1000 more Gore votes in Florida in 2000 and we’d have got that timeline.

If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.

Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.

Guy Fawkes took the brilliantly original pseudonym “John Johnson” for his attempt to blow up Parliament today in 1605 We should make sure that anyone of that surname should not be allowed within a mile of the building.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the promise broken is a necessity of the present. Machiavelli

This is the draft of Elizabeth’s order to execute Mary Queen of Scots. It was written by Cecil. And I LOVE the fact that he forgot to include the English monarch’s bonkers claim to rule France. He had to add it in afterwards.

My wealth has increased by 25% since June. I have done absolutely nothing to earn this. I just put it in a tracker fund. I will be taxed on that gain at a lower rate than during the Thatcher government. I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.

Anyone who voted for this or advocated for it is unworthy of your vote. Or your clicks. They were either lying or wrong.

Byron had sex with Lady Melbourne. Also with her daughter in law Caroline Lamb (who later had sex with the Duke of Wellington.) Byron eventually married Lady Melbourne’s niece. But the marriage failed because he was also having sex with his (half) sister.

Today in 1911 the greatest gathering of chemists & physicists to that point in history took place in Brussels. Lorentz. Einstein. Curie. Poincaré. Rutherford. Lindemann (Churchill's WW2 scientific adviser) gathered for a brainstorm. Historic dinner party game? Well here you go.

The generation that experienced WW2 knew how bad things could get. The horrors that they had directly experienced in Coventry, on Omaha, at Belsen, Bastogne, Dresden, Nanjing & Tokyo meant that they understood how dangerous THIS was. This is where all that started.

‘I think we were so desperate to get out of the EU that at the time we basically came up with a very bad deal.’ Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK #Traitors

When George II’s son, the Duke of Cumberland (who had been a war hero in his 20s) capitulated to the French in 1757 he returned home and George II said "Here is my son who has ruined me and disgraced himself.” Cumberland was stripped of his offices and withdrew from public life.

The cards done lie

King Harold exiled his brother. William I imprisoned his brother William II crushed his brother in battle Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff. Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other. Edward IV executed his brother. That’s the game

By coincidence, this morning in 1961 the Soviets tested Tsar Bomba. The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated: roughly 3000 times the power of Hiroshima. ‬ Maniacs.

Admiral Nelson's advice for Labour: 'The measure may be thought bold, but I am of the opinion the boldest are the safest.'

There will be a perfect storm. Recruitment across sectors vital to the wellbeing of the population will collapse; talented people will continue to leave the UK even shorter of their skills; the extreme right will continue to attract almost half of all voters with a message about evil refugees.

Tough but essential history in @fxmc1957.bsky.social’s new history of the Holocaust. It began with speech. It ended with bullets, bayonets and gas.

The same is true of the Black Death, Mount Tambora’s eruption and the Mongol Invasions.

100 years ago today Howard Carter opened Tutankamoun’s inner most coffin and saw the pharaoh’s mask for the first time. Here’s the photo taken that day. It’s in with all the astonishing excavation papers and photos at the @griffithinstitute.bsky.social

Edward II’s lawyers are going to the shirt off Mel Gibson’s back.

Soviet submarine commodore Vasily Arkhipov may well have saved the world today in 1962. Off Cuba, Soviet sub B-59 was being depth charged by US ships & was out of contact with the USSR. The captain, assuming they were at war, wished to launch a nuclear torpedo. Arkhipov vetoed it.

These maniacs are sad that advertisers are presenting black & brown people as family members, professionals and users of washing machines rather than iklwa hurling zulus, untrustworthy agents of Vichy, dockyard lascars in opium dens and double crossing Crusader infantry

The chief executive officer of the USA is raising revenue through import duties without consulting the representatives of the people; exactly 250 years on from the start of the American Revolution. Sing it, Alanis.

Is JD Vance a Rudolf Hess or an Octavian?

Nationalism is a shibboleth. The challenges we face are daunting. But we are not going to overcome them by hunkering down behind of imaginary lines scrawled on a map by medieval warlords. Our problems are transnational, and the solutions are too.

Next time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy

Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.

Quarter of a century after 9/11 it looks like the historical significance of that day was not its impact in Afghanistan and the Middle East but on the executive branch and democracy in the USA itself.

Today in 1805 Nelson won a shattering victory at Trafalgar. Ships lost: French and Spanish fleet: 22 British: 0

Good news for the King. There is precedent for stripping a royal title from a troublesome family member: Henry VIII decreed that his daughters were no longer Princesses One wrinkle: He did so by declaring them illegitimate.

One of the chief problems of inherited monarchy is that there are either not enough sons or there are too many. The Ottomans came up with a robust solution, albeit one impractical in today’s hellscape of wokeness.

Lots of drivel being talked about French jewel theft & national decline Fear not, French friends, in 1907 the Irish Crown Jewels were stolen from one of the most secure locations in the UK, thanks to vast incompetence… … & a few years later the UK built an astonishing war machine and won WW1

There really is something about Their Graces, the Dukes of York There have been 11. Of which: 2 were killed on the battlefield 1 was probably/possibly murdered in the Tower 1 was executed by Parliament (after he had succeeded as king) 1 was deposed (ditto) 2 showed promise but really went to seed

Today in 1860 a Franco British force destroyed the Summer Palace of the Chinese Emperor. The future general, Charles Gordon, wrote: You can scarcely imagine the beauty and magnificence of the places we burnt. It made one's heart sore to burn them....It was wretchedly demoralising work for an army.

It is the worst day. By some hellish coincidence today in 1777 and 1781 British armies surrendered to American rebels at Saratoga and waived the white flag at Yorktown respectively. The two decisive land battles of the American Revolutionary War. A world turned upside down.

Henry VI grimaces wistfully. www.bbc.com/news/live/cv...

Catholicism is catnip for Kings Charles.

‪The medieval Palace of Westminster burned today in 1834. Turner was on hand to paint it. ‬ ‪The replacement building was supposed to cost £710,000 and take 6 years‬ ‪It cost £2.4 million and took 24 years.‬ ‪With a decade of snagging. ‬

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

Hitler wrote dismissively that in his younger years he was 'a weak-kneed cosmopolitan.'

Looking forward to the BBC asking Richard (man-made climate change is 'absolute garbage') Tice, MP for the towns, about this.... "Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire [is] projected to have about 90% of homes at risk from river and coastal flooding by 2050 – the highest proportion in the country."

“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The US Department of War’s poorly planned, badly led and incompetently executed US invasion of Canada was defeated today in 1812

Today in 1216 dysentery-ridden King John facing the loss of his kingdom to rebels backed by French & Scottish invaders, really topped it off by losing the crown jewels in the Wash.

Today in 732 Charles Martel crushed an Islamic army at Tours in mid France. A century after the death of Mohammed, Muslim forces were 150 miles from Paris. It was the furthest Muslim forces would penetrate into NW Europe

On the YouTube right now…. @goingmedieval.bsky.social reveals some truths about medieval sex. It is not at all what you think. 📺: youtu.be/wkZy3geThS8?...