James Vaughan
@equusonthebuses
Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
June 1982 cartoon. For all the Sun's bullshit Falklands jingoism, they got this one right.
Should've gone down the bookies but didn't have time. I thought this was an absolute cert.
Trying to get some water on a parched square at the cricket club this evening
Can offer you this one from the Coventry Evening Telegraph back in 1988... :)
New secondhand bookshop acquisition. Ray Hill's account of life as a Searchlight mole within British and European extreme right organisations
#OnThisDay 1937: News Chronicle reports the opening of a new wing at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth
Decent sketch in The Times. Farage’s Gettysburg Address. “Government of Nigel by Nigel and for Nigel shall not perish from the Earth”
Reminded, with a thrill of horror, of USA Today attempting to explain the cricket world cup in 1999...
Brilliant that when Kylian Mbappe condemned a Paraguayan senator as racist, the BBC reported it as it was. But I can't help noticing the difference in the BBC's instincts when it comes to antisemitism cases. No inverted commas. No "alleged". There's an institutional problem here.
Don't normally feel sorry for Scotland but the world cup press coverage has been, shall we say, a bit fickle...
The dangers of cross-contamination and contemporary relevance...
Mini-thread based on presentation at a Departmental research conference the other day. Some thoughts on the anti-Zionism of the UK extreme right in the National Front era. Happy to answer any Qs should anyone (polite) have any...