I mean, there's a *word* for it...
Stamford Bridge is open for transit, English king Harold Godwinson said. “The only thing prohibiting transit across the bridge right now is a huge Norwegian berserker hacking people to pieces with an axe,” he said. “It is open for transit should the beserker not do that.”
Stirling Bridge is open for transit, English commander John de Warenne said. “The only thing prohibiting transit across the bridge right now is a huge army of Scots ready to attack it,” he said. “It is open for transit should the Scots not do that.”
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻
Yes, but that was during the reign of King Offa, who threatened his neighbours, built a wall along his border, and started a trade war with Europe. It's totally different now.
EXCL: Reform UK have been processing cryptocurrency donations through Poland, under a 'lax' regulatory regime which previously housed a Cambodian crime syndicate sanctioned by the US Treasury for laundering $4 billion in illicit funds (inc. proceeds from North Korean state-sponsored cyber heists)
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My brilliant friend Christine is offering her services as a proof-reader / copy-editor / academic mentor. If your thesis or book could do with a spruce before submission/publication, check out her website: athenaeumediting.co.uk
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
On 2 May I'll be talking about Edward I at the Canterbury Medieval Weekend. history-weekends.org/programme/ed...
Unimprovable English names, part 94: Sir Cloudsley Shovel.
Well, I hope the US said thank-you.
Spotted in Rochester High Street.
Unimprovable English names, part 94: Sir Cloudsley Shovel.
Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight.
He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.
GB News is both broadcasting + clipping "there is a genocide happening in this island" due to immigration and demographic change, by Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former digital campaign adviser to Johnson's Conservatives.
Join me this summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
As I was saying...
In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
Are they doing this to distract from the war with Iran?
www.standard.co.uk/news/world/u...
I remember first seeing that shop as a teenager and staring at it in amazement.
Apart from staggering imbecility this exhibits, I'm going to guess that none of the content has been cleared for use with its original creators.
Are they doing this to distract from the war with Iran?
www.standard.co.uk/news/world/u...
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
