Paul Lashmar
@paullashmar.bsky.social
Dr Paul Lashmar, Investigative Journalist, author and Emeritus Fellow at CityStGs UoL, retired Associate Professor. Book: Drax of Drax Hall: Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto March 2025). I RT when interested not necessarily because I agree.
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Trump has done some pretty shitty things to Ukraine since taking office, but promising the ability to produce Patriots only to reverse is an absolute disgrace. Ukraine is in a strong position but is still vulnerable to murderous strikes from Putin. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...
Trump Offers Word-Salad Gibberish To Explain His Position On Patriots For Ukraine
The president publicly said three weeks ago that he would let Ukraine build its own anti-missile interceptors. Now he says maybe not.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
The Archbishop of Canterbury says the Church of England will pay £100m in slavery reparations over ten years. This is despite opposition from some critics both within and outside the CoE. The Archbishop is visiting the slave prison in Ghana where many captives last saw Africa.
Nice plug for the wonderful Andromeda Botanic Garden in Barbados.
Famine in Gaza? The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) special snapshot for Gaza reports that 1.4 million people (67% of the population) are experiencing crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above). ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-...
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"Going against multiple warnings from legal authorities not to speculate on the case, Farage insisted “it was an horrific, political, premeditated murder by somebody inspired by a hard left ideology,” even concluding “of that, there is no doubt whatsoever.""
Deeply odd, deeply scary: My 48 hours with Truss, Farage and the new right
The first CPAC GB conference was chaotic, confused and sparsely attended - but also a harbinger of danger to come
thenewworld.co.uk
Dead Ringers got the lobby journalists doom laden feeding frenzy about Burnham (even before he has taken on the BIg Job) on the nail with 'Laura Kunessberg' interview, just got the inanity of the interview style and agenda, down. Listen from 1:45. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Dead Ringers - Series 27 - England out, Starmer out, School's out - BBC Sounds
The Dead Ringers team train their vocal firepower on the week’s news.
bbc.co.uk
Teaching about the British Empire, migration, and belonging: a research-led strategy for secondary education in England - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
Teaching about the British Empire, migration, and belonging: a research-led strategy for secondary education in England - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
Teaching about the British Empire, migration, and belonging: A research-led strategy for secondary education in England reports findings from the Portrait EMB project, a national study of teaching pra...
ora.ox.ac.uk
Israel approves $434m for 34 new illegal West Bank settlements - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-approves-434m-34-new-illegal-west-bank-settlements
Israel approves $434m for 34 new illegal West Bank settlements
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Significant story for the US and with a Cornish angle. Lutnick seems to have memory problems. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
bbc.co.uk
Russian links to both #ConservativeParty & #Reform are being tracked by the security services as well as @thenerve.news & before that by journalists such as @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & @peterjukes.bsky.social At last the establishment press is also covering it.
As efforts to alleviate the effects of climate change go, delivering a small jolt of electricity to clouds is among the more outlandish. Yet that’s exactly what British scientists hope to do next year as part of a £57 million programme to cool the planet. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it? | Polly Toynbee
The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
theguardian.com
Is the British empire widely taught in British schools? The data says no www.middleeasteye.net/news/data-pr...
Is the British empire widely taught in British schools? The data says no
Recent criticism of remarks by Green Party leader Zack Polanski and historian William Dalrymple saw a resurgence in the debate on imperial history in the UK education system
middleeasteye.net
I'm at the Penzance Literary Festival this Saturday 11th July.
Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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The immorality of world leaders is contagious. Thank heavens for the pope | Simon Tisdall
In a political wasteland dominated by billionaires, war criminals and mega-corporations, the head of the Catholic church is a rare figure of moral leadership, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator...
theguardian.com
UK Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’, vows to end profit-driven care. 84% of children’s homes run for profit. Private equity is key player. Public purse looted. In Nov 2024, govt vowed to end profiteering. Still waiting. End Privatisation of social care. archive.ph/o9c7I
Children’s minister calls for ‘moral outrage’ as he vows to end profit-driven care
Josh MacAlister urges Andy Burnham to make children in care his personal mission
ft.com
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Watch: everything you need to know about the aristocrat funding Nigel Farage
A Sunday Times Insight investigation exposes George Cottrell — a British aristocrat and convicted fraudster known as “Posh George” — as the figure secretly bankrolling and advising Nigel
thetimes.com
Remember when Trump said Ukraine had no cards to play?
Igor Sushko@igorsushko.bsky.social · last mo.42.74% of Russian oil refining capacity has been destroyed by Ukraine. 🥳
Why the British Press Are Really Angry About the Government’s Planned Media ‘Prominence’ Law open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
Why the British Press Are Really Angry About the Government’s Planned Media ‘Prominence’ Law
Julian Petley on the real reasons why the right-wing press are so worried about plans to ensure online platforms prioritise trustworthy news over disinformation
open.substack.com
Lord Frost is another one who gets everything wrong.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · last mo."Asked to detail these opportunities, Frost said “most obviously, net zero… if you want to get rid of this crazy dash towards solar and wind, you’ve got to be outside the EU,” he said, speaking just days after the UK broke its all-time June heat records on three days in a row."
"Asked to detail these opportunities, Frost said “most obviously, net zero… if you want to get rid of this crazy dash towards solar and wind, you’ve got to be outside the EU,” he said, speaking just days after the UK broke its all-time June heat records on three days in a row."
An evening with the last of the great Brexit denialists
A bunch of Brexiteers got together for a Telegraph panel to mark a decade since Brexit. It was a delusional evening, with a surprise ending the following day
thenewworld.co.uk
Lord Hannan gets everything wrong. Exactly the kind of person that should not be in the House of Lords. It is one thing to have different opinions but when you opinions are not based on facts but ideology you can screw your soverign nation as the Brexiteers have done.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · last mo."Asked about the greatest benefit of Brexit, Dan Hannan had a simple answer. “Sovereignty,” he said. “No country ever gets poorer as a result of becoming more independent,” apparently unaware that the most sovereign state in the world – the one bound by the fewest treaties – is North Korea."
"Asked about the greatest benefit of Brexit, Dan Hannan had a simple answer. “Sovereignty,” he said. “No country ever gets poorer as a result of becoming more independent,” apparently unaware that the most sovereign state in the world – the one bound by the fewest treaties – is North Korea."
An evening with the last of the great Brexit denialists
A bunch of Brexiteers got together for a Telegraph panel to mark a decade since Brexit. It was a delusional evening, with a surprise ending the following day
thenewworld.co.uk
Our excellent friends at @goodlawproject.org are *suing* Ofcom over its abject failure to enforce its rules with Rupert Murdoch's Talk TV: "Instead of keeping hate and misinformation off our airwaves, Ofcom is allowing TalkTV to serve as a megaphone for dangerous, far-right rhetoric":
Force Ofcom to stop TalkTV broadcasting misinformation and hate | Good Law Project
Ofcom is letting Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV poison public discourse with transphobic lies and fake climate news, so we're taking the regulator to court
goodlawproject.org
Evan Davis' 4-part series Common Ground is a great example of what the BBC does better than any other broadcaster. Informed, Impartial, Intelligent and I(E)ngaging. GBNews and others do not have the skill base and have an ideological agenda. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Common Ground - Common Ground: Place - BBC Sounds
How does where we live affect how well we live together?
bbc.co.uk
