#British

Black British history is growing. We know more with each passing year.In our new series for kids (and parents!), historian and presenter @DavidOlusoga teaches the history that he was never
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Super Saturday, the #GreatEscape, the Great British Getaway.Whatever you want to call it, today is a huge day for domestic tourism in the UK.I'm heading down to Cornwall for a
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King Koko Of Nembe Resistance & How Nigeria was sold.___ On the 29th of Jan 1895, King Koko of Nembe Kingdom (also known as Nembe-brass) now in Rivers State led
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This Giggs revisionism is absolutely batshit. Only an idiot would judge a player like him on numbers but here we are, so: Giggs played on the touchline, on his natural
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I hate this trope about British “embarrassment” about their own history. The British are largely proud and/or ignorant of their own history. That’s basically the problem.https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1298233236204793857 Th
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And anyone who’s British and thinks we’re less structurally and systemically racist (also known as racist) than the US, please read yesterday’s figures showing black and Asian British are dying
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MAJOR CONTENT WARNING FOR THIS THREAD: TORTURE, WAR CRIMES, DESCRIPTIONS OF WAR CRIMES AND TORTURE, RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULTOn the 23rd September, the Overseas Operation Bill is due for its
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Priti Patel’s speech on the UK’s ‘broken’ asylum system is one of the ugliest & most sinister any British politician has made in many years. It really does spell out
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1) A short quiz regarding ethics.Q1 Do you believe it is morally wrong to cause unnecessary suffering to others?If 'Yes' go to tweet 2, if 'No' you are a psychopath,
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NEW: In a Sunday night letter, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have written to editors of the four major British tabloids - The Sun, Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Daily
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My latest piece for @WarOnTheRocks on the strategic choices facing #UK defence policy https://warontherocks.com/2020/08/strategic-suspense-british-foreign-and-defense-policy-at-a-crossroads/2020 is a momentus year... 1/8 1) last stretch of
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It cannot be overemphasized how fucked up it is that everyone knows Shamima Begum's name, but not the name of Yago Riedijk, the white adult man who groomed and married
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The Healyite Young Socialists statement on punk rock in 1977 at the YS annual conference. No mention of punk in the resolutions of the 1978 Young Socialists annual conference, but
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Academic Thread: "Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya" by Donna J. Amoroso –– This work argues that the British colonial power utilised and reinvented
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+UPDATE+UK govt to focus on “British common sense” in the coming months.Focus groups have shown this is more popular than scientific evidence based appeals to people. 2/It shouldn’t come as
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At the root of this Togoland "secession" issue is one basic fact -Although many African polities wanted to be free from European colonisation...some of them also did not want to
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