#Thatcher

daniel bye

danielbye

Thatcher’s resignation and her replacement with John Major are the beginning of my political memory. Because of this here thread I’m hearing a lot today about Major’s “decency”. That’s not

Ned Pyle

NerdPyle

Time for the family Christmas photo thread, I hope you like dogs "We asked Santa for treats & toys, paws crossed" We weren't able to get a Darby ornament in

Jonah Furman

JonahFurman

one of the most useful things I learned working on the Bernie campaign is that complexity is the enemy of scale. your job, if you want to organize on the

Dr Bethany Usher

bethanyusher

How Sunderland and Nissan have become such symbols of Brexit is such a heart-wrenching history involving my hometown and on a personal note my family, I don't even know where

David A. Sbarra

dsbarra

Take a careful look at what Trump is telling his loyal followers: you are LOVED and you are SPECIAL. If you feel left behind, lost, forgotten, under-appreciated, and replaced (cf.

Harsh Gupta Madhusudan

harshmadhusudan

Indians have their own free state for the first time.Even when we did have free areas and resisted invaders there was no one united state. Before that Guptas or even

mark zornerberg ✿

bodegabathroom

honestly i’m kind of sick of everyone ‘making fun of the british’ but it literally being just the working class and often pocgonna make this a thread explaining why and

sean baillie

seanbaillie9

Socioeconomic systems just don’t turn on and off they evolve through struggle, bit by bit. That’s what we are living through, the beginning of the 20th seen an intense battle

Helene von Bismarck

HeleneBismarck

I am so tired of historians quoting Thatcher's dismay ("a dagger to my heart”) about German MPs singing “Deutschland über alles” in the Bundestag on the night when the Berlin

David McCarter

davidashleywall

Finally watched the whole of The Crown Season 4. So here's my takes on it...Let's call it "A country haunted by twin ghosts, Maggie & Diana"Also"Why Charles should be worried

Ciaran Martin

ciaranmartinoxf

Now that the Government’s “war on Whitehall” seems to be over , a thread on this curious episode. TL;DR Absolutely nothing has changed in the civil service, apart from the

Mr Demos of Pnyx

gem_ste

Our real battle for freedom is the workplace, not Westminster. The point of production is where our struggle for freedom takes place daily. A major reason for Alasdair MacIntyre's split

Lil 🌹

slaterscandal

4. Tony Blair- Resigned. 5. Boris Johnson- Nearly dying from Covid. 6. Theresa May- Resigned. 7. Anne widecombe - polished the dancefloor of the Blackpool tower. 8. Ed Balls- creating

Eugene McFadden

eugenemcfadden

OK, so, a fisk. Thread (long).https://twitter.com/GubernatorHomo/status/1286562118481915904 2 from the start, this article sets up a relationship between what is framed New Right 2.0 and upsets within #edutwitter. I note that

JimFairlie

JimFairlie

I joined SNP 1955. We were patronised, laughed at, insulted on a daily basis. I DO know difference between banter and dislike/hatred/racism - services taught me. Have been hearing same

Thabang Motsohi

MotsohiThabang

This statement by Helen is ahistorical + sadly reflects a simple one dimensional thinking for an issue that requires critical and complexity thinking. Let me explain: During the cold war,

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