#British

ARGUMENTThe supposed continuity of the British establishment has actually been a disastrous run of utter failure since over a century......but foreigners & legacy of the empire hid this so well
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Twitter, as we know, is a world full of foghorn debate, denunciations, virtue signalling, misplaced vanity and hugely misplaced certainty. We've seen it with #Brexit and debates within @UKLabour. But,
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It doesn’t bother me when an actor from UK or Australia etc plays an iconic American figure as long as the performance is good. But I do sometimes wonder if
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A Saturday thread story:My dad is Asian, his family is originally from India. He was born British in a British colony. He moved to Britain in the 60s because you
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Thread with excerpts from “The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia” by Peter Hopkirk Central Asia Napoleon’s plan to invade India by land with Russian help frightened the
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The way I’m in love with this British crackhead: a mini thread Sir eye- Wbk Jack Frost fine asf If you give a Ben a Bat No words except “my
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minnette de silva (1918-1998), born in kandy, sri lanka, became the first female asian architect to be elected as an associate of the royal institute of british architects (RIBA) in
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Executed by guillotine #OTD in 1794, General Arthur Dillon. A #WildGeese émigré to France (b. 1750 in England) who served in the Irish Brigade and rose to senior positions in
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Does anyone have a problem with the saying "basic white girl" and associate a hobby, problem, interest, or habit with their skin colour? (read thread) Being Egyptian, there is much
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This story gets even worse. Punjabi nationalists (ie demanding freedom for their friends and families from British rule in India) in Vancouver organized to bring desperately needed supplies to the
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this probably seems like stating the absolutely obvious but here goes: someone says: 'antisemitism in the Labour Party was real *but* was exaggerated by the media - which regularly reported
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A thread on the Mirpur massacre of 1947:The Mirpur massacre occurred on and after the 25th of November 1947, where thousands of Hindu and Sikh refugees were brutally massacred by
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1. My book was in the White House, today.in the iPad of a certain White House Correspondent...[short THREAD] 2. the most acute readers will have noticed that the Reporter -
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There are so many revolutionary women now and from the past who are more radical and more inspiring than RBG could ever be. Lyudmila Pavlichenko- originally born in Ukraine. At
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So I just learned that British TV presenter Caroline Flack has been found dead tonight due to be being bullied relentlessly by the press... When are people going to learn
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The task of the Drafting Committee, which BRA was the Chairman of, was primarily a "secretarial one" to check if the new draft incorporated and tallied with the decisions of
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