We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity and dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of the conversation

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Palantir should not be allowed anywhere near the NHS, our any other parts of the UK state machinery. It is a dangerous entity run by unprincipled lunatics.

Hope and horror on the third anniversary of the civil war in Sudan An update on the Sudan Civil war

Hope and horror on the third anniversary of the civil war in Sudan
An update on the Sudan Civil war

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From warplanes to olive trees: the resistance poetry of Palestine For National Poetry Writing Month, we explore some Palestinian resistance poetry, on the theme of resisting Israeli occupation and genocide

For National Poetry Writing Month, we explore some Palestinian resistance poetry, on the theme of resisting Israeli occupation and genocide | Ren Hodges
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Tech giants and giant slayers: the case for digital sovereignty Digital Sovereignty – control over a country’s digital infrastructure, data and technology – is critical for economic and national security

A handful of global tech firms now underpin our economies, governments, & public discourse.
They aren’t elected.
They aren’t neutral.
And increasingly – they aren’t accountable.

Clive Lewis MP on the UK's growing dependency ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @labourlewis.bsky.social

It's so deliberate and cruel, and so, so needless. The whole madness of this policy needs to be scrapped and compensation fast tracked.

A great piece on the disassociation from consequences and empathy that extreme wealth brings.

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
By Noah Hawley www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Reform's Richard Tice responds to reported failure to pay £100,000 tax Mr Tice said: "A long career with multiple businesses is bound to feature some errors." He added that he will pay any arrears "if numbers need rechecking".

This guy Is a serial tax evader and yet pretends to be patriotic - he should move to Dubai for good and stay out of UK politics. news.sky.com/story/reform...

Restoring Dresden’s crowning glory The city has been rebuilding the Residenzschloss, home of its one-time ruler Augustus the Strong, since the Second World War – and the results are worth the wait, writes Michael Delgado

Rebuilding Dresden’s Royal Palace, destroyed during the Second World War, has taken decades. Now it’s nearing completion, revealing the artistic vision of its most famous inhabitant, Augustus the Strong.

Michael Delgado admires its crowning glories.

Reform dragged into tax row by Richard Tice’s unpaid £100,000 The party’s deputy leader says he will ‘pay what is owed if numbers need rechecking’ after more revelations from The Sunday Times

In short Rayner had to resign due to concerted media & political pressure over a single stamp duty mistake. Millionaire Tice bankrolled his party through deliberate, dodgy, tax-avoiding corporate tricks and yet the media pressure is limited to a few outlets.

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Is the BBC helping Reform’s election campaign? During an election campaign the BBC is expected to remain impartial. Its coverage of asylum fraud risks damaging that

The facts about asylum seekers are in the BBC article
But they’re buried deep enough to be missed
Which leaves a very different impression at the top

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How Viollet-le-Duc rebuilt a nation The French architect is famous for adding a spire to Notre-Dame, but he hit other heights too – and his misses are just as revealing, writes Iris Moon

Viollet-le-Duc is famous for adding a spire to Notre-Dame, but he hit other heights too – and his misses are just as revealing, writes Iris Moon on the architect’s drawings at the Bard Graduate Center

How to take restitution into your own hands Relooted is a video game that allows players to pull off heists and reclaim artefacts – and doubles up as a short history of African art, writes Samuel Reilly

‘A puckish entry into the real-world restitution debate, the game has not surprisingly garnered a lot of hype and got up more than a few noses.’

Samuel Reilly on Relooted, a video game that allows players to reclaim African art from Western institutions

Dr Yashaswini Chandra – Domesticating the Margins: Bibis in the Mofussil 30 April 2026 (Thursday)

Examines 'relationships between British men and their Indian bibis or companions/concubines in parts of the mofussil as examples of the gendered nature of colonial enterprises to unpack the overlaps between these projects to domesticate the margins and the intimate lives of their agents.'

Northern England: where eagles soar A study published by Forestry England confirms that England has the capacity to sustain golden eagle populations once more, with eight potential, unnamed ‘recovery zones’, mostly in the north of the country, identified as being the most suitable areas

A study published by Forestry England confirms that England has the capacity to sustain golden eagle populations once more, with eight potential, unnamed ‘recovery zones’, mostly in the north of the country, identified as being the most suitable areas

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Every historian will get this .
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Exterior of a branch of Scruton, the Budapest cafe chain named after the British right-wing philosopher Roger Scruton.

Re: my last RT, I think we should all take a moment to reflect on how very bizarre it is that this chain of cafés came into being in Orban's Budapest.

Orban’s regime underpinned the right wing networks that have been trying to rehabilitate British colonialism as a moral enterprise, while pretending to analyse it impartially. Some of the connections mapped here:

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Inside the far-right network targeting Europe’s digital rules The Trump administration and a network of far-right think tanks are increasingly targeting the EU's digital regulations and rules on content moderation. Far-right MEPs have taken over these narratives...

Because everything is technology regulation, here's a reminder of the role the Orban regime played for the Trump administration.
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain.

For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

‘NOT THE NHS AGAIN!’

We debunk Palantir in the #NHS

Email your MP to ask them to come to the April 16 debate on Palantir & the FDP
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www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pa...

Full episode here
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What 16 years of Viktor Orban taught the world Real lesson of Hungary’s experiment with nationalist politics is that the alternative to liberal democracy is no model

Everything @frasernelson.bsky.social writes about the evils of ‘illiberal conservatism’ is right. Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge the role he played in legitimating it by turning @thespectator1828.bsky.social into an illiberal anti-‘woke’ propaganda vehicle?

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That's what it's all about. Watch who gets rich, and who gets the bills.

On the anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher, let us take a moment to reflect on what a cruel, heartless sack of shit she was.

That's also Labour did do well in the UK after 15 years of Tory austerity, Brexit madness, and Covid corruption. They talked the talk. Sadly, once in power they failed to deliver on the expectations they had raised 😔

And so many questions about the USA and its political class ...

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Do it!