I’m thinking of starting a podcast where I interview the last three people who ‘viewed me on LinkedIn’ and I ask them one question: “What on earth was going through your mind?”

Many congrats to David Olusoga Francis Welch Kat Feavers Wall to Wall Media BBC Two & team on winning the VLV Award for Best TV News & Factual programme for Union following David as he traces the events, people & forces that transformed four separate nations into a single United Kingdom.

What a read by Sathnam Sanghera 🤯. I’m by and large a fiction fan, but every now and again something comes along that I think is so important I need to share it with everyone- this is one of those times! Need to get this on the secondary curriculum 👩‍🏫. #read #book #read ing #edutwitter

So, Nigel Farage - one of the founders & owners of Reform UK - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @ofcom. The leader of the party Richard Tice 🇬🇧 & its only MP Lee Anderson MP can

James O'Brien Private Eye.

To celebrate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday, here are his 46 best (and strangest) insults:

The PM of Barbados puts a pause on the acquisition of Sir Richard Drax’s
land, and announces consultations - following a backlash against the idea that he’d be paid for the land on which his ancestors enslaved Africans.
H/T plashmar and Jonathan Smith
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1/5. I know I’m going on about this a lot but for someone who’s quite invested in historical truth, I think it’s really important to respond now that Kemi Badenoch has unleashed those dogs of culture war, the The Telegraph and @iealondo, by denying the role of colonial exploitation

This is a huge story, by any measure, the UK print media is so embedded at one end of the political spectrum it refuses to see this.

Britain should be as angry about this as about the Post Office scandal

Suella Braverman's decision to abandon three post-Windrush reform pledges was unlawful, the High Court hears

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If you put Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for an infinite amount of time, he’d eventually come up with the complete works of the Monkees

To 'bad people' in the middle of the night?

Sathnam Sanghera We really do. Event started with David Johnson, a proud Gweagal man and descendant of one of the warriors who opposed the landing of Captain Cook giving the view from the shore. Powerful reminder of how rarely we hear this perspective and how much we learn when we do

This happened at Trinity College, Cambridge, today. We have it within us to be a grownup country. #Empireworld

This 1970 list of National Front policies is now only “Restore capital punishment” away from a Conservatives full house in 2024.

And I bet they’d like to.

🧵from Alan Lester on the IEA’s effort to undermine link between empire and Britain’s economic expansion (not as the sole modus of that expansion). I expect this exchange will be expanded on over the next while. Lester’s measured, clear position should be your starting point.

Happy St George’s Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 I wish today could simply be about celebrating my home nation. Perhaps one day April 23rd will inspire community and belonging for all who call England home. Until then, we'll need to have difficult conversations…like this one, with my dad. #BothNotHalf

This week is Black Maternal Health Awareness Week

Black women are still more likely to experience trauma during and after childbirth. Black women are 3X more likely to die in childbirth - systemic racism in medical settings plays a huge part in this