Hedge fund billionaire Sir Paul Marshall funds History Reclaimed, Pharos Trust, the Institute of Economic Affairs, Legatum, Nigel Biggar, Robbie Gibb and GB News. Join the dots.

🚨 #CSA @axrenton.bsky.social #ICYMI

Elon’s Grokipedia has 5,000 words on me. (Wikipedia has five paras.) 94 footnotes. It’s not objectionable or inaccurate but definitely TMl. And boring. Sample…

Jamaican government official appeal site for the Hurricane Melissa recovery - 400,000 in need, as of this morning. supportjamaica.gov.jm

Must read interview with writers of Netflix’s A House of Dynamite. The true horror is not who controls the nuclear weapons (dodgy presidents, unstable states, AI) but the nuclear weapons themselves. Obviously. #AHouseOfDynamite @cnduk.bsky.social

Hope everyone in the States watches it…

Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.

America: No Kings Britain: No Dukes of York

Why not?

No question, best drama series since Succession www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Eton College has had a lot of these recently: still failing to vet the teachers? Almost 2 years after he was charged with 14 offences against his pupils, Jacob Leland found guilty today on three counts of sexual assault. Brave survivors - a tough thing, breaking the silence. @mandatenow.bsky.social

Obviously the nations that colluded in the destruction will be paying, right? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

St Giles Cathedral just now, the celebration service for a great (and lovely) man, Sir Geoff Palmer.

Funny… no. 1 story in the Guardian’s top ten most read.

Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social for keeping eye on the mad, racist right-wing media so we don't have to.

Supporting the liberation of Palestine, while loathing antisemitism. As ever.

London, ordinary cafe, modest breakfast for two - £57.12. Two blinking cups of rosy cost nine quid, cor blimey, ows-yer-farver etc...

Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939

'Trump is the enemy.' Max Hastings shines on BBC R4 Today this morning, saying what the real lessons of the Trump visit are: every cavilling, cowardly, appeasing politician take note. From 2hrs 52. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

1st October, St Pancras New Church, Euston, London at 7pm - free, but register below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rivers...

President Trump - why stop with Department of War? Department of Ill-Health. Failed State Department. Department of Homeland Insecurity. I've got more ideas. Sir.

Seal intact, sell-by date 2017. A dark mahogany... Lethal, or delicious? Alcoholic? Will report, if I survive.

'Why do white people need us? Because they are not white without us.' Ta-Nehisi Coates on white supremacy and African-American identity at Edinburgh Book Festival just now @edbookfest.bsky.social

@anitaanand.bsky.social... A mention to your and Sam Dalrymple's Edinburgh book fest audience today? 6pm in Princes St, by Waverley Station.

Edinburgh, Waverley end of Princes St, 6pm tonight

Another violent brute from Edinburgh Academy goes down. Well done the brave survivors, and credit to BBC Radio 4 for backing the initial exposé of the abuse and cover-ups at Edinburgh Academy & Fettes College. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is very good indeed ... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social

Israel bombed and killed 5 Al Jaxeera journalists and camera operators They were in a tent outside al-Shifa hospital Israel has killed 237 journalists since 2023 and won't allow international journalists into Gaza

I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? | George Monbiot

Wondering if all those waving “Save are children” banners outside asylum seeker hostels are aware that statistically the greatest threat is the men in their own homes. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Switch on my phone and the first thing on screen is this bollocks

No es excepcional, es una mierda. I like genuine Spanish pilsner so Madri, ubiquitous now in UK, is annoying. It's not 'the soul of Madrid' - Spain has never seen it, it's an invention, brewed in England by Molson-Coors. I know *you* knew this, but I keep meeting people who don't. Y sabe a meada.

Interesting upswing in people asking ‘how do I best support Palestine and oppose the violence’. Any ideas for the faint-hearted who wont demonstrate or fly a flag?

The grammar police have started arrested people for signs like the one I held on our last demo. It'll be an interesting test of the law, because "I support Palestine. Action is needed now" is an expression of opinion. It would make no sense without the full stop. www.instagram.com/reel/DMTrNXu...

Vandalism is not terrorism.

“16 years ago woman wore expensive dress at party, now she opposes genocide…” really very feeble, this, even for The Times.

Marina Hyde on top form: ‘Trump is furious with the WSJ owner, Rupert Murdoch, and threatening to “sue his ass off”. Oh please don’t, Mr President! His ass is 94 years old and incredibly wrinkled. Also, half of Britain’s political class still lives up it.’

Not often the Daily Express gets it right … @mandatenow.bsky.social

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

We don't really do sports on BlueSky but...

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Interesting posters gone up round Leith

Another day, another revelation…

It would be fun if Yvette Cooper banned Rod…

My blurb: “… a brave, brilliant, and essential book, telling truths that many will not want to hear. I hope *The Crown's Silence* will inspire investigations of other maritime monarchies as we reckon with the still-deadly legacies of human bondage.” www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Iain Wares, Scotland's most prolific school-based sex offender, was 86 yesterday. Still awaiting extradition in his luxury retirement home in Cape Town.

Handy list of things Israeli politicians have said about Gaza and the people who live there.

UPDATE: Can we reach 70,000 now? Add your name here: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription