Aelred John

There is a false belief that the effects of sexual assault eventually fade and go. For my mum, that was never true. It stayed with her from childhood until her dying day. Her story was first published in 2024, twenty-one years after her death on 13 October 2003 yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/sexu...

‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

📖 PUBLICATION DAY Today a book I've spent 2yrs working on is finally out. I'll have more to say about it later on, but TRADE WORLD is a brand new story about the hidden underbelly of the modern world. A sort of companion to Material World. But SO much more. I hope you like it!

HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN FOOTBALL CLUB The Jam Tarts are heading to the Conference League after a mental game in Vienna. A performance full of grit, character and resilience.

😄 Euro euphoria 😬 Selection disruption 😅 Frustration to elation 🧤 Heroic Reus 👏 Unsung heroes How Hearts produced a famous Euro night to earn Conference League qualification & £5m | @sked21.bsky.social at the Allianz Stadion.

‘Attacks in the West Bank are at an “all time high”, according to the UN, with more than 1260 attacks between January and July. The Palestinian Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission puts the number much higher.’ New from @selmadabbagh.bsky.social, on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...

🦀 Are you aged between 16 and 30, and live on the East Sussex Coast? We have a FREE event that you might enjoy! 🐚 The @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Youth Council (that includes me!) are running a Youth Marine Festival on the 19th of September: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sea-fest-2...

We’re just innocent men

Andy Burnham, 21, writes to The Guardian in defence of Philip Larkin

Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire. The Cistercian monastery was founded 1132. 📸2025

Brexit 10 years on? View from the customs and international trade industry. I made a little video featuring 35 of your favourite Brexit commentators to mark the 10th anniversary of Brexit. Thought it would be slightly more fun than writing an article. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMg0... /1

We’re just normal men

We’re just normal men

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc The strategy has run out of road A 🧵 on what happens next.

Tony Bloom believes Heart of Midlothian will be stronger for this past season - and will be competing for titles 🔗 onlrl.co/y0xfzq

Football can be a cruel game but the season and your reporting at @heartsstandard.bsky.social has been a joy. Season One of a Ten year project to disrupt the top of the game completed. Thanks all.

The site of St Aelred's shrine (behind what would have been the High Altar) at Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire. Aelred was abbot here from 1147 until his death in 1167 📸2025

On this day 1977, #BHAFC draw 2-2 with #WeAreImps at Sincil bank, a result that keeps Albion top of the Division Three table. A crowd of 7,512 sees goals from Steve Piper and Brian Horton seagullsprogrammes.co.uk/197677

On this day 1953, #Millwall are beaten 1-0 at The Goldstone, thanks to a goal from Bert Addinall. The crowd of 14,052 see #BHAFC stay 9th in the Division Three (South) table with 4 games to go. A 4-pager for the 5.30pm Wednesday kick-off seagullsprogrammes.co.uk/195253

Happy birthday to Dave Edmunds

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

I talked to The Times for a little profile of yours truly. Check it out:

This bit from Baqer Moin's excellent Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah, on the first Supreme Leader, explains his stance on the brutal war with Iraq and the price the clerics were willing to pay. Just one of those books it might have been useful to read

On 24 June 2026, #BHAFC will have been in existence for exactly 125 years. Programmes have been issued for nearly all that time and my book charts their history, from the rudimentary 8-pagers to the slick magazines we see today. Buy it at seagullsprogrammes.co.uk

Oh yes!! #BHAFC youtu.be/ommhai6GfsM?...

Preston Manor will reopen on 14 March and I am just carrying a ghost up the stairs in preparation. The picture, taken by David McHugh, made it into The Times. brightonmuseums.org.uk/preston-mano...

I'd never thought I would get to say this, but it's #WorldBookDay2026, so why not treat yourself, or someone else for that matter, to a copy of my book, celebrating the history of the @officialbhafc.bsky.social matchday programme. Available at seagullsprogrammes.co.uk #BHAFC

On this day 1999, it's three defeats in as many games for #BHAFC, after a 2-1 loss to #lofc at Priestfield. The crowd of 4,825 see Kevin Nicholls score his only goal for Albion, as we drop 4 places to 13th in the Division Three (League Two) table. seagullsprogrammes.co.uk

spent a couple of weeks in manchester on the trail of matt goodwin. why has nobody seen him? how do you fight a politics that lots of people absentmindedly agree with? and - you know - does he secretly want to remigrate me? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

This is superb - thoughtful and compassionate and careful and true.

Extremely brave, to jump into enemy territory. R.I.P. (#OTD in 1945, SOE agents Violette Szabó, Cecily Lefort, Denise Bloch were killed by firing squad in concentration camp Ravensbrück. SOE agent Lilian Rolfe was gassed. #WW2 #HISTORY)

📰 Prospect’s latest issue hits newsstands today! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 1/7 For the cover essay of his first issue as Prospect’s new editor, Philip Collins surveys the wreckage of the two party system: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/722...

Douglas Fox Pitt’s picture from around 1916, depicts the concert hall on the West Pier in Brighton on the Sussex coast during the First World War - a close associate of the Camden Town Group, he shared a stylistic affinity with their working methods.

Bless my cotton socks.... Reward by the Teardrop Explodes is 45 years old today. Here's the official video for the single, which was released on this day in 1981 youtu.be/o2_sJHPIbVw

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

A stunning poem from Irish poet Rebecca D’Arcy!

‘I don’t even need to say anything… it’s a brilliant call.’ Henry Riley is impressed by caller Chandra’s personal take on Britishness.

Happy Christmas from the FoFC We wish all our members, donors, volunteers, and supporters a very Happy Christmas.

The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.

It only took a year but we did it, thanks Bluesky people! www.yorkmix.com/pictures-yor... I now know more about the UK artificial tree market than I'd ever expected.

Happy birthday to Mike Scott. Here's a joyous video of him singing his Waterboys classic The Whole of the Moon with a bunch of very excited schoolchildren in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland in 1987 youtu.be/pLAPOxpXGkU

It was an absolute pleasure to sit down with Paul Hayward and Glenn Murray to discuss my book and my love of programmes in general. #BHAFC seagullsprogrammes.co.uk www.brightonandhovealbion.com/media-video/...

We’re just innocent men

Art review: ‘Der lästige Kavalier’ by Berthold Woltze (1874). Read it here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/12/06/a... Or here; fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/art-review...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.