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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 15h
We were saddened to hear of the death of Chris Wickham. Winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 2006 for Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800; his research transformed our understanding of the period. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, colleagues, and students.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20h
the caption that tells you everything you need to know
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Eight years ago
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 21h
"Barrister Andrew Mitchell KC, an expert in financial services law, said Panorama's evidence showed the scheme was 'straightforward' tax evasion and 'it couldn't be more blatant'." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.
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Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a map issued to Polish airmen in WW2 that has all the place names spelled phonetically because they were being given directions in English by ground control.
A map of a part of Kent & Sussex with placenames spelled phonetically for Polish speakers. Too many to list, but highlights include Heistynz (Hastings), Istbon (Eastbourne) and the magnificent Tanbrydż-Łelz (Tunbridge Wells)
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Imagine how the Israeli army would have responded if the rioters were Palestinian
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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Nicholas Orme: Chaucer's England - Canterbury Festival
Nicholas Orme brings literature and history together, using the Canterbury Tales and other great writings of Chaucer's day to explain how people truly lived.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No idea why Farage pal and former Reform mayoral candidate deleted this.
Arron Banks • @Arro.. 1h Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one white face in security or airport services. The Home office is staffed by the type of people we are trying to keep out! What hope?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For those still learning about Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD, here are the salient facts:
INTELLIFACTS
ALICE WEIDEL BECOMES THE FIRST LEADER IN THE WORLD WHO IS ANTI-IMMIGRATION BUT HAS AN IMMIGRANT WIFE, IS ANTI-LGBTQ+ BUT IS A LESBIAN HERSELF, OPPOSES LGBT ADOPTION BUT HAS ADOPTED TWO CHILDREN, AND IS A HARDCORE GERMAN NATIONALIST BUT LIVES IN SWITZERLAND
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026
is this a serious question? i feel like i'm on drugs, nothing makes any damn sense
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026
It's not about immigration and never has been. It's just racism. The more ground we cede to this idiocy, the worse it gets.
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grinchw.bsky.social @grinchw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This will be worth a watch secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199913/
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Tommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone? airs on Channel 4 at 10pm on Wednesday 9 September.
For the past year, Channel 4’s Dispatches team has been working on an investigation into Tommy Robinson’s money: where it came from, and where it went. Leave your mobile number and we’ll send you a r...
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grinchw.bsky.social @grinchw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Further proof that Kent Police were incompetent and failed to do their job i.e. uphold the law
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Think tank”?! If it was a Russian hybrid war outfit we’d not call it that. “An American MAGA front” might be a better name.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Palestinian children watch The Lion King in Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy
Children watch the movie on a screen outside. In the background the ruins of Gaza
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Gary @huitcent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A reminder bsky.app/profile/andy...
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farage's grinning response says it all. Every day Reform and its supporters reveal themselves for who they are and yet the media continues to treat them as just another normal political party.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Prison?
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Farage and two of his senior lieutenants on camera seemingly soliciting and accepting donations for Reform from a foreign national which is against the law. He should be toast after this. We'll see how good our systems are at enforcing electoral law now.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This. A million times.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026
Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...
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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
At LSE in the queue to hear Francis Fukuyama lecture. Here's my review of his The End of History and the Last Man, which I think holds up rather well. As does his most famous book. Tell me Fukuyama wasn't on this money with this quote from the end of the book […] [Original post on mastodon.online]
“ Thus, despite the apparent absence of systematic alternatives to liberal democracy at present, some new authoritarian alternatives, perhaps never before seen in history may assert themselves in the future. These alternatives, if they come about, will be created by two distinct groups of people: those who for cultural reasons experience persistent economic failure, despite an effort to make economic liberalism work, and those who are inordinately successful at the capitalist game.” (p235)
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 31/08/2026
Conservative policy: - Demand criminals get long sentences - Don't build prisons to house them - Oppose early release of prisoners - Cut prisons budgets so that fewer people are rehabilitated 👍
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ShareGoodNewsToo
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Dog lost on Helvellyn found three weeks later
The pet, called Teddy, disappeared on 2 August during a walk in the Lake District.
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Craig Sicknick @jan6risingvoice.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Would anyone like to place a wager that an ICE agent will shock his own genitals with the new gloves?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b74c...
ft.com
Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources
Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We aren’t a serious country.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Please savor the irony of this coming from a rider on a team sponsored by a petrostate.
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Pogacar calls for cycling calendar overhaul due to extreme heat
Every day in the first week, riders have temperatures of up to 35°C and at times up to 40°C. Sunday's stage was reduced by 30 kilometers.
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Andy Olsen @andyo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"This was an on-site execution of a civilian driver who complied with all instructions" www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-07...
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'On-site execution' • IDF kills Palestinian World Central Kitchen truck driver in Gaza, reports say
According to testimonies, four drivers transporting aid for the World Central Kitchen organization were removed from their trucks, beaten and forced to strip; one of them was shot dead. Following the ...
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Mike Pitts @pittsmike.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Morten Morland’s Times cartoon: Thursday July 9, 2026 www.thetimes.com/article/8414...
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Morten Morland’s Times cartoon: Thursday July 9, 2026
Buy prints or signed copies of Times cartoons from our Print Gallery at timescartoons.com or call 0800 912 7136
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reminded of Patrick O’Flynn, then Ukip’s economy spokesperson, describing Farage as “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive” back in 2015.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
George Cottrell, a 32-year-old aristocrat nicknamed “Posh George”, is regarded as one of Farage’s closest aides. Earlier this year, he co-wrote a book entitled How to Launder Money: A Guide for Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Policymakers via @rachel-rees.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7a0f...
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Nigel Farage under scrutiny over aide who wrote book on money-laundering
Reform UK says gifts from convicted fraudster George Cottrell were personal despite him having party business card
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/07/2026
Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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grinchw.bsky.social @grinchw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is dedicated to all those that i know who voted for Brexit. I will never ever have a scintilla of respect for them. They have severely damaged a country and an economy
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🚨🚨 Nigel Farage has been trying to block a Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for the billionaire bankrolling his party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
Reform UK leader used private meeting at Bank of England to urge governor to drop plans for state-run cryptocurrency
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Brexiters’ claims that the UK would be able to aggressively deregulate and forge new trade alliances with the likes of the US have failed to bear fruit
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W Social @wsocial.eu · 15/06/2026
A logo isn’t just a symbol. It’s the first signal of what something stands for. #Brand #Design #wsocial
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tomorrow’s Independent front page:
The
INDEPENDENT
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The Way Bac
Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.
They are the guilty men and should...
...hang their heads in shame
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The weirdest thing (having spent the morning writing about Belfast etc) is that this govt is presiding over falling crime, falling immigration, falling NHS waits…all the things you might’ve thought moved the dial. But it’s just exuding a sort of helplessness
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10/06/2026
In about fifteen minutes there is due to be, if you believe London WhatsApp groups, some sort of riot in Stratford based on this viral image. but all I’m obsessed with is the AI generated line about “drinks and food will be provided” like someone’s mum will turn up with some clingfilmed sandwiches.
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