Now here's a petition I could get behind Nigel Farage MP #Farage

Blog by me on Bibliography of British and Irish History and what it tells us about how English historians have written about popular revolts blog.history.ac.uk/2024/11/using-…

Remember the hysteria over Labour’s Budget “crashing the market”? A month later: • Government borrowing costs are lower • The pound is stronger against the euro • Bank of England has cut rates by 0.25% Quietly proving the critics wrong.

I think it’s good to see Cambridge supporting Dr Louks in this way. (It’s quite rare for higher education institutions to talk about individual students / researchers in this way.)

Glen Coe: fresh archaeological discoveries bring new insights into lives of massacred MacDonald clan bit.ly/3VynQW2

New publication from me - moving into early modern history cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Kekius Maximus tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

Think I’m one of the last to the game, but I’m now over on the other place: @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social

Thinking of attending a Boxing Day hunt meet? This is what ‘trail hunts’ get up to. Please RT if it is one thing you do today and get these faces everywhere. Cowards.

Many constituents have contacted me about this week’s vote on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.   Regrettably there has been a lot of misinformation about what the vote was actually about. My statement setting the record straight. 👇 darrenpaffey.org.uk/2025/01/10/my-…

Pleased to see this short blog for The British Academy for their Age of Mistrust season thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/misinform…

Has 'fake news' always existed? As part of our 'Age of Mistrust?' season, Dr Gordon McKelvie (@gordomck) explores misinformation in the Middle Ages and the role of conspiracy theories across history bit.ly/4grIpep

Inheritance tax was paid on just over 4% of estates last year. I won’t have to pay it on my estate. Odds are the overwhelming majority of people reading this won’t pay it. I tell you who will though. Rupert Lowe, his mate Nigel, Richard Tice & the rest. Self interest much?

On the podcast | Gordon McKelvie explores the death of a 15th-century Scottish king and asks: could the killer have been his own son? bit.ly/4htubM5

I took a look at the training programme for new Durham County Councillors. There aren't training sessions on either of the subjects Darren is refusing to attend.

SNP and Reform UK 'have more in common than they would care to admit' as both parties push to scrap Barnett Formula dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

The Barnett formula is worth an extra £12.8bn for Scotland. They’ll both have to explain to the public where that money will come from.

EXC: Rangers legend Graeme Souness has blasted Nigel Farage as a “chancer” who does not care about Scots. He is urging locals in the Hamilton by-election to vote Labour tomorrow. dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

Brilliant, as always, from Brian Wilson in The Scotsman