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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

labour transformed

LabTransformed

Why, if we have a such strong critique of Labourism and we’re lowercase labour transformed, do we say that a political revival of the working class needs partly to go

dwatch

dwatchorn

Right, f*ck this shite.. Liam Haligan has gone too far...https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/21/eu-summit-fiasco-final-proof-need-clean-break-brexit/ Right, he's established that the EU are using covid to further their political ag

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

ghostofchristo1

The new "anti-imperialist imperialism" coming out of the US was something I noticed first in bookshop displays. The kinds of politics sections in London bookshops where you'd have found Streeck

Londonist

Londonist

War hero Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent to occupied Paris, and for a time the only transmitting agent there. Betrayed to the Gestapo, she escaped

Russ

RussInCheshire

#TheWeekInTory 1. The govt said they had to "balance the nation’s health with our economy", and in that respect, they have succeeded: both are evenly balanced as the worst in

The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy

glasgow_sugar

The idea of Scottish political parties censoring historic connections with slavery is an interesting one. One bona fide case I'm aware was the (Labour led) Scottish Executive booklet in 2006-7

BobSmithWalker

BobSmithWalker

1. So, after a year of dilemma & research re Brexit, against an international socialist background I’ve come to conclusion that Brexit isn’t about British freedom. It’s about swapping European

Crappy Living

crappyliving

A lot of talk about how important it is to have close knit communities and to know your neighbours, mostly from people who have happily avoided both of these things

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

So this week I went to Ashford International Truckstop to see how @transportgovuk was getting on readying truckers for the end of #Brexit transition in six weeks time....so what did

Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall

spyhistory

#Wednesday #WomeninBritishIntel Remembering SOE Agent Denise Bloch (1916-1945) on #HolocaustMemorialDay Please read this thread & RT to share her story #LightTheDarkness The Special Operations Executive was a wartime

Divanshi Khera

divanshikhera

Thread: History of Anaesthesia and Painful Memories. On October 16, 1846, Boston dentist William T.G. Morton at Massachusetts General Hospital, used sulfuric ether to anaesthetise a man who needed surgery

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Weekly French Covid thread. It is probable that France will be placed in a 3rd lockdown in a few days. With the mood of the country turning sour – only

Dr Mary Boyle 💙

maryrboyle

Early children's adaptations of the Siegfried/Sigurd material often have fantastic pictures. Here are some companions: Sigurd the Dragon Slayer and The Linden Leaf (both 1907, both held in the @britishlibrary).

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

frankcottrell_b

I couldn’t sleep last night so I read this. It’s by, among others, Dominic Raab and Priti Patel. It outlines their “thinking”. It's difficult to convey how ridiculous it is.

Gráinne Ní Aodha

GNiAodha

So after all that, Brexit is done. Here are a few thoughts from years of reporting on Brexit, and even though we're all sick of it, why it matters. On

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