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.
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…
#OnThisDay 1988: Bernard Cookson's cartoon in The Sun responding to the bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie - still the deadliest ever terrorist attack in the UK
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#OnThisDay 1988: Bernard Cookson's cartoon in The Sun responding to the bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie - still the deadliest ever terrorist attack in the UK
One of my favourite examples of what I shall call nominative indeterminism. The leading British pro-Zionist archaeologist in mandatory Palestine and Israel was called, I kid you not, P.L.O. Guy.
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One of my favourite examples of what I shall call nominative indeterminism. The leading British pro-Zionist archaeologist in mandatory Palestine and Israel was called, I kid you not, P.L.O. Guy.
Aberystwyth sunset…
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Aberystwyth sunset…
Casual antisemitism on BBC TV in the 1960s. 'Softly, Softly' was a Z Cars spin-off police drama. The episode in question was broadcast in February 1968...
December 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Casual antisemitism on BBC TV in the 1960s. 'Softly, Softly' was a Z Cars spin-off police drama. The episode in question was broadcast in February 1968...
Raging Bull’s on telly. Always thought than the ring announcer at the end of the Reeves fight looks a bit like Rigsby from Rising Damp…
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Raging Bull’s on telly. Always thought than the ring announcer at the end of the Reeves fight looks a bit like Rigsby from Rising Damp…
“Over-prepared”
Our generation’s “We flippin’ murdered ‘em!”
Our generation’s “We flippin’ murdered ‘em!”
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Over-prepared”
Our generation’s “We flippin’ murdered ‘em!”
Our generation’s “We flippin’ murdered ‘em!”