#Britain

Dan Jackson

northumbriana

Looking for examples from history of the ways in which England (or the whole of Britain) has been carved up. Any other good ones? The Victorians had it nailed (although

Jennifer Rankin

JenniferMerode

More than four years after the UK voted to leave the EU, talks on a future relationship are deadlocked. But what if there had been a book on how to

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

So, just before Christmas, Government what it called a "response" to this New York Times account of cronyism in pandemic spending.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/europe/britain-covid-contracts.html And I said,

Dan Hough

TheDanHough

This week I’ve been thinking about how well/not so well the UK has been doing in fighting corruption. The more I ponder this the more I realise that in anti-corruption

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

As Orwell understood, waging war against imaginary enemies serves to entrench abritrary power, not to challenge it. If @BBradley_Mans shares Orwell's concerns about diversity of thought, tolerance of dissent &

Leigh Day

LeighDay_Law

Thread: On history not taught in British schools about colonial rule, specifically the Kenyan Emergency in the 1950’s which involved rape and torture by British colonial guards in detention camps

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

This is the part of the horror film where safety seems in sight, but it is obvious, to those paying attention, that the monster is not dead, and that the

Dr Naomi Wolf

naomirwolf

⁦1/ @carolecadwalla⁩ and ⁦@NafeezAhmed⁩ are criticizing ⁦@gbdeclaration⁩.. but they were RIGHT: ‘the letter said that Boris Johnson’s approach, of suppressing the virus until a vaccine becomes available, is both “unfeasibl

Joe Mayes

Joe_Mayes

New: Just as Britain's pubs and restaurants expect a post-lockdown boom, a new Brexit problem threatens to spoil the party... 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-10/brexit-threatens-to-spoil-u-k-hospitality-s-post-covid-re

Edmund Griffiths

EdmundGriffiths

Just been at a very informative Oxford CCS meeting, with Mike Macnair speaking on the offence of treason. Some key points: Fundamentally, treason laws ban waging war against the state

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Looking at juicy bits of the EU-AstraZeneca contract, it seems to me that AZ emerge as the main culprit in this miserable dispute. They promised EU to use UK factories

Ian Dunt

IanDunt

Next few hours there'll be lots of sage old commentators on here telling you not to get too excited, lots of trouble ahead, problems Trump fed off won't go away,

Joe Moran

JoeEG4A

BREAKING MEOWS on post #Brexit pet travel. A It's done! @EU_Commission has adopted an Implementing Act (like an executive order) listing the UK (read Great Britain, as Northern Ireland is

Irishmonk

castlvillageman

tis worth concentrating minds @DavidGHFrostThe EU did not invade Ireland. The EU did not partition Ireland. The EU did not blow up 200 roads crossing Ireland. The EU did not

Kim A. Wagner

KimAtiWagner

My initial reaction to @SimonClarkeMP's inane take on British history was despondency, but my students convinced me it's worth engaging - so here is a thread, since this really is

Matt Goodwin

GoodwinMJ

Reaction to Gove speech revealing. One side has *ideas* about how to send power down not up + change gvt. Other side still struggling to find intellectual reply post-Brexit. Might

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