Kindle edition currently 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxons...

They’re so clearly going to try to fix the elections Every US outlet should be reporting on this every single day between now and mid terms

Join me this summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...

New data shows #Brexit has lowered UK GDP by 6-8% in 10 years. Investment down 18%, employment down 4%. It's even worse than economists had predicted pre-referendum, because they thought there would be a bounce-back long term. "Economists were roughly right on the magnitude of the impact, but...

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...

For anyone who's interested @waterstones.bsky.social is running a special pre-order offer (no pun intended) on my new book about King Offa of Mercia, valid from Friday 20 Feb. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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...

Got young kids? Live near London? Come see me and my brilliant illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social doing a fun live event at the @southbankcentre.bsky.social in half-term. It’s 3pm on February 17th, with affordable tickets, and live draw-a-long session — it’s gonna be so fun!

Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

There is, of course, no better way to clear your name than the testimony of a convicted sex trafficker with a vested interest in lying.

For half-term, next Tuesday I’m doing a fun kids’ event at @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London — I’ll be doing a funny talk on the history of Roman Britain, and my ace illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social will do a live draw-along tutorial Tix cheap! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...

Successive UK governments have created a student loan system which *actively* embeds unfairness and inequality between and within generations. Finally, (some) politicians are waking up to it. It needs complete and urgent reform. Special News Agents report. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwRq...

I learn from this article that the Bayeux Tapestry was created by Anglo-Saxon artists 'according to one legend'.

I learn from this article that the Bayeux Tapestry was created by Anglo-Saxon artists 'according to one legend'.

The system we have now quite literally embeds the income and wealth inequalities HE is supposed to alleviate. It is outrageous and incredible that a progressive govt could describe it in any way as “fair.” Too many senior politicians today think we have Plan 1 loans. They just don’t understand it.

On 2 May I'll be speaking about Edward I at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. history-weekends.org/ticket-shop

Kindle edition currently 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxons...

Yesterday we learned US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to MAGAfy or lose funding. They want to turn the #BoyScouts into #TrumpYouth. We've seen this movie before.

Who could this be? Hmm…

#OnThisDay 1014 Swein Forkbeard, England's first Viking king, died at Gainsborough, Lincs., after a reign that had lasted only a few weeks. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described his death as "a happy event".

A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent. Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.

#OnThisDay 1014 Swein Forkbeard, England's first Viking king, died at Gainsborough, Lincs., after a reign that had lasted only a few weeks. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described his death as "a happy event".

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

The BBC need to do better than letting panelists simply lie about what they said bsky.app/profile/impl...

Incarcerated for journalism. And for sticking it to various frauds & grifters who profess to care about ‘free speech’.

A bloated, much-married, philandering, orange-coloured megalomaniacal narcissist, possibly mentally impaired later in life, Henry VIII died #OnThisDay 1547.

Matt Goodwin was my university tutor. I’ll have a few things to say about him over the coming weeks.

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996. It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters. sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

FFS, America, can't you just drop a couch on this prick and claim it was acting in self-defence?

They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

Wow Minneapolis today

On 2 May I'll be speaking about Edward I at the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. history-weekends.org/programme/ed...

Join me this summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...

Trump's Board of Peace so far: Tony Blair Benjamin Netanyahu Vladimir Putin Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie Thanos The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon) Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.

Trump's Board of Peace so far: Tony Blair Benjamin Netanyahu Vladimir Putin Stephen Miller in his Darth Vader onesie Thanos The reanimated corpse of Ghengis Khan AI Hitler (with thanks to Elon) Anyone craven enough to bung him a billion dollars or a bit of gold tat with his name on it.

The stain he leaves on the US will be indelible.

"By threatening to set off a bomb in his local McDonald's, Trump was able to persuade them to sell him a Big Mac. This is The Art Of The Deal at its most sophisticated!"

So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Remember the Soviet joke about a man who always goes to look at the papers but never buys one. The news agent asks him what he's looking for and he says, "An obituary" and the news agent points out that they're always in the back section. "This one won't be".

In case anyone missed it in the torrent of mind-slurry, here is the point where Trump’s speech takes an excursion into raw, undiluted unambiguous racism.

America, I'm sorry to say your demented grandpa - yes, the rapey one who was pals with the paedophile - has escaped again. Please come and pick him up as soon as possible and maybe think about moving him into a more secure institution.

Devastating news of the passing of an absolutely brilliant historian.

Now that Marine Le Pen and her far-right RN party are condemning Trump and the American aggression against Europe, let's remember that after he was elected Le Pen cheered his victory and heralded it as the start of "a great movement across the world” I guess she also fell for the "America First" BS

A short thread about King John. When John died in October 1216, contemporary chroniclers were not kind. ‘He was a very bad man’, said one, ‘more cruel than all others. He lusted after beautiful women and because of this he shamed the high men of the land, for which reason he was greatly hated.' 1/

A short thread about King John. When John died in October 1216, contemporary chroniclers were not kind. ‘He was a very bad man’, said one, ‘more cruel than all others. He lusted after beautiful women and because of this he shamed the high men of the land, for which reason he was greatly hated.' 1/