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Tim Dunn

MrTimDunn

As often found on London’s housing estates, these fences are made from WW2 Air Raid Protection stretchers. 600,000+ stretchers were made for civilian use in the Blitz; but surplus after

Socialist Voice 🌐

SocialistVoice

British politics has gone back to the 1980s. In 1983, Neil Kinnock shifted Labour to the right and lost support from trade unions, miners and working class voters after he

Nacho Cassadine

NachoSuitable

So five years ago today, I was waking up in New Jersey for the first time after flying over to spend Christmas with a guy from Camden I met on

Stuart Lau

stuartklau

Many are perplexed about the figure of "3 million Hongkongers" under Boris Johnson's BNO pledge. Here's a short thread about what is and is not covered in the magic number:

John Bull

garius

If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck: It's a duck.This was the UK courts ruling on whether Uber's drivers were workers.Uber's supreme

Jacob Phillips

Counteredlogos

Snakes and Ladders was originally an Indian morality game called Moksha Patam. The snakes stood for particular vices (e.g. Vanity/Lying/Drunkenness) , and the ladders for virtues (e.g. Faith/Generosity/Asceticism). It arrived

Dr David Turner

TurnipRail

1/ In 1923 the Board of Scientific & Industrial Research set up a "Bridge Stress Committee" to assess whether ageing bridges could withstand the increasing train weights. Particularly, there were

Darren Johnson

DarrenJohnson66

When I was Chair of the Assembly I once had an insane lunch with Boris Johnson and Prince Andrew. After we escorted him out the building BJ turned to me

BlateHelm 🖤

Blatehelm

The majestic peaks of Suffolk. Port Talbot. The Spanish City Whitley Bay. Hadrian's wall. Housesteads, Northumberland. Birmingham Canal Navigations. A network of canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part

DR.PENKING™

drpenking

In december of 2003, Joyce Vincent died of an asthma attack in her North London flat. The television was left on. The mail continued to be delivered. Her rent was

Rachael Venables

rachaelvenables

We have been trying to get access to hospitals from the start but bosses/ press teams constantly rebuff. NHS staff - my DMs are openhttps://twitter.com/drbenwhite/status/1343641067015565312 As discussed with @ShelaghFogarty, this

Gareth Hollands

GJHollands

THREADExciting that details have finally been announced for a new @hackneycouncil #LowTrafficNeighbourhood in London Fields from 7th September. It’s especially notable that this will affect a neighbourhood with large amounts

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Oldie but goldie. Coincidence that there’s a growing sliver of deaths attributed to covid19 in 4Q20, precisely compensating for the rather surprising observation that deaths from all other causes falls

nicole lampert

nicolelampert

At the start there was a steady stream of people. Most were happy, a few scared, many relieved. It went very quiet early afternoon: some people hadn’t turned up. The

Nolan Hammond

Black_Nobilliti

IF IS NOT RAINING IS POURING! Major 1 possess a diplomatic passport illegally, he has several passports on which in others he's born in 1978 & others in 1980. He used

Scott Ferguson

videotroph

This critical response to @dlondonnyu's recent @DissentMag article not only mischaracterizes MMT. It also reifies the deep orthodox assumptions MMT exposes to be at once epistemologically nonsensical & politically reactionary.

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