Andrew Hobbs

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".

and they’ll apply this to the asylum hotel protests and flag shaggers too right? right?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

Keir Starmer

What are my three favourite euphemisms for sex you ask?

I dunno about the rest of you, but I want my cardiologist to relax and rest rather than spend her off-time picking litter and sweeping the streets.

Zotero, fully searchable, links your notes to bibliographical details, and does all the references for you in Word

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

James Watson, 1799 - 1874 - chartist ancestors James Watson was one of the quartet of radical London publishers who were at the heart of the battle of the unstamped press and later went on to form the London Working Men's Association. Influenced b...

James Watson, leader of the campaign for a free press, radical publisher, supporter of the Dorchester labourers and Chartist, was born #OnThisDay 21 September 1799
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/james-watson...

Your La vie Parisienne cover by birth month. On left is an image of a woman in a billowing shirt, breeches and striped stockings and a jaunty hat, holding an artists palette. On right in an Amazon, clad in helmet and Minoan style two-piece, brandishing spear and shield

Your La Vie Parisienne cover by birth month.

Some silliness from the historical periodicals for your #Friday. #c19th

Yes. TAMU tape can be paired w countless memoirs of Red Guards calling out teachers for deviation from Great Leader Thought during Cultural Revolution catastrophe. "According to Our President, this is illegal."

Cancellations at West Point (Tom Hanks!) and USAFA

Cultural Revolution is the parallel

What's not to like about this amazing opportunity for a dedicated periodicals studies scholar! Apps due by Oct 15.

Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Myers-Briggs types I’d like to see

NCFS - never too cold for shorts
PTHC - a pleasure to have in class
GDNR - gives directions for no reason
HDAY - halloween decorations all year
VAEN - volume always on even numbers

When I voted Labour, I didn’t really want them to follow Suella Braverman’s policies.

SHAPE Involve and Engage A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

Keen to reach new audiences? We are offering up to £8k to humanities and social sciences researchers to deliver public engagement projects working in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum. Deadline 15th Oct
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

Really makes you think.

How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead of reclaiming voters.

The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it.
A few examples in 🧵:
theconversation.com/how-should-l...

How do you move 1000 people? One link train with four cars, 15 buses, or 625 cars requiring over 5 acres of parking at both start and destination.

What does it take to move 1000 people? Better infrastructure supporting mobility choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money, etc).

Graphic via Seattle Subway based on a Sydney graphic I spread around years ago.

The likely impact of introducing even more barriers to safe family reunification for refugees is that MORE people will instead take dangerous smugglers’ routes to reunite with their loved ones.

& then Labour, Tories & Reform can demonise THEM on #r4today too. Yay.

Israel murders journalists. Keep their voices alive. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

Patrick: "I joined ACORN to protect myself and others in my community against profit seeking private landlords"

ACORN are leading the fight for better housing in Lambeth
Join Patrick at ACORN Lambeth
www.acorntheunion.org.uk/join
Or the link in our bio
#Lambeth #Housing

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…

…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.

Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

From The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

A Blast from the Stacks: An interview with Bob Dickinson - Working Class Movement Library Drawing from his own experiences writing for some of these papers as well as in-depth interviews with a range of different projects, Bob’s book traces the development and evolution of Greater Manchest...

A Blast from the Stacks!

Read the latest update from The People's Papers as Arielle Lawson, a PhD student participating in the University of Manchester's Humanities PGR Placement Scheme at the library, interviews Bob Dickinson, author of Imprinting the Sticks.

wcml.org.uk/blog/a-blast...

New blog post with an update on the "People's Papers" archival research project up now on the @wcmlibrary.bsky.social website!

wcml.org.uk/blog/a-peek-...

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

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What if your town’s culture vanished overnight?

Libraries are capturing online pages that showcase community life, preserving the web we built

Learn more in our blog ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/27/p...