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.
It’s a shame that the follow up tweet is a not so thinly veiled dig at concerns about left-wing antisemitism. Why do some people assume it has to be a zero sum game?
January 10, 2026 at 5:24 PM
It’s a shame that the follow up tweet is a not so thinly veiled dig at concerns about left-wing antisemitism. Why do some people assume it has to be a zero sum game?
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It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
One of my favourite anti-appeasement cartoons. George Whitelaw goes after Halifax and Chamberlain in the Daily Herald #OnThisDay 1938
January 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
One of my favourite anti-appeasement cartoons. George Whitelaw goes after Halifax and Chamberlain in the Daily Herald #OnThisDay 1938
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"White supremacists would have you believe that they’re trying to protect people like Renee Good from people like George Floyd. Instead, Floyd and Good were both sacrificed to the same false god." publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...
The Poison Always Drips Through
On Renee Good and George Floyd
publiccomment.blog
January 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
"White supremacists would have you believe that they’re trying to protect people like Renee Good from people like George Floyd. Instead, Floyd and Good were both sacrificed to the same false god." publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...
One of the few references to her I’ve seen in the British press is about the Haganah refugee ship named after her in 1945. Comes in a distinctly uncomfortable Daily Mirror article about British officials in Palestine setting dogs on Jewish Holocaust survivors…
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
One of the few references to her I’ve seen in the British press is about the Haganah refugee ship named after her in 1945. Comes in a distinctly uncomfortable Daily Mirror article about British officials in Palestine setting dogs on Jewish Holocaust survivors…
Pretty amazing this. The story of Hannah Shenesh… www.thejc.com/life/books/t...
The Jewish woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe - The Jewish Chronicle
Jennifer Lipman meets the author of a new book about Zionist paratrooper and poet Hannah Senesh
www.thejc.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Pretty amazing this. The story of Hannah Shenesh… www.thejc.com/life/books/t...
Or The Telegraph?
January 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Or The Telegraph?
Avalanche threat in Wales??? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Storm Goretti sparks Wales avalanche warning and travel disruption
There are areas of unstable snow in several locations near the top of Yr Wyddfa, said the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Avalanche threat in Wales??? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New post out:
We have an interview with John Bew - one of the most influential people in British politics over the past decade + foreign policy adviser to four PMs.
(Free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/interview-...
We have an interview with John Bew - one of the most influential people in British politics over the past decade + foreign policy adviser to four PMs.
(Free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/interview-...
Interview with John Bew - adviser to four Prime Ministers
On Whitehall, Ukraine, Trump and the global challenges facing Britain
samf.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 AM
New post out:
We have an interview with John Bew - one of the most influential people in British politics over the past decade + foreign policy adviser to four PMs.
(Free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/interview-...
We have an interview with John Bew - one of the most influential people in British politics over the past decade + foreign policy adviser to four PMs.
(Free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/interview-...
Harry Brook involved in an altercation with a bouncer? At least he didn't slap it straight to deep cover. #ashes
www.espncricinfo.com/story/ashes-...
www.espncricinfo.com/story/ashes-...
Harry Brook disciplined over bouncer clash before Ashes
Incident occurred on New Zealand tour, hours before he captained England in final ODI
www.espncricinfo.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Harry Brook involved in an altercation with a bouncer? At least he didn't slap it straight to deep cover. #ashes
www.espncricinfo.com/story/ashes-...
www.espncricinfo.com/story/ashes-...
Economist cover on 'Putin the Great Unknown' #OnThisDay 26 years ago. I think we know now...
January 8, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Economist cover on 'Putin the Great Unknown' #OnThisDay 26 years ago. I think we know now...
There’s a chapter in John Kent’s v good book on Bevin’s imperial strategy and the origins of the Cold War called, iirc, ‘Drowning Europeans Clutch at African Straws’
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
There’s a chapter in John Kent’s v good book on Bevin’s imperial strategy and the origins of the Cold War called, iirc, ‘Drowning Europeans Clutch at African Straws’
See also, in a British context, Ernest Bevin. At least for a couple of years after 1945
January 7, 2026 at 7:28 PM
See also, in a British context, Ernest Bevin. At least for a couple of years after 1945
As sporting greats go, this lad was seriously under the radar with the British public… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...
Simon Yates announces retirement with immediate effect
Two-time Grand Tour winner Simon Yates announces his retirement from cycling with immediate effect.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
As sporting greats go, this lad was seriously under the radar with the British public… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...
And my old team-mate and skipper down at Warwickshire, Michael Powell, now head of cricket at Rugby School, will be a justifiably proud coach this morning... edgbaston.com/news/powell-...
Powell: "Jacob is a wonderful young cricketer" - Edgbaston
Rugby School Director of Cricket Michael Powell has expressed the school's pride in Jacob Bethell's graduation on to the professional playing staff at Warwickshire.
edgbaston.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:16 AM
And my old team-mate and skipper down at Warwickshire, Michael Powell, now head of cricket at Rugby School, will be a justifiably proud coach this morning... edgbaston.com/news/powell-...
Well played young fella. Can't be many batters who've made their maiden first class ton in an Ashes test at Sydney. A man who's here to stay...
Jacob Bethell finishes unbeaten on 142 at the end of the fourth day's play at the SCG.
Magnificent Jacob Bethell stands tall for England | The Cricketer
Jacob Bethell struck a superb, lone-hand century to lead England's second-innings fightback at the SCG
www.thecricketer.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Well played young fella. Can't be many batters who've made their maiden first class ton in an Ashes test at Sydney. A man who's here to stay...
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call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
January 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago
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Is this what Trump meant when he said we are "running" Venezuela?
Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolás Maduro
Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists arrested as government crackdown on dissent widens
giftarticle.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Is this what Trump meant when he said we are "running" Venezuela?
“Are you worried about juvenile crime and immigration?”
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
“Are you worried about juvenile crime and immigration?”
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'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!
And we drew that series and retained the Ashes! Heath would really have copped it if we'd lost... 😄
January 6, 2026 at 12:19 PM
And we drew that series and retained the Ashes! Heath would really have copped it if we'd lost... 😄
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The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
July 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.