#Britain

Read this week's LFI Key Issues Analysis on new @UKLabour leader @Keir_Starmer's first steps to tackle antisemitism in the party and @_LFI's response.https://www.lfi.org.uk/starmer-tackling-antisemitism-a-moral-imperative/Summary thread b
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Hello. So, the landbridge has appeared in the news a good deal this week due to Brexit, which was kicked off by @SiCarswell's article last Monday on it.I’d like to
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Post this lockdown we are going to again be faced with a lobbyist demand for careless rushed opening based this time on the idea that IFR will have fallen because
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The year 193 is known as “The Year of the Five Emperors”.Why? Well, on New Years Eve 192 Emperor Commodus was murdered, leading to a full on fight for control
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1/ THREAD: A walk into Bethnal Green, starting at the 19th century carpenters’ and furniture makers’ workshops in Padbury Court at the northern end of Brick Lane. The nearest has
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Might do an occasional thread about Art Deco buildings I see in London... there’s quite a lot but they seem to get overlooked compared to other styles. Maybe because British
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Is anyone making a list of people using the coronavirus as an excuse to do the things they’ve always wanted to do? If not, I’ll start it off with this.
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THREAD:Ghislane Maxwell, and her Worldwide Maritime Network: #TerraMar First, some facts on #GhislaneMaxwell:* arrested after hiding for more than a year in Bedford, New Hampshire* charged with 6 counts of
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thread of all the dresses that the Duchess of Sussex wore that got all the karens mad MAD. aka why meghan markle remains an unbothered badass: this engangement dress shouldve
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What can you expect in a post-Corona world?When WW2 ended, it changed the entire power structure in the, changed the destinies of so many countriesIt was said that the Sun
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British post-war prime ministers as British Rail post-war locomotives: a thread. Clement Attlee = Class 47Best in class. Transformed services in Britain, providing a tremendous improvement for huge numbers of
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My grandad was only ever elderly as far as I knew him. A bit grumpy. Kind to me, his smallest grandchild. He was a man who felt like he’d never
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Thread: The Great Famine/An Gorta Mór 1845-50 1-1.5 million died. 1-2 million emigrated. [estimates vary greatly, especially as whole families died so no one left to tell their story, &
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December 31st; China alerts WHO to new virus.January 23rd: Study reveals a third of China’s patients require intensive care.January 24th: Boris Johnson misses first Cobra meeting.January 29th: Boris Johnson misses
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fun fact: as a child I assumed lb stood for "little babies," and that a little baby weighed exactly one lb so apparently it actually comes from the Latin phrase
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Fresh from @robinwriting High King of Ireland last night, I'm continuing gaming of Irish history. This is The Irish Question, my own ongoing experimental game, covering Nationalism and Republicanism in
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