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Labour has a green problem
When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
So here we go in Ljubljana!
#Disinfo2025 is officially here! 🎉 We're kicking things off with an incredible lineup of panels and presentations you won't want to miss. 𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐! 🙌✨
Thx so much to the Elizabeth Salter Fund, this was a hugely positive experience!
Pics from exhibition launch yesterday evening historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio...
Back in Brussels yesterday evening to open this interesting and thought-provoking exhibition
historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio...
Not bad if I say so myself - happy Birthday!
What a depressing irony that my #Burningthebooks & seven of my scholarly articles have been pirated by Meta for LibGen. We are experimenting with AI @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social using only public-domain materials. This industry needs to be regulated! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers… Americans expect no less.”
Never in its history has the ABA had to issue such a statement.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
At least somewhere is going in the right direction.
Excellent news!
St. Oswald’s Church Lythe, just up the coast from Whitby, has an incredible location. And it has a pretty nifty exhibition of the Anglo-Norse grave markers (hogbacks) too. (h/t Mrs A for the pix)
Sure is!
1st Dec. So it begins - discovering old treasure
Excited to have abstract accepted to participate in conference on ‘Reading Early Visual Devices’ in Turku, Finland next May, I shall be examining the Heptarchy diagrams of Matthew Paris
Across the rooftops the ‘other’ Yorkshire Minster - quite splendid!
The scissor arches at Wells Cathedral are mid-blowing when you consider they were built in the 14th Century.
Welcome!
This is so important, this is our national cultural heritage, both its conservation & our access to it are paramount.
Early morning dog walk.
From Angus Young, a journalist of 40+ years (who likes writing for us as a volunteer!):
“The offences which took place in [Hull], proudly twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, were effectively 12 hours of racist hate-fuelled mob violence.” John Thackray KC
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/hulls...
Interesting article piece on Jane Austin and anti-slavery. I started following this after reading the superb ‘The Garden against Time by Olivia Lang’ which drew me in turn to read Mansfield Park then this popped up theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au....
Really cool!
Yorkshire’s answer to the Hanse! Going to try to tweet more about it, seems a more appropriate here.
UK self-sufficiency in fresh vegetables is at its lowest since records began in 1988. We produce 53% of the vegetables we consume (inc non indigenous).
farminguk.com/news/uk-s-se...
Too much policy focus is on meat/dairy. This is the critical piece of food security we need to urgently address.
Damn right.
It was a travesty that government lawyers ever pursued this case against a climate activist merely holding a sign.
Seems I’m part of a big move, intriguing.
