Historian, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. He/him. 🏳️🌈
Ross Balzaretti
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Please repost. This message doesn't use insults or crude language. It's simply the truth. We haven't just left the EU, we have allowed our society to sink to the depths of hatred & bigotry. We are being manipulated by the arrogant, mad privileged minority, preying on the uneducated, morally bankrupt
Casework, counter proposals to redundancy, more counter proposals, job searches. Thanks, UoN, for all the 'transferable skills' I'm gaining out of this incredible mess. So tired. So bored.
This is really good. Read it.
Palestine Action is not like the suffragettes, it’s true. Because one suffragette threw a hatchet at the prime minister, while another bombed the chancellor’s house.
No Equality Act. All new family rights in the Employment Rights Act scrapped.
But, a “Women and Motherhood Protection Act”
From a party of misogynists with links to MAGA christofascists and anti-abortionists.
Just call it the Gilead Act and be done with it.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
Outrageous. The ones who put American lives – and the lives of countless others – at risk were Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Don’t blame the UK for your catastrophic blunder.
In the wake of Rosamond McKitterick's death, on the blog @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social remembers her as a teacher and a mentor:
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Great talk by @ajwestauthor.bsky.social tonight at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social about how queer bookshops changed the world, which is coincidentally the title of his book that you must buy.
Reform have been accused of using "shameless" distraction tactics by announcing a 'Women and Motherhood Protection Act.'
Photo of Rosamond McKitterick, taken by the author on 1 February 2020 overlooking the Forum at Rome. Rosamond McKitterick died on Saturday 13th June 2026. As a sentence, that’s easy to write and im…
