Sigh ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Received in my mail with a prepaid envelope. Words to Welsh voters from an English grifter with far right funders (well, the man will take money from anyone who can pay, to be fair) who uses people's fears to get them further scammed (Brexit). willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...

Dutch king says he ‘will not shy away’ from slavery history on rare royal visit to Suriname www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Guess who is now commenting on my LinkedIn page? The wannabe seen man (unless it's a fake) who is obsessed with Black women. Started on Twitter before X. Always starts like a normal discusdion but descent into racism. I of course I blocked!

An important conference I was honoured to be invited to in Algiers today and tomorrow. I can't attend as my son is graduating (🎉🎉) but do read this. Africa from South to North and East to West, is strongly mobilising. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales. This was a bizarre piece to write. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...

On the news in Portugal ... "The violent far-right in Europe is not the majority, but the majority that tolerates it is complicit." Historian Olivette Otele speaks about racism and the risk of the silent majority becoming complicit with the far-right. www.publico.pt/2025/11/28/c...

In Lisbon, reading this while I'm about to talk about European countries' illegal occupation of lands that were not theirs (they were not invited to come and stay) for 500 years ...

This echoes the stories of people I've known for 2 decades. Disgraceful.

In Lisbon now and this is on all news outlets here (colonial and 'post-colonial') links. Wow! My Portuguese is beyond rusty 😥 www.france24.com/en/africa/20...

He IS a racist. Why are we focusing on him publicly admitting or not & not on fact that many share his views? They will try and get him elected based on his (not at all hidden) racist views. So will the silent, (not really) on the fence group of people who will also vote for him.

Una reivindicación de aquellas personas de origen africano que a lo largo de la historia han dejado su huella en Europa: 'Europeos africanos. Una historia jamás contada', de Olivette Otele @historianmemory.bsky.social. Coeditado con @casa-africa.bsky.social buff.ly/WGsMVlg

Les Republicains - Pact: that's how their previous iteration was able to win the presidential elections. They have always made side deals with the far right. Also, 'destroy the Gaulliste legacy': shaking head in irony. Zarma ! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you are in Lisbon next week, join me! I'll expand in some themes from my book #AfricanEuropeans www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/evento/pa...

Le sigh www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"If the BBC does settle, how would it sell to the licence-fee payer that we have made Donald Trump richer?" "Fearless journalism is what terrifies politicians, and it must not be cowed" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-t...

London last night, Booker Prize Ceremony, red carpet, great fun and meaningful as always. Congratulations to David Szalay, the 2025 winner for his novel *Flesh*. Also, an opportunity to catch up with many friends 💛 photo credit: the group one from the magnificent Selina Brown.

Wonderful to be at @thebookerprizes.com dinner yesterday and it is always a treat to bump into the amazing Olivette Otele @historianmemory.bsky.social

If you are free this Friday. www.vam.ac.uk/event/WdP0YG...

'Immigrants, we get the job done'!! 🎶 youtu.be/6_35a7sn6ds?...

Oh non ! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The death toll is going up as I write this. Bodies being found. Videos from my friends in Rio shared (I can't beat to watch anymore). So many young people. 💔 What a governor would to on the eve of elections ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“It’s helpful for Farage to have someone pushing at the door of racism... this is how they work out where the public is.” Is Reform using their MP Sarah Pochin to test how far they can go with their rhetoric? @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

"Is the Nazi MP who says she's driven mad by TV adverts full of Jews a racist or realist? How many people of Jewish heritage would the German National People’s Party expel? And should Germany be selling tanks to Yugoslavia?" Join LIVE from the Weimar Republic in the year 1931 🇩🇪

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

The debate about the ILR might be the goutte d'eau for us. For the first time, the man is not shutting down a discussion about not living in the UK. Even racist France looks appealing to him right now. Le sigh.

Let's put the same manhunt energy as was put to catch the horrible predator (you know, the one called 'asylum seeker' as if not being an a.s would have made him less of a predator) who was accidentally let out days ago. www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-mi...

The tides have changed in Wales. This is what I see happening in May 2026. Rhun is managing to rally so many Labour voters, it's very interesting to observe. I've heard him speak, met him and my scepticism alarm didn't go off. He does talk sense. Labour should be worried.

Bluesky fam: is this new and normal?

'She also said she had requested a report on existing security measures when she took over the museum in 2021' Yes! Laurence has been slowly making deep changes within. Not a 'Louvres protégée' & trying to move several mammoths ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Yes, they are actually saying that a "foreigner" who has worked here for decades, paid National Insurance, & is entitled BECAUSE OF THAT to a state pension, would be deported for the crime of claiming it.

QUESTION FOR HISTORIANS: do you know any British Ghanaian Historian or British Historians working on Ghana?

Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern: power, texture, sound, fury, beauty, grace, pride & much more ... Phew what a journey! On until May 2026. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Wow! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🇨🇵 highest court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by far-right leader Marine Le Pen, dealing a major setback to her efforts to overturn a sentence that could bar her from running in the 2027 presidential election #Franxe #Lepen www.france24.com/en/france/20...