@WilliamABooth

Historian of Latin America & the Left at UCL 🚩🏳️‍⚧️🕊️✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿 الحرية لفلسطين Hope there is plenty, just not for us. Views often different from my employers.

 Ipswich & Bloomsbury
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Joined August 2015
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Extraordinary pitch for power, even by their standards. Vote for us and we will plunge you into civil war! But it’s for your own good…
Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10Oct 18
A Restore Britain Government will do what needs to be done - civil unrest and rioting will inevitably follow. We must be ready for that, and the public must be prepared too. What needs to happen will be incredibly painful. But it is all absolutely necessary to save our home.
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JoeAce
@thecitydefenderOct 17
Nah, with this lineup, Ipswich can't even dream of scoring. This team will make them question why they became footballers. If they score one goal, I'll deactivate. I'm putting my reputation on the line for this.
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Yugoslavian Visuals
@YugoslavVisualsOct 16
Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad, a prime example of Yugoslavian Brutalism built in the 1970s.
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What the hell is this at Goodge Street!?
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Total transport breakdown today. Ipswich in gridlock for hours, then trains to London delayed almost an hour, then underground at a halting crawl. Broken (segment of) Britain!
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It’s now been taken down 😔
Out of Context Football Manager
@nocontextfm1Oct 12
The old Championship Manager has been released as a browser game and has been updated with 26/27 squads! 😍 ENJOY! - champman2627.co.uk/play
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Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternetOct 14
This is fucking nuts. What a model of conduct for authors theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support

Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest

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Alexander Aviña@Alexander_AvinaOct 14
Mark Ames@MarkAmesExiledOct 14
The CIA man running the Nazi ratline to Canada: “A career CIA officer, McManus worked with the organization from its creation in 1947 until 1970, when he retired and moved to apartheid South Africa for three years.  In the early 1960s, McManus was involved in Operation Mongoose”
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Deranged levels of disassociation here
BBC Newsnight
@BBCNewsnightOct 13
“You, society, are polarised; you are making it very easy for our adversaries.” Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, says the MI5 Chief’s speech today was directed at a society “besotted by social media” #Newsnight
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The use of the word ‘recalls’ is quite odd here. It’s technically correct I suppose, but it makes it sound like either a) she now remembers this happened, having forgotten it or b) she’s ninety years old and regaling her grandchildren with the tale
The Hollywood Reporter
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Keri Russell Recalls "Having Sex All the Time" With Matthew Rhys on 'The Americans' Set hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-…

Keri Russell Recalls “Having Sex All the Time” With Matthew Rhys on ‘The Americans’ Set

The couple met while filming the FX period spy drama, which ran from 2013 to 2018.

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Ooh interesting I wonder what the criteria are… oh, I see
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Is it just me or do you hardly ever hear about the Archbishop of Canterbury these days? And if so, it is as simple as that coinciding with a woman taking over the role? Of those in place since I was conscious of the news, the four prior to Mullally seemed to be covered frequently
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I think a good time and place for a hedgehog would have been running the country from 2010-2024 but instead we had Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak, none of whom was manifestly better at that job than a hedgehog.
Rebecca Paul MP
@Rebecca_SPaulOct 8
I love a hedgehog but there is a time and a place for them. We are not nursery children - please can we have inspirational people from the past who have contributed to our country back on our bank notes please @bankofengland. Let’s be proud of our history and recognise it on our legal tender.
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Joe Bilsborough@joebilsboroughOct 11
Thinking about this in relation to Will Davies recent excellent piece on similar lines - if economic conditions create, necessitate, and allow ways of thinking, communicating, interpreting the world, are we now solely in the era of the "influencer"? willd10.substack.com/p/what-…
John Merrick@johnpmerrickOct 10
With the recent deaths of so many of the great Marxist thinkers of recent decades –– Jameson, Mike Davis etc, and now Chris Wickham –– i do worry about who will replace them, considering the conditions that allowed them to thrive and produce such generative work no longer exist
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Marc Mulholland@kathederOct 10
Karl Kautsky once wrote about the sheer difficulty of writing history from the perspective of historical materialism. It's not just history-from-below or 'social justice' positioning, but a reach to structured totality. It's fair to say, I think, that Chris Wickham pulled it off.
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Sam Wetherell@samwetherellOct 10
RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.
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Terrorist caught in the act
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View from the office (yes, I need to clean the windows)
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Absolutely 100% correct. A bad-faith culture war faux-gotcha deflection. Nailed it completely.
Hadley Freeman@HadleyFreemanOct 9
“Does Israel have the right to exist?” is the new “What is a woman?”
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