James Vaughan
@equusonthebuses.bsky.social
Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
How long before the Venezuela crisis gets spun as the latest chapter of the Protocols, then? Ah.
January 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM
How long before the Venezuela crisis gets spun as the latest chapter of the Protocols, then? Ah.
Reminding me that I'm looking forward to teaching my "how to be a propagandist" class next academic year...
January 3, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Reminding me that I'm looking forward to teaching my "how to be a propagandist" class next academic year...
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I am going to need UK political elites to accept they are going to have to start doing Gaullist foreign policy Right Now
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I am going to need UK political elites to accept they are going to have to start doing Gaullist foreign policy Right Now
1823 and all that…
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
1823 and all that…
Wintry scenes in the Ceredigion hills…
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Wintry scenes in the Ceredigion hills…
Intruder in the back yard this morning…
January 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Intruder in the back yard this morning…
A visit to Boundary Sports in King's Heath and a new tin hat. Might start hooking again next season....
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
A visit to Boundary Sports in King's Heath and a new tin hat. Might start hooking again next season....
#OnThisDay 1947: Communist Party 'Daily Worker' editorial on antisemitism in Britain. A tale of open plotting and incitement, government complacency, and police inactivity. All rather familiar other than the fact that you tend not to find this kind of moral clarity on the British left these days.
January 1, 2026 at 8:32 AM
#OnThisDay 1947: Communist Party 'Daily Worker' editorial on antisemitism in Britain. A tale of open plotting and incitement, government complacency, and police inactivity. All rather familiar other than the fact that you tend not to find this kind of moral clarity on the British left these days.
Blimey, I never expected to make it onto a @nation.cymru cultural highlights of the year reel. In at No. 3. The Loneliness of the Afternoon Drinker…
nation.cymru/feature/cult...
nation.cymru/feature/cult...
Cultural highlights 2025: Digital delights
Julie Brominicks I like rain, rock, moss and cold water. My favourite stage drapes are unzipped tent flaps. Books should be made of paper, the best coffee is drunk outdoors, I don’t have a phone and h...
nation.cymru
December 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Blimey, I never expected to make it onto a @nation.cymru cultural highlights of the year reel. In at No. 3. The Loneliness of the Afternoon Drinker…
nation.cymru/feature/cult...
nation.cymru/feature/cult...
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Sorry kids, revolution’s off.
December 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sorry kids, revolution’s off.
#OnThisDay 1986: Times obituary for Harold Macmillan - "the unflappable liberal dandy"
December 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#OnThisDay 1986: Times obituary for Harold Macmillan - "the unflappable liberal dandy"
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Reform are calling for someone with historic anti Jewish comments to have their a British citizenship removed.
December 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Reform are calling for someone with historic anti Jewish comments to have their a British citizenship removed.
A giant of Welsh cricket. RIP Hugh Morris www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
Hugh Morris obituary: Cricketer and former ECB chief leaves stellar legacy
Hugh Morris, who has died at the age of 62, enjoyed a distinguished career in which he led from the front both on and off the cricket field.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A giant of Welsh cricket. RIP Hugh Morris www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
Heron profiles. Olton Mere.
December 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Heron profiles. Olton Mere.
Additional Christmas reading 😁
December 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Additional Christmas reading 😁
Interesting Times of Israel feature on Polanski and the UK Greens by Robert Philpot. With guest appearances from @gsoh31.bsky.social and myself… www.timesofisrael.com/uks-jewish-a...
UK’s Jewish answer to Zohran Mamdani is now one of PM Keir Starmer’s biggest challenges
One of Britain's fastest-rising politicians, Zack Polanski, is taking his Green Party further down the road of far-left, anti-Israel politics - and reaping the political dividends
www.timesofisrael.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Interesting Times of Israel feature on Polanski and the UK Greens by Robert Philpot. With guest appearances from @gsoh31.bsky.social and myself… www.timesofisrael.com/uks-jewish-a...
Every coach in the world for about a hundred years: "Cricket is a side on game”
Ben Duckett…
Ben Duckett…
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Every coach in the world for about a hundred years: "Cricket is a side on game”
Ben Duckett…
Ben Duckett…
England have won a dead rubber Ashes test in Melbourne!
🎵 So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 🎵
🎵 So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 🎵
December 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
England have won a dead rubber Ashes test in Melbourne!
🎵 So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 🎵
🎵 So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 🎵
Another Aberystwyth sunset. With bonus starling murmuration…
December 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Another Aberystwyth sunset. With bonus starling murmuration…
Boxing Day stroll to the viewpoint over town…
December 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Boxing Day stroll to the viewpoint over town…
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We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Two old women are at a restaurant. One says: "Boy, the food here is really terrible." And the other replies: "Yeah, I know, and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about England Ashes tours - full of misery, suffering, and unhappiness, and all over much too quickly.
December 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Two old women are at a restaurant. One says: "Boy, the food here is really terrible." And the other replies: "Yeah, I know, and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about England Ashes tours - full of misery, suffering, and unhappiness, and all over much too quickly.
Christmas Day in Aberystwyth. Kinda exotic this year…
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Christmas Day in Aberystwyth. Kinda exotic this year…
Christmas goodies. Plus gin. 😁
December 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Christmas goodies. Plus gin. 😁
More cool Aberystwyth skies this evening. Happy Christmas Eve one n all…
December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
More cool Aberystwyth skies this evening. Happy Christmas Eve one n all…