I haven’t really promoted my podcast on Twitter before, I get slightly cringed about self promotion but after well over 1,000 episodes (some now lost in the mists of the internet) I thought why not? You can hear the full episode at #history #historyteacher

Is the intention to make him look like a gammon Christ?.

RT @michaelmezz: liberalism is full of contradictions. the problem is that when competing values come into conflict, liberal leaders resolv….

Pretty sure we’d bombed Serbia into submission at this point.

RT @frolix22: Interesting to see who gets the apologies from the BBC and who does not.

Anyway, I am a famous non promoter of my work but for all who are curious:

I read lots of things about story structure and they’re all fine and good but plotting a story in that way doesn’t really work, I find, you have to let it tell itself. It’s a strange process.

Yeah, er, but…

In fiction writing I think I’ve reached a point where my characters only do what I expect/want about 20% of the time. Now they just do their own thing, follow their own agendas and ignore me. As such, it’s no different from most parts of my life.

RT @ZackPolanski: The "small boats crisis" is a lie. A former Tory Minister now claims she’ll fix it with Reform?. It’s a distraction - fr….

It is slowly dawning on me that Trump types around the world are looking at Gaza and thinking: “Hmmm, yes, liking it, perhaps we could do with a bit of flatten and cleanse here too.” . #planetgaza.

RT @queenie4rmnola: To be clear they’re talking about ethnically cleansing black communities.

RT @JDaviesPhD: Psychoanalysis once engaged deeply with how social and cultural forces shape inner life - think Bollas, Horney, Fromm, Kov….

RT @SalfordMe2023: If you find yourself typing any variation of the following:. 'So you're in favour of kids being raped?'. Congratulations….

I don’t normally do these things but due to almost overwhelming demand here goes:.The Dandy Warhols .The Libertines.Suede.Slow Club.Kate Bush.Pulp.ABBA.Belle & Sebastian .Marshaux .Elton John up to 1973.The Waterboys.Bowie - Aladdin Sane to Berlin era.AC/DC.MGMT.and Girls Aloud.

RT @DanielaGabor: sorry to spoil outrage party, but thats how US treats allies. remember when US shifted from Cold War financing/accommo….

RT @yanisvaroufakis: Yes, this is an extraordinary admission of an old fact. In The Global Minotaur (2011), I argued that, since 1971, the….

Just laughing incoherently now, it’s as if an entire empire run on a kind of celebration of stupidity was finally captured by it. Oh well, there are other civilisations I guess, probably best not to get too hung up on this one.

Ah so my question about Vance’s working holiday in the Cotswolds answers itself. He’s here to do the shakedown.

RT @lowerformofwit: These are the actual internet radicals we need to be concerned about. People who are retired so spend all their days bo….

Wow, what a great thing he’s doing here (at least I hope that’s what is happening and not some random shitposter telling the world about a wonderful gesture that Declan eventually has to fund out guilt and embarrassment).