BijanOmrani
@BijanOmrani
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Author, God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England (April 2025); Caesar's Footprints; HA Research Fellow @ExeterClassics. Messy churchwarden
Devon/London
Joined January 2013
COVER REVEAL - God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England - coming out in April 2025, published by Forum... This has kept me busy for quite a while... 🧵
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Very pleased to receive a copy of this by @ConorFarrington. I look forward to reading it when I catch my breath: a retelling of Faust set in 1840s Cambridge...
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Some measured thoughts in this thread.
Review of Domination by Alice Roberts, Professor of Public Engagement in Science. A thread.🧵 1/17
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Me in the Telegraph this morning looking at what the extraordinary 1710 trial of Henry Sacheverell tells us about the rise of Reform and thr populist right. Buy my book 'The Rage of Party' for much more juicy detail... https://t.co/rG2K1B3pVz
telegraph.co.uk
The Sacheverell riots demonstrate that attempts by any unpopular political establishment to suppress their opponents usually backfire
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Britain needs more ties that bind, writes @BijanOmrani. How about we start by wearing ties? https://t.co/G0S2y24iKH
thecritic.co.uk
September is now upon us. The summer holidays are over, and readers of The Critic will be sadly packing away their buckets, spades, and dog-eared beach copies of Roger Scruton, as they contemplate a…
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There are too many good books coming out at the moment, I can't cope, now it's @_F_B_G_ just turned up
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@Stoatwobbler @BijanOmrani @petespurs And then there's modern Europe's most successful party of the revolutionary Left, who dress like merchant bankers at anything even vaguely official.
While politicians everywhere make eejits of themselves to look down with the kids, what is arguably Europe's most successful party of the radical Left dress like merchant bankers. #AE22
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@Stoatwobbler @BijanOmrani @petespurs Actually, there were still older men who wore a suit and tie every day - every day - around well into the 1990s. Including plenty on the North Belfast social housing estate I come from. And quite a few who wore a tie every day, although not a suit, until the pandemic.
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'...the three-piece suit is, before anything, English national dress. It was created by King Charles II, and first publicly worn by him in Westminster Hall on 15 October 1666.' @BijanOmrani via @TheCriticMag
https://t.co/1Vg4S9ab1H
thecritic.co.uk
September is now upon us. The summer holidays are over, and readers of The Critic will be sadly packing away their buckets, spades, and dog-eared beach copies of Roger Scruton, as they contemplate a…
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The best opening line for anything this week, however, is @CapelLofft newly-launched "Rage of Party"
@BijanOmrani I did love the idea too of people having Roger Scruton as beach reading. Was I meant to laugh out loud , in a good way?😊
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Great piece by @BijanOmrani on why dressing properly is not simply a matter of subjective personal taste but also a matter of public good. I argued similarly in a piece castigating Robert Peston's strop over not being allowed to wear trainers to a private member's club.
"Dress Better For England" - why dressing well is good for society, and a real act of rebellion. Me @TheCriticMag (link in thread...)
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It's about getting the style right @CapelLofft - I think if we went right back to the end of the 17th century it would work for you...
Bijan is great but I want to say a little word for the naturally scruffy among us. I could put on the sharpest, best cut, most stylish clothes and within 10 minutes I would look scruffy again. Nothing I can do about it. I can't struggle against the will of the almighty
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Let's not wear anything old-fashioned or unnecessary...
@BijanOmrani @TheCriticMag Your article answers why this would be a retrograde step. Dressing in suits is archaic, uncomfortable, and imposes on people who can't afford it. Ties are otiose. Hats are unnecessary. We have outgrown dress codes imposed by monarchs on their people in a time of Stuart decadence.
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"Dress Better For England" - why dressing well is good for society, and a real act of rebellion. Me @TheCriticMag (link in thread...)
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I think I shall wear a tie to the office today.
"Dress Better For England" - why dressing well is good for society, and a real act of rebellion. Me @TheCriticMag (link in thread...)
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“Ditch the denim. Eschew the tee-shirt and the saggy trackie bums and tread down the trainers” — @BijanOmrani says Critic readers can do their bit for society by looking presentable
thecritic.co.uk
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