#Britain

Steven Swinford

Steven_Swinford

Rishi Sunak warns that Britain is facing a 'severe recession the likes of which we haven't seen' Rishi Sunak warns that there could be permanent scarring to the economy‘The longer

Rush Doshi

RushDoshi

Excited to have our paper "Beijing's Bismarckian Ghosts" generously referenced in @martinwolf_'s column! We argued that the Anglo-German great power economic rivalry a century ago holds eerie parallels to today’s

Victoria Freeman

v_j_freeman

Meanwhile, in Corbyn World *ALL* this is the fault of “aggro centrists” who somehow tricked Corbyn & his team into a litany antisemitic words & deeds while they were also

Dr Lyana Khairuddin

ElphabaThropp7

Organising the small event for @womenoffuture recently, I realised that my knowledge of prominent women in both UK & Malaysia is not diverse. So I've been reading up a lot

Michael Hattem

MichaelHattem

I’m going to share some vague similarities I’ve been noticing between our current moment and the 1760s/1770s. During the imperial crisis, Parliament passed unprecedented legislation aimed at greater control of

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

Advaidism

Dec 1961 : When India blitzed Portuguese-held Goa, both USA & Portugal moved a ceasefire resolution in the United Nations (UN) The Soviets used the power of VETO against the

Sam 🚴🌱🍻Ⓥ

MCRCycleSam

Reminder: it is official Green Party policy to support a high speed North-South railway to reduce short haul flights.Such a railway would also reduce lorries and cars on the road,

Owen Jones 🌹

OwenJones84

The Sunday Times investigation into the government's catastrophic handling of the coronavirus is one of the most important things you've read.It's behind a paywall, so here's a thread with the

Mamachell

mamachell

Ok so i've been wanting to get back into doing history threads. I am going to attempt The Slavery Abolition Act. I wanted to do the research b4 hand BUT

Tom Booth

Boothicus

Me and my brother visiting Stonehenge in AD 2003. Speaking of relatives in and around Stonehenge, here's a new (OA) paper with Jo Brück, @SelBrace & Ian Barnes based on

Mandu Reid

ManduReid

The #DomesticAbuseBill has been signed into law. Huge respect and kudos to the campaigners who worked relentlessly to get us to this milestone.It WILL make a difference. But the struggle

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

Let's talk social housing: Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, many of which look like the third photo, with lots of open space, and a total of 240 bedrooms. You could

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Now watching the @britishlibrary live stream where @DavidOlusoga is in conversation with @omaromalleykhan Black History Month was 'enormously overshadowed' by the Windrush scandal in 2018 and 2019. 2020 feels different.'There

Oluwatayo Adewole

naijaprince21

It's hard to properly explain this but the jingoistic language around COVID-19 in the UK is really rubbing me the wrong way. A) Martyring medical professionals means we ignore whether

Luke Livingood ✝️ 🇺🇲

lukelivingood

IS IT POSSIBLE to FARM without foreign labor? I found this article about farming in Britain during Covid interesting. So here's a thread.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/British-farms-labor.html?smid=em-share "In this pa

Daniel Tucker Bailey🌍🇬🇧 #StayHomeStaySafe

D_T_Bailey

Day 68: This is gonna be a long one.It's been a disappointing day.But when it comes down to it, progress - the fight against the #ClimateCrisis, the fight for #ClimateJustice,