Board of Peace - Season 1

457 British troops. You evil, senile bastard.

News reports "Henry II says he won't personally kill Becket"

Thanks to Julian Zeliser for this quote of the week: “Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.” John Quincy Adams, 1775

"Hochman called for the “mass killing and extermination” of Palestinians, the use of nuclear weapons against Gaza… and the starvation of Palestinians" Bit of a contrast with the people who held up pieces of paper saying "I support Palestinian Action". They're in UK prisons for terrorism.

The Prime Minister rises to the global political moment and gives a speech of intelligence, insight and gravity. Unfortunately for Britain, it's a different Prime Minister.

Keir Starmer has lost @ianleslie.bsky.social spectator.com/article/keir...

In May 1945, Donald P Trumpf acknowledges receipt of the Peace Prize for Germany.

Indeed. The worst people imaginable running the most important country in the world. Not a good combination.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Hoping for EITHER Farage to say no to the odious back-stabbing racist; OR Jenrick to say no to the odious back-stabbing racists. But I reckon they’ll be able to find common ground.

'Would I tell you a lie?' 'Yes you would, you spineless little scumbag!'

Just another morning in the Twin Cities, keeping my eyes on the preschool parent signal chat to make sure none of my child’s classmates, their parents, or their teachers were kidnapped by the federal government in front of the school.

If the US invades Greenland and Denmark triggers Article 5 the US military should divvy up, half to do the invasion and half to defend against it #compromise

Doing God's work with the new episode of Backlisted, knowing He is watching.

A very fresh story line.

He was doing his best to do his job, and the fact that he called a woman a fucking bitch shortly after he killed her should absolutely not, in any way, cast any doubt on this.

If you think of Trump as an absolute monarch, with no distinction between his personal wealth and power and that of the United States, things start to make a bit more sense. He's like a crap Louis XIV. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

none of these headlines were necessary if the government had raised income tax, as most people expected and accepted was necessary. instead, they showed their incompetence extends to economics as well as other policy areas. it's little comfort the political alternatives are worse still.

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

@johnspringford.bsky.social you may enjoy these charts. I'm a record-keeper by habit, including of motoring costs over the last 20 years of the War on the Motorist. As you can see, fuel costs (c. 6,000 miles p.a.) are a relatively small % of total; &, in real terms my costs have declined by 1/4-1/3.

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

A nice crazy start to the year for FCDO weekend duty rota staff

A good theory.

Acute observation.

A triumph of public policy, British-style.

If the Trail of Tears and the Madagascar Plan had a baby... apnews.com/article/isra...

❤️❤️❤️HUGE CONGRATS!!!❤️❤️❤️

Niche historians’ joke.

The US has long been a world leader in deforestation — see books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hup...

@benansell.bsky.social & @oldtrotter.bsky.social — look at this classic Muirhead Bone pic of Nuffield as a building site www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commo.... I _think_ the artist’s POV must have been from within the footprint of the bottom left corner of lower quad. Is that Staircase H now?

This is a wonderful story. What a couple! I wish I had a fraction of this generosity, but I can’t imagine such unselfishness.

A wonderful Welsh carol in the ‘plygain’ tradition, ‘Ar gyfer heddiw’r bore’. Historically plygain carols were sung only by men, but things have rightly moved on … youtu.be/jgV5cG0e6yk

In passing, it's very 2025 that a party whose main loyalty is to foreign donors goes around questioning the loyalty to the UK of other people.

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

This is as good as Dreyer says. Thanks for the pointer, @ottoenglish.bsky.social.

There's slaughter in Ukraine, In the Gaza Strip unhoused children are being tossed about in wind and rain. Meanwhile, #TrumpyPumpy's trying to pull the wool over our eyes about his taste for pubescent girls... And what is the lead story on the #BBC? Come Dancing!

We should think of political structures as more like gardens than mountains. If they are not properly maintained they disappear. I think we forgot that about liberal democracy.

Read this out loud in your best imitation Tim G-A accent.

The entire federal government is currently operating as a Make A Wish Foundation for a sad old fuck who’s out of his gourd most of the day.

What I miss about working at Durham is the endless self-promotional hype. Extraordinarily inspiring.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Johnson Bordello might find it hard to find a small section of #TrumpyPumpy's arse to lick, there are so many other traitors up there already: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Within a couple of minutes of starting scrolling, I see five different, loathsome things that the US administration and its degenerate President are doing. What repellent times these are.

Ireland is doing pretty bloody well on the international stage right now -- electing a sanctimonious useful idiot as its next president, and now, perhaps, endangering the life of the head of government whose survival is most important to European security at the moment.