Vron Ware

@vronsta.bsky.social

Writer and taker of pictures. Books like Beyond the Pale: white women, racism and history (1992), Return of a Native: learning from the Land (2022) and England's Military Heartland: preparing for war on Salisbury Plain (with 3 m8s). http://vronware.org .. more

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Vron Ware is a British academic and visiting professor at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously a professor at Kingston University, editor of Searchlight magazine from 1981 to 1983, and worked as a freelance journalist until 1987, when she co-founded the Women's Design Service. She taught cultural geography at the University of Greenwich from 1992 to 1999, sociology and gender studies at Yale University from 1999 to 2005, and was senior research fellow at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the Open University from 2008 to 2014. .. more

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 7h

📹NEW VIDEO -- Starmer's 'prince of darkness' resigns amid Epstein scandal

We spoke with investigative journalist Paul Holden, whose book The Fraud dramatically exposed Morgan McSweeney's corrosive influence on British politics👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5K8...

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 15h

👉 NEW VIDEO -- Kneecap manager Daniel Lambert's explosive speech on the Israel lobby, music industry and BBC, at the @declassifieduk.org summit.

Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OJB...

Kneecap's explosive speech on the Israel lobby, music industry and BBC

YouTube video by Declassified UK

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Israel spraying pesticide (that are banned in the EU) over south Lebanon as part of its ongoing campaign of ecocide. The goal is simple: to make sure that life itself is rendered impossible.

This remains rarely reported in the news despite them doing so for years.

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Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social · 6d

Did you by any chance catch the Michael Mosley radio programme Just One Thing on the benefit of nature which was aired again last week? Fortunately I missed it but was recommended to listen to it subsequently due to its sublimely ironic content. I managed about five mins.

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Mark Curtis @markcurtis30.bsky.social · 6d

In 1953, MI6 and the CIA overthrew Iran's democracy.

British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show👇

www.declassifieduk.org/iran-1953-mi...

Iran 1953: MI6 plots with Islamists to overthrow democracy

Declassified British files highlight a little known aspect of the joint MI6/CIA coup against Iran’s democratically elected government in August 1953 – UK covert action in support of leading radical Sh...

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 6d

👉NEW -- The 24-site US military network in Britain worth £11 billion

by @markcurtis30.bsky.social

America’s War Department owns more military and intelligence sites in Britain than the government has told parliament
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The 24-site US military network in Britain worth £11 billion

America’s War Department owns more military and intelligence sites in Britain than the government has told parliament

www.declassifieduk.org

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 12d

Less than a week to sign up for our exciting showcase of new research directions in migration and mobility history, ft. Vikings, Germans in interwar Turkey, Cumann na mBan & female Indian scholars in England with @ihr.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social 3rd Feb, book here: tinyurl.com/3bxsdy32

Migration and Mobility History

The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 14d

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.

IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.

Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social · 16d

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The AGtivist investigates the march of the megafarms

Government data shows that the number of “megafarms” in the UK increased by 21 per cent between 2017-2024…

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 16d

Reform UK’s new ‘shadow chancellor’ Robert Jenrick attended a protest organised by Homeland and posed for photos with on of Eddy Butler, one of the founders of neo-Nazi Combat 18.

You’ve got to question his motives and judgement.

Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at Epping anti-refugee protest

Robert Jenrick pictured with Eddy Butler, former member of Nazi terror group Combat 18 EXCLUSIVE Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has attended a

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 18d

👉NEW -- Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders

by John McEvoy

Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.
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Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without Borders

Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 20d

The UK at the UN calls for "action" to help the International Criminal Court prosecute Sudanese including "to assist the ICC by sharing satellite imagery" -- what the UK refused to do in the case of Gaza for two years.

You couldn't make it up.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 23d

UK sets up a new “business centre” in Ukraine aimed at “opening up new markets for UK defence companies”.

The Ukraine war has created a new market and Labour sees the war as an engine for British economic growth.

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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 26d

A small pilgrimage and a prayer for the victims of the New Cross massacre on my way to the event for LKJ tonight. Not forgotten.

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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · Jan 9

BBC Newsbeat features ForcesWatch warning the UK MOD is targeting young gamers, with a defence minister admitting recruitment “targets the youngest demographics.”

This raises urgent questions about consent, transparency and the militarisation of youth culture.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Could gamers be the secret weapon of a modern UK military?

The British Armed Forces has asked gamers and coders to consider signing up, but can it convince them?

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Dec 29

👉 NEW -- The UK seeks to arm Syria

by @markcurtis30.bsky.social

The British government has a new policy promoting weapons exports to Syria, whose regime is led by former Al-Qaeda operatives.

www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-seeks...

The UK seeks to arm Syria

The British government has a new policy promoting weapons exports to Syria, whose regime is led by former Al-Qaeda operatives

www.declassifieduk.org

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Dec 29

Some senior Tories have been pushing for the UK to recognise Somaliland.

Oil company Genel Energy has an exploration well there. On its board sits former diplomat Sir Dominick Chilcott. Until 2024 its deputy chair was ex-defence sec Sir Michael Fallon.

www.declassifieduk.org/gavin-willia...

Gavin Williamson kept lobbying for Somaliland amid civil war

Britain’s former defence secretary made a paid-for trip to the unrecognised African state after it allegedly bombed a hospital.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Dec 16

Join us on Wednesday at 6.30pm UK time, live on YouTube.

Just go here 👉 youtube.com/declassifieduk

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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · Dec 9

“Colour your own F-35” worksheets and missile simulators in classrooms?

@thebristolcable.bsky.social's Michal Grant digs into how deeply the arms industry has pushed into Bristol’s secondary schools and how educators and community groups are now pushing back.

https://tinyurl.com/39txpvbz

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Dec 8

We're more than half way to our £25,000 target ahead of 2026.

This has been our most impactful year to date, thanks to all our readers and donors for your support.

If you can afford to please chip in today 👇 secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180998/...

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · Nov 29

New piece of archival writing on the "Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean and the Middle East", held in Athens in 1957

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The Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean and the MIddle East

A cutting from the newspaper Avgi from 3 November 1957. The headline reads “The Anticolonial Conference”. Way up town in the northern suburbs, a group of delegates representing Greece, …

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Dec 3

👉NEW -- Kenyan politicians accuse British army of ‘contempt’ for their country

by Phil Miller

A two-year-long inquiry into the conduct of UK soldiers in east Africa reveals a catalogue of abuses.

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · Nov 29

New piece of archival writing on the "Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean and the Middle East", held in Athens in 1957

undercartographies.city/2025/11/29/t...

The Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean and the MIddle East

A cutting from the newspaper Avgi from 3 November 1957. The headline reads “The Anticolonial Conference”. Way up town in the northern suburbs, a group of delegates representing Greece, …

undercartographies.city

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Nov 27

👉NEW -- Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?

by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad

Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Nov 20

Labour ministers are spending £1.5bn of public money on 6 new arms factories "to boost the UK's warfighting readiness" and contribute to "defence as an engine for growth" and "national renewal".

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Nov 17

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece on the 75th anniversary of the ECHR - and how it is threatened by the vicious politics of resentment that Labour and the Tories have enabled/encouraged in the past 20 years. This to me is what lies beneath the asylum "debate".
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How the European convention on human rights became a battleground between the centre and the right | Daniel Trilling

For 20 years, populists have been blaming the ECHR for endangering Britain by offering basic protections to immigrants, says author Daniel Trilling

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Nov 14

I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown.
www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR

How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

www.equator.org

Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social · Nov 7

jesus...and none of them ticked none of the above

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Nov 5

British soldiers paused firing white phosphorus in Kenya after Declassified revealed the munition was routinely being used there.

The policy change was disclosed in a witness statement the British army gave to a Kenyan parliamentary inquiry.

www.declassifieduk.org/british-army...