Alex Renton
@axrenton.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, optimist. FRHistS. Books: Blood Legacy - slavery & my family's part in it. Stiff Upper Lip - abuse in Britain's elite schools. BBC Radio 4's In Dark Corners.
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St Giles Cathedral just now, the celebration service for a great (and lovely) man, Sir Geoff Palmer.
October 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
St Giles Cathedral just now, the celebration service for a great (and lovely) man, Sir Geoff Palmer.
Funny… no. 1 story in the Guardian’s top ten most read.
October 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Funny… no. 1 story in the Guardian’s top ten most read.
Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social for keeping eye on the mad, racist right-wing media so we don't have to.
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social for keeping eye on the mad, racist right-wing media so we don't have to.
London, ordinary cafe, modest breakfast for two - £57.12.
Two blinking cups of rosy cost nine quid, cor blimey, ows-yer-farver etc...
Two blinking cups of rosy cost nine quid, cor blimey, ows-yer-farver etc...
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
London, ordinary cafe, modest breakfast for two - £57.12.
Two blinking cups of rosy cost nine quid, cor blimey, ows-yer-farver etc...
Two blinking cups of rosy cost nine quid, cor blimey, ows-yer-farver etc...
Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939
September 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939
Seal intact, sell-by date 2017. A dark mahogany... Lethal, or delicious? Alcoholic? Will report, if I survive.
September 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Seal intact, sell-by date 2017. A dark mahogany... Lethal, or delicious? Alcoholic? Will report, if I survive.
'Why do white people need us? Because they are not white without us.' Ta-Nehisi Coates on white supremacy and African-American identity at Edinburgh Book Festival just now @edbookfest.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
'Why do white people need us? Because they are not white without us.' Ta-Nehisi Coates on white supremacy and African-American identity at Edinburgh Book Festival just now @edbookfest.bsky.social
@anitaanand.bsky.social... A mention to your and Sam Dalrymple's Edinburgh book fest audience today? 6pm in Princes St, by Waverley Station.
August 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
@anitaanand.bsky.social... A mention to your and Sam Dalrymple's Edinburgh book fest audience today? 6pm in Princes St, by Waverley Station.
Edinburgh, Waverley end of Princes St, 6pm tonight
August 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Edinburgh, Waverley end of Princes St, 6pm tonight
This is very good indeed
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is very good indeed
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
Switch on my phone and the first thing on screen is this bollocks
July 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Switch on my phone and the first thing on screen is this bollocks
No es excepcional, es una mierda. I like genuine Spanish pilsner so Madri, ubiquitous now in UK, is annoying. It's not 'the soul of Madrid' - Spain has never seen it, it's an invention, brewed in England by Molson-Coors.
I know *you* knew this, but I keep meeting people who don't.
Y sabe a meada.
I know *you* knew this, but I keep meeting people who don't.
Y sabe a meada.
July 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
No es excepcional, es una mierda. I like genuine Spanish pilsner so Madri, ubiquitous now in UK, is annoying. It's not 'the soul of Madrid' - Spain has never seen it, it's an invention, brewed in England by Molson-Coors.
I know *you* knew this, but I keep meeting people who don't.
Y sabe a meada.
I know *you* knew this, but I keep meeting people who don't.
Y sabe a meada.
Vandalism is not terrorism.
July 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Vandalism is not terrorism.
“16 years ago woman wore expensive dress at party, now she opposes genocide…” really very feeble, this, even for The Times.
July 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
“16 years ago woman wore expensive dress at party, now she opposes genocide…” really very feeble, this, even for The Times.
Not often the Daily Express gets it right … @mandatenow.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Not often the Daily Express gets it right … @mandatenow.bsky.social
We don't really do sports on BlueSky but...
July 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We don't really do sports on BlueSky but...
Interesting posters gone up round Leith
July 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Interesting posters gone up round Leith
It would be fun if Yvette Cooper banned Rod…
July 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
It would be fun if Yvette Cooper banned Rod…
Iain Wares, Scotland's most prolific school-based sex offender, was 86 yesterday. Still awaiting extradition in his luxury retirement home in Cape Town.
July 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Iain Wares, Scotland's most prolific school-based sex offender, was 86 yesterday. Still awaiting extradition in his luxury retirement home in Cape Town.
Handy list of things Israeli politicians have said about Gaza and the people who live there.
July 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Handy list of things Israeli politicians have said about Gaza and the people who live there.
Sample... But Loyle Carner was lovely!
June 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Sample... But Loyle Carner was lovely!
You can't help but think yeah, that's fair.
June 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You can't help but think yeah, that's fair.
'Enormous', eh? The fundraiser promises that all this fighty sports stuff will help with resilience and teamwork: very good reasons *not* to donate, given the mayhem Team Eton tends to cause whenever it gets near the controls...
June 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
'Enormous', eh? The fundraiser promises that all this fighty sports stuff will help with resilience and teamwork: very good reasons *not* to donate, given the mayhem Team Eton tends to cause whenever it gets near the controls...
Teaser from Paul Marshall’s Unherd … It and his Spectator run ‘the next British civil war’ pieces so often, you suspect they rather fancy the prospect…
April 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Teaser from Paul Marshall’s Unherd … It and his Spectator run ‘the next British civil war’ pieces so often, you suspect they rather fancy the prospect…
The Sunday Times magazine’s AI-generated content…
March 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The Sunday Times magazine’s AI-generated content…