Professor Ian Clark www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof...

I appear to be simultaneously cross that the BBC is getting the kind of shafting that is never delivered to overtly right wing news and propaganda outlets while also holding the view that their editing of the Trump speech was a complete disgrace

#OnThisDay 1956: Victor Weisz on Soviet propaganda and the crushing of the Hungarian uprising

Also, this is a low turnout off-year election in a city where the population is overwhelming Democratic and from progressive demographics, and in a country with an unpopular right wing incumbent. I would be wary of generalising from this to contexts where some or all of these things aren't true.

“Have you seen them? Do you know them? Don't have nightmares, do sleep well"

BBC has even managed to bring an unfortunately ambiguous English-language headline into this affair. There was a moment where I was thinking young Ryan had wrong-numbered his local escort agency... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The bastard son of Herr Flick and Simon Cowell

Paywall be damned on this occasion

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It must be so galling for people at CEU, who stood up to the despicable kleptocrat Trump is hosting today and who paid a personal and professional price for that, to see US universities capitulating so pathetically.

It’s very simple. You can paint mass opposition as happening at the behest of a shadowy Jewish benefactor or you can fight antisemitism. You cannot do both.

If this turns out not to be true it could be a really clever way of recruiting Conservative voters

I am out of touch enough with football to be slightly surprised to discover that this headline is about a game between Preston North End and Burnley

Wythnos i heno! / A week tonight!

Yes, it's true that veterans can say incredibly stupid things that you probably shouldn't bother reporting.

Yeah, I can see that...

Wonder if the Big Issue is having buyer's regret over their old Middle East "expert"...

Another of Donald's not-so-nice mates

Not the brightest spark is he, Joey Barton?

On the subject of newspaper errors and corrections, this Guardian recipe is a cracker and one of the most Guardiany things imaginable

Only learned about this today. In May 1976 the Liverpool Daily Post, writing about the mother of Reggie, Ronnie and Charlie Kray (whose name was Violet), came up with quite possibly the greatest Freudian typographical slip of all time...

I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.

One of the things they don't warn you about when you get into doing historical research is that you sometimes need a small forklift truck to lift the material onto your desk...

Think the marriage of convenience between the historically antisemitic far-right and the Israeli right has been bad for Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice views in Aberystwyth on the walk down to town from the National Library this evening

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There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point. There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.

#OnThisDay 1976 in the Birmingham Post: from a review of David Pryce-Jones' biography of the loathsome Unity Mitford

'18-year-old Taz Rees said it has been "stressful.... People get up very early" to build the bonfire' I mean, it's not quite Basílica de la Sagrada Família, but well done for getting out of bed before noon.

New book arrivals today....😁

I remember this film being on the curriculum for Professor Melvyn Stokes’ film and US history course at UCL in the mid-90s… 🎥 😁 www.jewishnews.co.uk/hester-stree...

The problem with the notion of asking people to “call out antisemitism where they see it” is that while most people will agree in principle, quite a lot of them have a serious problem with the practical business of recognising it when they see it

#OnThisDay 1956: Victor Weisz cartoon in the Daily Mirror on the Soviet Union’s crushing of the Hungarian uprising. A pretty decent summary of why Eisenhower was incandescent with rage about Anthony Eden’s war over Suez…

On this day in 1981, I was taking photos of Depeche Mode at the Locarno in Birmingham. Here are some from the soundcheck, backstage and the show (THREAD)

This is a really good piece from @joshglancy.bsky.social. Far from “whataboutery“, it’s a genuine attempt to to wrestle with a disturbing and peculiar feature of contemporary politics, namely “why is the world quite so obsessed with Israel and Palestine?” www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-world-wa...

The president who hosted Nick Fuentes for dinner

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire. www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

30th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. "Enough of blood and tears. Enough." Selected British press coverage.

Saw this cartoon in a 2001 edition of the Welsh internationalist journal, Planet, this afternoon and rather enjoyed it

Really interesting BBC2 programme on the Soviet space programme but they really shouldn’t allow upper middle class Soviets to pretend that 1989 was, in terms of the Soviet Union’s economic performance, when “everything started to fall apart”

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

He’s got the X look down pat. Seriously, this guy’s enthusiasm for mass slaughter makes Arik Sharon look like Mandela

Who put the British Green Party in charge of Swedish and Finnish defence policy?

Predictably contrasting full-page treatments of Anthony Eden's disastrous Suez war in the Daily Mail and the New Statesman #OnThisDay 1956. Victor Weisz wins the prize for the heaviest dose of cartoon sarcasm in British history...

Sheffield Hallam University "negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade... academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

got to be honest, I too yearn for a (possibly idealised) past when people didn't voice these kinds of opinions publicly for fear of getting the shit kicked out of them