Corey
@coreysoper.bsky.social
Lecturer at UCL Centre for Holocaust Education.
I dig weightlifting, rolling D20s and succumbing to the woke mind virus.
Bleating about history, nature, nerd stuff, fitness, politics and education. 📚🌿🗳🤓💪🏳️🌈
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I dig weightlifting, rolling D20s and succumbing to the woke mind virus.
Bleating about history, nature, nerd stuff, fitness, politics and education. 📚🌿🗳🤓💪🏳️🌈
He/him
Oh there's a film? I thought it was a press tour to promote codependency.
Plans are already underway for the future of the Wicked franchise, following the smash-hit debut of Wicked: For Good. https://bit.ly/4rrUWpg
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Oh there's a film? I thought it was a press tour to promote codependency.
When the Mansion Tax moaners go "Ah - I became rich by historical accident! I accumulated vast wealth through no effort of my own!" do they think that makes them more sympathetic
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
When the Mansion Tax moaners go "Ah - I became rich by historical accident! I accumulated vast wealth through no effort of my own!" do they think that makes them more sympathetic
Don't threaten me with a good time.
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Don't threaten me with a good time.
The Telegraph in particular has a limitless appetite for the "after I spend my gigantic salary on ski trips and private school fees I'm actually poor" article.
the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The Telegraph in particular has a limitless appetite for the "after I spend my gigantic salary on ski trips and private school fees I'm actually poor" article.
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This is the thing to hang onto - I’m glad people are appalled by Farage’s Nazi sympathies now, but the fact is, he was able to present TV programmes and constantly appear as a sofa guest for decades, booked by people who knew it all. We must reckon with that.
Evidence of Farage’s unabashed youthful racism has been in the public domain since at least 2013, yet somehow he has been allowed to remain part of the British political conversation. The fact he wasn’t driven back under a rock years ago has emboldened racists across the country to spread hatred.
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is the thing to hang onto - I’m glad people are appalled by Farage’s Nazi sympathies now, but the fact is, he was able to present TV programmes and constantly appear as a sofa guest for decades, booked by people who knew it all. We must reckon with that.
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This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
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This is a very, very sad reminder that lifelong arseholes, abusers and bigots leave behind them a long trail of people who know exactly who and what they are, but whose chance of getting a hearing is a lottery dependent on other people's interest.
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This is a very, very sad reminder that lifelong arseholes, abusers and bigots leave behind them a long trail of people who know exactly who and what they are, but whose chance of getting a hearing is a lottery dependent on other people's interest.
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I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
Remember all those Op Eds about how Biden was losing his grip in reality?
Anyway...
Anyway...
Trump: "I've settled eight wars ... one war -- 36 years. I got it done in one day."
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Remember all those Op Eds about how Biden was losing his grip in reality?
Anyway...
Anyway...
"I’m watching the fascists win not by being especially cunning or clever but by instead standing around and holding a big sign that says “jump in this hole if you’re an easy mark!” and somehow guiding around two thirds of our political elite directly into the big hole." Brilliant.
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"I’m watching the fascists win not by being especially cunning or clever but by instead standing around and holding a big sign that says “jump in this hole if you’re an easy mark!” and somehow guiding around two thirds of our political elite directly into the big hole." Brilliant.
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Testimony and Narrative is an important strand in Holocaust T&L, check out this blog by Woodhey High School's Mr McMahon reflecting on their work as a #BeaconSchool and its transferable skills, literacy and student voice links.
holocausteducation.org.uk/2025/11/20/t...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Testimony and Narrative is an important strand in Holocaust T&L, check out this blog by Woodhey High School's Mr McMahon reflecting on their work as a #BeaconSchool and its transferable skills, literacy and student voice links.
holocausteducation.org.uk/2025/11/20/t...
@coreysoper.bsky.social
holocausteducation.org.uk/2025/11/20/t...
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Did you know we offer free visits for school, college, and university groups to visit our archive and learn from the thousands of important documents it holds?
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Learn - The Wiener Holocaust Library
We have an active outreach programme for the public, for schools, and for scholars.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Did you know we offer free visits for school, college, and university groups to visit our archive and learn from the thousands of important documents it holds?
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
Last year we undertook 40 educational visits, reaching 1,328 students and 142 teachers
Find out more:
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
How can any student feel safe with Summers after he discussed, in writing, how to groom his students in exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein? What right does he have to his prestigious teaching position? Could Harvard really not hire other faculty to deliver this course?
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
How can any student feel safe with Summers after he discussed, in writing, how to groom his students in exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein? What right does he have to his prestigious teaching position? Could Harvard really not hire other faculty to deliver this course?
Twenty-six accusations of sexual assault. Twenty-six.
Nancy Mace: "You can see in the Epstein emails that he's clearly targeting President Trump as retribution for him being a good man ... he's a good man who protects women. That's what real men do."
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Twenty-six accusations of sexual assault. Twenty-six.
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But also maybe they should ruin his life?
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
Larry Summers is 70. Firing him is not ruining his life.
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
But also maybe they should ruin his life?
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
You do not have to let antisemitic bigots into your tent just because they fell out with the bigot in the other tent. Marjorie can sleep outside in the cold.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
You do not have to let antisemitic bigots into your tent just because they fell out with the bigot in the other tent. Marjorie can sleep outside in the cold.
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Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run on kitchen table issues?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run on kitchen table issues?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
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“A vote for Labour is the only way to stop Reform”
Or
“Labour can actually do what Reform only claims it can do”
The government needs to pick one strategy, not both. The government seems unaware that voters can actually hear it trying both messages at once.
Or
“Labour can actually do what Reform only claims it can do”
The government needs to pick one strategy, not both. The government seems unaware that voters can actually hear it trying both messages at once.
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
“A vote for Labour is the only way to stop Reform”
Or
“Labour can actually do what Reform only claims it can do”
The government needs to pick one strategy, not both. The government seems unaware that voters can actually hear it trying both messages at once.
Or
“Labour can actually do what Reform only claims it can do”
The government needs to pick one strategy, not both. The government seems unaware that voters can actually hear it trying both messages at once.
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Anyone else with a refugee background finding *all this* triggering?
It is not ‘about me’. I live safe in a warm house and have two global north citizenships.
But I grew up with a parent with a suitcase of all the documents he might ever need tucked under his bed.
Don’t follow this route, people.
It is not ‘about me’. I live safe in a warm house and have two global north citizenships.
But I grew up with a parent with a suitcase of all the documents he might ever need tucked under his bed.
Don’t follow this route, people.
On leaving Nazi Germany
10) The inclusion of jewellery & valuables is prohibited
With the exception of:
Wedding ring of the emigrant
Pocket watch value to 100 RM
Used cutlery – silver 1 set pp for a family of 3, 1 extra set for family of 5. Each piece total weight 40 gm
👇🏻 translation & original
10) The inclusion of jewellery & valuables is prohibited
With the exception of:
Wedding ring of the emigrant
Pocket watch value to 100 RM
Used cutlery – silver 1 set pp for a family of 3, 1 extra set for family of 5. Each piece total weight 40 gm
👇🏻 translation & original
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Anyone else with a refugee background finding *all this* triggering?
It is not ‘about me’. I live safe in a warm house and have two global north citizenships.
But I grew up with a parent with a suitcase of all the documents he might ever need tucked under his bed.
Don’t follow this route, people.
It is not ‘about me’. I live safe in a warm house and have two global north citizenships.
But I grew up with a parent with a suitcase of all the documents he might ever need tucked under his bed.
Don’t follow this route, people.
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It is a serious problem for our political discourse that the most consistently astute commentator in the country is someone posting anonymously on social media behind a rat avatar.
June 2016 here. Do you notice how this has been proven correct: there really is no way to appease the reactionary right, who take every concession to their fucknut demands as a new base camp to strike out for more and nastier?
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It is a serious problem for our political discourse that the most consistently astute commentator in the country is someone posting anonymously on social media behind a rat avatar.