Wonderer's History Podcast 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

A very interesting story about how the French & Swedes tried for years to forge an alliance with Transylvanian prince George I Rákóczi during the Thirty Years' War. On the Swedish side, there are initial contacts starting in 1631. In 1632 Gustav Adolph writes to Rákóczi to join

After watching the highlights of the England Australia game #ENGvsAUS

Friday lights in #Budapest

Dog folks will be like

#Oban always spectacular

Sunny Sunday on the way back from Glasgow

An Arabic proverb, added by the French orientalist Antoine Galland (1646-1715), with Latin translation, to the front flyleaf of an Ottoman manuscript: “Whoever has no notebook in their sleeve will not establish wisdom in their heart.” Bnf, ms Turc 245. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv…

He taught us that the mass media of the US carries out propaganda for the government is what he did! He was a great American public intellectual! And in this house, Noam Chomsky was a hero, end of story!

Noam Chomsky enjoying a pint and a blether in Brechin's Bar, Govan, in 1990.

Abbeyhill -- student accommodation. Meadowbank student accommodation. Now this. God forbid we built more homes for people living and working in this city...

While a lot of people have 0 faith that you'll actually do even a 10% of what a Labour party should do (when not cosplaying purely for electoral gains). Also a reminder that Scotland would overwhelmingly want to rejoin the EU which you clearly stated are against.

Said Major, Cameron, Osborne, May and 99% of tories ever

A great day at Scotstoun tonight #warriors #Glasgow

A can of Coke is more expensive than that

@ewangibbs @philbc3 Due to brexit plus the end of a long political cycle feeling, it all just adds up. What is worrying id how în the last 4 years the Overton window has shifted so far to the right that now Labour with Starmer, reeves, streeting etc are basically centre right on most issues

@ewangibbs @philbc3 Agree with everything you said and there is also an element final stages of thatcherite neoliberalism taking its toll. Privatisation of rail, water (england), lack of any meaningful infrastructure being built, devolved regions getting left out. Top austerity and a 4% yearly GDP

Amid Sunak’s failings, we should also understand Tory collapse in a larger political and economic context. What we’re seeing here is institutional disintegration and ruling class fragmentation. We’re used to taking about this vis a vis Labour and it’s base but not the Tories🧵

John Curtice today #GeneralElection

Hearing about General election rumours in peak holiday and festival season

Troubling news, also in Light of the news that the next government will have to brace for many universities possibly having serious financial trouble bbc.com/news/articles/…

The next Chelsea manager will be the club's 24th (including caretakers) from 2000 onwards — which is more than the number of Popes there have been since 1722.