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I very much know it's not the main point here, but it tells us something that whoever made these mugs can't spell Sandford.

Or there's this if not in Philadelphia this weekend.

If you're at #OAH2026 please check out the UVA Press booth (The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States is right in the middle there).

Yesterday I was earwormed by Roger Whitaker's The Last Farewell and thought to myself, well, it can't get any worse than this. And guess what: today I am earwormed by Leo Sayer, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. It seems I must have taunted the Earworm God and am now paying a terrible price.

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I see Radio 4 Today is investigating asylum seekers pretending to be gay and cancel culture in US universities. Thank goodness the BBC keeps reminding us how neutral they are or else I might think they had a very right-wing political agenda.

Happy Birthday to the great James Garner. Would have been 98 today.

I used to think Dubya was an insult to the office of President. Turns out I had noooooo idea.

Happy #pubday to "The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding," edited by Francis D. Cogliano!

The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birth

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10183/

#skystorians #readUP

Publication day! Really thrilled with this. Edited volumes can be a challenge to complete but @uvapress.bsky.social and all of the contributors were amazing!

And he's one chicken nugget away from the Oval Office.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

I know?!

There was a Wembley Country Music Festival every year throughout the 70s and 80s and, before the streaming that has, according to this article, newly brought the genre to these shores, people bought ... records.

Greens and Allies reelected in Lyon 👍

Thank you to Lige Gould, Hannah Grieving, Patrick Griffin, and Adam Smith for organizing a wonderful conference on “The American Revolution in a Global Context, 1776-1826" at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University. And the dinner at Queen's College certainly added to the experience 😋

I'm hugely confused.

Why the Declaration of Independence said what it did, Episode 2 To its principal author, Thomas Jefferson, it was “an expression of the American mind”; to the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, it was "absurd and visionary". The Declaration of Independence, writt...

The second episode of the two-part Rothermere American Institute "Last Best Hope" podcast on the Declaration of Independence, with me, Lige Gould, Grace Mallon, and others, hosted brilliantly by Adam Smith.

www.rai.ox.ac.uk/article/why-...

"alive in some form...."

Happy International Women's Day, which, as per tradition, coincides with International Men-Asking-When-Is-International-Men's-Day Day. 🎈

Banjo vs Billy in shelf-space face-off.

It may well have gone downhill since, but even before then it was a purveyor of dishonesty and outrageous snobbery.

"To be the owner of this institution of quality British journalism is a privilege and a duty." Now that is funny....

Grotius is dead?

My talk on "The Original Declaration of Independence" at University College Cork. Thanks to host Clodagh Harrington, to Hiram Morgan too, and all who came along.

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