Nick Shepley

Obviously the focus is on Plaid, Reform and Labour but the Conservatives also fell drastically - to 2% and a lost deposit. Hardly a ringing endorsement from the Welsh valleys for their recent turn to the far right

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Really enjoyed chatting with @nickshepley.bsky.social - available now to listen 👇 (with a super write up here: explaininghistory.org/2025/09/25/e...) #womenwealthpower

Economica: The Hidden History of Women, Wealth, and Power

I did a great interview yesterday with @vnbateman.bsky.social about her new book Economica, a history of women’s work, wealth and power: open.spotify.com/episode/6z8Q...

Economica: The Hidden History of Women, Wealth, and Power

I did a great interview yesterday with @vnbateman.bsky.social about her new book Economica, a history of women’s work, wealth and power: open.spotify.com/episode/6z8Q...

The Explaining History Podcast (@theexplaininghistorypodcast) The two Green Parties, the good and the bad

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I really enjoyed our conversation - thanks so much @nickshepley.bsky.social

A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.

What Plato can teach us about the crises of the 21st Century

I had a great chat with Professor Angie Hobbs, a regular guest on In Our Time today about what Plato would make of the bleak times in which we live: open.spotify.com/episode/10aj...

Silicon Valley’s quiet takeover How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are seeking to embed themselves in Britain’s vital infrastructure

Silicon Valley’s quiet takeover

How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are seeking to embed themselves in Britain’s vital infrastructure

By Ann Moody

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The Explaining History Podcast (@theexplaininghistorypodcast) Morgan McSweeney - historic agent of the British left

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The Explaining History Podcast (@theexplaininghistorypodcast) To everyone still insisting “this isn’t genocide”: listen to the perpetrators themselves. Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, openly declares: “We conquer, cleanse, and stay… we annihilate e...

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Theft of a Nation: Four Decades of Neoliberal Asset-Stripping There are economic disasters you read about in history books – the South Sea Bubble, the Wall Street Crash, the oil shocks of the 1970s – and then there is the slow-motion calamity that Britain sleepw...

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Huge congrats on the book!

Cheers David! Just missing that special secret ingredient ‘the reader’ now.

The Blood of Tharta: A Fire in the Heart of Knowing: Book One Buy The Blood of Tharta: A Fire in the Heart of Knowing: Book One by Shepley, Nick (ISBN: 9798314942048) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Promoting things is an almost unbearable experience, a feeling of fingernails being dragged down the blackboard of my soul…but I did write a book and a pretty good one at that (I think). For all fans of dark fantasy, political intrigue and that sort of thing: amzn.eu/d/4oLkENa

Israel’s Ministry of Subversion How Israel mirrors Russia's and China's information warfare playbook

Israel’s Diaspora Ministry is running a Russia-style info war on Europe’s democracies building networks of 'useful idiots' to shield its actions in Gaza and West Bank from accountability

Time to list Israel's Ministry of #Subversion as a threat

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The Explaining History Podcast (@theexplaininghistorypodcast) Hi folks, here’s the full post and episode for today, it was a fascinating interview with Sir Barney White-Spunner, please do check it out - https://explaininghistory.org/2025/07/31/nations-in-arms-fi...

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That would be great, I hope you’re well

David! Let’s catch up and chat one time, it would be great to say hi.

Sweden urges EU to freeze trade deal with Israel over Gaza aid blockade - Euractiv “Using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare constitutes a war crime,” the country's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said

The Swedish government is calling on the EU to freeze its trade deal with Israel in an effort to pressure the country into allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza.

In doing so, Stockholm has joined Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg...

The Explaining History Podcast (@theexplaininghistorypodcast) Hi folks, here’s the full post and episode for today, it was a fascinating interview with Sir Barney White-Spunner, please do check it out - https://explaininghistory.org/2025/07/31/nations-in-arms-fi...

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Hello pals, The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver is currently in Waterstones' summer pre-order sale. Spend a little now, and give yourself a winter of wild magic.

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YouTube video by Novara Media EXCLUSIVE: Zarah Sultana's First Interview Since Resigning From The Labour Party

Here's my very first interview since resigning from the Labour Party with @novaramedia.com:

Let’s not start tearing each other apart on the left just yet? Things are, for once, looking up.

Let’s not start tearing each other apart on the left just yet? Things are, for once, looking up.

Remember long ago, last summer, when the US armed forces literally "built a port" (and yes, that was the framing) to ensure aid got into Gaza.

And then took it away again, quietly, less than a month later...

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When they wake up to the scope of the democratic threat that is forging, the forces of British reaction will wage all out war

“maybe [the police] had something better to do. Maybe they’ve seen sense and decided that the Human Rights Act, which enables us to speak freely, is more important than the Terrorism Act, which forbids us from speaking freely.” - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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You can see by their actions. Rachel Reeves knows she won’t survive for long so is even considering actions like depriving consumers of compensation for missold car loans - electoral suicide but will certainly help in her upcoming flashy role in finance