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To be honest, the attitude of Hoopes, Dibble et al who put out the SAA letter to Netflix sums up the issue with archaeology. They are continuing on with an attitude that has been endemic among archaeologists since regular people saw things differently, saw anomalies that conventional thinking wasn’t explaining.
That said, archaeologists, geologists and in fact, all the ologists have every right to challenge many of the ideas posed by those without PHDs or maybe don’t understand the expectations of scientific rigour when postulating a hypothesis. It’s how it’s done that irks the casual observer.
Hancock learned this from Fingerprints because of the way in which he was eviscerated for daring to have thoughts and ideas that didn’t fit conventional archaeology. He did not employ expected scientific rigour, as he’s not a scientist. In fact, as his work has progressed, anyone who actually reads his work can see the efforts he’s expended trying to remedy the accusations that his approach is non-scientific.
But I’m fairly sure that those most vehement detractors within your discipline know that, or have more than likely never read beyond Fingerprints because their minds are set.
So if you’re wondering why people are railing against you, it’s less to do with challenging the hypothesis and more to do with the tactics employed by those within your profession. It’s clear why many of the usual suspects continually refer to Fingerprints, because Hancock has evolved and responded to critics, yet still stands his ground on his hypothesis, which in itself has evolved and moved with the science, as he sees it.
The efforts, tenuous and dripping with
presentism as they are, to link his work to racism and white-supremacist ideology has been reprehensible. It’s a clearly defined cancel-culture tactic, employed by white, left-leaning academics and something that’s long taken hold of educational institutions.
This, the derision, the arrogant dismissal, the aloofness and egos of those leading the charge against lateral thinkers is why so many simply dislike archaeologists. You’re all the same in the eyes of many, which is a shame and untrue, but that’s down to one group among you.
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Adnan Hussain won Blackburn by 132 votes.
That is the whole man. One hundred and thirty-two. He overturned an 18,000 Labour majority with it, and his first words were "this is for Gaza". Not for Blackburn. For Gaza.
Now he is outraged that Israel held two British MPs at a border for eight hours and sent them home. He calls Israel a "rogue state". He wants the government to condemn it "in the strongest possible terms".
Fine. Let us test him on Israel.
In 2014 he stood at a rally and said "let's make Israel burn". In 2024 he said there is "no difference" between the Israeli government and ISIS. ISIS, who behead captives and throw men off rooftops, are, on his reading, the same as the country with a supreme court, an Arab party in its parliament and a free press. No difference. Not one.
He calls it a genocide. Plenty do. But he says the word so often, and so loudly, that it has stopped describing anything and started meaning simply "Israel, bad".
And rogue state. Israel. Rogue. Rogue like Iran, then. Iran, who runs terror plots on British soil, whose Revolutionary Guard owns the smuggling routes that land its operatives on our beaches, and who has spent forty years killing people through proxies in other people's capitals. That rogue state. Adnan mentions it about as often as he mentions the weather.
Here is the actual problem with Adnan Hussain. He is not an MP with a constituency. He is a mood. A feeling that swept Blackburn for one summer, when Gaza was on every screen and Labour was on the wrong side of it. He caught the wave. 132 votes, and off he went.
And a wave is not a base. There is no machine, no record, no Blackburn in his politics. Just Gaza. Blackburn is one of the most deprived boroughs in the country. It needs houses, skills, a town centre worth walking into. It got a Palestine plan.
So when Gaza slides off the screens, and when this government finally falls, Adnan goes with it. He has nothing to be once the thing he is against is gone. He is a cheerleader for a team that is not his.
He is not the future of Blackburn. He is the tide mark. A line on the wall showing how high the water reached in July 2024.
And the water is going out.
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From Jan, Brits will have highest energy bills ever.
How the hell are Brits expected to magic up £2,192 a year for energy bills? A 27% increase.
Subsidising penguins farts whilst sitting on oil
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BBC publicity staff refused to promote an Emmy-winning documentary about the victims of the Oct 7 massacre in Israel, The Telegraph can disclose.
The film, Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again, reconstructed the events at the Nova music festival, where 364 Israeli civilians were murdered, numerous attendees subject to rape and mutilation, and 44 were kidnapped and taken hostage.
The film was commissioned by the BBC, whose in-house publicists turned their back on it “due to its subject matter”, it is alleged.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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From the Strictly Education episode on Diversity is not our Strength!
Humza Yousaf (was First Minister for Scotland) talking about how white people in positions of power in Scotland is problematic.
youtu.be/KrizvhRospk?is=K74C…
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I believe this prehistoric ostrich egg could depict the three pyramids of Giza, the Nile and the Red Sea.
There's just one extraordinary problem.
It was made and buried thousands of years before the pyramids were supposedly built.
🧵 1/5
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@AngelaRayner, did you allow Islamist extremists to influence the drafting of the “anti-Muslim hostility” definition?
It’s a simple yes-or-no question.
If not, why did your department claim that it had deleted all responses to the Working Group’s consultation, only to say — after the Free Speech Union threatened legal action — that the responses were still held on its data system?
And why does your department still refuse to disclose who responded to the consultation?
While we’re at it: if, as your Permanent Secretary confirmed in a letter to @NJ_Timothy, ministers had no involvement in this decision, who is running your department?
The public deserves to know the truth.
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Young lads up here can't get a start. Shipyards gone, pits long gone, apprenticeships like gold dust. And Burnham's answer is free movement for 450 million people chasing the same jobs. Train our own fucking kids first.
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I want you to do one thing today. Please SHARE THIS POST. All of us who support Israel are used to the hate we get online. But Jewish people and their families around the world get this hate in their face. They are feeling scared and isolated. Many have messaged me. They need our support more than ever. We have to stand up and be counted — now. Please share this post on your profile and show them they are not alone. ✊✡️❤️
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Final mix for tonight its another legend. 24 years ago:
This is @svenvaeth @ Fuse, Brussels 29.06.02
Just under three hours of Papa Sven, letting the tunes roll and breathe at a legendary venue. Superb set. Tracklist in comments.
Mixes on Kofi shortly 👇🔥👇
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Took my daughter to look around a well known University. The business lecturer has purple hair and talked about human rights and DEI. Went to Marketing, the slides looked like they'd been put together by a 4 year old girl. Conclusion save £25k a year and get a job.
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Bassheads - Is There Anybody Out There? (#TOTP 1991)
Seminal 90s dance anthem by the house duo Nick Murphy and Eamonn Anthony Deery. The track is famously includes a number of samples including the title-line by Pink Floyd from their 1979 song. The single was a top 5 UK hit.
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🚨 COINCIDENCE? How did a photographer from Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the world’s largest news agencies, capture a gunman in the middle of a terrorist attack near Judea Junction?
According to Israeli reports, the IDF is investigating whether the photographer had advance knowledge of the attack.
Was it extraordinary timing, or did someone know what was coming?
-@ynetnews
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The UK government has, since April, spent no less than £61 billion - that’s £61,000,000,000 - on debt interest payments.
That’s equivalent to our entire annual defence budget - on just half a year’s worth of debt service costs, not paying back a penny of our national debt.
For £61bn you could build 40 state-of-the-art hospitals.
Or employ 100,000 nurses for a decade
Or fund free-at-the-point-of-use social care, across the entire UK, for three years.
Watch this short “When The Facts Change” video for more on the UK’s soaring debt interest bill - the biggest national scandal our mainstream media continues to ignore.
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Next in today, nearly three hours from The Baron. Stunning set. 24 years ago:
This is @DJDaveClarke @ Fuse, Brussels 10.05.02
48 tracks of top tier techno and electro. Deep selection. All round just a banger. Tracklist in comments.
Reminder that all mixes uploaded here today go on my Kofi for download tonight.
👇🔥👇
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Next in is one of the very best, 31 years ago:
This is @DJJohnDigweed - Boxed 95, Ace of Clubs Mix (aka A Live Continuous Mix of Audio Excellence)
A Boxed mixtape, aka the precursor to GU, this is just under 80 minutes of glorious mid 90's house. Tracklist in comments.
Reminder that all mixes uploaded here today go on my Kofi for download tonight.
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