Nick Shepley
@nickshepley.bsky.social
Counsellor, former teacher, dad.
Creator of the Explaining History podcast www.Acast.com/explaininghistory
Creator of the Explaining History podcast www.Acast.com/explaininghistory
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I recorded this yesterday after a long conversation with someone who was oddly relaxed about our impending return to feudalism: explaininghistory.org/2025/12/08/t...
The Overmighty Noble: Why Taxing Wealth is a Matter of National Security
Taxation is often discussed in dry, technocratic terms. It is the price we pay for civilization, the mechanism that funds our hospitals, schools, and roads. However, in the current political climat…
explaininghistory.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I recorded this yesterday after a long conversation with someone who was oddly relaxed about our impending return to feudalism: explaininghistory.org/2025/12/08/t...
I recorded this yesterday after a long conversation with someone who was oddly relaxed about our impending return to feudalism: explaininghistory.org/2025/12/08/t...
The Overmighty Noble: Why Taxing Wealth is a Matter of National Security
Taxation is often discussed in dry, technocratic terms. It is the price we pay for civilization, the mechanism that funds our hospitals, schools, and roads. However, in the current political climat…
explaininghistory.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I recorded this yesterday after a long conversation with someone who was oddly relaxed about our impending return to feudalism: explaininghistory.org/2025/12/08/t...
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Before going to Spain and with the launch of #ChurchillsSpaniards in paperback, I had the pleasure of speaking to @nickshepley.bsky.social on his #ExplainingHistory Podcast! A great 30 minute chat going through many things! Have a listen 👇🏽
open.spotify.com/episode/4B39...
#ContinuingtheFight #WW2
open.spotify.com/episode/4B39...
#ContinuingtheFight #WW2
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Before going to Spain and with the launch of #ChurchillsSpaniards in paperback, I had the pleasure of speaking to @nickshepley.bsky.social on his #ExplainingHistory Podcast! A great 30 minute chat going through many things! Have a listen 👇🏽
open.spotify.com/episode/4B39...
#ContinuingtheFight #WW2
open.spotify.com/episode/4B39...
#ContinuingtheFight #WW2
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Obviously the focus is on Plaid, Reform and Labour but the Conservatives also fell drastically - to 2% and a lost deposit. Hardly a ringing endorsement from the Welsh valleys for their recent turn to the far right
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Obviously the focus is on Plaid, Reform and Labour but the Conservatives also fell drastically - to 2% and a lost deposit. Hardly a ringing endorsement from the Welsh valleys for their recent turn to the far right
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can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller
Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”
Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e
Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e
Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”
robertreich.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller
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Really enjoyed chatting with @nickshepley.bsky.social - available now to listen 👇 (with a super write up here: explaininghistory.org/2025/09/25/e...) #womenwealthpower
I did a great interview yesterday with @vnbateman.bsky.social about her new book Economica, a history of women’s work, wealth and power: open.spotify.com/episode/6z8Q...
Economica: The Hidden History of Women, Wealth, and Power
open.spotify.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Really enjoyed chatting with @nickshepley.bsky.social - available now to listen 👇 (with a super write up here: explaininghistory.org/2025/09/25/e...) #womenwealthpower
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I did a great interview yesterday with @vnbateman.bsky.social about her new book Economica, a history of women’s work, wealth and power: open.spotify.com/episode/6z8Q...
Economica: The Hidden History of Women, Wealth, and Power
open.spotify.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I did a great interview yesterday with @vnbateman.bsky.social about her new book Economica, a history of women’s work, wealth and power: open.spotify.com/episode/6z8Q...
I did a great interview yesterday with @vnbateman.bsky.social about her new book Economica, a history of women’s work, wealth and power: open.spotify.com/episode/6z8Q...
Economica: The Hidden History of Women, Wealth, and Power
open.spotify.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I did a great interview yesterday with @vnbateman.bsky.social about her new book Economica, a history of women’s work, wealth and power: open.spotify.com/episode/6z8Q...
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I really enjoyed our conversation - thanks so much @nickshepley.bsky.social
I had a great chat with Professor Angie Hobbs, a regular guest on In Our Time today about what Plato would make of the bleak times in which we live: open.spotify.com/episode/10aj...
What Plato can teach us about the crises of the 21st Century
open.spotify.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I really enjoyed our conversation - thanks so much @nickshepley.bsky.social
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A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
August 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
I had a great chat with Professor Angie Hobbs, a regular guest on In Our Time today about what Plato would make of the bleak times in which we live: open.spotify.com/episode/10aj...
What Plato can teach us about the crises of the 21st Century
open.spotify.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I had a great chat with Professor Angie Hobbs, a regular guest on In Our Time today about what Plato would make of the bleak times in which we live: open.spotify.com/episode/10aj...
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Silicon Valley’s quiet takeover
How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are seeking to embed themselves in Britain’s vital infrastructure
By Ann Moody
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are seeking to embed themselves in Britain’s vital infrastructure
By Ann Moody
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Silicon Valley’s quiet takeover
How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are seeking to embed themselves in Britain’s vital infrastructure
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Silicon Valley’s quiet takeover
How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are seeking to embed themselves in Britain’s vital infrastructure
By Ann Moody
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are seeking to embed themselves in Britain’s vital infrastructure
By Ann Moody
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Huge congrats on the book!
August 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Huge congrats on the book!
Promoting things is an almost unbearable experience, a feeling of fingernails being dragged down the blackboard of my soul…but I did write a book and a pretty good one at that (I think). For all fans of dark fantasy, political intrigue and that sort of thing: amzn.eu/d/4oLkENa
The Blood of Tharta: A Fire in the Heart of Knowing: Book One
Buy The Blood of Tharta: A Fire in the Heart of Knowing: Book One by Shepley, Nick (ISBN: 9798314942048) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Promoting things is an almost unbearable experience, a feeling of fingernails being dragged down the blackboard of my soul…but I did write a book and a pretty good one at that (I think). For all fans of dark fantasy, political intrigue and that sort of thing: amzn.eu/d/4oLkENa
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Israel’s Diaspora Ministry is running a Russia-style info war on Europe’s democracies building networks of 'useful idiots' to shield its actions in Gaza and West Bank from accountability
Time to list Israel's Ministry of #Subversion as a threat
www.andreaskrieg.com/post/israel-...
Time to list Israel's Ministry of #Subversion as a threat
www.andreaskrieg.com/post/israel-...
Israel’s Ministry of Subversion
How Israel mirrors Russia's and China's information warfare playbook
www.andreaskrieg.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Israel’s Diaspora Ministry is running a Russia-style info war on Europe’s democracies building networks of 'useful idiots' to shield its actions in Gaza and West Bank from accountability
Time to list Israel's Ministry of #Subversion as a threat
www.andreaskrieg.com/post/israel-...
Time to list Israel's Ministry of #Subversion as a threat
www.andreaskrieg.com/post/israel-...
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The Swedish government is calling on the EU to freeze its trade deal with Israel in an effort to pressure the country into allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza.
In doing so, Stockholm has joined Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg...
In doing so, Stockholm has joined Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg...
Sweden urges EU to freeze trade deal with Israel over Gaza aid blockade - Euractiv
“Using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare constitutes a war crime,” the country's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said
www.euractiv.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Swedish government is calling on the EU to freeze its trade deal with Israel in an effort to pressure the country into allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza.
In doing so, Stockholm has joined Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg...
In doing so, Stockholm has joined Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg...
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Hello pals, The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver is currently in Waterstones' summer pre-order sale. Spend a little now, and give yourself a winter of wild magic.
bit.ly/shipshroudsummer
bit.ly/shipshroudsummer
July 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Hello pals, The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver is currently in Waterstones' summer pre-order sale. Spend a little now, and give yourself a winter of wild magic.
bit.ly/shipshroudsummer
bit.ly/shipshroudsummer
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Here's my very first interview since resigning from the Labour Party with @novaramedia.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Zarah Sultana's First Interview Since Resigning From The Labour Party
YouTube video by Novara Media
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July 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Here's my very first interview since resigning from the Labour Party with @novaramedia.com:
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Let’s not start tearing each other apart on the left just yet? Things are, for once, looking up.
July 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Let’s not start tearing each other apart on the left just yet? Things are, for once, looking up.