The Daily Mail has run out of living women to shame and has started on Renaissance artwork.

Still going. ‘Soviet Starmer’ sounds like a low-budget spy thriller.

Checking in with the Telegraph

Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate faces social media allegations

If this is what 10 years studying Stalinism produces, it may be time to try something else. And not history.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Most of Britain thinks net migration is still rising — when it has actually fallen by more than three-quarters From our new 2026 @britishfuture.bsky.social study of public attitudes to immigration, published online here www.britishfuture.org/britain-thin...

I wrote a blog post for History on my research into humanitarianism in early Soviet Russia. Rather than abandoning humanitarian norms during the civil war, the Bolsheviks adapted and worked within them. Part of the research was funded by a History Research Bursary, which is an excellent scheme.

A good report from Marc Bennetts on the political mood in Moscow, with little sign of Putin changing course. www.thetimes.com/article/8e2c...

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

Hard-right website The Conservative Woman currently maintains a one Paul for every two women ratio.

‘Trying to buy a home’ is not the conservative argument they think it is.

Utterly the wrong call. Weak. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After ‘Liz Truss will rehabilitate Britain’, I’d probably pack in political analysis.

i cannot. I CANNOT.

David Frost recalls the morning after the Brexit Referendum. He tells the Freedom Association that "we need to recapture some of that sense of excitement and potential, that something great was happening."

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

This is interesting research on Mansfield. I moved away over 20 years ago but recognise much of this.

I suppose Teachers’ Pension Scheme employer contribution update is not the easiest image brief to work with.

Bold proposal from Michael Deacon when you remember who the Telegraph readership actually is.

It's neither. The reason that local government cannot do the basics is a simple, but painful and politically difficult problem: getting social care costs off the back of local government. And we all, frankly know what the four solutions to the social care problem are, they're just hard.

Bold proposal from Michael Deacon when you remember who the Telegraph readership actually is.

Russian Z-channels have already accepted two possible scenarios and are gradually spoon-feeding this to the Russians.

Good to know that Gove’s ‘the people have had enough of experts’ excludes those advising against a doughnut-based diet.

Telegraph declinism has expanded from Rome to include the Ottomans.

On footnotes, this is the way.

In my search for the worst AI-written Stalin book, I might have found the most ambitious opener

Describing a Tommy Robinson rally in fairly obvious terms is not an attack on Britain.

Our tracker suggests it has suffered its first sustained net loss since October 2023

“None of this would have happened if it wasn’t for one man. Thank you Elon [Musk] on behalf of Great Britain" is not a sentiment that could "unite the Kingdom" though more than three-quarters of people could be united by the opposite sentiment!

The government isn't forcing churches and community centres and town halls across the country to fly the Ukrainian flag. People are doing it themselves because we see a battle and we know which side we are on. There are lots of ways in which Reform is wildly out of touch with Britain.

Britain’s nineteenth-century success is presented here largely as the product of wisdom and competence. Empire and imperial power missing elements of the story.

You don’t accidentally end up at a Tommy Robinson rally

You don’t accidentally end up at a Tommy Robinson rally

The alligator is the only normal part of this headline.

Everything must map onto everything else.

Reform has gone full pro-Putin following its local election successes. Farage says no Ukraine flags on public buildings (“all foreign flags” but Ukraine was key) and this below from Reform’s Head of Policy James Orr. “I don’t care.” A taste of what will happen if they win power.

Much to say about this image, but the giant cardboard Farage gives the whole thing a very low-budget personality cult feel.

Former Trotskyists recycling signature Stalinist purge rhetoric for clicks. History has a sense of humour.

Boris Johnson condemning mid-term leadership changes is an interesting position for Boris Johnson to take.

Indeed. Ultimately the only one of the five who you can even faintly say was hard done by is Theresa May, and we live in a parliamentary democracy and she no longer had the confidence of her MPs.

Bring back spam fritters and restore national pride.

A court has ordered the arrest in absentia of Denis Butsayev, Russia’s ex-deputy natural resources minister. Amid speculation that he's the 1st high-ranking official to flee a wave of repression against elites, Butsayev's attorney says he has “temporarily” left the country. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

I suppose this works if you ignore Reform eating the Tories alive.

Welfare spending (which includes pensions) was, in fact, higher than income tax receipts throughout the entirety of Kemi Badenoch's ministerial career.

We’re looking to appoint a fixed-term Lecturer in American History at York St John (0.8fte for 18 months). Deadline 2 June. Please share! For anyone interested, feel free to get in touch with me.

An adult lost an afternoon panic-buying eclairs because a tech millionaire suddenly imagined a pastry tower.

Reform won all 8 Makerfield Wards - as assigned by ONS - at last week’s elections: Reform: 50.4% Labour: 22.7% Green: 10.9% Conservative: 9.9% Lib Dem: 3.8% Other: 2.2%

We’re looking to appoint a fixed-term Lecturer in American History at York St John (0.8fte for 18 months). Deadline 2 June. Please share! For anyone interested, feel free to get in touch with me.

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.