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The willingness of the media and much of the British establishment simply to ignore Mandelson's close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is absolutely incredible theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j…
Nicholas Guyatt
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Nicholas Guyatt
@NicholasGuyatt
I teach American history at Cambridge. Opinions strictly personal; for sober & authoritative tweeting consult @Cambridge_Uni, @CamHistory & @JesusCollegeCam
Joined August 2010
- "Remember that black student yesterday, the one on the front cover, who was attacking white authors? Yeah, we made that up. Sorry."
- Every American historian uses this image to teach students about 'manifest destiny' and ethnic cleansing, but I would guess that most of us didn't imagine that the US government would unironically reclaim it in the twenty-first centuryA Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending. American Progress - John Gast
- Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague00:00
- I mean this is going to be the greatest GIF of all time00:00
- For those too young to have lived through what happened twenty years ago, a thread of self-styled left/liberal types endorsing the invasion of Iraq
- American followers! Feel like you ought to have views on the UK's just-announced election (4th July!) but too traumatised by your own electoral nightmares to spend much time on ours? This thread is for you! 🇺🇸🇬🇧☠️🧵
- Eighty gloriously unhinged seconds in which Jordan Peterson tries to sell Elon Musk on "the carnivore diet"00:00
- To the students who are right now refusing to give Suella Braverman and GB News the gotcha interview they have come all the way to Cambridge to procure - we salute you 🫡BREAKING: Suella Braverman has arrived at the Cambridge encampment with GB news00:00
- Amusingly the BBC's Reality Check team have looked at Johnson's speech this morning and found that every major assertion was either previously announced, a lie, or a distortion of the truth - usually some combination of the three.
- Hard to think of one image which captures the cowardice, authoritarianism and banality of the Starmer regime, but I think this is a contender
- Richard Madeley explaining the plot of his new crime novel on Radio 2 just now is two minutes of pure joy, and the most @AccidentalP thing I have ever heard00:00
- Lads, we're going to have to decolonise without the help of Times columnists 😞
- Can't speak for my employer but as someone who teaches history at Cambridge I'm ashamed of our connections with David Starkey and urge both the University and Fitzwilliam College to cut all ties with him.
