Andrew Burchell

If a bloke came to me with a penis, I would be very concerned where he got it from and probably call the police.

I just want to point out that this woman sits in a government supported by a fascist party, her party supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza and she recently said she wanted to institute a ban on niqabs and

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'A new curriculum needs to be written. Currently, it's written by the four largest denominational churches... It has to be written by education professionals and include humanist content.' Northern Ireland Humanists Coordinator Boyd Sleator featured on BBC Newsline. Boyd appears at 1:33 👏

a lot of queer folk can't quite put their fingers on why they're so angry and upset about this shit and yeah no this is it.

We all know and we even know that they know too. Eg the MP can't even give a single line explaining how this phone shit would have helped Brianna.

They're just playing dumb.

Klotter, hakkors och texten "total muslim death"

Tråkigt att dagens nyheter fullständigt drunknar i rapporteringen om det islamofobiska hatbrott som drabbat Stockholms och Sveriges muslimer inatt. Eller ja, inte ett ord om det i media naturligtvis, det är ju bara muslimer som hotas till livet här.

Her Story Valerie Margaret Small was born in 1941. In her teens, her domineering father was sick and bedridden, and she was expected to look for work. She trained as a tailor and then, aged 19, took driving …

“If the point is that we need to restore these human stories, why frame them within law's stories first?”

Some thoughts on history, law, storytelling and Mrs Burns

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In our new journal article, @tomhulme.bsky.social and I chart the biographies of three queer men who lived in N. Ireland between the 1900s and the 1970s. We show how their lives and sexual subjectivities were shaped by knowledge from beyond Ireland. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

Explosion at Harvard Medical School NBC News 'Intentional' explosion at Harvard medical campus under investigation 1 day ago The New York Times 'Intentional' Explosion Took Place at Harvard Medical School, Officials Say 1 day ago ABC News Explosion at Harvard Medical School appears to have been intentional, authorities say. No on... 1 day ago The Guardian No one hurt after 'intentional' explosion at Harvard medical campus, officials say 17 hours ago

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...

Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious

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Abolish the monarchy It’s more than Prince Andrew – the whole House of Windsor is rotten to the core

“The future of the House of Windsor will be a conveyor belt of cloistered and confused men attempting to force consensus on an ungovernable country.”
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A tweet that says: Just got Reform to commit to a serious crackdown on Motability as part of their reforms to PIP. Lee Anderson says he’d be keen to see anyone with a Motability car forced to drive a ‘blue three wheeler’

This from X is a striking example of what I argue in today’s column. Reform and the Tories are out here gleefully saying disabled people on Motability should be forced to drive a 3-wheeler, like a scarlet letter. The stigma is not an accident - it’s the design.

Och Uppsala! ❤️

*Optometrist hands person glasses* - “now, you wear them glasses AND YOU KEEP THEM GLASSES”

From National Treasure to National Scandal British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortni...

British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight.

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The British Library would amount to nothing if it only had its hordes of books. The real power is in the immeasurable treasures of staff expertise and dedication. Pay them real money!

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

In “Peanuts,” Linus first mentioned the Great Pumpkin on October 26, 1959, and it went on to become a pop-culture mainstay. Here's that strip and the ensuing week of dailies:

We're looking for a new PhD! Read more below and apply before November 23rd.

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This is also my explanation for why the far-right grew so fast in Sweden: because they basically promised "social democracy for white people". For very many Swedish people (especially men) this was merely saying a quiet part out loud.

En man och en kvinna sitter bredvid varandra. Kvinnan frågar "Well, did it work for those people?" Mannen svarar: "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might but... it might work for us."

Varje gång politiker vill sätta filter på nätet

Sometimes you have to just gasp in horror.

It's not that she just ignores her own family history. It's that she understands it, has discussed it with her actual refugee grandfather, & still thinks he's not just wrong, but "nuts", & her vile exclusionary racism is good.

Completely conscious evil.

Intelligence on ‘extreme’ Maccabi fans with history of violence led to Villa Park ban Exclusive: West Midlands police were told supporters randomly attacked Muslims in Amsterdam last year

There’s a grim logic that the way this whole thing has played out in relation to the intersection between British foreign and race relations policy, whereby some ‘communities’ are seen as an inevitable threat to each other and it is for the state to decide who gets protected over the other.

Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed

Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…

"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a

Isabel Oakeshott lives in Dubai. Under an Islamic absolute monarchy. Under sharia law. A place where slavery is not only legal, but the foundation of the labour system.

And she gets paid by a British newspaper to spout racism as if it's a defence of democracy.

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The undercurrents of antisemitism against Polanski from a media class obsessed with not being seen as antisemitism is spectacular

We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.