#Britain

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/11For all its romanticism, 19th century wasn't a very life-affirming time to be in. With as many as seven global outbreaks and a body count in hundreds of millions, cholera

Rendition

therendition_

Here’s a thread of Black theatre shows you can watch (in person ) Death of England: Delroy, by @royboywilliams Roy’s new play, directed by Clint Dyer tells the story of

Daniel Finn

DanFinn95

Stephen Bush won a certain reputation among Labour supporters after 2015 for displaying basic professional competence in his reporting on Corbynism—something that eluded most reporters. But he always set that

Helen Lewis

helenlewis

Take two on what I was trying to say yesterday: Corbyn has always been a politician with a dim view of parliament's ability to convert Britain to socialism. See this

Staedtler

Staedtler

All journalism is suffering from the same illness. Nick Robinson no more than anyone else. Nor any less either. The illness I'm talking about is the boneheaded refusal of English

Franziska Heimburger

FHeimburger

Pandemic uncertainty is getting to academics everywhere.Rather than spend another Saturday afternoon worrying about the fact that we don't know how we'll be teaching in 2020-2021, I decided to sort

Historic.ly

historic_ly

1984:"You are a woman, aren't you?" is what Prince Phillip asked this woman who made a gift for him Happy Bastille Day everyone The adult lady making the Nazi salute

Old Weird Scotland

WeirdScotland

Many Scots, while owning Scotland's role in slavery, still take the stance that "normal" or "working class" Scots got no advantages from the fortunes made with enslaved labour, or any

la scapigliata

lascapigliata8

Frankly I am disgusted, no, revolted with the behaviour of TRAs, that I have experienced a couple of days ago. My crime? A tweet of support to @jk_rowling who has

small robots

smolrobots

"Okay, Matt, this is an important one and we need to get it right. If she stumps you, just brush aside whatever she's saying. Laugh it off.""So I laugh?""Well don't

Historic Royal Palaces

HRP_palaces

It’s time for our first #HRPHandover for #BlackHistoryMonth Today we’re handing over to historian Michael Ohajuru (@michael1952). Read on as Michael explores the presence of Black people at the Tudor

Ayman Rashdan Wong

AymanRashdanW

Isu cultural appropriation timbul apabila kita transpose masalah orang US (eksploitasi Red Indian) ke dalam konteks Malaysia.Ye lah bendera kita kan dekat-dekat.Tapi kenapa ek bendera US dan Malaysia mirip sunguh?Sebab

Rev. Kate #BlackLivesMatter

kate_elizabeth

There are so many problems with this sort of theological and ecclesiological approach, which started to emerge when church buildings were required to close in the nationwide lockdown in March.

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

Trying to explain what's going on in Britain to a friend abroad: we have a fake lockdown where everyone still goes out and half the country are still going to

Dr Jess Wade 👩🏻‍🔬

jesswade

if you’re in the UK looking at the US and thinking ‘we’re not like that here’, you’re mistaken. racism was central to the creation of much of Britain, and impacts

Tara John

tarajohn

In non-Covid news, I explored transphobia in the UK, which was set alight by an attempt to make gender legislation more humane and equitable. Now the toxic narrative, which killed