Tomorrow at Warwick University: a talk on postwar Soviet famine of 1946-7 and why its was the most devastating in number of dystrophies, excess deaths, and cannibalism in present day Moldova, as a matter of fact in historical Bessarabia.

So I’ve been busy the last three weeks, working towards this. ⬇️

Without an emergency funding package from GOV.UK & Welsh Government, Welsh National Opera will become part-time. My public statement is available below, along with 176 signatures. 🧵1/5 #SaveWNO

thetimes.co.uk/article/40c462…

Reminds me of the time John Major, in similar electoral difficulty, said ‘When your back’s to the wall, you’ve got to turn around and fight.’ Advice that would lead to you fighting a wall.

So the same Rwandan government Rishi Sunak insists will provide a 'safe' haven for refugees arriving in the UK, has now been blamed for the bombing of a refugee camp bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🧵 Thread of courageous ukrainian women who took part in social video of “Teresa & Maria” by Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil ⬇️⬇️

Chablis update. Nathalie Fevre on local tv this am. They have holdings of Preuses plus Chablis, Vauleront & Fourchaume below Fontenay. Confirming they have lost everything. Her best hope is that the vines grow enough to be able to prune properly next winter. No 2024 vendange.

I’ve been tweeting for ages about Post Office private prosecutors probably using Public Interest Immunity (‘PII’) applications to mislead courts about their bug-ridden Horizon system and remote access. It gives me no pleasure to be proved correct today. They should be in jail.

London must not fall to the unspeakable Susan Hall.

The most mendacious, mean, mindless bigot ever to have run for high office.

The race is much closer than you think. Don't afford yourself the luxury of not voting to stop her.

Good morning, Europe from sleepless Georgia!

'Let's not leave each other,
When we need one another.
Herio, boys, herio,
Don't make our enemy happy!'

Tbilisi (03:30 AM), the capital of unbroken souls 🇬🇪

🚨🚨 This. This. This. Incredibly moving film making the case for the EU as the most significant peace project in modern history. Must-watch but more importantly think about their important message: ' Live democracy. Take care of democracy.' Too many have forgotten it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

For my UK friends in MANCHESTER: May 2, 17.00-18.00, please join my talk on Soviet postwar famine, explaining why it was the most severe in present-day Moldova, based on Moldovan, Ukrainian, and Russian archives. VENUE: The University of Manchester, University Place, Room 4.210.

Baroness Chakrabarti: Rwanda isn't really about stopping the boats, it's about stopping the courts... & this will lead to Sunak & his chums saying, at the next GE, let's pull out of the ECHR..

Robert Jenrick: I do support leaving the ECHR

#bbclaurak #TrevorPhillips

There are literally people on here, my fellow citizens, who believe that international students are subsidised or paid for by the UK state, and that the HE sector could survive without them. It couldn't even survive without constant increases in their number! (1/2)

When the horror starts for all of us, regular immigrants, second generation citizens, people with strange-sounding names, communities that celebrate different holidays, we will ask ourselves at what point it could have still been stopped. At THIS point.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

In 2019, Ellie Grigsby created the world's first memorial to the facially disfigured soldiers of WWI. Her work inspired me when writing THE FACEMAKER. Now, Ellie is struggling to finish the final year of her PhD due to a lack of funding. Please help - justgiving.com/crowdfunding/e…

Don't sleep on the symbolism of a masked man in military attire 'arresting' a philosophy professor on a university campus for engaging in peaceful protest.

The UK will finally impose checks on EU fresh food next week.

I've tracked the journey bacon takes from Denmark to the UK, to illustrate the new reality of Brexit - that while trade doesn't stop, it's about to become harder and that bit more expensive
bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The Center for Computing History in Cambridge (UK) has this little diorama of the Alamogordo Atari Burial Site, where 728,000 Atari games were buried after the video game collapse of 1983