Reposted by Gareth JonesWill Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 9hAs much as I like pork, this is unironically why we won WW2 371
Reposted by Gareth JonesRachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 13hHey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶 59794659
Reposted by Gareth JonesThomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org · 14hThe defeat of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords on October 8, 1831 triggered a profound national crisis of widespread public fury, severe civil unrest, riots and a constitutional standoff that brought Britain to the brink of revolution. Explore more: thomaspaine.org/gallery/poli... 0112
Gareth Jones @garethjones.bsky.social · 16hstatic.klipy.comAnt-Man's Luis: But I Got The Van!Alt: Ant-Man's Luis: But I Got The Van! 000
Reposted by Gareth JonesDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19hyou don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires 281590497
Reposted by Gareth JonesShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16h Modi looks cooked finally. reminder the reason he isn't throwing the Chief Election Commissioner under the bus like he does with everyone else the public turns on is that this is the guy whose literal full time job was rigging election rolls for him www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comRahul Gandhi: Delhi police detain opposition leader demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignationOpposition leaders allege that CEC Gyanesh Kumar manipulated voter rolls to favour PM Narendra Modi's party. 624926
Reposted by Gareth JonesNeil Briscoe @neilmbriscoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Have a full video walk around (and sit-in) of the dramatic new Jaguar Type 01… via @irishtimes.com youtu.be/Bb8dhMZG6FU?...youtu.beIs Jaguar's €180,000 Electric GT a Rolls-Royce Rival? | Car ReviewYouTube video by The Irish Times 4104
Reposted by Gareth JonesChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 22hstatic.klipy.comCasablanca: I'm Shocked Gambling HereALT: Casablanca: I'm Shocked Gambling Here 0102
Reposted by Gareth JonesDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026bad news for white house staffers 3689
Reposted by Gareth JonesHelen Morgan MP @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Kemi Badenoch: “Difficult problems need solving and difficult decisions must be taken.” Also Kemi Badenoch 👇 12712
Reposted by Gareth JonesByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🔴 NEW Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓bylinetimes.comConservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas UsePledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again 168448
Reposted by Gareth JonesAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Apparently "Kemi" has "fresh solutions" uniquely tailored to Britain's current problems. <excitedly prepares to take notes> Cut taxes, reward the wealthiest, punish the poor and sick, alienate our allies, deregulate big business, and privatise any remaining state function. WAAAAAAIT A MINUTE! 46682160
Reposted by Gareth JonesHelene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A statement from the head of the @boell.de Foundation, the political foundation behind the German Green Party. 👇 213248
Reposted by Gareth JonesGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Mr Cleverly, any comment on not being in the tapestry? Have you been woven out the picture? #CPC26 4563
Reposted by Gareth JonesIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment. 6774099
Reposted by Gareth JonesJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The relentless Badenoch is leading the Tories back into contention stuff in the right wing press is just like the Net Zero is a disaster stuff: at the beginning, no-one takes it seriously, but if you keep on saying it, it starts to become an accepted fact - especially by broadcast news. 2241
Reposted by Gareth JonesCodex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#OTD On October 3, 2010, Germany paid the final €69.9M installment of its WWI reparations under the Treaty of Versailles. Payments stopped under Hitler, but the 1953 London Agreement deferred interest until German reunification, making this final payout possible. #WWI #history 184
Reposted by Gareth JonesJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My God. It’s takes something special for me to have more sympathy for Rees-Mogg than his interviewer. 2316324
Reposted by Gareth JonesMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🇫🇮👀 Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Over the past year, Finnish parliamentarians have repeatedly found traces of someone else's presence in their apartments: open doors, lights on, and in some cases, urine and feces in the toilets. 718537
Reposted by Gareth JonesStephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026WITNESS MEEEEE!!! 225065
Reposted by Gareth JonesJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Great stuff from Adam, and thanks to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for being pretty much the only non-Byline journalist to pick this story up 120256
Reposted by Gareth JonesPhilip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I see speculation that John Curtice may get chosen to lead Labour's electoral reform commission. And I see speculation that Labour want to end up with SV. I doubt both these things can be true. Because I would be very surprised if any commission led by Curtice ended up recommending SV. 1113430
Reposted by Gareth JonesStanding Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Several of our activists were just attacked by violent Israeli settlers with clubs, pepper spray and stones while doing protective presence work, along with the groups Rabbis for Human Rights and Bnei Abraham, in the village of Jannatah in the occupied West Bank. 24733
Reposted by Gareth JonesBen Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There'll be a retirement age? I knew it, another starry-eyed optimist! 🤣 031
Reposted by Gareth JonesBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026coincidentally William Lamb's career flourished at the same time as the costumed London vigilante "Sheep-Man" 1420726
Reposted by Gareth JonesRob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Congratulations to my Lib Dem colleague Ksenia* - who has annoyed Putin, as a democracy activist, so much that she is a feature on RT. * Also a councillor in Ealing. lnkd.in/p/e8eMJnpflnkd.inRT (Russian propaganda) is fangirling. I’m so flattered 🥹 | Ksenia MaximovaRT (Russian propaganda) is fangirling. I’m so flattered 🥹 0166
Reposted by Gareth JonesSea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 01/10/2026Tom Anderson's series on #naval #history looks at the #interwar period between #WW1 and #WW2 and how the politics of naval strength affected the alliance structure of the latter war and rise of #Japan. #Battleship #AircraftCarrier #Navy #MilitaryHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/naval-g...sealionpress.co.ukNaval Gazing, Part 9: Interwar IntriguesBy Tom Anderson World War One was said to be ‘the war to end all wars’. The fact that we now have to append a number to it is testament to how successful, or otherwise, the attempts to ensure it was t... 1114
Gareth Jones @garethjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Proud.static.klipy.comDaniel Craig's Smug Look at SNLAlt: Daniel Craig's Smug Look at SNL 010
Reposted by Gareth JonesThe Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026PRC and ROC soldiers in Ukraine. 0389
Reposted by Gareth JonesSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once. 581633528
Reposted by Gareth JonesKitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. 1144
Reposted by Gareth JonesMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today, in Russian propaganda: 50962352
Reposted by Gareth JonesDoctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The same way the Chadiams saw off the Libyan. 3142
Reposted by Gareth JonesSean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So Starship has officially made it to LEO. Meaning Artemis III at least is good to go. 2101
Reposted by Gareth JonesJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026BBC news has posted a blurry photo of five men under arrest, with their faces pixellated. Altered versions are now circulating where they have significantly darker skin and their supposed faces can be clearly seen. Think very carefully indeed before sharing anything about the RAF Fairford incident. 115245
Reposted by Gareth JonesDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195402207
Reposted by Gareth JonesJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The four-by-seven metre flag artwork was sewn and glued by a small team led by Claire, who usually works with vintage fabrics Signatures on the art piece include a descendant of Industrial Revolution pioneer James Watt, as well as members of Birmingham reggae bands Steel Pulse & UB40 #ReunionJack🇬🇧birminghammail.co.ukCity artist against 'division' makes huge Union flag from tatty lamppost flagsAn artist has made a massive Union flag in response to flag-raising groups such as Raise the Colours 310824
Reposted by Gareth JonesNicks Johnston @nicksjj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Very serious question about Welsh Rugby and the 4 to 3 regions … everything I have read (and I have read a lot on it) talks about accounts and the savings to be made but nothing published by the WRU mentions the costs of cutting a region, the loss of commercial revenue and the possible penalties 4266
Reposted by Gareth JonesAlan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Also signing-on bonuses and benefits (esp educational) are much more generous for US reserves than UK. 051
Reposted by Gareth JonesJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's funny, I've been reading a lot of IR stuff from the 1990s/early 2000s. And while it's now cliché to dunk on the new approaches and possibilities evoked at that time as naive & utopian, the truth is that the next few decades really did see major changes in world politics and its practitioners. 15810
Reposted by Gareth JonesLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 25/09/2026Protest is one thing. Intimidating volunteer lifeboat crews is another. These volunteers risk their lives to save others. Targeting them isn’t patriotic. It’s un-British. @joshbabarinde.bsky.social 611241
Reposted by Gareth JonesHerr Spooky Gunther Büergers @calamityjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nope, to describe something as being an impossible task, "this isn't a job for man, this is a job for superman." Popped up a lot in articles about Harding, tho I'm still figuring out why ... 0437
Reposted by Gareth JonesStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There's much that can be criticised about Suella's mad position, but nobody who thinks this actually 'supports the England football team'. 99825124
Reposted by Gareth JonesStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 23/09/2026 19819
Reposted by Gareth JonesJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published 541631391
Reposted by Gareth JonesJohn Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's a fair question, worth unpacking. The OBR 4% forecast is on the lower end of the post-Brexit estimates of the costs. That translates to about £40bn in lost tax revenue. 1145
Reposted by Gareth JonesJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Don't get me wrong, Uruguay certainly has its share of challenges. But the fact that they chose the most politically and economically stable country in the Western Hemisphere underscores the degree to which their proposed alternative to the state actually depends on a strong and functioning state.nytimes.comTech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in UruguayAfter a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay. 414330
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