Mr Murphy
@murphyhistory.bsky.social
“Enthusiastic peddler of history." Head of Year 9 and DofE assessor. Sometime medievalist. Mountain Leader trainee. Scouter. Trying to stay focused on teaching...
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can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
can't believe the BBC edited Donald Trump's posts to make it seem like he threatened violence against members of Congress
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It's corruption only it comes from the Corruptian Mountains of Eastern Europe, otherwise it is just a sparkling gold bar.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
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How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It's corruption only it comes from the Corruptian Mountains of Eastern Europe, otherwise it is just a sparkling gold bar.
Loving the effort that this guy put into his union election pitch.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Loving the effort that this guy put into his union election pitch.
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Kinda fun that the endgame of QAnon was turning the government over to pedophiles
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Kinda fun that the endgame of QAnon was turning the government over to pedophiles
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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The ghosts of 27 million Soviets are jamming line one...
Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The ghosts of 27 million Soviets are jamming line one...
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Liz Truss was Prime Minister for 49 days, departing in October 2022. Today marks her fourth appearance as a former Prime Minister at the Rememberance Day service.
Liz Truss is 50. If she lives to be 96, she will have spent more days attending the service than actually being Prime Minister. /1
Liz Truss is 50. If she lives to be 96, she will have spent more days attending the service than actually being Prime Minister. /1
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Liz Truss was Prime Minister for 49 days, departing in October 2022. Today marks her fourth appearance as a former Prime Minister at the Rememberance Day service.
Liz Truss is 50. If she lives to be 96, she will have spent more days attending the service than actually being Prime Minister. /1
Liz Truss is 50. If she lives to be 96, she will have spent more days attending the service than actually being Prime Minister. /1
One for those* interested in the niche crossover of father/son Lake District antiquarians/philosophers of history.
*(I suspect the Venn diagram of those into both WG Collingwood and Robin Collingwood is a circle with just my name in it)
*(I suspect the Venn diagram of those into both WG Collingwood and Robin Collingwood is a circle with just my name in it)
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
One for those* interested in the niche crossover of father/son Lake District antiquarians/philosophers of history.
*(I suspect the Venn diagram of those into both WG Collingwood and Robin Collingwood is a circle with just my name in it)
*(I suspect the Venn diagram of those into both WG Collingwood and Robin Collingwood is a circle with just my name in it)
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The next edition of the paper (13 November, 1989) was just as muted.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The next edition of the paper (13 November, 1989) was just as muted.
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My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
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November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...
hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...
At this time of year some of the stuff you see (mainly from the excellent @mascotsilence.bsky.social and @remembrancewatch.bsky.social accounts) always makes me think of Sergeant Detritus at the site of Koom Valley in Thud:
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
At this time of year some of the stuff you see (mainly from the excellent @mascotsilence.bsky.social and @remembrancewatch.bsky.social accounts) always makes me think of Sergeant Detritus at the site of Koom Valley in Thud:
Is it just… humans?
AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here on.ft.com/3JERVRg
AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here
Tech leaders say systems now rival human intelligence in key tasks, further fuelling the superintelligence debate
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Is it just… humans?
Really glad that the wheel of fortune has turned again and we are back to telling students to put blazers on after years of telling them to take their coats off…
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Really glad that the wheel of fortune has turned again and we are back to telling students to put blazers on after years of telling them to take their coats off…
There are few things you need more today than a court transcript of someone on trial for assaulting a US federal agent with… a sandwich.
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
There are few things you need more today than a court transcript of someone on trial for assaulting a US federal agent with… a sandwich.
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You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
Isn’t it also a myth that the imperial civil service was tiny? Amongst all the other many problems with this…
If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Isn’t it also a myth that the imperial civil service was tiny? Amongst all the other many problems with this…
I’m still not entirely clear which side is laughing and which side is crying…
You might think a Rowntree's Easter catalogue could have nothing to do with #Halloween, but that's because you haven't seen the two-sided chocolate twin face egg of 1932. A bargain at 1 shilling.
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I’m still not entirely clear which side is laughing and which side is crying…
Just finished The Death of Yugoslavia on iPlayer. Cannot recommend it enough.
(I think one of the reasons it hits home hard is that I can’t get away from the fact that the small children seen living through the descent into hell are the same age as me).
(I think one of the reasons it hits home hard is that I can’t get away from the fact that the small children seen living through the descent into hell are the same age as me).
The Death of Yugoslavia - Series 1: 1. Enter Nationalism
President Milosevic of Serbia describes how he seized absolute power in Serbia and unleashed the nationalism that shook the foundations upon which Yugoslavia had been built.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Just finished The Death of Yugoslavia on iPlayer. Cannot recommend it enough.
(I think one of the reasons it hits home hard is that I can’t get away from the fact that the small children seen living through the descent into hell are the same age as me).
(I think one of the reasons it hits home hard is that I can’t get away from the fact that the small children seen living through the descent into hell are the same age as me).
Appreciate this is not the main point here but I’m not convinced that Musk understands one of the central themes of the Lord of the Rings.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Appreciate this is not the main point here but I’m not convinced that Musk understands one of the central themes of the Lord of the Rings.
So inevitable it has already happened. Several times.
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
So inevitable it has already happened. Several times.
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Proof that, given enough time, everything gets clouded with nostalgia.
By 2050 there’ll be pandemic lockdown Facebook nostalgia groups. “Yeah, thousands of people died and we couldn’t leave our homes. But weren’t Joe Wicks workout videos great?”
By 2050 there’ll be pandemic lockdown Facebook nostalgia groups. “Yeah, thousands of people died and we couldn’t leave our homes. But weren’t Joe Wicks workout videos great?”
Microsoft's new Copilot AI character - Mico - is being reported as an evolution of the infamous Clippy
Despite Clippy's reputation for being maligned, Brits who encountered the digital paperclip tend to remember it fondly
Favourable: 38%
Unfavourable: 16%
Neither: 25%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Despite Clippy's reputation for being maligned, Brits who encountered the digital paperclip tend to remember it fondly
Favourable: 38%
Unfavourable: 16%
Neither: 25%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
October 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Proof that, given enough time, everything gets clouded with nostalgia.
By 2050 there’ll be pandemic lockdown Facebook nostalgia groups. “Yeah, thousands of people died and we couldn’t leave our homes. But weren’t Joe Wicks workout videos great?”
By 2050 there’ll be pandemic lockdown Facebook nostalgia groups. “Yeah, thousands of people died and we couldn’t leave our homes. But weren’t Joe Wicks workout videos great?”