Peter Sarris
@peter_sarris
Historian and professor of Late Antique, Medieval & Byzantine Studies. English, Cypriot. Winner, London Hellenic Prize 2023.
One of the books I am proudest to have commissioned in my time in publishing. Paul's argument is more relevant than ever now
Published five years ago. I wouldn't change a word.
I know this part of the world very well. Don’t just look at the Tory vote, Reform is hoovering up what was left of the indigenous working class vote. They are stuffed.
Borehamwood Brookmeadow (Hertsmere) Council By-Election Result: 🌳 CON: 29.6% (-18.7) ➡️ RFM: 24.4% (New) 🙋 Ind: 21.0% (New) 🌹 LAB: 18.3% (-33.5) 🔶 LDM: 2.9% (New) 🌍 GRN: 2.3% (New) 🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New) Conservative HOLD. Changes w/ 2023.
In 2023, Angela Rayner accused Rishi Sunak of "jetting around the country on taxpayers' money like an A-list celeb". She doesn’t seem so concerned about the air miles within her department being FIVE TIMES higher. Sheer hypocrisy.
I know you have a lot of friends, but don't bring them home every day.
Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and all those affected by this tragedy. Photographs: @kitasweather
Just a wolf-dog teaching the youngest member of the pack how to sing
Funeral of Syrian Alawite Ahmed Zuhair Khudur—killed for refusing to speak the language of Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Murdered by Julani’s thugs because he refused to howl. I’m not exaggerating when I say: Syria has become Daeshistan.
🔴تشييع الشهيد أحمد زهير خضور الذي رفض التكلم بلغة أبو محمد الجولاني تشييع الشهيد "أحمد زهير خضور" في قرية كرتو والذي قتل على أيدي عناصر ميليشيا الأمن العام الإرهابية بسبب رفضه "العواء" بريف طرطوس.
“English people should be allowed to be proud of being English, in England” Mick Lynch talking unadulterated common sense to Irish media. If you think otherwise, fine, but be aware your political project is a complete non-starter.
They'd put me in a Britannia hotel?
As Tony Benn used to say, pay close attention to the way governments treat refugees. Because that's how they'd treat you if they could get away with it.
Sky News catches Bedouin fighters looting Druze homes in southern Syria. They even steal their farm animals
The BBC have evidence this is completely untrue - the massacre in the hospital was perpetrated by uniformed government troops
US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack: "The Syrian troops haven't gone into the city. These atrocities that are happening are not happening by the Syrian regime troops. They're not even in the city."
Gaza gets most of the attention, as it should, but what’s happening in the West Bank is worse than at any time in decades.
Last night, Israeli settlers attacked the water wells of Ein Samia—the main source of clean water for the Christian village of Taybeh and surrounding villages—cutting off access to water for the entire area. This marks the second such attack in just one week—the previous attack…
The BBC have evidence the massacre in Suwayda hospital was carried out by Syrian ‘government’ forces - harrowing eye witness accounts. Jolani and the rest of them are Islamist terrorists pure and simple
Sending weapons, but shaking my head whilst I do it so everyone knows I disapprove.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
Former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli army and current Labor Party leader, Yair Golan, speaks out about the pogroms carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.
The IDF Spokesperson in Arabic released a video to “prove” there's no famine, no deliberate killing—just Hamas propaganda. Yet in the same video, the order “No shooting! Nobody shoots!” is heard at least 7 times. If no one ever shoots, why the command?
It was a coordinated campaign that still persists to dress these zealots up in sheep’s clothing and present them as the “true Syrian people” on some “anti-colonial” mission or whatever. The fact that many of the propagandists are affiliated with UK universities deserves study.