#British

Caroline Criado Perez

CCriadoPerez

Honestly, I’m tired of lockdown, but I’m more tired of having a government so incompetent that they can’t even get their messaging right. It gives me no confidence whatsoever that

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

Something big happened this week that may have passed you byMaybe it was meant toI've been reporting on the numerous #COVID19 scandals for last 5 months & but this one

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

A decade ago today, I was rushed into hospital with internal bleeding.It was kidney cancer.I made a blog at the time, and noted the names and nationalities of those who

Marie

FPOnTheDL

1/ I get asked this every year so here you go: No, French-Canadians don’t traditionally celebrate thanksgiving. Why? Québec was founded in 1608 by the French. Plymouth by the British

Author Manoshi Sinha

authormanoshi

Condition of Samadhi (Mahuli, Maharashtra) of Tarabai Bhosale, who resisted Mughal attacks sev times, herself leading armies to battle n becoz of whom Maratha Empire survived crisis frm 1700-1707! Yes

Carry On Strategy

CarryStrategy

Exercise Lionheart 1984The largest British Army exercise of the Cold War and since the Second World War and probably always will be.Over 130,000 Soldiers, which is almost double of todays

Matt Goodwin

GoodwinMJ

Who would make best Prime Minister? -by classUpper/middle classBoris Johnson 39%Keir Starmer 32%Johnson's lead = 7 pointsWorking class Boris Johnson 40%Keir Starmer 21%Johnson's lead = 19 points From latest

Peter Cook

AcademyOfRock

While Germany were making preparations for #Corona in January, #BrexitJohnson and the @Conservatives were minting ceremonial #Brexit #Coins, printing blue #passports and bonging #BigBen. #Deaths in UK are really a

Tabitha McIntosh

TabitaSurge

Dear British lady ‘I love my cleaner’ twitter: I cleaned your houses when I was the single mother of a toddler. I despised every last one of you and would’ve

Stephane Savary 🕎 יְהוֹשֻׁעַ

stephane_ulrich

This might be the biggest political cultural difference between the British and French left. Patriotism has always been important for the left in France since the French Revolution.https://twitter.com/SocOfColour/status/1308395278828011521

Black Britain

theblkbrit

A thread: Black actors you may have not known were British Alfred Enoch - The 31 year old actor is best known for significant role as Wes in How

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tobaccovanillou

apparently there is a third possible connection to a penal island also connected to eroda. “gould’s book of fish” written by richard flanagan, and it’s connection to eroda.; a thread!

Leonid Sirota

DoubleAspect

A quick thread on this, in response to people saying that a right to bear arms is the product of the American rebellion against Britain and alien to the British

Akitalord

akitalord

british slang is horrid there's literally no excuse for this that last j one is also considered a slur lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#J

Runnymede Trust

RunnymedeTrust

Conversations about the 'left-behind white working class' have made a return to the political scene in recent weeks. Below is a thread about Runnymede's recent work in this area and

Khadijah Elshayyal

DrKElshayyal

This whole episode will take its place in the British (empire and) state’s long history of discrimination, indifference and neglect towards its POC citizens and its differential approach to their