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Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

16.07.2025 05:16 — 👍 2893    🔁 1032    💬 187    📌 131

Big thanks to the @1972shp.bsky.social family for a brilliant #SHP25 conference. Really enjoyed working with @oblaize.bsky.social and everyone who joined our session on Nigeria 1950-1980, Fela Kuti et al. We 'waka, waka, waka' till #SHP26!

15.07.2025 08:24 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

05.06.2025 07:44 — 👍 795    🔁 543    💬 19    📌 31

We Need to Challenge “Legacies” as Well as “Balance” When Teaching the British Empire Alan Lester Balance Fortunately educators are now increasingly sceptical about the idea of teaching the British Empire as a matter of balance between the ‘good’ and the ‘bad&#8217…

Why the terms ‘balance’ and ‘legacies’ should both be avoided when teaching the British Empire:
alanlester.co.uk/blog/we-need...

29.05.2025 06:10 — 👍 21    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 0

What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism

"DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

11.02.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1. Thread: Nottingham university slavery report. Times article below demonstrates why we have impoverished debates about UK slavery history. Like the coverage of the
@nationaltrust report, this article actively discourages serious engagement with research findings.

25.11.2024 12:58 — 👍 86    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 5

‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers From family life to fairground glamour, across Ireland and the UK, the photographer wanted to show a different side to a group whose way of life is dying out ‘Come in,” a woman yelled at Sam Wright from her caravan, “you’re gonna get soaked!” He was at…

‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers

21.11.2024 16:29 — 👍 96    🔁 21    💬 7    📌 3

🧵 Tips on Teaching the British Empire 1/8
Talking to teachers lately, it seems a condensed guide to the main foundations of the C19 British Empire might be helpful. Here's how I introduce if to first year undergrads in three 50m sessions.

05.11.2024 12:08 — 👍 34    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 2

Inspiring day at the New Perspectives Conference on African & Caribbean History in Britain. The young scholars from @YoungHistoriansProject and Hackney BSix College showcased excellent research & powerful personal stories. Grateful to all the other presenters + Hakim Adi & Lucy Capes for organising.

09.11.2024 19:04 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

RIP Paul Stephenson, who has died aged 87.

He organised the successful Bristol bus boycott of 1963, now recognised as an important moment in British social history - by winning the argument against racial discrimination in practice, and then in law too.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

03.11.2024 20:26 — 👍 597    🔁 226    💬 6    📌 9

Microsoft Forms

I'm working on the @1972shp.bsky.social submission for the Curriculum Review and would be grateful for some responses to a quick survey about the state of history in primary and secondary schools forms.office.com/e/DFyTm6ZEKv

04.11.2024 14:41 — 👍 24    🔁 27    💬 6    📌 1

What a fab (open access) article by Tom Scriven in @historywo.bsky.social : '"The Black Prince of Baker Street" and the Black Presence in Britain, 1837-1849'. Straight onto my required readings for 'Law's Empire' next term. Caribbean, continental European & British histories entwined.

04.11.2024 16:14 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0