#Windrush

Airy Manning

AiryManning

#Windrush #WindrushDay thread. /1 The way the #Windrush generation were treated is one of the most shameful and disgraceful things that this country has done to her own citizens. /2

Hassan Akkad حسان عقاد

hassan_akkad

It’s great to hear that the Home office is going to be more ‘compassionate and outward-looking’. @pritipatel, here are a number of issues that you can start with. Thread Release

Windrush Lives

WindrushLives

THREAD 5: Earlier today we were *inexplicably* tagged in this article by Telegraph Home Affairs editor @CharlesHymas. It’s paywalled (free 1m trial available) so we’re going to set out the

Windrush Lives

WindrushLives

As we stagger to the 2020 finish line on our bloodied stumps, a few brief notes:In Q1 2021, it will have been three years since the Windrush Scandal broke and

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP

BellRibeiroAddy

Yesterday in Parliament, I asked an urgent question about the Government's scheduled charter flight.They must cancel this flight, pause all deportation flights & scrap the hostile environment policies which have

Chalalalalalalalalotte

CharlTaylorPage

We've been trying to incorporate some BLM and Black history stuff into our homeschooling these past fews weeks. I skipped the school suggestion of The Water Cycle as topic work

Omar Khan

omaromalleykhan

Mangrove was such an arresting film. Among the many threads it exposed that don't ordinarily get a hearing or much analysis is the link btw race and class (and migration)A

Alasdair Mackenzie

AlasdairMack66

A striking thing about this excellent judgment on rights of trafficking victims is the way the Home Office had previously persuaded the courts (in the case of O) to find

Minnie Rahman

minnierahman

Anti-deportation campaigners need to get real smart real quick. Patel is now considering deporting people with 6 month convictions. That’s petty theft, cannabis, minor offences like fraud.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/priti-patel-loo

Horus

nastymutant

To everyone pleading with Boris Johnson to stop foreign criminals landing in Kent and being given luxury accommodation - why do you think he wants to stop it?Here are at

Gurminder K Bhambra

GKBhambra

#HistoryMatters a thread – recent weeks have highlighted issues of how British history is taught, what gets taught as British history & why this matters. How we understand the past

Katie Donington

KatieDonington

Today's pronouncement that heritage orgs shouldn't engage with histories of slavery/empire because they 'do Britain down' is straight out of the UKIP handbook. Literally. This is an extract from their

James Woodcock

JamesVWoodcock

One of the many great challenges in planning a history curriculum is spotting our own blind spots and gaps. Often, it is only w hindsight informed by current events, issues

Glen Chisholm

glenchisholm

Hi @tomhunt1988 I find this James Baldwin quote has such resonance and is still relevant, I've noted you've spoken out about the fate of 'Little Britain ' I may be

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

People tell me “I won't support the Guardian, because I disagree with much of what it says.” I disagree with much of it too. But isn’t that a good thing?

Jacob Naish

munchenbikkies

Stolen from Greenland (A thread).A short-story about historic injustice and it’s ongoing relevance. In 1951, 22 children from Greenland were taken as part of a social experiment, to be schooled

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