And don’t get me started on the Osborne decision to abolish maintenance grants. The poorest students now borrow the most, carry debt longest, and subsidise the richest families who can pay it off quickly. Sounds like a sensible tax system!

Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone employed or represented or by Brad Finstad this morning.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Listening to Amol Rajan talking to Tom Holland on his Radical podcast - and quite surprised to hear this history of Christianity as a history of ideas - completely separate from economics and politics.

Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."

#Jaguars RB Travis Etienne asked about Trevor Lawrence’s next step…. “Biggest thing for him is to let his nuts hang” 🤣🤣🤣

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

The Jacksonville Jaguars Take The AFC South With A Win Over The Titans!!

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Annual tweet about this. #Jaguars holding the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance Ceremony for an 8th straight year. This year, 96 applicants from 39 different countries are in the group. Owner Shad Khan is in attendance alongside GM James Gladstone and EVP Tony Boselli.

The Jaguars have won 10 games for the first time since 2017 and it’s with a first year HC and first year defensive playcaller

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Here's your fucking special baby medal for stupid fucking babies. Whose? A special baby? Your such a special baby? #fifa #trump

Talking to your family at Thanksgiving is hard. Let @lesdoggg.bsky.social handle it

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

The UK already prohibits MARRIED BRITISH CITIZENS from automatic family reunification, including my own, which is why my wife and I have to live in a third country together. Mahmood wants to further erode the Right to Family Life assured by the ECHR. This is an evil anti-family and anti-human policy

Finally, a bit of a reality check from our 2024 election book (out soon!) for everyone hyperventilating about collapsing public trust in the BBC - free to air TV (mostly the BBC) is still the most widely consumed and widely trusted source of news - blows print, online & social media out of the water

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Updating my LEGO White House

As a heritage professional I can honestly say this is 100% not how you demolish or renovate a historical building or any building. This is how you would approach an abandoned building that's already structurally unsound. The administration is 100% 'trolling' the US using the worse approach.

(grabbing the microphone at a funeral without permission) FOOTBALL IS JUST BETTER WHEN THE JAGUARS ARE GOOD

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Early morning Cow Watching.

Can anyone in my network offer a week of history-related work experience for a very enthusiastic 15yo in the Surrey/London area? Has to be the week 30 June-4 July. Research, archive, museum, archaeology, heritage, conservation, comms, ... Needs to be in an organisation with at least 5 employees.

Regular reminder that there is no reason Labour has to “eye billions of pounds in welfare and other cuts”. It’s more than possible to raise cash with targeted wealth taxes. Austerity is a choice and it’s a choice no matter what colour party is in power.

We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop

I’ve just handed in the last output of my postdoc, which ended officially on the 29th. The last piece I wrote was on using Twine and IF in archaeological education. I’m now available for consulting, writing, and general digital (and analog) archaeological ethics needs. 🏺

Shout out to O Come All Ye Faithful for being the only popular Christmas carol that explicitly rejects the Arian heresy

This includes us - an MA educated field archaeologist and a PhD educated digital archaeologist. 🏺 Tonight is a night of hard panic in our home. We were fine at the 18.6 threshold. We exceeded it no problem. But there is no way to hit 37.5 on a field arch salary.