‘The need for support is everywhere’: working-class arts group expands to north of England. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

& remembering again the wise words of my late laconic father — ‘those who romanticise working class life should recognise how much working class people devote to changing it’.

#OtD 20 Feb 1895 Black abolitionist and advocate for women's rights who escaped slavery, Frederick Douglass, died in Washington DC aged 77. More information, sources and map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1119...

🧵 Stories Reform UK Doesn’t Want You to Read While the monopoly press serves puff pieces and the BBC hands the party seemingly unlimited Question Time slots, we’ve been digging into what actually sits behind Reform UK. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/reformscruti...

Good Morning! Join me at the fab Book Elephant on Thurs 19 March 6.30pm where I’ll be talking about local lads-done-good Charlie Chaplin & George Tinworth, Chartism, Music Hall, Art & Lambeth Pots + much more! Tix £6 redeemable on purchase of #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social nearest tube 🐘 & 🏰

Good Morning! Join me at the fab Book Elephant on Thurs 19 March 6.30pm where I’ll be talking about local lads-done-good Charlie Chaplin & George Tinworth, Chartism, Music Hall, Art & Lambeth Pots + much more! Tix £6 redeemable on purchase of #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social nearest tube 🐘 & 🏰

Important news! I am delighted to announce the launch of my new podcast: The Untitled History Podcast. It's me, and guests, falling down all the history rabbitholes you can imagine. Please, please spread the word, subscribe and listen. Because... SHIPS CATS!! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...

#ThrowbackThursday Enjoying a piano Leeds shopping centre. It was a lovely day, my mum filmed this, hence the broad smile X♥️ #musicsky

Join me at the fab Cinema Museum - occupying the old Lambeth Workhouse - on Thurs 9 April 7pm. Charlie, his brother Syd & their mother Hannah were “in-mates” here, as was my great-great grandfather William Partridge #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social Tix here cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/bo...

Looking forward to meeting Southwark folk @ the 1st #HardStreets public event, w/ local lass @lucyworsley.bsky.social - featuring Walworth-born Chaplin, the all-female pickpocket gang led by Polly Carr & more. Given the area was home to the Marshalsea & Mint Workhouse, refs to C. Dickens are likely…

Looking forward to meeting Southwark folk @ the 1st #HardStreets public event, w/ local lass @lucyworsley.bsky.social - featuring Walworth-born Chaplin, the all-female pickpocket gang led by Polly Carr & more. Given the area was home to the Marshalsea & Mint Workhouse, refs to C. Dickens are likely…

Hazara embroidery from central Afghanistan, on cotton or silk material enlivened by very fine lines of cross or herringbone stitch #WomensArt

A talent he appears to share with The Guardian.

If you don't know how all this works now here is a perfect example.... Yesterday: Reform were asked about minimum wage and the outcome was that they will reduce it - worrying people and getting some negative press. Today: an unsourced, anonymously briefed, speculative story is 'revealled'... 1/2

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform

Why am I, once again, the only person in the fkn country who is doing this? If Nigel Farage's mouth is moving, ESPECIALLY when he ad-libs, chances are he is not telling the truth. That is the story. The only story that matters. It is what he fears. Being pinned down about lying.

Beyond outrage, always check the FACTS in what Farage says. It wasn't "the day after" Mandelson story broke, but six days later, and it was also on FT front. Reform story wasn't "silly". Head of Kent DOGE told FT they hadn't found any savings, denied it when Farage had a tantrum, and had to resign.

Matthew Goodwin is more MAGA than Manchester

Farage’s economic agenda is basically a manual in how to crash the economy

It’s up to all of us to now step up and call this absolute bull**** out

Proud to partner with UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to sign an MOU deepening climate cooperation between California and the UK. As communities face extreme weather and rising costs, we’re accelerating innovation and investing in solutions to tackle climate change.

Nigel Farage's Reform are not the workers' champions - look at their policies' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Asked back in 2019 about reports of his work with Steve Bannon, Boris Johnson described them as “the biggest load of codswallop I have ever heard.” His spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment following the publication of Bannon's messages to Epstein confirming the relationship

Today's column. On the abyss. www.thetimes.com/article/c7f8...

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

🔴Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Restore Britain have their first ever councillor, Maria Bowtell, ex-Tory & ex-Reform a longstanding Lowe associate (& an employee of Restore). She told me she "fully supports" Conor Tomlinson's proposal to ban all ethnic minorities from parliament & propose a Restore Britain policy paper on it

If true, Nigel Farage's claim that the real reason why net migration numbers are down in because of "exodus" of British people escaping a broken society would show up in this red line spiking dramatically up - but it is very flat indeed. His claim is made up to claim immigration hasn't fallen

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being? Then there's no way you can vote for this. Spread the word.

Thank you! We really do appreciate all the people who let our voices into their precious headspace - and doubly those who help us pay the electric. A x

I’ve been listening to @quietriotpod.bsky.social for a long while and have now put my money where my mouth is - sensible, informed, intelligent discussion, delivered with passion, laughs and the occasional expletive. What’s not to love?

A busy week pulling together two big #househistory projects being bound into books! Meanwhile, today’s #househistories feature in The Times is a fascinating house linked with ship owners, a scientist, and an artist! 😀

Finnish artist, author and illustrator Tove Jansson in her home studio, 1956 #WomensArt

🆕 Sunday School: Colonised by Ignorance 🇪🇺 Labour's clearest pivot to Europe ⚽ Ratcliffe's own goal 🖥️ Farage's hissy fit over WFH With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2Tfg... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Margaret Agnes Rope (1882-1953) British stained glass artist in the Arts and Crafts movement tradition #womensart

Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous & fiercely independent, & based on the author herself in a kind of characteristic self-portrait #WomensArt

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

This is the speech many have been waiting for Starmer to make. With Trump in the White House it will be a comfort to Brits and Europeans to hear a UK Prime Minister advocate for less reliance on the United States.

We're also marking the launch of Radical Rural, a gallery trail championing many more voices who champion and care for rural England today. From summoning the folk spirits of England's woods and tors, to meticulously mapping the data of who really owns England. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...

Love bookshops? Say it with flowers! Buy a book this weekend for the chance to win a bouquet every month for a YEAR. Keep indie bookshops blooming 💐 uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-fl...

The Farage Files: Week One @mrjamesob.bsky.social and Henry Riley have been scrutinising Reform UK with a fine-tooth comb, uncovering a massive 22 stories. youtu.be/fyNKDMxg2bM

Tracking Putin’s agents through Westminster Reform MPs were conspicuous by there absence at a debate on malicious “Russian influence campaigns” 🖼️ @willdunn.bsky.social

Ratcliffe is an immigrant in Monaco, where immigrants have properly taken over. Maybe being rich makes him think its different for him. Massive Hypocrite.

The Victorian Society and the LISSCA campaign will keep you updated as to how you can support the continuing campaign. Thank you 🙏

The Elections Bill is really very thin on political finance. Some loopholes closed, some warm words, but still unlimited political donations. That's why we're working with @38degrees.bsky.social to call for a cap on donations Please sign and share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

For LGBTQ+ History Month we're highlighting George Williams (1910-1995) whose archive of scrapbooks & unpublished autobiography is held by the BMHS. After early success, George was imprisoned for homosexuality in 1952 but resumed his career in the 60s. buff.ly/xee50mu

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

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