@neilevanshistory
Historian of Modern Wales and beyond. Vice president of Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society; Joint editor (with Charlotte Williams) of UWP series 'Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World' Published on urban history. women's social movements, empire.
This just backs up what I've observed earlier - that Reform are their own worst enemy.
Once the public gets a taste of their governance style, corruption and incompetence - they change their mind.
But also nationally Reform seemed to have peaked in popularity and are losing support.
White House: the witness’s allegations are “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence.”
Fact: FBI found her credible enough to interview repeatedly, and she received a financial settlement from the Epstein estate.
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
Lucifer has a point
Dwi wedi mwynhau Return Journey yn Saesneg.
In 2022, I visited the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines, and spent a night in the jungle at the site of the Bud Dajo Massacre - one of the worst atrocities in US history.
One thousand men, women and children were killed, which is more than Wounded Knee and My Lai combined.
newyddion trist.
Welsh people are told they don't have a word for entrepreneur!
Gurminder said that if I registered I'd get the recording. Also in hospital with my wife.
Sorry to miss the launch today but I think there will be a recording.
Very much enjoyed this discussion. Would have liked to have joined in at several points!
Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.
A photo of Claudette Colvin in a red sweater
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
Front cover: Chartist Lives - 42 pen portraits that tell the stories of Chartist leaders and activists
A blatant and shameless advert…
Chartist Lives is just £9.99 in paperback, and you can also get it in hardback or as an ebook. Forty-two life stories for less than a tenner
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
After watching the thick end of five episodes, you pinch yourself that someone so frankly odd could have ended up at the pinnacle of power. Someone so paranoid, so un-self-aware, so one-dimensional, so mediocre, so charmless, so limited. And so pleased with herself. There's another odd one in the White House. And yet another who has a reasonable chance of being our next prime minister in Britain. Which makes you wonder what it is about modern politics that attracts the weirdos and then elevates them to high office - and how we can stop the cycle from repeating itself.
In which @arusbridger.bsky.social comments on the Liz Truss show.
Most of us are way beyond caring about anything she says or does now. But it’s how someone as inadequate as her *ever* got their hands on power that matters. Because it could easily happen again.
app.independent.co.uk/2026/01/09/2...
I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
we are nearing the point when we will be banging on about some 'global financial crisis' that happened before our students were born
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
America’s 250th celebrations should be put on hold until trump is removed. How can we celebrate our great nation when he’s corrupted and interrupted democracy?
I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.
JOB ALERT!
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
Fun Fact: If Maduro was in the Epstein files he'd be safe at home in his bed right now.
#EpsteinFiles
On my drunkest night as a young sailor in a foreign port of call...I was able to speak more clearly than Donald Trump.
Everyday covering politics is like marinating in sewage
Trump is not the only unhinged American
Folks are saying "With Trump's insane speech at the UN, he has hit rock bottom.
This is false. With Trump, there is no rock bottom. There is just how much further he travels down the bottomless pit.
