Joseph Parkinson, host of the Ancient to Recent history podcast, shared his TOP 5 books that will help understand the Russo-Ukrainian war.
The books mentioned in the video are:
โพ๏ธ The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy;
โพ๏ธ Our Enemies will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov;
So I started looking into this to outline the conspiracy theory. But what I found was a genuinely beautiful piece of practical idealism. A small, attainable progressive change that would hugely improve people's lives. I was inspired by it.
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๐ 2.2 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. ๐ฆ
Wicked troublemaker or the victim of history's longest smear campaign? This episode is one WILD ride. And it includes some of my favourite cinematic references.
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Every single word of this.
Slava Ukraini!
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Shameful.
24.02.2026 18:11 โ ๐ 223 ๐ 75 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 1Sorry for your loss โฅ๏ธ
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If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
19.02.2026 08:26 โ ๐ 11935 ๐ 3081 ๐ฌ 205 ๐ 243I cannot get over how little international attention this horrendous conflict and its awful consequences receive. #Sudan
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In the likely case you haven't heard: migrants are washed ashore in Italy to little echo, an estimated 1000 people could have died during a cyclone. Few media or politicians seem to care. This is how EU and its member states lose credibility.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6991...
Wow.
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US security guarantees under Trump will have zero value. None.
Trump lies constantly & has a decades-long record of breaching contracts. He says he respects no laws beyond his personal โmorality.โ
Ukraine must not cede a single inch to US-RU pressure & Europe must back them up.
2nd story on BBC radio 4 bulletins now
Still huge questions to answer about Labour Together smearing journalists and sources
As I revealed yesterday, senior Labour insiders knew - and person who commissioned it, Josh Simons, now a Starmer ministerโฆ.
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In November 2013 a Ukrainian protest comprising thousands of college students became a Euromaidan of millions.
Normal men and women without strong political views faced down paramilitary thugs in the freezing cold.
Asked why, they said the same thing he does.
"They're beating our children."
The Netflix documentary about it is on YouTube and I would recommend it.
I've watched it three times and haven't managed to get through it without crying.
I'm not hugely optimistic about my fourth attempt.
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After a 26-hour layover, this ICE jet left Ireland early this morning and has now returned to Arizona.
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Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesnโt extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response โฆ
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โNusret, I drew this flower in your notebook โ the one you love so much, always free and cheerful. But since you wanted the notebook back urgently, I have been thinking for an hour about what to write. Let me at least write my good wishes. May your joyful spirit always remain joyful, and may you become happy by attaining the hopes you keep alive in your dreams, my sister. Sultantepesi Monday, 8 June 1918 Ferideโ
โ๏ธ An Ottoman Girlโs Autograph Book, 1918
โNusret,
I drew this flower in your notebook โ the one you love so much, always free and cheerful. (...) May your joyful spirit always remain joyful, and may you become happy by attaining the hopes you keep alive in your dreams, my sister.
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We live in challenging times. But these are also clarifying times, where the choices are clear, and we have examples to admire.
All honor to the Epstein survivors.
All honor to the people of Minneapolis.
All honor to the people of Ukraine.
3 in 5 fear family separation
absolutely monstrous
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The love of all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. Charles Darwin. Naturalist and humanist.
Happy Darwin Day everyone! #Onthisday 217 years ago, Charles Darwin was born. We mark Darwin Day on 12 February every year, with millions of people across he globe, celebrating the life and legacy of Charles Darwin โ humanist, philanthropist, and the most influential biologist in history.
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i appreciate labour taking a stronger line on racism
but it's a little incongruous when they're separating families, smearing asylum seekers as "illegal", & making the lives of legal residents harder to appease that same bigotry
Screenshot of a home office tweet
If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? ๐คจ
12.02.2026 09:29 โ ๐ 1197 ๐ 435 ๐ฌ 64 ๐ 31My story yesterday; the Irish Times and I broke this now-international story and I am hoping he'll have some resolution and that this case will draw ever more scrutiny to the horrific conditions and circumstances in which so many detainees are held.
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An Irishman living in US for 20 years with a valid visa, no criminal record, married to a US citizen, kidnapped by ICE and sent to a concentration camp 2000 miles away for 5 months.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
๐ดThe End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff
As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborneโs Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-end-of...
I wrote this yesterday - Starmer could still turn his premiership around, if he finally, FINALLY, finds the courage to address the grubby circs which allow people like Mandelson to rise so far. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
07.02.2026 13:11 โ ๐ 528 ๐ 145 ๐ฌ 74 ๐ 32Dishonesty and cronyism have become embedded in our system. Brexit further corroded our institutions, weakened economy, destroyed trust. Itโs time for a proper, honest, cross-party, nationwide debate about the state of our democracy. Starmer could still be a transformative PM if he launched this.
09.02.2026 14:52 โ ๐ 118 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 1Itโs not easy being PM in challenging geopolitical times, under 24 hr watch. But, thatโs why mere tinkering, piecemeal reforms, or catchy slogan initiatives arenโt the answer. We need more profound, HONEST, review of our constitutional setup, national security posture, international relations. ๐งต
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