#British

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖

kixes

Thank you @heatherchen_ for asking me for my views about @ITV's #TheSingaporeGrip and the foregrounding of white experiences during a very painful point of #Singapore's history.https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/v7gk49/japans-inva

ᛄJ🌬⛄

410MLXVI

A short thread on The British origins of some Christmas traditions. The first Christmas card.Posted in England by Henry Cole. (1840s)Designed by John Callcott Horsley. The first Christmas cracker.Invented

Joe Quixotic

joejglenton

Given we adopted in large parts the American model of veteran-worship in this country post-2008 it is probably worth pointing out that that model is itself based on an Nixon

Niall Gooch 👍🇬🇧🇻🇦🚅🏏✒

niall_gooch

Unbeatable combo here of deliberate disingenuousness, stupidity and moral preening. It would be more reasonable if Aaro weren't effectively an open borders advocate, and if we hadn't had vast immigration,

Ralph Leonard

buffsoldier_96

In 1981, when he gave his 80th birthday lectures, CLR James was challenged by a black nationalist in the audience for supposedly having "a blind spot about the racism of

R.Сам 🦋🐏

Logo_Daedalus

These two things are the same It is morally despicable to equate petty vandalism & meaningless protests with the Maoist Cultural Revolution. It treats the latter as a total abstraction--

Keith R Laws

Keith_Laws

ECT & depression review - Reading this review I was surprised that *none* of the included RCTs met the criterion "One or more other treatments (antidepressants, CBT etc.) had been

Shah

shahhhhahmed

Misconception about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire:A thread : A lot of past historians viewed the Ottoman empire from the 19th century to the 20th as the "sick man"

Pandeyji Speaks

malhar_pandey

#ganeshchathurthi Few incidents in the life of this nation,which have changed the course of history for good and one such event occurred in 1893, When Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak took

James Mitchell

ProfJMitchell

Obvious person. Difficult to deny expertise, unrivalled contacts across UK, former PM status, always helps to have someone who has seen issues from centre, + opportunity late in career to

🕷️ Cathy

NarcAware

Only Johnsons Govt could turn the reformation of #IntelligenceSecurityCommittee into a serious #NationalSecurityThreat in it's making.With Grayling as Johnsons pick for chair he not only insults 'everyone's' intelligence. He

Liam O'Dell

LiamODellUK

To those saying ‘there’s a sign language interpreter on BBC News Channel’, here’s why that’s an issue: today’s scientific briefing with Professor Van-Tam is not being interpreted by the BBC.This

🌿willowⒶ☭🌿

leftistluthien

Boudicca appreciation post for our celtic warrior QUEEN (might make this into a thread of historical/mythical warrior women because I just love them so much) alright next up is my

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

The United States government's mass incarceration system just lost them their case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Holy shit, the judge ends saying she is satisfied that procedures described by

John Cotter

John_Cotter

‘Sovereignty’ as understand by Brexiteers in government seems to amount to nothing more than a belief that the executive has the right to pursue any action it wishes without any

Dodger

Dodgergold

Thread of Wars(cause why not) Punic Wars- fought between states of carthage and rome 100 years war- fought between House of lancaster(england)and House of Valois(France) France from 1337 to 1453

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