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Ash Sarkar
AyoCaesar
The Rule Britannia brouhaha is completely made up. No antiracist org has asked for it to be dropped. Whatโs played at The Proms has never been a major concern of
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The Telegraph
Telegraph
The BBC's decision to drop the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!" at the Last Night Of The Proms has become the latest controversy in the year of the #BlackLivesMatter protests.
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Nelson Jones
Heresy_Corner
Too much has been said about this, but in "Rule, Britannia", "Britons never will be slaves" does not mean "Britons won't be transported across the Atlantic and forced to work
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Paul Waugh
paulwaugh
NEW: No.10 signals that @BorisJohnson would not be happy with any move to ban Rule Britannia from Last Night of the Proms.Spokesman says he's made clear that while there may
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KeepBritainRubbish
KeepRubbish
Rule, Britannia! Salute the flag and mast!Poor Brits never, never, never learn your past.(Full new lyrics below).1/7 When Britain first, felt Norman command,We fell full foul of freedom's waves,Until then
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Siddharth Misra
sidart_misra
Born on April 3rd, 1914, Sam, as he was popularly known, is a soldier of many battles, including a corporate one. A quick short thread on him, based on my
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Lion_Investor
Should you invest in ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐น๐? That is the question on everybody lips these days,Especially with #Gold recently reaching the highest value since... EVER!But what makes Gold / Silver such
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Keith Davidson
AnotherFineTwit
THREAD: Historian Simon Webb provides the history of the song โRule Brittanniaโ.Referring to @BBCโs consideration of Rule Britannia as a Nationalistic song celebrating slavery, Simon said โItโs hard to explain
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Crystal moth
Prolapsarian
On the Rule Britannia/Land of Hope and Glory controversy: I grew up going to The Proms. Rushing off from school in the summer to get a 40p bus to the
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Jim Whitehouse......................Peace and Love
NibblerRat
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
I came to the UK some 20 years ago as a young scientist during the early Blair government years. Things weren't perfect then but, to me, there was a sense
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TheIainDuncanSmiths
TheIDSmiths
THREAD: To those asking if our Laurence Fox album is still going ahead despite his heartbreaking decision to block us, the answer is yes! For Foxโs Sake will be released
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Sunder Katwala
sundersays
This seems to me factually questionable- "Face the Axe" is OTT and premature.- Sky says initiated by "the Black Lives Matter movement". No factual basis for this. It was initiated
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davidallengreen
davidallengreen
For those who were shocked/concerned by the torture of Iraq civilians by UK soldiers in my posts/video last week, please also see what happened in:Kenya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising#British_war_crimesHooded Men, Northern I
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Matt Carr
MattCarr55
Watching a country heading at breathtaking speed toward economic ruin, while the conmen who made this possible pose with hands on hearts & rant about the right to sing Rule
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Lyrical
lyricismist
@Hepworthclare America Is Irish all the way Maurice Byrne 2020Oh where in AmericaWill they raise Brit bunting trueHave their homes all decked outIn Union Jacks with you /1 Is the
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