Danny Vincent

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UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

“…detailed legal review led by shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson of Tredegar concluded that the ECHR placed "significant constraints" on the government.” >>> Well, duh, what do they think a human rights instrument is meant to do? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Illustration to Milton`s L`Allegro and Il Penseroso

Illustration to Milton`s L`Allegro and Il Penseroso https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-milton-s-l-allegro-and-il-penseroso-1820

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While everyone else called the late pope Francis I, George Lucas insisted that he was actually called Francis IV.

This.

Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.

That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.

And some unwise people clap and cheer.

We're joining our friends at Sudafest along with @refugeeweek.bsky.social to start building a network for a Refugee Week in Bath. You can join us this Friday 10am at the Roman Baths for a planning meeting. To register your interest, please email Sudafest at the address on the poster.

The thwarted Marxist of Balliol Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.

Terrific from Richard Evans on Christopher Hill and his generation of Marxist historians.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

The Louis E. Stern Collection

In-text plate (folio 4) from Poésie de mots inconnus, 1949

How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaraman Ganesh Sitaraman looks at what two recent books – Classical Greek Oligarchy by Matthew Simonton and Oligarchy by Jeffrey Winters – can teach us about defending democracy from oligarchs

“For an oligarchy to remain in power, the people must . . . be divided so they cannot overthrow their oppressors.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pompeii: Spectacular new discoveries unearthed include private spa A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash.

After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thanks to bluesky folks I figured out how to mostly disable this. Here's how for a Mac: bsky.app/profile/mali...

And here's how for a PC: bsky.app/profile/mali...

This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.

Exactly this. The process of writing is creative construction that forces nebulent ideas into defined, defendable structures

Abandoning Syrian Kurds will derail Trump’s agenda - Washington Examiner Trump has so far shown more discipline than in his first term; he sidesteps distractions and many of the political fights that hampered his first-term agenda.

Abandoning Syrian Kurds will derail Trump’s agenda www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3284...

The Helios exhibition at the Assembly Rooms, Bath.

The jaw dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire - Sir John Betjeman said it was "worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see." It's hard to believe that this beautiful example of medieval craftsmanship is under threat #thread

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

‘The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw.’

Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In an age of mis- and disinformation, Dr Parcak's point here—"what else is he BSing?"—is really, really important. Michael Crichton talked about Gell-Mann Amnesia: the way we recognise nonsense about our own specialism(s), but then often treat other claims from the same source with credulity

The rise in how solitary we are is a huge change with fascinating implications to think through. This article is focused on US - but a deep and super interesting discussion

Le Pen was ALREADY an extreme-right MP when he volunteered for service in Algeria. He'd been selling extreme-right publications on the street as early as the end of 1944.

In the context of the unfair levels of grief, stereotyping and villainisation that young people are subjected to in this country, this in Leeds is lovely. The kids are alright

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Less than a handful of seats left for my Bath show this weekend.

They are almost all gone!

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It’s not just that the Shadow Justice minister claims Muslims are an “alien” & “medieval” culture & that Muslim migration has caused mass sexual violence.

It’s not just that he’s still in post.

It’s not just that it seems not to be news.

It’s that we’re expected to think this is all quite normal.

A reminder that there are FOURTEEN TIMES more Lib Dem MPs in Parliament than there are Reform MPs. Three times as many independents. And nearly as many Greens.

We should not be paying so much attention to them.

Just had a look at the other place and saw lots of people who have been supporting divisive public figures are suddenly upset that there's a lot of divisiveness flying about.

Enjoyed this episode, especially hearing @edithmayhall.bsky.social talk about how Aristotle is part of the slang for 'ass', and I've heard it go further : aris->Paris->April in Paris->April, hence the Del Boy line "my April was going a butterfly" in one Fools & Horses episode.

In Viz's 'Roger's Profanisaurus', they define a 'kekspresso' as a burst of diarrhoea.

Excellent thread, read to the end.

Killed women count: 80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024 Throughout the year the Guardian aimed to report on every woman whose death has led to a man being charged

The Guardian has named the 80 women murdered this year where a man was charged. One every 3 days.

Terrible. So many husbands, boyfriends, even brothers & sons are killers.
What is behind this?

2024 is the year I realised I truly do not understand men.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...