#Britain

quixoticgeek

quixoticgeek

Right. So people have been talking of late about teaching British values and British History in the UK & how they feel it should be done better.. The problem is,

James Felton

JimMFelton

A surprising number of sea monster sightings can be explained by whale boners(quick thread, sources here: https://bit.ly/2PFRk5G ) For as long as there have been sailors on the oceans, singing shanties

Jon Worth

jonworth

Britain just go. Go. Go now. Enough of the tantrums. Enough of the histrionics. Enough of the faux grandeur. Enough of the disingenuous comparisons with Australia's and Canada's trade relationships

jade bentil

divanificent

The first person in Britain to be arrested and convicted under the Coronavirus Act is a Black woman. Arrested and fined for 'failing to provide identity or reasons for travel

Hasan Patel 🌹

CorbynistaTeen

Since I’m trending on Twitter, I feel I need to reply. My experiences are valid. Getting a scholarship *off my own merit* to Eton does not invalidate my material disadvantage,

Canada in the World

canadainthewrld

This week, the RCMP stood by while white settlers in NS terrorized Mi’kmaq fishers, an escalation of settler violence brewing for months. Mi’kmaq fishers have broken none of Canada’s laws,

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

If you can bear it, please read these four articles, published across 5 months, in sequence. They show how and why the total fiasco of the government's Covid-19 response unfolded.First:

ThatGed

JailedGed

Look I’ve had a great ideaLet’s scrap LFC and EFC and start with a Merseyside teamWe will play at Anfield because it’s the best ground in BritainWe will play in

IsThatConfirmed

IsThatConfirmed

Read this article with interest this morning. Now a boring thread again about my day job.....https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-path-speci-idUSKBN21P1VF A reasonable percentage of my Cyber career has been dealing with major

Alex Bescoby

AlexBescoby

A CULTURE WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE… (thread)Or, what I learnt first-hand about “rewriting” Britain’s #history, and why it can bring people together, not tear them apart. (1/15) In 2013, I

Jim Grace

mac_puck

I am not an epidemiologist.But the SIR model (Susceptible, Infectious, Recovered) of infection is actually very simple to model in a quick spreadsheet.Best fit I found was:Ro = 3 Mortality

Mike Hill

michaeldoron

THREADIn 1914 there was a deeply rooted and thriving community of German migrants in Britain; by 1918 it was almost utterly destroyed. (1) In 1911, 53,324 German migrants lived in

Miqdaad Versi

miqdaad

It's interesting to see how pieces from people attacking the @MuslimCouncil, are full of vacuous statements or outright misleading nonsense. The latest attack is from the Henry Jackson Society in

Hitesh Tikoo

refugeeathome

''Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country''.A thread for all the patriotic Brits out there. Nationalist patriotic Brits trolling Boris

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

The Sunday Times reports speculation that the government will review the honours system's continued use of Empire Bernard Jenkin MP is among those to make this proposal, as have Labour's

Owen Smith

OwenSmith_UK

After watching @BBCPanorama tonight, it’s hard not to conclude that Labour is being destroyed before our very eyes. We have been an anti-racist, internationalist, progressive party for a century. Corbyn