#Britain

Historic.ly

historic_ly

I feel like having some fun. I'll try to list all the countries the UK invaded with years!https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1249103290496733186 1918! Britain went to Poland to try to overthrow the Bolsheviks and

Monsieur Larkin ♘

Hakicat

[THREAD]I keep getting told Labour #Blairism is better than Tory #Thatcherism so let's explore #NEOLIBERALISM.12 years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked what was her greatest achievement? Thatcher replied:

Martin Cleary

MartinCleary

HIGH ACHIEVERS: Stay-Safe EditionThe 2020 Summer Olympics are on hold until 2021, but the spirit of the Games is alive. The Ottawa Rowing Club, the oldest in Canada, is paying

Duncan Molloy

DuncanMolloy

I received word today that Brian Degas, the last surviving designer of Escape from Colditz, has passed away. Brian was substantially larger than life, and it's a true privilege to

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

It's important that any governmental spending on Covid-19 relief should carve out funds to pay psychology and philosophy consultants who work on science communication. Those experts could devise strategies that

David Leask

LeaskyHT

Of course Salmond Truthers and online conspiracism hurts the Yes cause. But, fundamentally, these behaviours have little to do with the merits or challenges of independence. Thread.https://twitter.com/lokiscottishrap/status/1246040947831508993 Yes, a

Matt Cross

wildforest_matt

Killing of Raptors on Grouse moors Prof NetwonThis is a very rigorous and extremely clear and non-technical paper. If Grouse moors interest you, you should read it.It has some uncomfortable

Phil Miller

pmillerinfo

Here's a thread about the @EHRC, to explain the difference between state-funded human rights watchdog and independent human rights researchers. In 2015 I worked for a small research group called

Theo Bertram

theobertram

The key to Hartlepool - and the next election - is not why support for Labour is low among ‘the working class’ (or more precisely among C2 and DE voters)

Daniel Keohane

KeohaneDan

1/ Thread: Man on right in 1938 photo below, was my grandfather, Dan Keohane, aka “The Duke”. Born in 1900, May 1st was his birthday. The beautiful lady on left

Joe Mayes

Joe_Mayes

Scoop: we have obtained the government's plan for post-Brexit border checks with the EU 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-29/after-brexit-lorries-set-to-need-taxman-s-permission-to-move?sref=yMmXm5Iy In a 29-slide Powerp

Michelle María

_yungchelle

researching for my move and just came across a blog post where english expats read Spain to FILTH only because they didn’t get any jobs because they don’t speak spanish.

Daniel Finn

DanFinn95

With his familiar acuity, John Rentoul highlights this pearl of wisdom from ex-Labour MP Phil Wilson, believing it to be a devastating take-down of Corbyn, but only manages to reveal

Sharbatanu Chatterjee | শর্বতনু চট্টোপাধ্যায়

sharbat_c

Tired to hear the same old (wrong) argument from someone (European) I know - Muslim people have many children, as propagated by their religion, Britain and France are going to

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

Yet another devastating story about Facebook. Huge kudos to Sophie Zhang, an employee who turned down $64k severance to tell the truth.The speed & scale of the damage Facebook is

ICAN

nuclearban

Do not shrug your shoulders and think this is just Trump being Trump. This is not a hypothetical, abstract problem. Let’s take a moment and really think about what this