Miners are back on strike: 'I lost everything last time' The National Coal Mining Museum, which has a display about the Miners’ Strike of 1984, is in dispute with ex-miners who work as guides.

UK: Miners are back on strike: 'I lost everything last time. I won't go back this time until it's sorted' www.bigissue.com/news/activis...

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

😍60,000 people have signed the Parliament petition to hold a referendum on water.

Sign and share. Let's get it to 75,000 by the end of the week.

“Disrupt From Within”: How Undercover Police Targeted Britain’s Socialist Parties, Trade Unionists and the Anti-War Movement • Paul Heron reports on the latest developments at the Undercover Policing Inquiry and outlines the Position Statement filed with the Inquiry on behalf of Lois Austin, Joe Batty, Lindsey German, Dave Ne...

"The story that emerges is not of rogue officers but of an institutional view that socialism itself constituted a risk."

Paul Heron, lawyer representing spied-on socialists at the Undercover Policing Inquiry, sifts this year's inquiry evidence.

www.pilc.org.uk/blog/disrupt...

#spycops

Suffrage Stories: The WSPU Illuminated Address. Is This Sylvia Pankhurst’s Original Design? Material owned by the Metropolitan Police Service Museum, licensed under the Metropolitan Police Service Non-Commercial Licence. (This image must not be reproduced without permission from the Metro…

Thanks to @mpsheritage.bsky.social I think I may have identified an original Sylvia Pankhurst artwork. Altho' for licensing agreement the pic below isn't the original - but to unravel the mystery read on...
womanandhersphere.com/2026/04/17/s...

I’m loaded, fuelled, and brake checked. I’ll be taking 66539 and train of containers from Doncaster to Peterborough where an Ipswich driver will relieve me and take it on to Felixstowe. That’s another 75 HGVs off the roads!

Just enough time for coffee and a steak bake before I depart… ☕️ 🥟

OCCRP joins the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition and a cross-industry "Day of Action" to demand urgent legislative protections against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs).

For more on this issue, read OCCRP’s full statement here:
buff.ly/cEkJbXo

#StopSLAPPs

My bathroom is bright pink and zebra striped thanks to LLB.

UCPI Daily Report, 3 Feb 2026: 'Monica' evidence The Undercover Policing Inquiry hears from 'Monica', and activist deceived into an intimate relationship by spycop Jim Boyling in 1997

New - our report on 'Monica' giving evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Jim Boyling in the 90s, her testimony is a harrowing illustration of the depths the pointless infiltrations sunk to
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/04/15/u...

We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself.

Context does not simply exist. It is built through research, interpretation, and critical analysis.

What stories have you uncovered in the historical record?

#TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

New ODNB entry by @collinstony.bsky.social

#RugbyLeague

Blue badge holders: how are you treated by other members of the public when out? Have you experienced reactions from other people when using your blue badge? We’d like to hear from you

**CALL OUT** I’m looking to gather experiences of disabled people who have been criticised or harassed by the public about their Blue Badge or Motability car etc when out.

Click on link to fill in our form. Please do share to reach as many people as possible. www.the-guardian.com/world/2026/a...

George Burgess: From Rabbitohs to Kicking Goals with Hollywood’s Finest | 16 YouTube video by Bin Night with Tak and Matty

Neighbours meets #RugbyLeague - George Burgess on acting, fighting stunt doubles, his hopes for his acting career, and being a young dad:
youtu.be/4d7ND_YBAK4?...

This article from Zack Polanski is fascinating and reveals a lot about his character, I think. Zack in one word? Ego. I'm sure he wouldn't want you all to see this.
medium.com/@ZackPolansk...

If it's got fruit in it, it's not pudding (or dessert). Pudding is meant to be delightful. Fruit is a chore. Fruit is not delightful, it's homework.

so, fellow historians, this is a 12-alarm fire if "learn about history" is the top use of AI (related to the Humanities).

this should be an all-hands-on-deck conversation with @historians.org and every history department to work K-16 to get us away from history as just "names and dates"

Even if they did, he would just ask Google to delete all the bad stuff about him and be reborn as a pseudo-left commentator like that ex-gameshow mathematician who supported Andrew Wakefield.

Raising the Red Flag: Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism 1884-1921, by Tony Collins

This beauty by @collinstony.bsky.social!

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

Nationalise EVERYTHING.

'The Framing of the Punch-Drunk Boxer: Medicine, Medicalisation, and the Media in Interwar Britain'. NEW Social History of Medicine journal article by Dr Neil Carter. academic.oup.com/shm/advance-... #sportshistory #boxing #boxinghistory

"... when one peels back the organic, hand-knitted layers, the core is not Green; it is the same cold, grey steel of the market [...] the Green membership voted against the nationalisation of the energy industry."
labourheartlands.com/the-greens-v...

Spycops inquiry reaction: end of 26 Mar 2026 - HN18 Robert Hastings evidence (day 3/3) YouTube video by Cops Campaign

The Undercover Policing Inquiry's questioning of Special Demonstration Squad officers ends with perhaps the most repellant, scary one of all. Officer HN18 Robert Hastings has been shouting at the women in the public gallery who've been abused by other #spycops

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ch...

The UCPI is not closed, only tranche three has ended. There are two tranches to go!

#OtD 28 Mar 1919 the state of Arkansas joined most US states in banning anarchism and communism. The law to "define and punish anarchy and… Bolshevism" barred revolutionary activism and red and black flags, with up to six months jail as a punishment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

More than 13 million living in poverty, government figures show The level rose slightly on the previous year while the number of children living in poverty has remained steady.

"The number of people living in relative poverty in the UK rose by half a million in the year up to March 2025, new government figures have shown. There are now 13.4 million living in relative poverty, including four million children." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is brilliant!

Cops Campaign Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance An alliance of people targeted by Britain's political secret police.

As the #UK #Spycops inquiry into #undercover #police #surveillance draws to a close, it's worth reminding people that they can find detailed commentary on everything about it on the @copscampaign.bsky.social campaign YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@copscampaig...

In Hull, East Yorkshire, it is scone as in cone. We believe only posh people say scone as sconn. 😉

211. Todd Carney, Antonio Gramsci and rugby league intellectuals Our guest today in rugby league journalist and analyst Mike Meehall Wood, who launched his new Substack [https://mikemeehallwood.substack.com/p/six-tackles-and-superstructure-why] with 'Six Tackles &

The new Rugby Reloaded talks to Mike Meehall Wood about what Antonio Gramsci has to do with rugby league, why the game underplays its complexity and why Jonny Lomax and Todd Carney might be 'organic intellectuals'. Listen on: soundcloud.com/rugbyreloade...