#Britain

Matthew Brooker

mbrookerhk

I wrote about the looming exodus from Hong Kong under the UK’s visa scheme and what that means for the city’s future as a financial center 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-30/u-k-passports-for-hong-kong-bankers-will-

Collingwood 🇬🇧

admcollingwood

THREAD: (1/6) Please read the powerful story linked, and imagine how you'd feel if your daughter had been kidnapped, raped and sold into sex slavery, and how it would feel

Monika Wiśniewska

AuthorMonika

Thousands of Polish lorry drivers are stuck with no food and toilets. Polish people on Facebook advertise they will pick them up and take them home for Christmas. Beautiful gesture.

William James

WJames_Reuters

Trade minister @trussliz will offer to work with the European Union, Japan and America to clamp down on unfair behaviour by Chinese state-owned enterprises in remarks at the World Economic

Paul O’Connor, 3.5% #FBPE 🔶

POCX100

Witnessing economic decline from a comfortable position is rather odd, whilst the lives of millions are changed forever, jobs lost, businesses closed, hopes dashed, nothing much changes for me, should

Zoe Keller

KellerZoe

The EU is inadvertently pushing us to become what they fear: Singapore-on-the-Thames. That does not mean a race to the bottom. It means a race to technological modernity.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/02/12/europes-war-equivalenc

John Cotter

John_Cotter

I’ve never understood the confidence that there would be a deal, because the alternative seemed too irrational to comprehend. Firstly, there are plenty of historical examples of *rational* actors sleepwalking

Ben Judah

b_judah

This is a very strong signal from Downing Street to the incoming Biden administration: the UK is making its biggest defense spending increase since the end of the Cold War

🍒 Andrew Fletcher 🍒

ScotiaIndyref2

The Port of Glasgow, 1866 - 1916..Although the Clyde was a recreational site, it was an important industrial centre, since between 1831 and the late 1850s, thanks to the presence

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

So after Dunkirk, did Britain really stand alone or in a prime strategic position ready to assail any invasion?* Umm... let's look at the Home Forces and Territorial Army a

Patrick Corrigan

PatrickCorrigan

Who benefitted from slavery in Ireland? When it was abolished in British colonies in 1833, the equivalent of £millions of pounds was paid out in compensation to almost 100 slave

FDA Semocool 🇺🇸 🇸🇦

drsemocool777

Thred up = ثريدWhat does Dominion mean !! Dominion = Global Domination = Election rigging war instead of the traditional war with guns and fire, 100 years agoThe Balfour Declaration

UtpalG

UtpalGautam5

So it was today in 2013 that ISRO started a journey that would end up truly putting it on global stage...Dear Friends on 5th Nov,2013 we launched the Mars Orbiter

Alexander Davidson

alex_davidson82

In 1999 I was a few days away from signing on the line and joining the British army. I'd fucked up every exam at school and failed at my retakes.

Best for Britain

BestForBritain

We’re deeply concerned about the government’s plans to cut workers’ rights enshrined in EU law, including the 48-hour working week. A thread. 1/ Everything you need to know is in

NW London TimeMachine

time_nw

I was sad to see today that this rather anonymous building on The Hyde at Hendon, has now been demolished. It was called Romac House, and I have mentioned it

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