Mark Nixon

@fatbadger442.bsky.social

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historian of Victorian culture & politics (esp w material culture); curator & public historian; education advocate. Obsessed with 1884. Otherwise, on a bicycle. he/him

a yellow Reliant Robin car sits off the edge of a road, wedged under a wooden fence. The car sort of looks sad. The Reliant Robin was a much-loved cheap, three-wheeled, British car which was notorious for being hard to control while trying to turn corners.
Headline from the UK newspaper the Guardian. Reads Fender and Dean song tops UK charts for record 19 weeks
Post from the twitter account of the right-wing british newspapers the times and the sunday times. Reads women left to enforce single-sex rights warns former e h r c chief. Accompanying picture is of the former chair of the e h r c Kishwer Falkner who is notorious for her antitrans views and her support for asserting patriarchal values into equality law.
Subheadings from Guardian website. Reads incoming Prime Minister has set out distinctly leftwing vision while also promising to be pro-business
Graffiti on what looks like a statue plinth. Reads A bas le caviar vive le kebab.
Five flags on poles on the harbourside at Tarbert, Isle of Harris. Behind are some mature trees in full leaf. Flags are from left to right those of Scotland, Cuba, Canada, Greenland, and the EU.
Tweet from Alex Wickham. Reads Another newAndy Urnham u-turn appeared designed at dropping his paast positions to win Reform votes. He says he supports the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces and the Supreme Court ruling.
Newspaper advert for the biopic Michael, about the child rapist and singer Michael Jackson. Strapline reads the legend who changed music.
Letter published by the Guardian newspaper, 25 April 2026. Reads Surely we should be aware of a critical equation with regard to Keir Starmer's premiership. Two big pluses: keeping the country out of the damaging American war and rolling back the damage caused by Tory policies to the social fabric. Then one minus: appointing a dodgy ambassador to a dodgy head of a warfaring country. On balance, this equation is positive for Starmer. Signed Jean Rushby, Hayfield, Derbyshire.
Tweet from Nigel Arage, leader of the British far-right party Reform UK. Reads the big divide in Britain today is between those who work and those who don't. Reform re on the side of Brits who set their alarm clocks, get up early and go to work.
Screenshot of a tweet by Nigel Farage. Reads Juat landed in America with GB News. A Trump win will make the world a safer place. Accompanying the text is a picture of Farage in what appears to be an airport parking lot.
Image shows an animal funding away with food and medical supplies in its mouth. Text reads If you see someone shoplifting No you didn't.
Subheading for an article in a Guardian supplement, reads, apparently unironically, 'How did £25 for a takeaway bowl become a typical working lunch'. It appears to have not been written, although it does say 'words by Morwenna Ferrier'.
Image with black border Image shows two skeletons fighting Text reads What are the four core character classes? Wrong answers only
Cover of a book called Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety
Headline from the Guardian's live politics blog, reads Starmer condemns Reform UK's racist rhetoric. Subheading reads 'PM says country's discourse is being poisoned and polluted by rhetoric pitting communities against one another
Post from the UK Home Office with a graphic reading nearly sixty thousand illegal immigrants and foreign criminals removed or deported over a background of a passenger plane
Headline from the Herald newspaper, reads The biggest myths and misconceptions about Orkney
Social media post by Keir Starmer. Picture has, in the foreground, a table with a plate of carefully laid-out Tunnocks products, an unopened can of Irn-Bru, and what appears to be an orange cheddar roll, and in the background in soft-focus an apparently unembarrassed Keir Starmer. Accompanying text reads To those in Scotland, and around the world, celebrating over a Burns supper, I wish you a very happy Burns Night.
Post by @kashana.blacksky.app, dated 24 January 2026, reads At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no-one.
Headline to 'analysis' piece by Pippa Crerar, political editor of the Guardian. Reads Starmer delivers masterclass in hedging his bets after Venezuela raid'. Subheading reads Prime Minister assures colleagues he may one day stand up to Donald Trump - but not yet.
Headline from comment piece by Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian newspaper, reads From Donald Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, let 2026 be a year of reckoning. Accompanying photograph is of the author.
Picture of Parys Mountain, Ynys Môn, Cymru,looking across the main quarry towards the old windmill. Parys Mountain is a multi-period ore quarry. The rock face shows multiple colours, from yellow to blue.
Headline from Guardian politics live blog, reads Starmer will absolutely still be prime minister by next Christmas, says Labour chair.
Clip from BBC News website, published 12.29 on 11December 2025, reads Ms Peggie was suspended from her job in a Kirkcaldy hospital's A&E department after she complained about Dr Beth Upton - a biological male who identifies as a woman - using a female changing room.
Clip from BBC News website, reads Maria Kelly objected to transwomen - biological males who identify as women - being allowed into the female toilets at Leonardo UK's office in Edinburgh.
Clip from BBC New website report, reads Ms Peggie took legal action against her employer, NHS Fife, after she objected to Dr Beth Upton - a biological male who identifies as a woman - using a female changing room
Sentence for BBC News website review, reads The case has attracted international interest as it concerned whether transgender women - biological males who identify as women - could use female-only changing rooms.
Headline from Guardian live blog, reads 'EU says US still our biggest ally despite release of policy paper supporting Europe's far-right'
Tweet from the far-right political party Reform UK. Reads 'Nearly 1 in 3cschoolchildren in Glasgow do not speak English as their first language. This is not diversity. This is culture smashing. Reform UK will make this a big issue in our campaign', followed by a picture of the Scottish flag.
Quote from BBC News website, defining trans women as "biological males who identify as women"
Gate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, with a metal sign above saying Arbeit Mach Frei
Headline from the Guardian's live politics blog, reads Starmer says budget did not break manifesto tax pledge and scrapping two-child benefit cap was long-standing ambition
Poster for the film Waterland, based on Graham Swift's novel about the Fens.
Headline from Guardian website, reads Reeves to launch crackdown on benefit fraud alongside lifting two-child limit
General View of the Mezzanine at the Whitworth Art Gallery, showing the Recoverist Curators exhibition.
Image of a can of Marigold Engevita nutritional yeast flakes
Visitor survey for Wakefield Museums. Shows the options for the question 'What was your main motivation for attending', with the answer 'Musums are an important part of who I am' highlighted.
Photo of the book Spent by Alison Bechdel on a table on a train, with its reflection and the passing countryside visible in the window
Screenshot from Guardian website 7 November 2025 showing two headlines. First reads Flags and Christian nationalist slogans feature in soaring attacks on UK mosques. Second reads, in much larger text, The Celebrity Traitors result revealed after dramatic finale
Headline from BBC News, reads Sheku Bayoh police request meeting with first minister
Post by Gaby Hinsliff complaining about nasty, violent language against politicians
Post from Adam Bienkov, which has been reposted by shakeystephens, pointing out that Kemi Badenoch has herself broken the law and not been prosecuted, while she is now attacking Rachel Reeves for breaking the law and should be punished.
Graphic showing this week's Question Time panel, with Lisa Nandy, Harriet Cross, Faiza Shaheen, and Matthew Goodwin.
Guardian headline, reads "Israeli strikes in Gaza kill.at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile"
Post from Labour MP Paula Barker, blaming mobile phone use for the murder of trans girl Brianna Ghey.
Notification that MK's post claiming that the Starmer government is the most leftwing in living memory can no longer be found.
One of a pair of murals in Cowdenbeath, Fife. This one depicts a girl playing with flowers.
Picture of the cartoon character Hong Kong Phooey
Guardian headline, reads Israel and Gaza prepare for release of hostages and prisoners.
Excerpt from Google maps, showing the English village of Bawdrip
BBC News headline, reads SNP hurting Scotland with 'wacky and woke' policies, says Findlay. Accompanying picture is of the Tories' leader in Scotland, Neil Findlay, speaking at a lecturn.
Headline on BBC News website, reads Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime. Accompanying picture is of a burnt-out car in front of the door of a mosque in Peacehaven.
Page from the website oswaldmosley.net, a far-right website that promotes the views of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists. Reads, in part, "Mosley's programme for national renewal through positive state management became the creed of fascist action"
Tweet from Social Work Scotland, dated 27 September 2017. Reads "We support the Named Person as a valuable part of GIRFEC This is about the right support to children at the right time". John Swinney was tagged. The previous year, the Supreme Court found the policy, outlined in parts 3&4 of the Children &Young Person (Scotland) Act 2014, to be a breach of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Headline from print version of comment piece by Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian, 27 Sept 2025. Reads "Here's the case against ID cards - they're a gift to authoritarians"