A giant bull with a human mouth bellows in pain in a crowded street in a bombed city
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After Guernica

The world is a bad place right now, and a lot of that has to do with bombing civilians. And it’s impossible for me to look at the news from Gaza, or from Ukraine, and not think of my own current book project on the bombing of British civilians in the First World War. But […]

a confused man surrounded by social media apps
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Pictures

Where am I?

UPDATED 18 NOVEMBER 2024 With Twitter X circling ever closer to the plughole, it’s time to have a microblogging alternative. In fact, I already set one up at Mastodon back in November, and spent a bit of time making it comfortable. But the social media landscape has fragmented since then and everyone is fleeing in

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