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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

The Hull Daily Mail. October 1936.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 18h

There’s rarely an equivalent of this kind of thing in cricket, a sport in which t’s pretty much impossible to play badly and win (at least against decent opposition). Can think of a few really ugly rugby victories though…

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Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 1d

blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-can-begin...

The Blogs: We can begin to breathe again: Initial thoughts on this morning’s developments

A quick take on the end of the war from my backchannel perspective: It could have been done long ago; Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

blogs.timesofisrael.com

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 18h

It’s a form of nemesis on Greece for once winning a Euros playing very similarly to Scotland this evening

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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · 2d

Academics in the US are increasingly under threat. Mark Bray is a great scholar who has made substantial contributions to the critical study of antifascism and fascism. Threats and intimidation cannot be accepted as the new normal.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 19h

My local pub landlord once annoyed Craig Charles by confusing him with Craig David after beating him in a “drinks for everyone in the pub” pool match

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 19h

Provincial UK press iirc. I’ll have to check me notes…

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 19h

Checks football scores….

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 19h

Whenever I’m feeling vaguely optimistic about things Middle Eastern, I refer myself back to this 1936 headline…

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 23h

😉 bsky.app/profile/mole...

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Chaplin ‘distracted boyfriend’ 1919 [image reversed to match orientation] but distracted away from the 2015 stock image by a passing Punch cartoon ‘entente cordiale’ from 1904.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Fine work :)

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Clear winner, for me...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay 1943, passing the time during a quiet period of the Second World War, the New Statesman decided to challenge its readers to a fish limerick competition...

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

First Moroccan crisis, I think. 1905.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing as political discussion in the UK about pulling out of the European Convention of Human Rights is almost entirely determined by Reform and Conservative Party attitudes towards immigration, it's probably worth a reminder about the rights which the EHCR protects.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump had invited more intelligent versions of stupid people, they'd have done a Pat Robertson and banged on about Nesta Webster's conspiracy theories about leftist Jewish subversives in the 18th century...

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 1d

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 2d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 2d

A 25-year old front cover of The Economist... 👀

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 2d

Given the regularity with which it produces sub-standard political leaders, I'm more worried about PPE at Oxford

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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @lahoare.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch is lazy, she's performative, she's anti-intellectual, and it says something about the ruined state of the contemporary Conservative Party that she could not only rise to the top of it but, for a time, be seen as its saviour.

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