The number of people arrested in UK Labour's deranged authoritarian crackdown has risen to 532.
The average age of those arrested is 54. 147 of the people arrested are aged between 60 and 69.
The Met counter-terror unit is working flat out bringing charges against them.
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Job researching plants and enslavement
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Here she is sharing her own experiences of researching and teaching the 1943 Bengal Famine.
How do we tell difficult histories? I am delighted to interview Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane, the makers of the brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Three Million', on #1943BengalFamine on 18 March @cityhistory.bsky.social . Join us! @bbcradio4.bsky.social
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I'm rather thrilled with this review of my book in the journal American Historical Review! @cityhistory.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social #india #WW2 #emotionalhistory
Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated on this day in 1968.
R.I.P. 🕯️✊🏽
'In response to these trends, Behrens argued that a shift toward more plant-based diets is not simply advisable, but likely inevitable. This view is grounded not in consumer preference, but in biophysical constraints and economic modeling.'
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Hundreds of former Afghan commandos & their families were refused relocation by a UK Special Forces officer with possible links to a war crimes enquiry where they could’ve been witnesses.
At least five were later murdered by the Taliban.
The MoD then lied about this to Parliament & the courts.
How do we tell difficult histories? I am delighted to interview Kavita Puri and Ant Adeane, the makers of the brilliant BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Three Million', on #1943BengalFamine on 18 March @cityhistory.bsky.social . Join us! @bbcradio4.bsky.social
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The woman being manhandled by 4 rozzers in this photo is La Pethick, an 89-year old retired psychotherapist, one of 466 anti genocide protestors lifted yesterday in UK Labour's crackdown on protest against it's complicity in Gaza.
466 is the highest number of arrests at a protest in the modern era.
This is really fascinating
Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it
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Oxford’s Paul Behrens says global diets will shift toward plant-based foods as a structural response to rising environmental and economic risks.
