Nick Shepley

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 acast.com/explaininghist… #history #historyteacher

America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come equator.org/articles/ghost…

@keewa Sugar in a baby’s brain? Is that even possible? Obviously don’t give babies Haribo, pretty much on page one of the baby-led weening book.

Barb you know we need sugar to live right, like, glucose and stuff?

The United States will pretty quickly discover that bases and supply lines through the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France matter a lot more to America's position as a global power than keeping Milei happy

Do you know what else is asleep on the job? A certain blood clot that never seems to get its arse in gear. Waiting for what?

The name of the POUM, the Marxist anti-Stalinist militia with which Orwell fought on the Aragón front, inscribed by some militia fighter in 1936-37 on the stone of this old farm hut, near Tierz, Huesca.

These four Native grandmas who stole this flag from a bunch of dipshit Neo Nazis in North Dakota and then burned it. Pure aura.

I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!🇬🇧 A young woman made a confused report to the police that she was raped by a group of men on her way home from a club, and believes it happened between 2.00am-4.00am outside a church. The woman is unwell and is hospitalised, and no doubt a rape kit is administered to preserve any physical evidence. Meanwhile - quite rightly - the police put out a call for any witnesses or dashcam footage, which is standard operating procedure. Then the far right get involved. When no descriptions are released by the police, they start saying that it is because the perpetrators must be asylum seekers/Muslims/immigrants. A social media account invents a description of them wearing flip-flops - taken to mean sliders that a lot of young black guys wear. More and more wild conspiracies are circulated, including the police deliberately not releasing descriptions (rather than doing their job of taking forensic evidence at the claimed scene of crime and examining CCTV footage from every angle available to them from the night-club to the alleged scene of crime and beyond) Then a convicted kidnapper, former drug dealer and former "Raise the Flags" grifter - all the same person, btw - puts out a call to arms on social media, for people to attend a protest at 5.00pm one afternoon. The usual hotel-shouting suspects turn up from all over the South East. They riot. The police issue a statement saying they still don't have any evidence to confirm the crime was committed as claimed. They attack an HMO simply because it is an HMO, even though they have been told that there are no asylum residences in Epsom. Turns out it was housing vulnerable people. They identify what they believe must be an asylum hotel - first a Premier Inn. Nope. Then a Travelodge, where they demand entry to check who they have staying there and demand to see their "books". A few days later, the police make a further statement, and a woman with a microphone demands to know what the outcome of any medical checks on the woman complainant was. Read that paragraph again: a WOMAN with a MICROPHONE is asking the police to reveal MEDICAL EVIDENCE relating to a potential RAPE VICTIM to a crowd of braying flag-bedecked football casuals and racists. The far right grifters and their hard-of-thinking followers still maintain this is a police cover-up while simultaneously sharing evidence of where other asylum-seekers or migrants have been convicted, so obviously the police didn't cover up those crimes, Einstein. The leader of the Pink Ladies - newly defected to Reform UK - shares photos of some completely different migrants in another area of the country and claims they are the photos the police are hiding from us all, because the police don't want you to know about migrants who commit crimes, (even though she was, obviously, sharing yesterday the reports of the terrible rape that happened in Brighton where the police arrested and prosecuted three asylum-seekers.) And now we know the poor woman was, in fact, the victim of some form of head injury which left her presumably very confused and frightened and had mistakenly made a report to the police. And there are STILL Einsteins out there claiming it was a cover up. I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK FROM THESE DANGEROUS PEOPLE, AND THEIR PSYCHOTIC CHEER-LEADERS. I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK FROM THE HATEFUL GREMLINS THAT FILL MY TIMELINE WITH THEIR DELUDED CRAP DAY AFTER DAY! I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK FROM A GOVERNMENT THAT, INSTEAD OF CALLING OUT THIS APPALLING ESCALATION OF HATRED AND BIGOTRY, PLAYS ALONG WITH IT IN THE HOPE OF GAINING VOTES!

Wake up babe there's another British figurehead looking absolutely haggard in a car photo

Cool, crack on, let us know how you get on

@MusicEdu4all @JennyAThatcher Rarely have I hated one film more.

@JennyAThatcher Have you seen The History Boys?

I remember at school in the 1990s when a male teacher told a 15 year child that she was the most attractive girl in year 10. This quickly spread around the year and caused upset amongst the popular girls. When I hear it it disgusted me. I was so disturbed.

Might be an idea for Charles to cancel the state visit himself now.

When your friendship circle goes from Matt Morgan/Noel Gallagher/Jonathan Ross to Elon Musk/Donald Trump/ Tommy Robinson….then you’re long overdue some deep introspection.

If Fig was a person I would tell her that she needs to get a job

Cool, whatever, an object lesson if ever there were about having as little to do with this demented backwater as possible. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

One of my favourite quirks of British politics which is impossible to adequately get across to foreigners is that once a photograph is published of a PM looking sad or distraught in a car, the entire nation starts hearing the Countdown Clock jingle ending in their resignation

@HojbjergTu26098 Sources please

@NickShepley most of those died in combat, about half due to the fact stalin castrated his own army

What do you can the racial extermination of 27 million people?

@AaronBastani This is a foolish comment, working in retail was periodically quite dangerous and getting stabbed or catching Hepatitis C from street users coming to Nick the DVDs is entirely possible.

Your job as a middle aged, healthy man is to get involved. If I’m stabbed over chocolate covered coffee beans and lemon curd cupcakes, so be it.

@DrJessTaylor @Jacquel56721788 If anything, what he’s up to is worse than this. One of the complainants was 16 at the time, whether he’s referring to the same 16 year old is unknown but consider how this could influence a future jury. It’s in another jurisdiction so it gets round reporting restrictions.

Can we just take a second to really take this in? How on earth has it come to this? Where a man can performatively ‘admit’ to sex with a child on an international platform but then couch it as some form of reflection or responsible accountability exercise - whilst deliberately leaning on our terrible, useless, outdated sexual offences act and age of consent? This man was 30 years old, and at the height of his fame - when he made an active choice to have sex with a child. I would use much stronger language here but he’s deliberately leaning on our consent laws, that a 16 year old child can technically consent to sex - meaning that he could technically have ‘consensual sex’ with a school age child. His admission and his disgusting performative ‘progressive’ ‘reflection’ that he is ‘exploitative’ makes my effin skin crawl. If this is not a predator in full swing, I do not know what is. This man is admitting to sex with children and no one is going to do a thing about it. Absolutely atrocious. Our laws need urgently updating to ensure no adult can ever have technically consensual sex with a child. No adult should ever want that; and no child should ever be exposed to it. End.

Orientalism was always about the West

New @YouGov polls have @TheGreenParty neck and neck with Labour in Brent. We’re set to be one of the greenest councils in #London but the next two weeks are crucial. Reach out if you’d like to help! (…and yes, I often proudly campaign in my keffiyeh) ✊🏽