Lying #FishiRishi lies as routinely as lying disgraced ex-pm #JorisBonson

Unless blocked, Sunak is going to send c.100 terrified refugees 4,000 miles away in a symbolic gesture that will neither 'stop the boats' nor save him electorally. The main result will be to cause intense pain to a group of people who have already suffered plenty.

Oh no! Will there be a whole new generation of horrible figurative statuary now?

About the East End, in the East End - I'll be talking about Winston Churchill, Peter the Painter and the 1911 Siege of Sidney St at the wonderful The Wanstead Tap on Thursday. Do get a ticket + come along! eventbrite.co.uk/e/andrew-white…

The vessel formerly known as Twitter is in harbour for major repairs

What could POSSIBLY go wrong

Number 46 every time... it might even have worked once or twice

Gone RIGHT OFF Chris Pratt after seeing this. theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

Billy Kenber OMG. This is gobsmacking.

Our Govt is so corrupt.

Can the police please just get busy investigating the entire Tory Party?

#ToryCorruption
#CorruptTories

This is another blow to academic history research in the UK. Having started career pre-digitisation & seen its development, JISC Historical Texts became a brilliant one-stop research tool. Loads of universities stopped paying for EEBO & ECCO as a result ... so what happens next?

Sadly, it is not just in Glasgow that empty heritage buildings in the way of development plans ever so conveniently 'go on fire'

Rishi Sunak’s wife receives £10.5m dividend from shares she owns in a company which has been awarded huge government contracts without competitive tender.
But but Angela Rayner…
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I hate to say it but GB News takes it all a little too glibly to be a properly respectable news channel. They need to try harder and stop doing inflammatory content.

Taxpayers to be lumbered with a £15bn debt to bail out Thames Water while the thieves and grifters who asset stripped it walk away with billions in dividends. This is what Thatcherism means, they steal the money and we pay the price.
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Tonight we launched the latest book in the Society’s Victorian Architects Series which is the first monograph devoted to G. E. Street, whose bicentenary we are celebrating this year. The co-authors are Geoff Brandwood, Peter Howell, and Peter Taylor. Buy on the link in our bio.

for context, the Spectator published Taki, a Greek racist who wrote regularly in support of Nazis, for decades until they finally dropped him after he was convicted of attempted rape.

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Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Burned to the ground

I'm so old, I remember when Tory MPs who were blackmailed by rent boys probably paid up with their own money

The Voysey Society is again partnering with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain to offer a grant of up to £1,000 to fund research on the architecture & context of Voysey/the arts & crafts movement: details in link; deadline 30th April sahgb.org.uk/funding/sahgb-…