martinplaut.bsky.social
@martinplaut.bsky.social
Poor Wales!
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Scarborough beach
October 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Economist poll
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Trump’s growing unpopularity
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Trump at it again. He holds a summit with Putin. No decision…Then thinks about supplying long range missiles to Ukraine… then speaks to Putin…decides to have another meeting with the Russian president…thinks about supplying the missiles…no decision…again…etc. etc. etc.
October 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Farage effect
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Very strange
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I’m delighted! My book on slavery now on sale in South Africa! “Unbroken chains: A 5,000 year history of African enslavement”
September 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’m thrilled to share this offer on my new book on African enslavement. “This erudite book is an eye-opening revelation and a transfixing read.” Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
www.waterstones.com/book/unbroke...
July 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
May 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
South African troops abandoned by their government
May 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Oh no! Someone has to go out and buy some lavatory paper! The shock! The horror! A human rights atrocity by Trump
April 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
A letter to the Times appealing to halt cuts to the BBC World Service which I signed
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Sharpeville: once a notorious apartheid massacre. Now a symbol of ANC neglect and indifference.
March 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Well, who would have thought! 🤣
March 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The death of Athol Fugard - South Africa’s greatest playwright- has been announced.
March 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
March 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
March 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
March 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
February 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
January 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM