Gill Cookson
@gillint.bsky.social
Historian of 18th/19th-c. industrialisation. Northerner, lefty, deluded optimist. No racists, genocide apologists etc.
Book now out:
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651412/making-an-industrial-revolution
and here's the blog post: buff.ly/3W1JJgH
Book now out:
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651412/making-an-industrial-revolution
and here's the blog post: buff.ly/3W1JJgH
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Yeah you think the Middle East is full of White people.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Yeah you think the Middle East is full of White people.
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“Mum, Dad... I’m a homo sapien”
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“Mum, Dad... I’m a homo sapien”
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
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If the 28-point plan came from Russia and somehow ended up in the hands of U.S. lawmakers, then we don’t have a “leak” problem we have a foreign influence problem. And anyone downplaying that should not be anywhere near national security decisions.
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If the 28-point plan came from Russia and somehow ended up in the hands of U.S. lawmakers, then we don’t have a “leak” problem we have a foreign influence problem. And anyone downplaying that should not be anywhere near national security decisions.
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From the CWS ARCHIVE. 22nd March 2022.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
From the CWS ARCHIVE. 22nd March 2022.
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"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." — Hannah Arendt
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November 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." — Hannah Arendt
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"The Epstein case and the entanglement in it of a president...will forever be remembered as a sign of what happens when capitalism becomes not an economic system but a warped theology in which the appetites of the greediest drive us to dysfunction and great suffering."
The Epstein case, like many of the excesses of Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Thiel and the rest...and like the Trump Era as a whole, will be seen as defining a moment of gross national dysfunction. It will lead either to reform or to chaos. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We've Got the Epstein Story All Wrong
In the midst of our national Epstein-mania are we missing what's really important?
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
"The Epstein case and the entanglement in it of a president...will forever be remembered as a sign of what happens when capitalism becomes not an economic system but a warped theology in which the appetites of the greediest drive us to dysfunction and great suffering."
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Refugees are not “illegal”. Most flee war or persecution.
What’s wrong with humanity, help to settle and work, recognising the value of migration?
Stop this media obsession, slandering and persecuting defenceless people. We need to be better, and even more so, do our leaders.
What’s wrong with humanity, help to settle and work, recognising the value of migration?
Stop this media obsession, slandering and persecuting defenceless people. We need to be better, and even more so, do our leaders.
Where do refugees to the UK come from? (House of Commons library)
November 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Refugees are not “illegal”. Most flee war or persecution.
What’s wrong with humanity, help to settle and work, recognising the value of migration?
Stop this media obsession, slandering and persecuting defenceless people. We need to be better, and even more so, do our leaders.
What’s wrong with humanity, help to settle and work, recognising the value of migration?
Stop this media obsession, slandering and persecuting defenceless people. We need to be better, and even more so, do our leaders.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
My article on Joseph Dawson, Unitarian minister turned director of Low Moor ironworks, has just been published.
Part of Oxford DNB's push to highlight great figures of the past in Bradford 2025 City of Culture.
@bradford2025.co.uk
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
Part of Oxford DNB's push to highlight great figures of the past in Bradford 2025 City of Culture.
@bradford2025.co.uk
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
My article on Joseph Dawson, Unitarian minister turned director of Low Moor ironworks, has just been published.
Part of Oxford DNB's push to highlight great figures of the past in Bradford 2025 City of Culture.
@bradford2025.co.uk
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
Part of Oxford DNB's push to highlight great figures of the past in Bradford 2025 City of Culture.
@bradford2025.co.uk
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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... and the Tories complain about BBC left-wing bias!
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
... and the Tories complain about BBC left-wing bias!
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imo big part is simply that people respond positively to politicians that seem to be speaking honestly and in a "normal human being" register, as opposed to communications trained evasions and elisions. So much so that they vote for this:
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
imo big part is simply that people respond positively to politicians that seem to be speaking honestly and in a "normal human being" register, as opposed to communications trained evasions and elisions. So much so that they vote for this:
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Morning! How are we all?
Here's the Great Hall roof to inspire you this Monday morning.
You too can reach lofty heights and look marvellous whilst doing it. 😘
Here's the Great Hall roof to inspire you this Monday morning.
You too can reach lofty heights and look marvellous whilst doing it. 😘
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Morning! How are we all?
Here's the Great Hall roof to inspire you this Monday morning.
You too can reach lofty heights and look marvellous whilst doing it. 😘
Here's the Great Hall roof to inspire you this Monday morning.
You too can reach lofty heights and look marvellous whilst doing it. 😘
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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Help! The children are learning empathy and science instead of worshipping Thatcher and memorising the dates of Tory victories!
November 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Help! The children are learning empathy and science instead of worshipping Thatcher and memorising the dates of Tory victories!
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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They admit they’re murdering random unidentified people.
They don’t even know who they’re killing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
They admit they’re murdering random unidentified people.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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This was joyous. Just a mad ray of sunshine in an otherwise desolate landscape
Juntos vamos a construir la ciudad que merecemos!
Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This was joyous. Just a mad ray of sunshine in an otherwise desolate landscape
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Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.
The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.
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This is REALLY good to see. Too many colleagues were utterly misrepresented in this awful film, & in narrative surrounding it
They deserve to have their names cleared.
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They deserve to have their names cleared.
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film
Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is REALLY good to see. Too many colleagues were utterly misrepresented in this awful film, & in narrative surrounding it
They deserve to have their names cleared.
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They deserve to have their names cleared.
BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...