#Britain

Lenia Kouneni

LeniaKouneni

I was really looking forward to a day of #cyclicalclassical at @forarthistory 2020 conference scheduled today. @Hosmeriana and @tinyhistorian had put together a great panel. In honour of it, I

Lucy Fisher

LOS_Fisher

EXCL: Military chiefs have drawn up plans to base one of Britain’s new aircraft carriers in the Far East to play a part in countering an increasingly assertive China.https://twitter.com/timespictures/status/1282787583446179840 Vice-Admira

Yachad UK

YachadUK

REMINDER: criticising Israel - its government's policies, its West Bank settlements, its military occupation or its part in the blockade of Gaza - is not antisemitic. We do this regularly.Holding

Mugwump

anonmugwump

From the start of 2015 until the end of 2017, UK support to immunisation programmes immunised an estimated 56.4 million children, saving an estimated 990,000 lives. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmintdev/215/21507.ht

gee⁶⁹

gee_b69

A brief history lesson on how Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland came to be two separate places and why what Minx said has such an impact on Northern Irish

Omid Scobie

scobie

Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan are marking the start of the UK’s #BlackHistoryMonth with a major call for change. In an interview with the @EveningStandard, the Sussexes share their

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. Tomorrow’s Times. “Britain has painted itself into a corner with no clear exit strategy from the coronavirus epidemic” I wasn’t aware that ‘Britain’ had done anything wrong. In fact

Flying_Rodent

flying_rodent

Thinking about similarities between the way we got into our current situation and how the US bullshat itself into the Iraq War but the differences seem a lot more stark:

Steven Swinford

Steven_Swinford

Patel Patel told Tory MPs the asylum system is ‘broken’ and said she will be bringing forward new laws that will ‘send the left into meltdown’She said the system is

Dominic Minghella

DMinghella

Festival of Brexit?Festival of disaster capitalism. Festival of Brexit?Festival of red tape, tariffs and taxes. Festival of Brexit?Festival of fear. Of foreigners. Of cultures. Of skin tones. Festival of Brexit?A

Liz Webster 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺

abcpoppins

This Govt are releasing #COVIDー19 statistics which are totally unrepresentative. Testing is dysfunctional and the disease is killing many people but the scale of the disaster is being hidden.Govt has

Yassmin Abdel-Magied (she/her) | يا سمين

yassmin_a

People acting like this is the first time Britain has relied on immigrants. Do y’all not remember where all your wealth came from? Cotton wasn’t grown in Cornwall, darling. The

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Today is June 22nd, Windrush Day "WELCOME HOME!" was the Evening Standard headline, as the paper sent a plane to greet the Windrush in 1948. That headline was because a

Matthew *wash-your-hands* Taylor 🔶🇪🇺

mat8iou

It's worth looking into the causes of rationing post WW2.We imported a lot and didn't have the foreign currency to pay for it.By 1945 we were spending 52% of GDP

Sarah Rosemary

SarahRosemary3

During March 3 briefing when BJ was 'still shaking hands' the upbeat tone stood in sharp contrast with the growing unease of many of the govt’s scientific advisers behind the

Joe Mayes

Joe_Mayes

Let's examine this claim... 1/https://twitter.com/NIOgov/status/1319993151139041281 The basics: goods moving GB to NI will need new paperwork. This is because the UK agreed to uphold the integrity of the EU customs