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.

Safe to say the Tartan Army were impressed by this Boston officer's keepie-uppie skills 😅👮

C’mon Paraguay 🇵🇾 #NUFC #paraguay #worldcup

Brilliant! Brave independent reporter @advancesarah has just ambushed Sly News live on air in Belfast and demanded they start reporting the truth. They gutlessly cut back to the studio…

We have completed the signing of highly-sought after goalkeeper Ewen Jaouen from Stade de Reims on a long-term contract 🙌

Best thing I’ve ever seen 😂

The phenotype that epitomises modern culture.

There’s no place like home 🖤🤍

To say it's been a bumpy few days for Nicola Sturgeon is probably an understatement. In fact, it was probably bumpier than a motorhome full of coffee machines driving over several cattle grids at 50mph. Here's her harrowing story: youtu.be/Rbbd55IabU0

Fantastic🤣

Starmer is still running scared from delivering a National Rape Gang Inquiry & the Labour Party is still running away from collecting & publishing the ethnicity, immigration status and the religion of child sexual offenders. It took over 260,000 members of the public signing a petition to get a debate on this issue in the House today. @RupertLowe10 @officialsammyuk

They are no longer the Labour Party, they are the Welfare Party. It doesn’t matter who is in charge of these people, the party for Benefits Street will tax us all into poverty to pay for more welfare. Pat McFadden has said in private what he and the Prime Minister deny in public. As I’ve said repeatedly, Labour MPs don’t understand where money comes from. They think our taxes are their money to spend, rather than the result of the hard work of the people in our country who deserve so much better. The Conservative party is the only party holding Labour to account, as Reform, Lib Dems the SNP and others join Labour in demanding the state pay more and more benefits.

The Mandy Files — 2. May 2025 Another zinger from Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden to Mandelson: ‘Every meeting I have is “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others”. They’re asking the wrong questions.’ Wow! Just wow!!

Living in a luxury house in London and sipping champagne on the book festival circuit is about as far away from serving a prison sentence as I can imagine. It’s worth remembering that thanks to Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable women in Scottish prisons are banged up with violent men.

🚨 Up to 7% of all Government spending is fraud and error. There was a lot of interest in my video earlier this week where I revealed… …the National Audit Office states taxpayers lose up to £81bn a year this way. Now £81bn is such a huge number it almost stops meaning anything. So think about it like this: For every £100 the Government takes from you in tax… …up to £7 is being lost through fraud and error. Seriously, why are we giving them more and more tax, when they lose 7% of it each year.