K M Flett

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It's publication day! An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class is published today, 27 October 2026, by @versobooks.bsky.social. My book is a new history how Britain's formerly powerful working class was pushed to the political margins. Order🔽 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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after many years of being a refusenik Lula got access to a mobile phone recently & a social media team. It wasn't the reason he beat the far right in Brazil but it helped to drive a counter narrative to fascism wp.me/p15p2Q-hVr

The vote for the Scary Beard of Halloween is open. Have your say by responding here or sending a DM wp.me/p15p2Q-fnp

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Gone midnight. Asked the cat if she planned to go out again. Response: miaow, which I understand in this case meant 'no'

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for those watching the Ballon D'Or a reminder of where the real focus of global football is wp.me/p15p2Q-hVn

Harry Kane wins Beard of the Year Ballon d'Or

Biggar & Tombs are right. We can be proud of British history. Just coming up the anniversary of the 1839 Chartist rising in Newport which almost made a plebeian revolution. Some other bits of British history, not much to be proud of

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The vote for the Scary Beard of Halloween is open. Have your say by responding here or sending a DM wp.me/p15p2Q-fnp

Nigel Farage, 62, on Brussels: "Do we want a bunch of old men who we can't vote for, can't get rid of in Brussels, making the big decisions?" (the average age of an MEP is 50)

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after many years of being a refusenik Lula got access to a mobile phone recently & a social media team. It wasn't the reason he beat the far right in Brazil but it helped to drive a counter narrative to fascism wp.me/p15p2Q-hVr

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Don't forget to sign up for "The many faces of Sans Souci: Black watchmakers in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Caribbean" if you're keen to join the friendly & welcoming London Group of Historical Geographers in person or online for this Tuesday's Institute of Historical Research seminar.

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A very wet morning now improving. Break from screens for a pint of seasonal cask & a cheese & onion roll

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final week of Celebrity Traitors. Is James Blunt (Harrow & Sandhurst) or MIchael Sheen (Neath Port Talbot College & RADA) best placed to lead the Faithful to victory? wp.me/p15p2Q-hUK

Beard Power of Lula da Silva beats clean shaven reactionary Bolsonaro in Brazilian election wp.me/p15p2Q-hVeii

Beard Power of Lula da Silva beats clean shaven reactionary Bolsonaro in Brazilian election wp.me/p15p2Q-hVeii

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final week of Celebrity Traitors. Is James Blunt (Harrow & Sandhurst) or MIchael Sheen (Neath Port Talbot College & RADA) best placed to lead the Faithful to victory? wp.me/p15p2Q-hUK

6.66% beer from Verdant. Trevor @popnhops.bsky.social tells me blood orange rather than pumpkin is on trend for Halloween. I'd prefer the original Beavertown (pre Heineken) Bloody 'Ell originally made with juice from actual squeezed oranges. Those were the, long gone, days of craft beer

This week's Ambridge Socialist. Ambridge's first lesbian wedding overshadowed by events wp.me/p15p2Q-hV4

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Last Sunday afternoon in October. Khao Soi at Brother Thai, Anspach & Hobday London Black @popnhops.bsky.social

"We need a pasty-style guarantee to stop Molson Coors marketing beers as Cornish" Chair CAMRA Cornwall, re planned move of Sharp's Doom Bar & Atlantic to Hartlepool. My piece in Private Eye.

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BLOG POST: “It’s exciting to be able to buy imported Helles beers from both Augustiner and Tegernsee at Sainsbury’s, while we’re picking up canned tuna, Woolite and ‘crispy nuggets’. And £3.40 a bottle doesn’t seem like a terrible price, either.” But... boakandbailey.com/2026/10/its-...

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Class & leadership in Celebrity Traitors. James Blunt & Michael Sheen wp.me/p15p2Q-hUK

watching Amy Winehouse night on BBC2. Always struck by the reality that while she had a great singing voice her spoken voice was definitively North London (b Southgate)

The day of the deluge(but remembering the 1987 October storm-still made it to the Pigs Ear beerfest). An imperial stout(w/ piccante Gorgonzola). £3.50 in M&S. Hmmm, but great beer anyway

12 hours later, the deluge has stopped. After careful investigation the cat has gone out...

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Class & leadership in Celebrity Traitors. James Blunt & Michael Sheen wp.me/p15p2Q-hUK