPs of embellishing theirs www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Mr Jenrick said on Twitter: "In the real world, if you lie about your CV you resign." A source close to Mr Jenrick said the error had now been corrected. 😂 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Just arrived in the post (had to queue up at the post office depot but it was worth it!)...a privilege to be part of this book which packs in so much information and examples of how you learn from materials and remaking. Congratulations, @sarahabendall.bsky.social and @serenadyer.bsky.social.

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#EarlyModern

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So, NHS waiting times have dropped for the 4th month in a row. I don't think I'd ever go for a pint with Starmer but he's getting the job done not that the media would ever tell you... #NHS #surviving #disability

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Spotted in the rain in front of the Folger Shakespeare Theater in downtown DC.

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Worth reading by @lewisgoodall.com We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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If you are still in a #ValentinesDay mood & want to read/listen to some #hairyarchive stories, do check out my work on the Tennent collection that is held in PRONI. This #hairy collection contains 14 locks of hair belonging to 10 different women. What does it tell us about love & sex? ❤️💋 See below!

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There are some big flaws in Reform UK's anti-renewables policy: 1. Our high energy price is due to use of the most expensive source, which is gas 2. The fossil fuel industry received £20bn more subsidies than renewables 2015-2023 3. Most of the UK public is not against Net Zero

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Of all the daft 'opinions' that Brexiters could never explain or justify, opposition to a mooted European army was among the stupidest. Inevitably, Farage the Putin fanboy was the loudest heckler. Armies that you are actually in rarely turn out to be opposed to your interests...

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'The American state has been captured by a group of people who do not see the world as we do, who are hostile to the world as we want it to be. We must see them for what they are ... they don’t pretend to be anything else ... we lie to ourselves that they do' open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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Good piece: 'We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us' [hidden under what they have actually said]. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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Big moves from Labour this week. Barely covered in the papers – but if you want to own a home, this is huge. 8 important changes:

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Angela Rayner the British Deputy Prime Minister launches the new deal for working people #TradeUnions #Pay #WorkersRights 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

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On the latest The World Turned Upside Down, Elaine Murphy traces the chronology of the English civil wars at sea, and how the period proved critically important in the evolution of Britain into a global naval power and the creation of the empire www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/crom...

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Multiple lawmakers in Munich told the Washington Post’s @joshrogin.bsky.social that the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves. Zelensky politely declined to sign it.

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This is not normal, and we cannot and should not go along with it.

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Portrait of a young woman, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645 (Rijksmuseum)

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Tom Derry, jester to Anne of #Denmark by Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, c. 1614 (National Galleries of Scotland)

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We've had six months of a Labour Government. We won't turn things around immediately but we have: 👩‍⚕ended the doctors strikes 🚂 Put rail in the interests of passengers 📉 Set up GB energy to get secure & cheap energy 🇬🇧 Restored Britain as a global leader And much more 👇

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We’ve still got a lot to do to fix the economy but: 📉 Inflation is down 🏡 Mortgage rates are falling 💷 Wages growing at fastest rate in 3 years 📈 Business investment at a 19-year high 🌍 IMF & OECD predict: UK will be one of fastest-growing economies 👇

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Waiting list falls as NHS staff treated record numbers last year www.england.nhs.uk/2025/02/wait... UK economy grows in q4 2024 www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-... The BBC - ‘What about Rachel Reeves Linkedin profile?’

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The ‘final’ evaluation report of the bus fare cap (covering 10 months of the £2 cap) is now out. Lots to digest here but key point is it did what it was meant to: “The evidence suggests… it has reduced the cost of living and has increased bus patronage, particularly for those on lower incomes.”

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Teaser: I'm in the middle of editing a great little mini-series, coming soon to the many-headed monster blog! If you are interested in all things printed images and visual culture, keep your eyes peeled!

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Found on Mastodon. No idea who made it.

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Historians to Trump: get stuffed. www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

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6 Feb 1687: Robert Ware, polemicist and forger of historical records, leaves #Dublin #otd on the day Richard Talbot, the Catholic Earl of Tyrconnell arrives a Viceroy (eebo). With book titles like this, you can see why...

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📣The latest issue of Cultural & Social History is here! Featuring shrines, social mobility, galleries, 'odious work', child welfare work and popular culture from the 16th to the 20th centuries...📜✨ 👉Read online here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2... 🗃️ 16thc 17thc 18thc 19thc 20thc

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Sometimes you just have to say “fuck you” with a flourish

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Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X. Everybody dies.

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Feeding the old kings and queens of Scotland, a digest of record and story from the sixteenth century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_an...

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Winged Goblet c. 1620/30, #German (Art Institute Chicago) Practical? No.

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Padlock and key 1531 by André Omereler (Met Museum) Disguised by numerous dummy holes, the real keyhole is revealed when one of the shields is turned to the right, releasing two bolts, unlatching a cover inside, and causing a panel to slide up.

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"In all these processes of contractions and closures, one common denominator is that arts and humanities subjects are too often first in line." New letter to the Secretary of State for Education, from @artsandhums.bsky.social, on the impact and implications of current losses in UK HE #skystorians

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I’m not one who hyperventilates over every less than perfectly written headline, but, wow, these are awful. And, to boot, the biggest story of all - the illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies by Elon & cronies - is completely missing.

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The United States now exists in an entirely parallel post-truth universe. That's going to have big, big consequences.

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President of the European Council Antonio Costa: “The UK is our natural partner and our meeting confirmed that there is a new positive energy in our relationship. There is a lot we can do together on defence and to address global challenges."

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Absolutely insane achievement for Elon Musk to secure the quadruple title of richest, unfunniest, most hateful, and least cool human on the planet

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