Former pupils confront ex-teacher accused of sexual abuse Iain Wares, who taught at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College, appeared at an extradition hearing in Cape Town, South Africa

Well done all. There is no escape. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

The US military has 22 sites in the UK.

Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran.

This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more.

The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

Trump says ‘a whole civilisation will die tonight’ if Iran does not make a deal – Middle East crisis live The US president once again warned Iran to make a deal to avert threat of massive attacks

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Quite a sensible comment piece in ABC today on the curse of the guiris...

How to lose the votes of the 400,000 plus British citizens descended from victims of British transatlantic enslavement.

How to lose the votes of the entire population - 400,000 plus - descended from victims of transatlantic enslavement...

Totally, and the Thatcher-era 'short sharp shock' regime consciously aped that public school suffering-is-good notion. As I think you have written, Jonathan...

It is illegal to destroy civilian infrastructure. Pusillanimous Biden adviser David Satterfield on BBC R4 Today this morning did not dare say it.
How utterly useless these grand old American Democrats are.

Street poster in Seville, Spain with zombie tourist and wheelie bag.. "so much tourism is scary', in Spanish

Anti-Airbnb graffiti, Seville, Spain

Tourism at an all-time high here in Seville. And...

Church leaders criticise Christian owner of GB News over channel’s climate attacks Exclusive: Paul Marshall also challenged over his own ‘misleading’ statements and £1.8bn of fossil fuel investments in his hedge fund

Asked to go on GB News today to talk about reparations for transatlantic enslavement. Said no (again) and the producer offered me... £40!
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Alex Renton (Video); Boarding School, Abuse, Slavery; Understanding History, Addressing the Present Episodio de podcast · The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments · 28 de enero · 47 min

Great conversation with Dr Naomi Murphy and David Jones - we covered boarding schools, the legacies of transatlantic slavery, and keeping children happy and safe from abuse today. podcasts.apple.com/hn/podcast/a...

'No a la guerra!' Nice to be in Spain, a country with a coherent approach to international law and illegal war.

Minor celeb tours former colony for money - we call it a Portillodyssey. Or a Palindroam.

Minor celeb tours a former colony for TV - we call it a Portillodyssey. Or a Palindroam.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

By the same argument quit Facebook, Insta, WhatsApp and Amazon... Which is no bad idea. (tks @davidveevers.bsky.social)
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By the same argument, quit Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Amazon. Which is not a bad idea...

So dull... Can't watch the portillodyssey shows. At least Michael Palin was an actual star once.

'Lack of fibre' - exactly the problem.
Good old Daily Mail.

No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba Whether you blame the US or the communist regime, there is no doubt that this is an island spiralling into tragedy

This stands with the finest political/historical reporting I have ever read. So vivid, so important, so sad. #cuba www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Screenshot of a Claude AI response to a complaint

AI slacking again. @anthropic.com

Oh, err - Palestine Action!

UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful Ministers argued the direct action group engaged in a campaign of criminal damage and violence

UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful ft.trib.al/TKbvf6A

It's the motives behind Paul Marshall and his band of professors emeriti that we need to explore. Do they want the CofE back? The Empire? Since these aren't gettable, is this another facet of militant white supremacism - they want the world.

'The right wing objections are really political rather than historical.' The verdict.

From the ukpolitics community on Reddit: I should never have fallen for Peter Mandelson's lies: Max Hastings Explore this post and more from the ukpolitics community

And here it is - www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

Gentleman Max. He did do a mea culpa, i remember reading it... in the Times a few years back?

@honigsbaum.bsky.social Time to raid your archive on Peter M? I remember going on C4 News to defend you and your story re his house-buying loans...

Spanish jamón is the best ham in the world – but culture warriors are reviving its dark history | Abbas Asaria The far right is using pork consumption as a means to exclude, just as it was in the Inquisition, says Abbas Asaria, a chef based in Madrid

The racist right are on the rise in Spain. Great piece today by @abbas-asaria.bsky.social on the politics of... jamón.
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Lord Simon Heffer pronounces... What an accolade!