It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

The first 'gastropub' at 35 wp.me/p15p2Q-aWB

Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History. @northernhistory.bsky.social (Open access version will be available soon).

Solidarity with all those protesting about ICE in Minnesota wp.me/p15p2Q-enm

The network offers “sincere apologies for any uneasiness caused. London is safe. Big Ben is still chiming, and all is well.” Orson Welles will later say that “Broadcasting the Barricades” gives him the idea to adapt “War of the Worlds,” a more infamous case of radio panic. 5/5

Slight tweak on a Friday night. Pad Krapao at Brother Thai & then a pint of Tryanuary

Reform: elections being cancelled is anti-democratic. Reform: a man elected as a Tory MP in 2024 can defect to us without a new election.

A reminder. All welcome wp.me/p15p2Q-fUF

Solidarity with all those protesting about ICE in Minnesota wp.me/p15p2Q-enm

Imagine if you taught creative writing and had to mark this

strangely no sign of Robert Jenrick meeting The Traitors in the Turret tonight but the mission was pure Monty Python again wp.me/p15p2Q-fW7

Tory Traitor Jenrick is banished from the Party wp.me/p15p2Q-fWf

Congratulations to @popnhops.bsky.social & @tomstapandbrew.bsky.social voted joint winners of the Beard Friendly Pub, Bar, Tap & Bottle Shop of the Year

Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.

It took the Guardian a day to report this & the BBC's main news site is silent, Chris Mason having other things to do wp.me/p15p2Q-fVG

From the January Thornbridge box. 'a beer for dark nights' it is mid-January & (made up) Blue Monday beckons

The breakfast in episode 7 of the Traitors was rather like one of those (occasional) Union Executive meetings when things have gone completely off the rails.... wp.me/p15p2Q-fW7