James Vaughan
@equusonthebuses.bsky.social
Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
Francis Wheen on some of Farage's more sinister connections, back in 1999
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Francis Wheen on some of Farage's more sinister connections, back in 1999
Aberystwyth Town FC viewed from the National Library of Wales at dusk today...
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Aberystwyth Town FC viewed from the National Library of Wales at dusk today...
Easy to laugh at a headline like this from the era of Chamberlainite appeasement, but the feathery little heroes ended up doing a really important job and saving a lot of lives...
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Easy to laugh at a headline like this from the era of Chamberlainite appeasement, but the feathery little heroes ended up doing a really important job and saving a lot of lives...
New second hand bookshop acquisition. The Yellow Spot (Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936).
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
New second hand bookshop acquisition. The Yellow Spot (Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936).
One of the more interesting bits of investigative journalism this year was about how a large number of pro-SNP X accounts using names like “NHS nurse” and “Glaswegian Socialist” went mysteriously silent on 12 June. The day of a major Israeli airstrike on Iran’s cyber warfare infrastructure
The stuff on X about disinfo accounts reminds me of the time I tried to get a Cybernat account which was obviously Russian or something to say which was their favourite sketch character on "Naked Video" - something which any true Scot would be able to do but this particular account couldn't.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
One of the more interesting bits of investigative journalism this year was about how a large number of pro-SNP X accounts using names like “NHS nurse” and “Glaswegian Socialist” went mysteriously silent on 12 June. The day of a major Israeli airstrike on Iran’s cyber warfare infrastructure
Scotland’s first Stolperstein unveiled…
www.thejc.com/community/sc...
www.thejc.com/community/sc...
Scottish righteous gentile murdered by Nazis honoured in Edinburgh - The Jewish Chronicle
The first Stolperstein in Scotland has been unveiled today to remember Jane Haining
www.thejc.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Scotland’s first Stolperstein unveiled…
www.thejc.com/community/sc...
www.thejc.com/community/sc...
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The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
As should cricket gear, wine, harmonicas, and Tibet. Come on, this is not serious politics
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As should cricket gear, wine, harmonicas, and Tibet. Come on, this is not serious politics
City Hall, Cardiff
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
City Hall, Cardiff
Here's a pre-WW2 curiosity from early October 1938. Anyone care to guess (or recognise) where this Swastika flag is being flown?
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Here's a pre-WW2 curiosity from early October 1938. Anyone care to guess (or recognise) where this Swastika flag is being flown?
Maybe think about why you were polite about it before?
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Maybe think about why you were polite about it before?
Way past time to boot Hungary out of the EU
Hungary will now block absolutely any aid to Ukraine – Europe must immediately adopt the US plan, – Orban.
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Way past time to boot Hungary out of the EU
#OnThisDay 1968: New Statesman cartoon on Enoch Powell’s contribution to making Britain a nicer place…
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
#OnThisDay 1968: New Statesman cartoon on Enoch Powell’s contribution to making Britain a nicer place…
Ireland could be down to ten men before long. Which is a problem when you’re playing rugby…
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Ireland could be down to ten men before long. Which is a problem when you’re playing rugby…
All Wales need now is for Donald Trump to tell us to withdraw from the small patch of territory New Zealand have not yet occupied
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
All Wales need now is for Donald Trump to tell us to withdraw from the small patch of territory New Zealand have not yet occupied
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Memorials for the Holodomor in Kyiv.
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Memorials for the Holodomor in Kyiv.
Whatever happens in the rest of this #Ashes series, it has at least been a pleasure to see the notorious Michael Clarke sledge flipped around and handed back to the Aussies with bells on
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Whatever happens in the rest of this #Ashes series, it has at least been a pleasure to see the notorious Michael Clarke sledge flipped around and handed back to the Aussies with bells on
Clever England strategy for minimising Cricket Australia's revenue, undermining grassroots investment and ensuring a weak national side in 2033/34 #ashes
I think two day test matches are a great idea 😁
#ashes
#ashes
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Clever England strategy for minimising Cricket Australia's revenue, undermining grassroots investment and ensuring a weak national side in 2033/34 #ashes
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Food for thought: students don’t want ‘cheap AI’ instruction (anyone with half a brain cell knows this already). But worth telegraphing to a sector being tapped for AI investment: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Food for thought: students don’t want ‘cheap AI’ instruction (anyone with half a brain cell knows this already). But worth telegraphing to a sector being tapped for AI investment: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
RIP Mani. Here's a poster from the time the Stone Roses played Aberystwyth...
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
RIP Mani. Here's a poster from the time the Stone Roses played Aberystwyth...
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this is the correct way to react to anything the president says-
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
this is the correct way to react to anything the president says-
Make your minds up, fellas...
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Make your minds up, fellas...
Nothing quite says "spirit of Christmas" like a council cherry-picker erecting a plastic star onto a skeletal "tree" that blends in seamlessly with the scaffolding on the Cambrian Hotel over the road. #NadoligLlawen #Aberystwyth
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Nothing quite says "spirit of Christmas" like a council cherry-picker erecting a plastic star onto a skeletal "tree" that blends in seamlessly with the scaffolding on the Cambrian Hotel over the road. #NadoligLlawen #Aberystwyth
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What's happened to X has been a disaster for public discourse in the United Kingdom BUT it is also just very funny to see just how much some people will not really *notice* how degraded their media environment has become.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What's happened to X has been a disaster for public discourse in the United Kingdom BUT it is also just very funny to see just how much some people will not really *notice* how degraded their media environment has become.