Also planning to attend an online talk on a new book on Rhodesia this evening. All of this happening on the 60th anniversary of Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence from Britain.

Edited by @meltorrent.bsky.social & Lauriane Simony, this collection of articles is key reading for anyone interested in British foreign policy in the second half of the Twentieth Century: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcbh20/3...

'Historians of Cultural Diplomacy' going from strength to strength as we follow up our inaugural in person @britishacademy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk funded event in Liverpool with an online event hosted by @lgmar.bsky.social at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Last but certainly not least for this plenary @lindsayaqui.bsky.social discussing Geoffrey Howe

Followed by Rachel Utley discussing Francis Pym

I'm passed the point of saying I'll never vote for this lot again, to the point I will actively canvas against them. You can't really argue they are better than the alternative when they pander to everything the alternative wants anyway