Neil Evans

Looking forward to it.

A map showing South West England and Wales, labelled "Graph of British Rivers". Two river courses are shown, labelled 'Wye axis' and 'Exe axis'. Does anyone read these descriptions, or am I wasting my time?

Graph of British Rivers

For the Epsteinth time, an 'underage woman' is called a CHILD.

Thanks for coming to my Pred Talk.

Don't trust any of them

Rogan, Jones, Muskrat, Bannon

A new mural has been unveiled in the French city of Roubaix to mark #July4th.

(🎨 Judith de Leeuw)

you can't talk about MAGA and its Gilded Age revival without talking about slavery (and nostalgia for the imagined chivalry of the antebellum planter aristocracy and its enabling squirearchy)

An important point to remember is that you can be openly biased against people, & also completely correct.

I am openly biased against fascists and tankies. I have experienced their drivel for long enough to know it will never be worth taking seriously, & will always be dangerous to other people.

I've reached an age where I don't really care what aged pop minstrels say in interviews.

I doubt Stewart has much of a nuanced grasp on politics and anyway why should some octogenarian rock dinosaur be a lightning Rod for public thinking on Nigel Farage?

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.

I had high expectations for the PBS documentary on Hannah Arendt, which premiered last night. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

They were exceeded. "Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny" excelled in doing just what the title says. Facing it.

If you watched last night, feel free to share your reactions.

While it's disappointing to hear that Rod Stewart supports divisive gobshite Nigel Farage, it's very good of him to announce it just in time to be told to fuck off by 200,000 people at Glastonbury.

Labour are now MORE Tory, than the Conservatives are!

Does Starmer need a dictionary? Does he know what 'moral' means?

Thinks most of Europe is as stupid as he is. In reality these places have functioning political systems.

🚨 “Not For EU” Label. Check your asparagus.

🇲🇽 Mexican asparagus in @sainsburys may be grown with pesticides banned in the EU, including carbofuran and paraquat.

🥵 No EU label = No EU safety standards.

🇬🇧 Post-Brexit, UK rules are weaker.

🧪 Lower testing. Less traceability. More risk.

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

Disgraceful- "the BBC is going out of its way to appease Farage. New reporting shows that top BBC executives met earlier this year to discuss plans to tailor both news and cultural content to appeal to Reform UK voters. No other political party was given that kind of attention – just Farage.

Trump appears to confuse America’s Revolutionary War with the Civil War President Donald Trump, speaking about war as he attempts to decide whether or not to actively support Israel by bombing Iran, appeared to confuse America’s war for independence —the Revolutionary War...

Our idiot in chief continues to lower the bar. Now, he appears to confuse the Revolutionary War with the Civil War www.rawstory.com/trump-war-26...

FACT - The JCPOA negotiated by Obama in 2015:
Reduced Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium
Limited the number of centrifuges
International monitoring of nuclear facilities.
In 2018, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement.
People are dead in this "crisis" because of Trump.

@llafur.bsky.social @neilevanshistory.bsky.social

I think all the news items he figures in should have one of those US sitcom laughter tracks on it.

Correct, Harvard today the rest of the universities tomorrow

I can only conclude it's a conscious policy. By the way I prefer Philip Pullman's 'bollock-faced foghorn of ignorance.'

Really enjoyed speaking with Dr Elin Jones about Minnie Pallister at the excellent Llandeilo Literature Festival yesterday. A memorable day

Tessa Marshall from the Wales Green Party added:

“Child poverty in Wales is not the result of bad choices – it’s decades of underinvestment and decisions made far from communities like ours.

An independent Wales can stand for children, end hunger & cold homes, & fund a decent start to life.”

✊💚

To the British government I say. You should be ashamed trying to get a trade deal with that regime,
never mind offering a second state visit.

Israel bombed a Baptist hospital in Gaza on Palm Sunday.

In Jim Crow America, black Americans would hold 'indignation meetings' where they got together behind 'locked doors and cursed out white people...just [to] let off steam...because they couldn't contain themselves from the injustice that had been done.'

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.

He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.

He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.

He’s defying the Supreme Court.

Don’t you see what’s happening here?