"Nour, the 4-year-old daughter of a Palestinian family, is among more than 60 people martyred or still trapped under the rubble after Israeli occupation warplanes struck several buildings in the Al-Samer area of Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City without prior warning"(Mohamed Aljabary) #Gaza

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As the UK recognised Palestine A poppy for peace, there and everywhere 🙏

British artists reclaim St George’s flag with a message of inclusivity

Sign/share. We want media & politicians to recognise that there is a large no. of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

An important message from genetics. Only, archaeology shows it as a slow social mechanism. Not the mass migration events that we were told of in our youth. It’s Cunnington’s to and fro, individuals and small groups, the next valley, across the sea (and back). Movement over time. Small, cumulative.

Just to note that to geneticists this is not a surprise, and the latest data confirms all the other data that has been building since the time of Darwin. We're all amazing mongrels, and this planet belongs to us all, to share and nurture.

Yes, from memory, the Gretzinger team found modern German DNA had more in common with the Iron Age French DNA than the German equivalent. People move. So any claim to land rights that necessarily ignores 2000 years of social change is invalid.

A goddess for #FindsFriday In 1882 antiquary Edward Cunnington dug at the #Roman temple at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset Sadly his excavations were never published although one important find was this copper alloy plaque with repoussée figure, possibly Minerva Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

For #FindsFriday the extraordinary Late Bronze Age Arthog bucket, a huge & rare 35 litre vessel discovered at the foot of Cader Idris mountain in Eryri/Snowdonia in 1826 🥰 Now on display in the St Fagans archaeology galleries of National Museum Wales 🤔👉 museum.wales/collections/... 📷 My own

There’s a word for silencing dissent on your own side. The left might be messy but that’s because it centres *all* voices, even those we don’t agree with, through debate (rather than liberals who wait around for a nice respectable man to herd their minority middle-class vote).

Is today the day that Starmer stops tweaking the law to target socialists and arrest pensioners and artists? Maybe today’s the day he stops lawyering and starts being Prime Minister.

Yesterday, in a difficult human way, I felt that I needed to leave the house, so I headed to the beach. People really keep coming until late at night from the north to the south, and many people sleep in the streets without a real destination, abandoned without anyone asking about their condition.

Totally normal.

More like 110,000 surely www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Led By Donkeys arrested! Freedom of speech, unless you’re left wing. First they came for the socialists, etc.

Autumn 🍂

Wrote 2,200 words. Soup.

Starting to wonder whether letting a shrew nest in my boiler might be the part of the reason it’s not working

In conversation with Hawkes, Varley, and Chitty about hillforts.

I just need someone to stand next to me with a cattle prod making sure I don’t go off on tangents so that I finish this book

Good of the telegraph to remind us that as well as racist coked up men with prior convictions for dv, the racist march led by a racist that descended into racist violence also included some racists who shop at oliver bonas & think running the church fete tombola makes them nice people

What I’d love to see is Wrexham singing “you’re all ** French” at every SE team they play but sadly Wales is swallowing the Reform propaganda too. And also it’s not at all helpful so please forgive me.

"You can be English with roots that stretch back a 1,000 years, but you can also be English and look like me". About time. Need much more of this, and need the PM to come out and say it and challenge the politicians and media who've brought us here - not just Musk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So that’s Ireland, The Netherlands, and Spain now boycotting #Eurovision if Netanyahu’s genocidal apartheid state is allowed to participate. How do we lobby the UK to join the boycott?

Good response on Musk: “Nobody gets to mess with British democracy”

First female professor in Scotland 1892 (Prof. Emma Ritter-Bondy, music), in England 1908 (Prof. Edith Morley, English) and in Ireland 1910 (Prof. Mary Ryan, Languages). In archaeology, 1939 (Prof. Garrod). A good generation on.

“A row of men lean against the metal shutters that keep them out of Westminster tube station, as they piss through the bars directly onto the steps on the other side. Nearby a furious man in his early 30s yells ‘bring the cocaine here now, mate’. It is not yet 2pm.”

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

There wasn’t 110,000 people there yesterday, btw. Not sure why the police parrot the lines of their irritants. But for context: London Pride: 1.5 million Notting Hill: 2 million Pro-Palestine march: 500,000 These people are a tiny, entitled minority and should be treated as such, not courted

One of the reasons why people often prefer debating ("dining across the divide") with the far right than the left is that the former makes them feel good about themselves by comparison Debates with/amongst the left bring up uncomfortable reflections about our participation in systems of oppression

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This. This is the way to do it.

Andy Burnham. If he wants to.

110,00 seems big, but remember 2 million marched against Iraq.

It’s possible we may need a change in Labour leader here. They can smell Starmer’s weakness, that he doesn’t get / doesn’t like the working class. New Labour is a strategy for good times, not economic hardship. It’s possible that until he goes, this will just get bigger.

Thank goodness we don’t have an ideologue like Corbyn in though eh *sarcasm

If you can fight fascism then do. Because history teaches us that many will be doing this instead.

Strong Neville Chamberlain vibes

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

There’s also the clear gender disparity. Twice as many males between 18-24 would vote for Reform than women of the same age. Not only is this not mostly a youth problem - it is a much bigger problem with GenXers - but it’s also not a female problem. The coverage is of incredible low quality.

"Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer." I think this might be incitement to violence rather than Free Speech.

Still waiting for Starmer.

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Robinson claimed the objective of today's march was to "unite the Kingdom". That was never the real purpose. This was a show of strength in a far right turf war. The British public are rapidly being radicalised and every far right figure is fighting to become the leader of the desired revolution.

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month. Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

Absolutely horrified and disgusted to see so many people openly attending a fascist rally in our capital. All reported breathlessly on news channels and in some sections of the media. Everyone attending is complicit in this country's rapid decline into extremism.