#British

Since I'm being asked on The Bomb in Morrison work, and it's not the first time I've been asked that question, even if it is a well known/established thing, let's
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Dearest @tomhfh , it is time you stopped being a PRICK and sit down while I school you on this. Britain was NOT the first country to ban slavery in
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Scattered points, but somehow interlinked:When did the #UnitedStates start paying attention to the Middle East? Or let me ask in a different formulation, when did the United States realize the
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Right, hectic day giving me a break so I can do a short thread on this morning's piece on Brexit and JHA. First, the plug: read it below https://cer.eu/insights/brexit-and-police-and-judicial-co-operation-too-little-too-late Despite
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Yesterday, on a day when a government minister was under intense pressure, the lab party decided to sacrifice that for a swing at the left. This, for any of you
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1. So many of our constitutional freedoms trace back to the trauma of the police-state imposed on Boston in the years before Lexington—and lately, I’ve been thinking again about one
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Decent @snopes treatment of "shanty" vs. "chanty"/"chantey" by @davidpmikkelson. But the Google Ngrams graph with spelling variants is misleading, since the frequency of "shanty" is significantly boos
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LGB Alliance recently boasted of a worldwide network of anti-trans "LGB" groups under the banner #LGBInternationalIn Ireland, Wales, Australia, America, Canada, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Iceland , Norway and Serbia.I did
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One thing has been bothering me about #RussianReport. The report speaks eloquently of Russian 'disinformation warfare', and there is indeed lots of evidence that this is Putin's modus operandi. 1/6
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Today I learnt that Noel Coward was an early opponent of appeasement and when Ivor Novello burst into tears of joy upon the signing of the Munich Agreement, Coward punched
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1. Please listen to Wilmshurst’s seminar on Dishonesty in Medical Research:https://youtube.com/watch?v=awmWaOKLj9U&t=2s Peter tells us about Poldermans, a cardiologist whose fraudulent research is thought to have caused 800,000 excess
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The Price of Liberty: THREAD1.Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?Five signers were captured by the British astraitors, and tortured before
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All those who think tv representations of the past don’t matter and don’t impact on wider public memory, do have a read on Tim Edensor’s work on Braveheart ... or
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Dear British friends, you don't have to pick a team in the US culture wars. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy,
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Effects of Colonialism: In the middle of the 1857 uprising, the Governor-General Lord Canning wrote to a British official : As we must rule 150 millions of people by a
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THREAD Government did U-turn on free school meals over summer. Food bank use higher than ever. I did story on A House Through Time on British Restaurants in WW2, Government
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