Lee Spracklen
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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Numancia. Site of the heroic but doomed resistance of Iberians to Roman conquest and a foundation myth of Spanish nationalism in C19th. Both sides used its imagery during Spanish Civil War. Strongly recommend a visit just outside town of Soria, whose football team by the way is named after it.
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Numancia. Site of the heroic but doomed resistance of Iberians to Roman conquest and a foundation myth of Spanish nationalism in C19th. Both sides used its imagery during Spanish Civil War. Strongly recommend a visit just outside town of Soria, whose football team by the way is named after it.
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Soviet journo Mikhail Koltsov (right) discussing battle map with anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti. Bujaraloz, Aragón 16 Aug 1936. 17yearold Marina Ginestà (Barcelona Hotel Colon photo) on left interpreting for group in French. Photo Juan Guzmán, colourised by historiacolor.
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Soviet journo Mikhail Koltsov (right) discussing battle map with anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti. Bujaraloz, Aragón 16 Aug 1936. 17yearold Marina Ginestà (Barcelona Hotel Colon photo) on left interpreting for group in French. Photo Juan Guzmán, colourised by historiacolor.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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good news from the Telegraph (slight problem they make stuff up)
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Interplanetary News (Telegraph) on the Budget
Allister Heath, formerly of City AM, is the Editor of the Sunday Telegraph…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
good news from the Telegraph (slight problem they make stuff up)
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It's got racism. It's offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. It's Islamophobic. Happy Thanksgiving from the president
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It's got racism. It's offensive to people with intellectual disabilities. It's Islamophobic. Happy Thanksgiving from the president
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What that old racist blob of goo knows about civilization could be written in sharpie on the back of a business card
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
What that old racist blob of goo knows about civilization could be written in sharpie on the back of a business card
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November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A Typewriter That Has Traveled the World www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/i...
A Typewriter That Has Traveled the World
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November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A Typewriter That Has Traveled the World www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/i...
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Outside the train station in Tarragona, thousands upon thousands starlings settling to roost, an exuberance of urban wildness, my video can't do it justice. A woman exclaimed "Walah, quina bellesa, no!" as she walked past. Estornino in Spanish, Estornell in Catalan, Arabazozo in Basque
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Outside the train station in Tarragona, thousands upon thousands starlings settling to roost, an exuberance of urban wildness, my video can't do it justice. A woman exclaimed "Walah, quina bellesa, no!" as she walked past. Estornino in Spanish, Estornell in Catalan, Arabazozo in Basque
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I keep forgetting to say - on the blog I wrote about being called a contrarian for doing history, why misunderstandings of the "Dark Ages" ignore materialist circumstances and also just, you know, any history at all whatsoever.
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On contrarian history
Unfortunately, though I have made the world’s best booty shorts and deployed them with great skill and aplomb, there are still those in our society who refuse to heed my message, and also to learn …
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November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I keep forgetting to say - on the blog I wrote about being called a contrarian for doing history, why misunderstandings of the "Dark Ages" ignore materialist circumstances and also just, you know, any history at all whatsoever.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Some time ago we came across this perfectly formed and harmless baby horseshoe whipsnake on the steps of Bodegas Güell, designed by Antoni Gaudí for his patron enriched from exploiting the Catalan working class and his father's slave profits in Cuba. El Garraf, just down the road from Barcelona.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Some time ago we came across this perfectly formed and harmless baby horseshoe whipsnake on the steps of Bodegas Güell, designed by Antoni Gaudí for his patron enriched from exploiting the Catalan working class and his father's slave profits in Cuba. El Garraf, just down the road from Barcelona.
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A man who believes in nothing; morally unmoored. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with past Starmer calls to expand them
PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries even those at magistrates court level, it has emerged
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November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A man who believes in nothing; morally unmoored. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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New details today about racist Farage in the Guardian. Farage would wait outside Jewish service at school to racially abuse students as they left. Not “banter” in the corridors. Targeted and premeditated.
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
New details today about racist Farage in the Guardian. Farage would wait outside Jewish service at school to racially abuse students as they left. Not “banter” in the corridors. Targeted and premeditated.
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Bloomberg has obtained the transcript of a call between Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior aide to Vladimir Putin — in which Witkoff advised the aide — a Russian aide — on how Putin should go about pitching Trump on a pro-Russian peace plan aimed at bringing an end to the Ukraine war.
Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Bloomberg has obtained the transcript of a call between Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior aide to Vladimir Putin — in which Witkoff advised the aide — a Russian aide — on how Putin should go about pitching Trump on a pro-Russian peace plan aimed at bringing an end to the Ukraine war.
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"Coronation": the latest thinking on how to overcome the fact the Labour membership would never choose Wesley.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
"Coronation": the latest thinking on how to overcome the fact the Labour membership would never choose Wesley.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
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Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
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Presentation of an exhibition on Mujeres Libres (Free Women), the anarchist women's organisation. Barcelona, 7 August, 1938. Original photo by Pérez de Rozas. I don't know the colouriser. How their dreams were crushed...
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Presentation of an exhibition on Mujeres Libres (Free Women), the anarchist women's organisation. Barcelona, 7 August, 1938. Original photo by Pérez de Rozas. I don't know the colouriser. How their dreams were crushed...
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I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.