#BRITs

Thought-provoking piece on @BBCCountryfile on ethnic minorities and access to countryside by fellow adventurer @DwayneFields. But it prompted lots of comments, many of them lacking in understanding or downright unpleasant.Brown
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this man should *immediately* replace Andrzej Duda as president of Polandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_7_bQ7rAoc every frame of this is a painting. here we see the drunk tory wanker attempting to impose order upon
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Came across some information about the female Sanskrit poetesses featured at the end of this book 'The Cane Groves of Narmada River'. I was surprised to learn about Shilabhattārika, a
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Thank u frens for follows -now I try to lose some lolI will post one I’ve been holding on to for a bitThis shouldn’t demoralize u -though civnats& wignats will
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Good news! Many of those who dropped litter had bought litter offsets that will, with luck, stop others littering in future. And some said they are confident Negative Litter Technologies
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I was asked why we Brits dislike Trump. This was my reply:A few things spring to mind.Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no
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At the root of this Togoland "secession" issue is one basic fact -Although many African polities wanted to be free from European colonisation...some of them also did not want to
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Comparing Norwegian friluftsliv to Love Island, and suggesting it’s “almost too broad to commodify” plus a mention of ‘gorpcore’ (no, I haven’t a clue either) Always a delight to read
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A number of people are appearing to be concerned at my absence.After being vociferous on here about the facial recognition software and the failings of the DWP I have had
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10 migrant privileges we need to talk about 1) Migrants are more likely than working class Irish to attend third level The reason for this is government initiatives to encourage
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UK vs. US, settled:comedy:music:movies:authors:accent:women:national sports:military:regular cars:luxury cars:bars:weather: tech:science:class:food: neitherteeth:fat:hooligans:sharia:shootings:meth:alcoholism: don't be fooled by Hollywood woah wt
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Tourists from the US and the UK who got Covid19 said they wouldn't have traveled to #Ischgl /St Anton if they'd known what authorities knew at the time. They were
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questions for non brits; a thread 1) what four countries make up the UK? 2) can you name 5 cities in the UK? 3) what's the capital of the UK?
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As far as I can tell, Bertrand Russell's "neutral monism" is just a logically-denatured, reheated misunderstanding of William James' "pure experience" (there's some Mach in there too but go with
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NEW story: data from @Google shows that people in the UK were broadly adhering to the lockdown during the first two weeks, but an @FT analysis finds that warm sunny
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The next few months will see a Tony Blair affiliated organisation work to bring in hate speech laws In September, a dossier will be published analysing Irish Twitter and Facebook
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