Peter Mitchell

Nov 6, 2024 | redpepper.org.uk | Peter Mitchell

When the retired Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar published Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning in 2021, it marked an apogee of a long-drawn culture war over the British imperial record. Biggar had spent the past few years fashioning himself into a figurehead for a certain strain of imperial apologetics which by 2021 had coalesced into a well-organised culture-war ecology of think tanks, media and politicians with well-funded links to the global reactionary right.

Oct 7, 2024 | chad.co.uk | Peter Mitchell

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowMansfield Senior Reds Walking Football Club will proudly celebrate their 10th anniversary on 16th October. The format is for the Over 50s playing in six-a-side matches. Since that date in 2014 the club have held over 800 sessions at their Mansfield Rugby Club base with over 14,500 taking part, an average of 18 at each.

Jun 15, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Nicolas Delsol |Peter Mitchell |Vicky M. Oelze |Leah Stricker

AbstractDomestic horses and donkeys played a key role in the initial colonization of the Atlantic seaboard of the Americas, a process partially chronicled by historical records. While Spanish colonists brought horses to the Caribbean and southern latitudes earlier, the transport of domestic horses to the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia in 1606 was among the first dispersals to the eastern seaboard.

Mar 16, 2024 | theguardian.com | Peter Mitchell

Growing up in Ballarat, Georgia Amoore enjoyed terrorising boys on the football field. She was so quick and elusive with a Sherrin in her hands, the boys often only had one option to slow her down. “They’d grab my ponytail,” Amoore says, laughing. The helplessness those boys felt as Amoore left them in her dust is now being replicated in college basketball arenas across the US.

Mar 1, 2024 | theguardian.com | Peter Mitchell

NRL fans, please don’t get angry. I’m not an NRL hater or a Negative Nigel. I understand why the Sea Eagles, Rabbitohs, Roosters and Broncos have descended on Las Vegas this weekend for the NRL’s season-opening double-header. It’s part of chief executive Andrew Abdo’s job to look for new markets and the US, with its 330 million residents, is the holy grail of sports markets. But there’s one problem for Abdo and the NRL – and it’s a huge problem.