Close enough welcome back cones hotline

Reasonable to ask why poverty rates are increasing when we don't change policies (the article does not try to sort through explanations) but blaming Biden when he spent a lot of political capital reducing it is unreasonable. The piece is not an analysis of poverty but an exercise in score settling

Going to repeat myself, but a functioning society needs mechanisms to impose consequences on powerful people who lie and bear false witness.

Peut-on faire l'apologie de la Sainte Ligue? #earlymodern

SOUTENEZ LA PUTAIN DE PRESSE INDÉPENDANTE 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Lenta Lex, sed lex.

Recently published | What to Do with Ruins? studies ruins from the point of view of their commercial, cultural, and political usability. Discover more here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

This used to be someone's cozy home in Kostiantynivka — before russians came to destroy and murder. And yet so many voices confidently repeat that russia has a "legitimate right" to erase peaceful towns from the map. In a world where might makes right, no one feels safe.

Happy Birthday to "The Best of Both Worlds", a fab double episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Part 2 aired 35 years ago today. Stay tuned for a related announcement later today! I also discuss this story in 5AM StoryTalk with screenwriter @colehaddon.bsky.social #StarTrek #TNG

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

Defence Spending, Churches&Cathedrals, Antique Shops

Autrefois sur France Inter, un lendemain de reconnaissance de la Palestine à l’ONU, on aurait eu des diplomates, des intellectuels, des philosophes, Leila Shahid… Ce matin on a… Louis Aliot qui commence par parler du "Hamasland". La classe.

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

In a big country, Your da's gun will kill you

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT! Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'. Online and in-person, 5.30pm Book here:

No, there isn't any Space Pirates or Moonbase

Right, there's this weird Labour brain thing which IMO conflates 'things that Chirac and Macron actually *did* that the left disliked but where popular with voters they needed' with 'things that Labour has *said* that have hurt them for no real gain'.

This is important. In Poland, PiS had to back away from the more vicious aspects of its persecution of LGBT+ people when it became clear that quite a lot of people with negative views on LGBT+ rights nevertheless found bullying vulnerable people rather distasteful.

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Malgré tous les défauts qu'on peut trouver dans la ligne éditoriale de France Inter (dont certains qu'elle partage avec la BBC), au moins ça demeure une radio qui informe un public informé

(I think a lot of the BBC’s written output can likely be explained by them interpreting “need to write for a reading age of seven” as ”need to write for a moron with an adult reading age”.)

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

That's...not how that works

>be Germans >spend 800 years warring in the Baltics >get your shit together and resolve to be better >it causes you to go to war in the Baltics

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

Up Roscommon

Too late to fight at Actium, too early to fight at Teutoburg, born just right to share the wisdom of Clausewitz with the People's Front of Judea

La taxe Zucman, ce gadget ne faisant qu'effleurer la prédation de l'argent publique par la rente actionnariale, ne représente même pas le 10ème de l'argent nécessaire à procéder aux investissements d'urgence permettant à la société de ne pas sombrer. C'est eux ou nous. api.ossiam.net/front.file/F...

Ah but that first Resident Evil film is still class though

who called them "the Huns" and not "H from Steppes"

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

And again, why are these agents kitted out like they are going into Mogadishu?

This cartoon needs to be updated for Peter Kyle. "I read an AI summary of the briefing document and now I know best."

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Starting to doubt that there is a hard border between New Historicism's useful contributions to Literary Criticism and the sort of pithy assessment found here, regrettably overlooking the ambiguities of the wider narrative or the play's historical context

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

Evergreen.

NIXON IN SILENT HILL: RN: Ted! I thought that damn crash killed you Ted Kennedy: Not at all, you silly bastard RN: Ted, the car went over the bridge. It went into the water. Don't you remember? Ted Kennedy: Dick, are you uhh feeling alright? Are you eehhhh confusing me with someone else? (laugh)

Toujours aussi beau cependant

Did Gordon Brown the White emerge from a storage cupboard and start chiding them?

J'ai testé pour vous Stansted-Toulouse avec seulement cinq heures de sommeil. Bonne nuit.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

A necessary read from Gordon Brown on the horrifying realities of child poverty in Britain

Announcing publication of Melina Tamiolaki (ed.), *Leadership in the Ancient World: Concepts, Models, Theories* (2025). Vol. 3 in ANTIQUITY IN GLOBAL CONTEXT series by CUP. Chapters on Mesopotamia, Egypt, Achaemenids, China, Hellenistic Judaism, Athens, Republican Rome, and later Roman empire.

Moira Donegan is spot-on. This is the reality of America and Charlie Kirk. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.