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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 9h

Okay, but are there any downsides?
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 11h

I'm glad you enjoyed my books. Here's my opinion of K&C: www.marcmorris.org.uk/2025/08/king...

King and Conqueror: Not Even Wrong

I watched the first episode of King and Conqueror . It took all my reserves of staying power to make it to the end. I won’t comment on the...

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 14h

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick always reminds me of Manny's unpleasant boss in the first episode of Black Books.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Was he the one with all the wives?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 2d

Fantasy, meet Reality...

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight's final episode of King and Conqueror sees the climactic confrontation between William and Harold.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight's final episode of King and Conqueror sees the climactic confrontation between William and Harold.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 9d

Join me next summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in north Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 15d

On Friday 10 October I'll be giving a talk about Edward I at St Peter’s Community Centre in Bexhill. Starts at 6.30pm. Tickets (£5) available on the door.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4d

#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

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Freelance Work

Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 5d

"People are smoking them, building houses out of them... They'll be eating them next!"

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 5d

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Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury

No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 6d

"In our defence, we are now essentially just a Farage mouthpiece, so the need for quotes is superfluous."

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 7d

The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.

This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

“I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish. Today at a meeting of the Royal Society’s Council, I led a discussion regarding some of those threats.

“Science thrives when individuals and institutions have the freedom to carry out research without fear of discrimination, censorship, or other restrictions that would hinder their work. In support of that, Council believes that it is not the role of the Royal Society to police the personal political opinions of individual Fellows and disciplinary procedures should not be initiated because of a Fellow’s social and political views.

“However, the Society can and will criticise Fellows who act in a way that runs counter to the values of tolerance, courtesy and respect for others that allow science to flourish. Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation. This language and these narratives threaten the values that enable science to thrive and the Royal Society rejects them, from wherever they originate.”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 8d

"Don khaki, *pick up a rifle* and head for the front lines", to quote him in full.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 9d

Join me next summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in north Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...

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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 10d

💥 The independence of @electoralcommission.org.uk must be fully restored to safeguard the UK’s electoral integrity from a future authoritarian government, our new report warns. Covered exclusively by Rowena Mason in today’s @theguardian.com 👇

UK government urged to restore Electoral Commission’s independence to protect democracy

Oversight of watchdog could be abused by a future authoritarian government, report warns

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12d

Netanyahu:

"Would a country committing genocide plead with the civilian population that it is supposedly targeting to get out of harms way? Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Of course not"

Actually, encouraging Jews to emigrate is exactly what the Nazis did 1933-39.

Ignorant of Jewish history.

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