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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 12h

Some game of cricket that...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 13h

I do like an arbitrarily long century. I am keen to make a case that we haven't quite finished the 14th century yet...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 13h

AI informs me that the costliest battles of the 18th century include the Battle of Leipzig in...... 1813. Okaaaaay...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 17h

Could always be based in Tehran, of course...😜 www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

SNP ministers warned Iranian state pro-independence disinformation a ‘significant issue’

Scottish Government ministers are being told to proactively report bad actors on social media.

www.scotsman.com

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 17h

You ok with me having screencapped a couple?

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 17h

And if you want a depressing insight into the dark side of this site, check out @gabrielmilland.bsky.social 's thread on some of the replies

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 18h

It’s not a competition

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 18h

#OnThisDay 2004: Guardian profile of the late, much-missed, David Cesarani

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

More interesting than that

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely fascinating new book. Some of the early sections on why Fatah's Hussein Agha preferred negotiating with old Irgun fellas in Netanyahu's Likud than with two-staters from the Israeli left are seriously revealing...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course.

Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Complicated. Hardie was vociferous in his condemnation of the Kishinev and Bielostock pogroms. Also (don't tell Jezza) signed up to a pro-Zionist EZF pledge during the 1906 General Election campaign. But, yes, obvs triggered by Jewish capitalist stereotypes...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

See also, Arthur Griffiths and Sinn Fein

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Thoroughly depressing that a Welsh newspaper would not only see fit to publish open Holocaust denial from an obviously extreme-right correspondent, but also allow a sub-editor to give it a credibility-enhancing header. The South Wales Echo (to its shame) #OnThisDay 1986

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

I done a google and learn that Barbara Castle was an ARP warden. Does that count? 😉

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Shore? RAF 1943-46

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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Cricket: a sport where waving gets you a demerit point, but not shaking hands has no consequences whatsoever 👀

www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/s...

Mlaba handed demerit point for waving at Deol

South Africa left-arm spinner's celebration of a wicket lands her in trouble

www.espncricinfo.com

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 2d

Why, you might ask, as a housing lawyer have I not commented on the Green Party's new policy to end the private rented sector? Simple answer - it is mad. I'm all in favour of largely ending the PRS, but their policy is simply, practically, mad. Bring back an owl for everybody and then we are talking

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay 1983 in The Guardian: a lesson for the Conservatives about the dangers of neo-fascist entryism and the Party's flirtation with the policies and personel of the National Front.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 2d

Bit like Wales and Barry John…

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 2d

Decent MAGA claim for getting the Nobel Prize for literature, mind you. Outstanding contributions to FanFic…

Politico @politico.com · 2d

Trump did not get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Republicans say he was robbed.

www.politico.com

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Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 2d

www.alquds.com/en/posts/196...

Times: The Gaza agreement was ready a year ago.

www.alquds.com

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The Economist @economist.com · 2d

“Countering hate speech is not about criminalising offensive opinions but about openly challenging the narratives that dehumanise entire communities,” writes the former GCHQ director in a guest essay

Rising antisemitism reflects wider social ills, says Britain’s former counter-terrorism co-ordinator

Sir David Omand on why social cohesion in the face of extremism is a security imperative

econ.st

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 2d

C.D. Jackson, the leading champion of the American Cold War propaganda programme, in conversation with Eisenhower in August 1954...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 2d

The Hull Daily Mail. October 1936.

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