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Matt Potter

MattPotter

Really, fuck a load of that #HarshWritingAdvice. Here’s a corrective: a list of the worst, most bullshit-stuffed, unhelpful & destructive writing advice I’ve received. Here goes.1. “If you were going

Jeremy Cliffe

JeremyCliffe

Watching Germany's top political talkshow @AnneWillTalk, I don't think I've ever seen a bigger gap between UK and German coverage (focus, angle, talking points) of a subject of common relevance.

Brendan Dawe

BrendanDawe

Ok folks, it's time to talk about the fastest way from Prince Rupert to Moncton, Canada's supposed need for 3 transcontinental mainlines, and the GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC This all starts

Simone C.

scaffarini

Perché i romanzi vittoriani sono sempre divisi in tre volumi? Tutta colpa delle biblioteche a pagamento: i vittoriani avevano messo in piedi un vero e proprio "Netflix della cultura" (come

Save British Farming 🇬🇧

BritishSave

Specifically noting current debate on pesticides, Barnier said that “one ought to be careful . . there will be consequences in terms of going on exporting without tariff w/o quota to our

Natalie

quiqueliquique

I recently finished a dissertation chapter on the trade in Slavic captives via al-Andalus into the Islamic world in the 10thC. It was hard to write because I wanted to

Elaine Doyle

laineydoyle

I don't understand the British media. I really, really don't.Basic things: Ireland and the UK started this pandemic with roughly the same number of ICU beds (6.5 per 100,000 for

Matt Davidson

md_ptbo

Always good to see a labour historian giving the #HaitianRevolution its due! We need to talk about the role that disease played in the revolution, though.https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1296810185902698497 In this thread, @ErikLoomis

GET A GRIP 💙

docrussjackson

Presumably Claire Fox is on #newsnight because Tommy Robinson, David Starkey, Darren Grimes, Katie Hopkins, Nigel Farage, Laurence Fox, Allison Pearson, Isabel Oakeshott, Richard Tice, Tim Martin, Toby Young, Brendan

Grace O'Malley 🏁

you_know_nuttin

Last night I got talking to my aunt. A staunch Republican, ex prisoner of conscience, ex dirty protester in armagh jail. We've not seen eye on eye on trans issues

Kim A. Wagner

KimAtiWagner

Since @NigelBiggar is once more rallying to the defense of Cecil Rhodes' statue in Oxford, and @DanielJHannan presumably is not far behind, it might be worth taking a closer look

Papu

ur_friend_papu

Prominent Leavers need to publicly disown Trump.Looking at you in particular, @Nigel_Farage: you campaigned for him in 2016 and again in 2020. Telling protesters to leave isn't enough.And same for

Kathleen Stock

Docstockk

Have followed @Dannythefink for while and often get a lot from his takes, but this is not best of them. The very least he could do is look into countervailing

Gregory Brew

gbrew24

Iran was a democracy--of sorts--for a brief period in the 20th century. Were relations "stable and peaceful"? Not exactly. Thread 1/https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1337460347033141248 Iran's period of constitutional governme

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Stretcher Bearers - not MedicsA glance at British and Canadian SBs in Normandy. /1#WW2 #SWW #History tldr: the british army favoured rapid casevac, two stretcher bearers run the gauntlet with

The New York Times

nytimes

In its efforts to procure supplies to fight the coronavirus, Britain has awarded thousands of contracts worth billions of dollars. Much of that money has gone to politically connected companies,

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