"Why three horses on this wall?" A wonderful piece on prehistoric cave art. By Stephen Phelan, who was taken into the depths of a cave in the Basque Country. He's such a good writer. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Looking forward to this book very much 🇭🇹✒️🗡

The blood on this man’s hands. Determined to prevent a deal with Iran. Determined to eliminate Palestinians. Determined to kill Palestinian statehood. Determined to drag the wider region into a spiraling circle of death. The war criminal of our era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Hot dang – this is good!

This book is going to be BRILLIANT ⬇️

Hot dang – this is good!

The true story of how I discovered comics.

I can't remember who was recommending this here (@davidveevers.bsky.social?), but I've just finished it and it's bloody brilliant. More book tips like this please, Bluesky.

As a former Lonely Planet writer, this makes me very sad to read. (LP guides do still exist btw, albeit in a form much changed from the backpacking olden times)

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

Pandering to transphobes. Pandering to racists. Pandering to ableists. What is the point of Labour?

Make a mental note that separate but equal never works.

A strange awful feeling, sitting at a departure gate at Heathrow getting ready for an exciting trip, yet shakin with impotent rage at Israel's murderous bombing of Lebanon, seeing places I know in Beirut turned to rubble and columns of smoke. Absolute bastards.

Israel called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with. This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options.

The difference between these two is racism

Happy @alcs.co.uk day to all every writer who only just realised they have to sign into their accounts to see their statement, and spent yesterday feeling sad they didn't get an email, but have just discovered they DID get some free money after all! 🎉🎊🥂

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I used to walk past this when we lived in Beirut. It's in a heavily residential area, with the British Council & Goethe Institute nearby - even the shop where we bought our sofa. Just the same banal everyday stuff as any city. The Israeli government and IDF are fucking sociopaths.

My latest for @972mag.com on how Israel’s war is against Lebanon. Not Hezbollah. Lebanon. www.972mag.com/israels-rene... Quoted @justinsalhani.bsky.social

A beautiful thread that serves to remind that we we can claim the fellowship of the people of both the past and the present.

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. 🧵 1/3

complete ethnic cleansing of the one third of Lebanon that is Shiite

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

It's almost like they tested this all on Palestine, the world did nothing, and they took that as permission to expand. Just like everyone who was paying attention said they would.

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

@jacriding.bsky.social I just ordered a copy of Hard Streets after hearing your interview on the New Books podcast network. Was delighted to hear mention of the Browning Settlement. Ernest Shackleton was president for many years. Here he is in 1920, with his wife Emily standing on the right.

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder why they call the US the Great Satan

The full & fabulous programme of events for the 8th Bristol Radical History Festival 25-26 Apr at M Shed & Cube Microplex is now available on our website: 4 themes: 1926 General Strike, Propaganda, Welsh risings, Utopia. With talks, exhibitions, stalls, films & more tinyurl.com/458vrmmr #BRHF2026

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy

@ronajohnson.bsky.social I just listened to your episode on Ben Franklin's World - really enjoyed it, your enthusiasm is so infectious! Especially great to hear you talking about the Chasseurs Voluntaires at Savannah.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the overthrow of the Duvalier family dictatorship in Haiti, which ruled the nation for 29 years. The promise of that day - a free country & a free people - remains a work in progress. #ayiti #ayitipapperi #haitiwillnotperish

Mick McMahon Monday

Happy 🇬🇧 UK pub day to THE CROWN’S SILENCE—a deeply researched narrative history of the monarchy’s centuries-long entanglement with slavery. This is the new history book the far right loathes. Please buy it b/c it’s important history but—also—it will really piss them off if it does well in the UK!!😉😘

My first ever unboxing video - we finally have the paperback edition of my book 'Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom' - and I'm very excited!

Out in PB 🌟 Discover Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom in 'Black Crown' by @paulclammer.bsky.social. ‘Grasps the essential tragedy of history, in all its ambiguity and contingency.’ — @telegraph.co.uk Get 20% off w/code CLAMMER20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/54m89364

It's publication week! BLACK CROWN is out in paperback this week – my biography of Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revoltion and the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Haiti. I'm so proud of this book – and hope you like it as much as these reviewers! 🇭🇹👑🔥

It's crazy that Bristol had a statute of Colston the enslaver for decades, yet barely anyone knows about this guy. This book by @brisradhis.bsky.social is good at bringing him into the light.

It's publication week! BLACK CROWN is out in paperback this week – my biography of Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revoltion and the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Haiti. I'm so proud of this book – and hope you like it as much as these reviewers! 🇭🇹👑🔥

With 10 days to go until the US release of THE CROWN’S SILENCE on 1/27, I’m giving away TWO signed pre-release copies!! 🚨To enter: share this post b/n now & noon (ET) tomorrow 1/18. I’ll randomly choose 2 winners (US-based). The book is also available for pre-order now! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I'm lucky enough to work near these, and love it everytime I get to walk past them.

Great news – the Bristol Radical History Group have joined Bluesky! Follow @brisradhis.bsky.social for updates on research, publications and events - including their huge free history festival in April. #skystorians

Great news – the Bristol Radical History Group have joined Bluesky! Follow @brisradhis.bsky.social for updates on research, publications and events - including their huge free history festival in April. #skystorians

Are there any fashion #skystorians out there who could tell me the style of hat in this photo please? It's taken from a 1920 issue of The Tatler. @katestrasdin.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social or @mimicofmodes.com. Many thanks!

Yes everything is a bin fire, but I sent a very speculative email to an archive and just received a bunch of photos in return, including one that was a missing jigsaw piece for a puzzle I've been trying to solve for ages. Hug your archivists close, people - they are the BEST.

Yes everything is a bin fire, but I sent a very speculative email to an archive and just received a bunch of photos in return, including one that was a missing jigsaw piece for a puzzle I've been trying to solve for ages. Hug your archivists close, people - they are the BEST.

Happy birthday, Mr Bowie. Everybody says hi.