#British

David Lammy

DavidLammy

I almost cried with joy when @theHouse_mag asked me to guest edit its first ever #BlackHistoryMonth issue. This has been a year of black pain, but also one that

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smolrobots

If only you guys knew some people with the ability to affect the reporting on that story.https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1290367686959083520 The Guardian: if you want to save fearless journalism, please donate to support

Forever Louise Brooks

ForeverLouiseB1

Random Non-Louise Photo: Ida Lupino in a publicity portrait for “Ready for Love” (1934). (Thread) Two years before “Ready for Love,” Ida, just 15, arrived in Hollywood from London where

Claire

Miandre

People often joke about “chai tea” and “naan bread” being tautological but this isn’t actually how borrowing works. Chai doesn’t mean tea and naan doesn’t mean bread in English. We

joe francis

joefrancis505

Marx's writing on the American Civil War are incredible, especially as he was mainly observing it from a desk in the British Library. He correctly identified it as a war

Marie Le Conte

youngvulgarian

please, someone commission me to write an enraged yet extremely detailed, point-by-point rebuttal of thishttps://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/bv8a8w/the-top-50-greatest-landfill-indie-songs-of-all-time I will defend Cajun Dance Party's fi

Dancin' Dan

dancindanonfilm

ALRIGHT I’M DOING IT. #NowWatching Wild Mountain Thyme THE AUDACITY OF THIS MOVIE to think Christopher Walken can do any accent other than his own THE AUDACITY OF THIS MOVIE

Noah Buckley

noahvbuckley

An American version of Willy Wonka is just a whimsical chocolate Jeff Bezos.https://twitter.com/pilau/status/1315990633883078659 Seriously, Willy Wonka is a British imperialist who enslaves an entire race of African pygmies.The Oompa Loompa

Henry Hill

HCH_Hill

This is probably *the* false choice underpinning the misrepresentation of the Principles. What if, as in 2011, more active enforcement - or 'exerting violence' - is what the public expect

Barrett Brown

PursuanceProj

In 2009 @Forbes bought True/Slant and rid it unpromising contributors like Michael Hastings and me. Today it summed up opposition to Palantir as due to intel links and - seriously

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

I’m getting rather tired of the equivocation around this Labour antisemitism issue, so here’s a thread for confused pundits & voters. Some smart people out there have been hoodwinked by

SpinnMovieSpot

SpinnMovieSpot

Nigeria as an Entity is a charade, a joke, a big unfortunate joke.It is like a building with full blown crack getting held together by a wooden wedge.We are all

Stephen Fisher

SeaSpitfires

Sort of #OTD, on the night of 7/8 April 1917, four of the Royal Navy’s small Coastal Motor Boats scored their first success again the Imperial German Navy’s Flanders Flotilla.

Dan Hicks

profdanhicks

Spent a remarkable afternoon at the @FitzMuseum_UK today looking at a new collection of modern countermarked currency that's being developed by @Ricardonlund. Among which: this 1797 George III penny countermarked

Tom Scott

Tom___Scott

UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model.How many millions, how many months & how may lives will have been lost by the government's obdurate reliance on British exceptionalism & crony

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haifa_alky

Yemen This thread is done to show you all the history and beauty of Yemen which is often forgotten, please do keep Yemen in your prayers Mentioned in