My theory is that the HTSI subs are a crypto communist cell, dedicated to humiliating the wealthy via pull quotes

I don't think anyone else will have noticed, so I'm dropping by to wish myself a happy 30th anniversary.

What a Carve Up!, published by Viking Books on 28 April, 1994.

Add in Northern Europe 12-14 C below April averages; tornadoes in the MidWest, breathtaking anomalies across Africa and you’ve got an #EarthTransformed . Via Amyn Merchant

It's weird how accustomed to this sort of thing we are. Sunak's exasperation here comes from a flat presumption that other people have simply no right to know when there's going to be an election or a tax rise and it's inherently petty and annoying of them to want to find out.

This BBC Radio 3 interview with Sathnam Sanghera is excellent. He says a lot of deeply considered things in his unpretentious way, not just about Empire, but (as a fellow Midland-er), I really identify with what he says about its shaping force.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Mail. Vile. See a problem. Find anything to make it worse. Populism at work. Now watch the populist bandwagoners leap aboard.

You could make a better case that British politics is remaking itself but that it’s the Tory party which is broken and that Frost has very much helped to break it

Another dull, routine, normalized, old hat, yawn-inducing reminder that Trump is into executions. But honestly, who cares.

Below the Line Comments in newspapers

I recently wrote an article about what I learned from answering hate mail after co-authoring the National Trust
report on the colonial connections of its properties. In response there are over 1,300 comments below this article, much of it…

1. For anyone who fancies a free online course about how country houses are connected to the British Empire. By my Colonial Countryside project. Course link in the post below
youtube.com/watch?v=xb1yt8…

Sathnam Sanghera I just watched your PBS documentary and want to say how much I enjoyed it. Superbly explained and showed up a certain type of person who still have rose tinted glasses of the savagery that this country dished out and unfortunately think this is acceptable. 🙏

Just watched Sathnam Sanghera Sanghera’s PBS documentary on Amritsar massacre.
A well-known story - essentially retold.
Especially when we see how the lies told about it have influenced subsequent generations.
I understand now why apologies are important
pbsamerica.co.uk/series/the-mas…

The British Army's Red River Expedition of 1870 is regarded as 'among the most arduous in history”. It made the reputation of the 'very model of a modern major general', who went on to become Commander in Chief, Garnet Wolseley.
But did it become legendary only because of…

it's never going to be warm and sunny again is it

Sathnam Sanghera My partner happened to stumble across this today. It’s blown my mind! My wonderful amazing grandad. And just one day after I finished watching the brilliant documentary Defiance and was thinking about my grandads journey in all of this

Frank Field told me that the biggest change in the UK he had seen in his life-time was the return of genuine hunger in the UK

I am a great believer in letting nature have its way. But this fat wisteria in Sheen, south-west London, is truly extraordinary. Are the residents very thin? The gap is about 10 inches.

Iran wants to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for daring to criticise the regime & support the uprising. The kind of man who donates award money to flood victims. His only hope is if we make him a cause célèbre -spread the word, get politicians celebs involved before it’s too late.

This year a dramatised walking tour in the City about the East India Company will feature at the JLF London. Tickets now on sale for 7, 15, 16 June. Book here. bit.ly/3WklbAR

Pl RT Shrabani Basu Sathnam Sanghera Kat Feavers David Veevers Vikram Doraiswami The Authors CC The East India Company