#British

Nah British people are hilarious, why is this actually a thing https://twitter.com/rlawsonnnn/status/1185267515380948992 It’s the “ooo go on then” that kills me the most. These times you know exactly which biscuit
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I’ve been reading ⁊@DavidOlusoga⁩ excellent book Black & British and watching the series on BBC4. It starts at Bunce Island in Sierra Leone. Resonates strongly as I was in Freetown
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(TW weight, dieting) Listen, I’m not saying this is what’s happening for sure with a certain British singer, but I know when I lost a significant amount of weight over
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#BlackHistoryMonth thread: Celebrating our #BlackBritishHeroes https://lifeinthecityofchocolate.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/blackbritishheroes-celebrating-black-history-month-uk-part-one/ Black British Hero 1: Akyaaba Addai-Sebo #blackhistory
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We have been asked by many to give some examples of recent issues that Protestant and Unionist students have faced at Queen’s. Here are some of many examples:- The refusal
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Today @TheFCA & @CityPolice have charged a person with Money Laundering. https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-charges-richard-jonathan-faithfull-one-offence-money-laundering This comes days after FCA made knowingly false repre
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Julian Assange would have more govt/public support if he was British. He would have more legal rights if he was a US citizen. But he's only an Australian, and his
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This is the location of Bholachang village, very close to Tripura capital Agartala (but now in Bangladesh) where the Hindustan Republican Association was formed in 1923 by Sachin Sanyal, Pratul
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What real contact tracing looks like : A friend caught covid-19, so I was put in a HK quarantine camp for close contacts 'til it'd been 14 days since I'd
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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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Under Nehru, India used to beg and get surplus wheat from USA under the PL 480 program. Only when Shastri came to power, and saw India had zero food stocks,
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I saw one of these for non Americans so now I’m going to do an ‘answer these questions if you aren’t British/ English’ thread. How many countries (not including islands)
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I am a giant James Bond fan and my 4 year old is (kind of) watching Casino Royale with me right now. Commentary so far: Bond jumps from one giant
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Now is not the time.Now is not the time to ask Where are the masks and the gowns?Now is not the time to ask Where are the tests?Now is not
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#Jinnah: The Hindus thought he was a Muslim communalist, the Muslims took him to be a pro-Hindu, the Prince deemed him to be too DEMOCRATIC. The British considered him a
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As some of you may know, I've been writing the biography of a soldier who served in #WW1. One of the key events in his story involves the 'Battle of
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