Hannah Elias

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

The neoliberalisation of U.K. universities has ultimately just created an impossible financial burden on young people, and warped how we value knowledge: none of this is sustainable in a democracy.

Many working in universities have been ringing this alarm bell for a long time now, but it keeps falling on deaf ears in Government. Glad there is more bell ringing, this won’t go away.

Review whether students with no A levels should get loans – v-c ‘Difficult questions’ must be confronted as English funding system ‘not working for anyone’, says Birmingham’s Adam Tickell

'Speaking at the British Academy Shape conference, Adam Tickell...argued that a rethink on how universities are funded was required because “we have a system where more state money goes in, students are more indebted and universities are on the brink of failure”.' 1/3

"Foreign-born Citizens" are actually just called citizens.

"Foreign-born voters" are just called voters

"non-citizen voters" (yes, this is a thing here in 🇬🇧) are just voters.

Keir Starmer abandoned immigrants to court Reform voters. He failed

Keir Starmer abandoned his constituents to court Reform voters. He failed

Keir Starmer abandoned basic decency to court Reform voters. He failed

I could keep going.

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.

Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

It does feel like Starmer and Mahmoud have seen Labour rejected by its own *actual* core vote (instead of its imagined one) in its heartland and decided that the answer is just to reject those core voters right back.

Suicidal politics.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

This is a companion piece to Catherine's longer article, which was recently published Open Access in Issue 100 of History Workshop Journal.

Questions of Race and Repair The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain. Catherine Hall examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.

How might the wrongs of slavery be properly acknowledged, and redressed in Britain? What could each of us do?

Catherine Hall considers both historical and contemporary questions of race and repair.

OBS / Lincoln College research associate position!

We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March

Would love to see the U.K. address Peter Thiel’s connections to Epstein next, and cancel Wes Streeting’s NHS Palantir contract.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s a truly nonsensical economic system our universities and students are operating in. Faculty and students have been ringing alarm bells for years, but cruelty of the current system seems to be the point of it? This is the design that the current political class is perfectly happy with.

Number of academics working in the UK falls for first time Some universities reduce staff teams by more than a fifth after year of cutbacks and job losses, new data show

'In a further sign of the impact of the financial crisis gripping the sector, new data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show that 244,755 academic staff were working in the UK in 2024-25.' Previous year number was 246,930.

Professors & senior academics increased; others fell. 1/3

Truly the most sci-fi entrance to an archive in Britain.

If we could end the next decade without a monarchy and back in Europe, that would be pretty great.

Fascinating. I didn’t realise license plates were for plebs.

Researching photographic collections at Birmingham Archives today… as a big fan of Tina Campt’s work, I’m excited to pay attention to the sonic register of the collections.

A great visit to Sheffield with the RHS team yesterday, there are so many brilliant academic historians, history teachers and GLAM sector historians doing wonderful work in this city. Grateful for the warm welcome, and thanks for the rich discussions!

I was fighting off the end of a cold last time I was in Kew to research at TNA and the pharmacy by the station tried to charge me £12 for strepsils 🤦‍♀️

this update/correction from @willdalrymple.bsky.social on the question of removing the term Palestine from British Museum gallery texts definitely raises more questions than it answers

a woman is sitting in a crowded subway car with a sign that says do not lean against door ALT: a woman is sitting in a crowded subway car with a sign that says do not lean against door

Me on Underground = Elaine on Subway.

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

‘Accurate journalism is the strongest weapon in the war of information. The World Service must not be allowed to stumble into decline’

The women’s hockey tournament has been great, but I’m just not prepared to speak about the last Can vs US game and am putting that result in a memory black hole.

Winter Olympics men’s hockey with NHL players just hits different, it’s fast, the passing game is precise, and the hits stick. Absolutely glued to this tournament. #TeamCanada 🇨🇦