Some nice coverage of our ongoing project with @gbptrust.bsky.social @archscot.bsky.social exploring the remains of Harvie’s Dyke - a site of radical community action in the east end of Glasgow. share.google/CFZxMmcwGyOW...

Archaeologists to probe radical riot that brought down Glasgow tycoon's walls

The 1823 riot was a victory for the people, and now the hunt is on to find the evidence

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Amount a pensioner receives in the UK is the lowest in Europe, just 2/3rds of France and barely 50% of Italy who are considered a 'poorer' country. Why is our pension 'unaffordable' when it is so low, and where is all our money actually going?

If you're near Manchester I really recommend this show. Loads of fun - who doesn't love a sing-a-long?

Three Acres And A Cow@threeacresacow.bsky.social · last wk.

Please share with Manchester pals... this week's show still has some tickets left - www.tickettailor.com/events/modif...

Please share with Manchester pals... this week's show still has some tickets left - www.tickettailor.com/events/modif...

Today about 100 people took part in a mass trespass in the Prime Minister’s constituency. There’s a right to roam over just 1% of Makerfield, & today the landowner proved our point for us: putting up fencing & calling the police. @andyburnham.bsky.social - please open the door to the countryside!

We had a lovely time at The Box, Fargo Village, the other night in Coventry. Certainly the most chipboard ever seen in one venue!

You often hear that the Welsh uplands are naturally treeless — too high, too wet, too exposed — and that the evidence for it is upland tree cover declining from the late Mesolithic, before farming even arrived. In Eryri, the pollen record shows the opposite. 1/🧵

I see that OpenAI's messaging of "if you give us all the money on Earth we will annoy some mathematicians" is being somewhat overshadowed by Anthropic's messaging of "if you give us all the money on Earth we will kill everyone". I'm slightly worried about what a compromise position might look like.

'Most of Britain was covered with wild, sprawling forest' is a common misconception about the time of the Norman Conquest. Usborne history books were an important part of my early obsession with archaeology but it's disappointing to see such a huge inaccuracy still being published.

everyone, meet Hugo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'

Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.

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Agree, a better question is how much power, wealth & influence do the descendants of the original Norman families that arrived with William, still have in today's UK. And is this power, wealth & influence something which is better for the whole population of the UK, its economy & society, or worse.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a good illustration of why 'was the Norman conquest ultimately good or bad for Britain?' is not a sensible question, in that 'predict what the world will be like in 3024, and the net effect of Donald Trump's re-election' is *also* a mug's game.

‘Who are the squatters?’ Interviews with 1946 London squatters pasttense.co.uk/2020/09/09/w... #History #LondonHistory

‘Who are the squatters?’ Interviews with 1946 London squatters

Following on from yesterday’s account of the mass squatting of Duchess of Bedford House and other buildings across central London in September 1946, here’s an article published at the t…

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social@pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 2w ago

#OnThisDay in London's housing history: Ivanhoe Hotel squatted, Bloomsbury, 1946, during week of post World War 2 London squatting action wp.me/p74yfw-ev

through the House of Commons, where MPs couldn't get out of each others' way in their rush to shove through a rights-destroying shit sandwich of a bill. Only in the Lords did the Law Society win any amendments, and these were few and weak. So many fundamental rights died in 9/11, killed by Labour/

/ to amend the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, a hodge podge of draconian measures across every kind of law the Home Office covered It was literally cobbled together from measures cut out of previous acts for being too illiberal, or unconstitutional Home Sec. David Blunkett rammed it/

25 years ago I was doing maternity cover at the Law Society of England & Wales, tending the Electronic Law Committee. We knew instantly that the Labour govt would gut human rights, especially privacy from surveillance, but also asylum and criminal law. They did. Within weeks we were fighting/

The huge environmental, safety, and potential health scandal that no government seems willing to do a thing about.

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Reported pheasant numbers increase in England to over 26 million, according to official data I've obtained under FOI But these stats fall far short of what the shooting industry acknowledges to be the true figures, as so many estates fail to comply with regs whoownsengland.org/2026/09/08/r...

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

Paul Hebden@paulhebden.bsky.social · 2w ago

What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.

You know it's a strange political moment when @naomiaklein.bsky.social and I are on the cover of the Financial Times. Our piece explores how climate change is fueling a new form of futureless fascism, and the public investments needed to shift course. Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns

Nearly time for our autumn tour, no sweaty heatwave gigs this time, hopefully? Tickets from threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/ Join us and be moo-ved!

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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I don’t mean to be rude here, but we *already* had the peer review on these racist doctrines decades ago. Hence why ‘race realism’ is a paradigmatic instance of pseudoscience: it’s been thrown in the dustbin of history long before many of us were even born. We don’t have to have this same ‘debate’

Sasha Gusev@sashagusevposts.bsky.social · last mo.

Academia is a unique space where people can pursue controversial questions wherever they lead. If the work is pseudoscience (and, in my view, Cofnas' race science clearly is), academia has effective channels for response: public criticism and peer-review.

Geologists and evolutionary biologists do not have to debate creationists. Astronomers do not have to debate pre-Copernican theories of the heavens. Doctors do not have to debate anti-vax nuts. Climate scientists do not have to debate industry-funded deniers. All that goes for racists times ten.

We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:

Patrick Sturgis@patricksturg.bsky.social · last mo.

How about refuting them on theoretical and empirical grounds? That is kind of how science works. It doesn’t work by calling people names, refusing to engage with their claims and attempting to get them fired.

Landowners release ~50million pheasants a year into the countryside. It’s long past time this was regulated, such as through a stringent licensing regime. The government announced they’d explore licensing earlier this year; this piece is a useful update: www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

New licensing for game shoots could stop poisoning of birds of prey

Scheme planned for England could also curtail tradition of releasing pheasants for people to pay to shoot

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Count Binface has lots of perfectly sensible policies, but I’m horrified by his ignorance of frozen dairy product history. 99 ice creams are so called because they were invented at a shop at 99 Portobello High Street, in 1922. They won’t have cost 99p then - that was the equivalent of £50.04 today.

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

We herd that it’s Cow Appreciation Day... So we thought we'd share this delightful recipe book containing cures for cows from Ascott dated 1778-1813 Not sure how much the cows would have appreciated the Mercurial Ointment however, despite the inclusion of brandy...