Thornberry
11.03.2026 16:25
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Thornberry
we dare you to find a museum more ready
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
It seems almost comic to say it at this point but: where is Ofcom? Where is DCMS? Once upon a time this would have been absolutely beyond the pale. How is it now permitted?
I think that's true of older Labour voters. Not so sure about younger ones. There are basically three options: a) Lab regains most progressives B) they coalesce around Greens instead c) They split and the Right wins. C) probably most likely for now but B) is a possibility.
Well and the reaction from parts of the American right too. The Taco option here is much more complicated than normal because of the Israeli dimension
It sounds like he's saying if Putin wasn't such a pussy he'd be nuking Ukraine. Which I'm not sure I find encouraging tbh
Well, it would need the progressive vote to desert Labour en masse. I doubt it will happen but if it does it will be because of a deeply unpopular lab govt matched against a deeply unpalatable right alternative
Polanski PM 2029 underpriced?
There is a religious dimension to the way that some MAGA fanatics are framing the US-Israeli war against Iran that bodes ill for Europe, raising the risk that it inflames the Trump administration’s “civilisational” war against the continent. My latest on the Ayatollah of the West
A bit oddly, he was also a huge Florence Nightingale stan. Did lot of his own research on her
want to follow the news but can't bear thinking about ordinary Iranians, who've been stuck under such an oppressive regime for so long, who maybe got a flicker of hope, briefly, a few months ago, then watched in horror as their friends and relatives got killed by the state, and now this, unspeakable
Not that much to be fair! (And also tbf I was telling my Spurs mate in the autumn to not worry, Frank would come good. He practically forced me to watch their next match, at which point I saw what he meant.) But still! The players are quite good!
It's not going to take that many. Three wins and maybe a draw or two will be enough. I'm a Forest fan, have you seen our run-in?
I'm out of words here
Good question for r/askhistorians
They'll cheer on the war then complain about the refugees it'll create.
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.
www.ft.com/content/ac77...
move slow and repair things
Pretty sure it was intentional!
so the world's energy mix looks like this. around 20%-25% of the world's oil (7%pt of total energy) and a third of the world's gas (another 7%pt) goes thru hormuz.
right now that's been zero'd out, and there's no clear path back. a sixth of the world's energy supply is just... gone.
Yes but what's really irritating about Starmer is he CAN think strategically, but somehow only about foreign policy
The combination of stupid and patronising is really something to behold.
Did you see Uta Frith's piece the other day? Seemed to make the same argument but minus the offensive language
It's really unfair to compare this to Iraq in 2003, at least then they had the decency to put some effort into their lies and deception.
To be fair, it worked for Mike Ashley
'Like a Tuscan Duke at a corporate golf day' lol
Closure of language courses is 'national catastrophe, warns VC By Fiona Mcintyre Picture of Adam Tickell
There is a “national catastrophe” unfolding as universities close modern languages courses and important “cultural assets” across the humanities more broadly are lost “by stealth”.
Coverage of Adam Tickell’s remarks at our conference yesterday
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
There are two Keir Starmers:
* The tin-eared one, devoid of political skill or ideology, who blunders from domestic crisis to domestic crisis.
* The entirely reassuring international one, totally on top of his brief, who stands head and shoulders above any alternative in the UK.
