#Britain

Shinobi Yaka

YakaShinobi

1/6The progressives condemn a history of which they are wholly ignorant, they believe that “"Rule, Britannia!" celebrates Britain's military superiority, in this, they are only trivially correct. 2/6Context: in the

Spatel

Rjrasva

Sour grapes considering western reports of imminent disaster? Emergency was a gov't suggestion, no legal penalties applied for non-compliance. So there was no lock down in Japan as understood elsewherehttps://abc.net.au/news/2020-05-23/

Simon Cooke

SimonMagus

A few observations about our - that's non-Muslim Brits - attitudes to Islam. 1/ There is a huge degree of ignorance about what Muslims believe and this is not helped

Dr David Walsh

d_j_walsh

*Thread* Remember how in Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth, Claudius Hieronimianus, the kindly yet authoritative legate (high-ranking general & senator) of the Sixth Victrix is Egyptian? Not if

alan lester

aljhlester

1/5 Apologists for the British Empire rely on the distance between Britain itself and the sites of Britons' most rapacious exploitation of people of colour overseas. This is what enables

Mark McLaughlin

mark_mclaughlin

Britain may still need to adopt a herd immunity strategy, says Graham Medley, the UK government’s chief pandemic modeller@thetimes 1/2https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnsons-coronavirus-adviser-calls-for-a-way-out-of-lockdown-rd58g6tc9 Nico

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

A thread of practical advice for preparing for #CoronaVirus - please share widely, it's well researched. #thread #covid19UK #PlanNotPanicThanks. 1. Hand washing - 20 seconds at least actual scrubbing with

#DextrousNinja🇮🇳

DextrousNinja

Who would believe?An #Italian delegation present in #Somalia has ended its stay,They refused to return to #Italy and asked the #Somali government to renew their residency.#StaySafe #StayHome #Lockdown3rdMay Who would

Chris Cook

xtophercook

Opening up questions of reparations is, might I suggest, a very bad idea for Britainhttps://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/1246750522511699970 Could make the Commonwealth games a bit edgier.

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Is Britain racist? This binary question is unhelpful and obstructs real progress | Sunder Katwalahttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/race-report-bame-sewell-commission-b1825074.html What happens if you ask a very binary question of this ki

Michael Kingsbury

Celtic_Films

Men and Women. Nationalism - What Is the Balance?Also keep in mind that in the Celtic world we have had civil rights for women dating back to 2000 BC. The

Gerry Lynch

gerrylynch

60,000 people dying alone, in isolation rooms behind plastic, unable to see their loved ones, in terror. 40-50 thousand of those deaths were avoidable except @BorisJohnson thought people were so

Baby Archie Aunty💙

meghanxharry

The Archbishop of Canterbury, who presided over the Sussexes' May 2018 marriage, is President of Feeding Britain. Harry and Meghan told him they wanted the money to be donated to

David Kernohan

dkernohan

Back this time last year I fired up Tableau to search for "Britain's Worst Higher Education Courses". I wasn't able to find them in Unistats (our only course-level public dataset)https://wonkhe.com/blogs/britains-worst-hig

Mark Powell

obfuscans3

I *think* I found a new lichen species for Britain this week while on my daily lock-down walk. This thread will give the story so far and explain my slight

Daniel Sohege

stand_for_all

Thread: I have had a quote attributed to Oscar Wilde running through my head all day, "patriotism is the virtue of the vicious". With Labour's recent moves it seems both