Giles Udy
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Historian. FRHistS. Soviet history, the Gulag, Marxism in British politics 1917-56 & today. New edn of my book available from my website.
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Another brave Russian…
Elena Kovalskaya, the director of Moscow’s Vsevolod Meyerhold State Theater and Cultural Center, has announced her resignation in protest against the invasion of Ukraine. “It’s impossible to work for a murderer and collect a salary from him.”
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The multicultural dream is a farce.
Look at London tonight.
Boats coming across the channel are predominantly military age males.
And the British people were told they were racists if they dared question any of it.
I came to pay my respects to the Israeli Embassy. I was unable to get very far. Terrifying.
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From two years ago. Just popped up on my screen again. Still can’t believe it isn’t a parody account.
She is Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at London Metropolitan University.
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As a historian of the Gulag and the Soviet secret police, this is one of the most chilling things I could ever have imagined seeing in the U.K. No exaggeration - it is straight out of the NKVD/KGB/FSB playbook.
A secret Premier League spy agency has been spying on a football
Watch this video to find out about our latest case — it's arguably our biggest yet! A
@NUFC
fan, Linzi Smith, has been banned from attending games until 2026 for expressing her 'gender critical' belief that sex is binary and immutable. That part of the story is bad enough. BUT...
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@surplustakes
Fine by me as long as we have a scripture a day through Lent and at Easter and Christmas Day.
But it won’t happen.
The National Secular Society wouldn’t let it.
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The Church of England wants to appoint a 'Deconstructing Whiteness' officer as part of its new 11 person £440k pa plus West Midlands Racial Justice team.
What is the 'whiteness' they feel they so urgently need to deconstruct? In the words of academics and church activists...
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Once in an isolated town in N Siberia I met an old former zek (gulag inmate). I was introduced as British, whereupon he said how nice it was to finally meet a Brit - because he had been sentenced to 10 years in the mines for being a British spy.
In his talk show last night, Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov had this to say about Bucha:
"The war against Russia entered a new phase today... Very soon they'll accuse us of genocide... To all appearances this whole provocation was plotted by the British"
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@cspencer1508
Ditto. Sept 1963. I was 7. The memory of the sound of weeping boys in our dormitory after lights out still haunts me.
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@MirandaTHolmes
Only just realised?
It’s the oppressor/oppressed binary of Classical Marxism updated for the 21st century, developed through academia in the third quarter of the 20th century, and now leached out as slow poison into wider society.
Now as then it simply sows division and disunity
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Mordaunt photographed alongside Stonewall trans campaigner. Not four years or two ago but now, 13th July 2022.
If Stonewall want Mordaunt as PM, there’s a reason why.
Get off the fence and pick a side
@Conservatives
You can exercise good judgement and choose
@HJoyceGender
and sanity or someone who makes vile slurs about ‘final solutions’ against her
#SexMatters
#ChooseWisely
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The CofE is heading for extinction. And it can’t see it.
York diocese advertises for a ‘racial justice enabler’, at twice the rate of pay for a vicar, to overturn the unconscious bias of Yorkshire’s predominantly white (and therefore inevitably racist) population.
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When a ‘militant’ runs amok killing people on London Bridge or they go in the Charlie Hebdo building and try to massacre everyone inside, John can call them ‘terrorists’
But then they do the SAME 100s of times over *in Israel* John and the BBC can’t.
Double standards anyone?
British politicians know perfectly well why the BBC avoids the word ‘terrorist’, and over the years plenty of them have privately agreed with it. Calling someone a terrorist means you’re taking sides and ceasing to treat the situation with due impartiality. The BBC’s job is to
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Try telling that to the people of
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Czechoslovakia (that was)
Yugoslavia (that was)
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
They’d call you a useful idiot
Watch Jeremy Corbyn state that:
"NATO was founded in order to promote a Cold War with the Soviet Union."
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"My writing on colonialism made me a hate figure – so I replied to my trolls"
Corinne Fowler, writer of the controversial National Trust report on colonialism and slavery, writes in
@telegraph
to defend herself but in the process gives a perfect example of her partial and
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In April 2018 John McDonnell tried to assure the City that Labour did not have a "shadow manifesto" that it was keeping hidden until after an election.
It does.
This is it.
Full details are in my article, extracts here in this long (apologies) thread...
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Incredible. Now that’s what an ethical foreign policy looks like
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When it was rumoured in 1931 that Western observers were coming to Arkhangelsk to check on Soviet claims there were no slave labourers cutting export timber, the NKVD did the same. Barbed wire removed, camp signs repainted & gulag inmates packed off on trains where cdnt be seen.
1/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers from Chelyabinsk were reportedly locked into boxcars to prevent them complaining to visiting officials about the theft of their supplies and non-payment of their salaries. ⬇️
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In 1929-31 Stalin deported 1.8m kulaks in cattle cars to the Gulag. 250k never returned.
Those sent to the North were put to work cutting timber for the export market. Britain was the biggest customer but, confronted with the evidence, the British Labour Party refused to stop the
On January 30th, 1930, the Bolshevik Politburo issued a resolution ordering the elimination of kulak households. Hundreds of thousands of kulaks were killed and many more sent to camps, some as far away as Siberia or Central Asia, for being...better farmers than their neighbors.
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Winston Churchill's memorandum to the Cabinet on Soviet tactics against Poland, May 1920.
Russia has not changed in 100 years. It is not likely to now.
Western leaders must realise this.
🧵
@edwardlucas
@johnsweeneyroar
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@SpeechUnion
@NUFC
As a historian of the Gulag and the Soviet secret police, this is one of the most chilling things I could ever have imagined seeing in the U.K. No exaggeration - it is straight out of the NKVD/KGB/FSB playbook.
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Guardian staff at their very worst, celebrating Hamas while one of their number, Jewish mourns for friends lost and confronts the editors about their partisanship. Their complaints are rebuffed.
This is awful
Sadly it is not surprising
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Seduced by Soviet propaganda this Finnish couple crossed over to the USSR in 1932. By 1937, their enthusiasm had worn off and they decided to return to their homeland. In January 1938 they were arrested on charges of espionage. They were shot two months later. Their children ...
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@LBC
@BenKentish
She says that Jews should be allowed to live in the former Israel once it is turned into a Palestinian-ruled state.
Show me anywhere that has worked so far…
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@andrealouise111
They had a kill list.
LIST.
Selected by different criteria. They were not all trans.
They picked Brianna, yes, but extrapolating from that to justify Newcastle’s censorship of legally protected views and spying on a club member is ridiculous.
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An article from the Workers Press, published by the Workers’ Revolutionary Party, has come to light, which reported Mr McDonnell calling for the release of prisoners jailed for their involvement in “the armed struggle to free Ireland.”
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@_SaveOurStatues
@DouglasKMurray
Caribbean nations have received over £2bn in foreign aid (figures to 2009). Parliament voted £200m (at today's value) at emancipation for the rebuilding of civil society for freed slaves. Millions then spent eradicating slavery in W & East Africa.
#Reparations
paid
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In 1946, American diplomat George Kennan wrote a famous summary of the malign aims of the communism to bring about the destruction on Western nations from within.
Today, his warning as relevant as ever - startlingly so.
If ever there was a
#smellthecoffee
quote, this is it.
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Churchill on Lenin, 1931: “Implacable vengeance, rising from a frozen pity... His sympathies cold and wide as the Arctic Ocean, his hatreds tight as the hangman’s noose. His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up.”
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And history is made. He will never be able to get away from this interview. Good.
I’ve never criticised Corbyn as a person but having read the devastating account of Hamas atrocities today (🧵) I believe he’s not well meaning but stupid. He’s a morally bankrupt wicked man.
Piers Morgan asks Jeremy Corbyn 15 times whether the former Labour leader thinks Hamas is a terror group.
Jeremy Corbyn refuses to answer.
@piersmorgan
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@jeremycorbyn
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Thanks
@calvinrobinson
for having me on today. Transatlantic slavery was an unmitigated evil. Our national moral awakening and revulsion at our past involvement drove the nation to fight it not only at home but abroad. Paradoxically for anti-imperialists it was 1/
'Britain was the first nation in history to say slavery must end, not just among us - because we had been responsible - but it must end throughout the world.'
Historian Giles Udy discusses whether black history should be taught year-round in schools.
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@CHSommers
Beginning to wonder if failed male athletes have simply cottoned on to a way to get the medals that previously eluded them.
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@GillianKeegan
@Conservatives
Keegan says 16 year old can transition and trans women are women.
A Tory Education Secretary.
Let that sink in.
World-class??
🤦♂️
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EU regulations now require every customer with an EU bank account to declare their
Total annual income after tax
Total taxes paid
All mortgages & loans paid p.a.
Value of all property, shares, deposit accounts.
Sources of all income.
If not supplied, your cards are cancelled
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One will be of Joseph Chilembwe - a man who in 1915 ordered his followers in Malawi to kill all white men in his area & then preached with the severed head of his chief victim beside him.
He may have been a Baptist preacher. He was also a murderer 👉
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The Great Terror began in August 1937, 86 years ago this week. The start was signalled by the infamous order No. 00447, signed 30th July by NKVD boss Nikolai Yezhov. It set quotas for executions and arrests for each region of the USSR. In 18 months almost 700k would be dead. 🧵
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Roland Fryer at age 30 became the second-youngest professor, and the youngest African-American, ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard.
When his meticulous research (see the video) revealed NO racial bias in US police shootings he had to have an armed guard, such was the outrage it
Data scientists knew well in advance of the 2020 BLM movement that there is no racial bias in police shootings. But facts don’t stop the social psychopathy.
In 2016, Roland G. Fryer discovered that there is no racial bias in police shootings.
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Just been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Given that I flunked my A’s, gave up history at O level & had to leave Uni for failing my 2nd year exams, it shows that whatever your story is now, it’s not the end.
Finding my passion just took me a while - 45 years!
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"We are trained Marxists" says Black Lives Matter US founder. "We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia [another of the three BLM founders] in particular are trained organizers. We are super versed on ideological theories."
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Kehinde Andrews has such a visceral hatred for everything British that he rewrites every aspect of past and recent history, every character in it, to support that contempt - & then passes all that hate on to his students. Facts all ignored if they contradict his opinions. Sad…
Considering Her Majesty The Queen to be a symbol of colonialism is utterly ridiculous!
Ironically, no one has decolonised more than her.
The Queen is a British institution, representing and all that unites us.🇬🇧
The full debate from this morning's
@GMB
:
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Amid the many extraordinary moments in the election campaign, one will stand out for years to come - Corbyn supporters taunting British Jews with the refrain used by Hamas calling for Israel’s extermination.
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@OzKaterji
@KonstantinKisin
Criticise him on fact Oz. I'm surprised that you of all people descend to personal abuse. I'd have thought better of you having followed you since the invasion.
If you actually knew the positions Konstantin takes on the war you'd know he sees right through Putin and Kremlin
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@JuliaDavisNews
Open exhortation for the committing of a war crime against innocent civilians.
The Hague may never get them but they need to be sanctioned from all civilised nations for life.
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No one would ever vote for a party that believes in Martians or that the world is flat. How is this any different?
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What a disgrace some of these people are.
So wrapped up in the deluded fiction they have created in their own heads that they cheer on the chemical castration and surgical abuse of vulnerable kids - all in the name of justice and compassion. 🤦♂️
And they will be the next
As the Cass review is published, my thoughts are with the trans community.
Young trans people already face huge barriers to healthcare, including years-long waiting lists.
Their health and wellbeing should not be a front in a toxic culture war.
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Victory in the Battle of Warsaw in the summer of 1920 did not only save Poland from the Bolsheviks. It quite possibly saved Britain from revolution too.
Here is the story in a thread from my book.
Labour leaders were calling for strikes in support of Russia 1/
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Oh for goodness sake...
No it isn’t.
“Far right” is being Neo-Nazi.
People like
@K_Niemietz
couldn’t be further from that. Being a trenchant & well-informed critic of modern communists doesn’t make you “Far right”. It just means you still have a brain between your ears.
Here’s your reminder that the Institute for Economic Affairs is a funnel for US corporate money & far right ideology into the bloodstream of British political life facilitated & laundered by
@bbc
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Marc Chagall’s ‘Ukrainian family’ c.1941
Hardly needs any further comment, does it?
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First, the copper sheathing of ships. It was developed by the Royal Navy in the 18th Century and used on ALL types of ships, not just those involved in the slave trade.
Yes, invented by that Royal Navy - the one that spent sixty years from 1808 patrolling the waters off West
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Cat had to be put down today. 20 years and 2 weeks - a good innings. I acted as midwife when she was born, holding her as she entered this life and stroked her head as she left it. Next to so much loss this year it’s trivial but still sad. You love & lose or don’t love at all.
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Arthur Koestler on the psychology of conversion. Be it Corbynism, Critical race theory 'antiracism', XR, Nazism or Communism, once the convert has 'seen the light', life takes on meaning. And the fear of losing that deafens the new recruit to all challenges to his new faith.
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Sarah Champion MP, one time a noble defender of vulnerable sexually abused children (for which Jeremy Corbyn sacked her), now mockingly helping to talk out a bill …
… which would have defended vulnerable sexually abused children.
(yes, surgical castration and the pathway it
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NKVD Order 00486 of Aug 1937 decreed that 'Families of traitors of the motherland' (those shot or already in the Gulag) were to be sent to the camps for 5-8 years. Children without other relatives to take them were sent to 'special orphanages'. These are some of those poor kids.
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@jfwduffield
Have you seen the CofE PR statement on Calvin Robinson being refused his already arranged curacy? ‘Curacies in high demand… none available at the moment’
The email trail shows 3 bishops saw him a conservative troublemaker & blocked his ordination. For good.
Statement was lies.
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@calvinrobinson
@cusackandrew
@YarwoodWilliam
Dominus illuminatio mea = "The Lord is my light" Ps27\
They can't have that. It might offend... (fill in blank as appropriate)
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This is what needs to be broadcast back to Russia - the tragedy of young conscripts forced to do the dictators bidding, duped to believe they are liberators.
Young Russian soldier cries as the local residents of Sumy tell him that he is not welcome in their country.
🇺🇦
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@cathyr237
@jeremycorbyn
And 7 year olds will tell you too that Father Christmas comes down their chimney to give them Christmas presents.
Also unscripted.
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Stalin’s 1936 Soviet Constitution, acclaimed by Pro-Soviet enthusiasts around the world, including the British Left press.
Read it. It sounds wonderful. Pinnacle of socialism and all that.
What could go wrong?
It’s author killed almost 700,000 people in the next two years.
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@rchristiansenYA
@lgbtqgold
Gulag joke...
Q: How long are you in for?
A: 25 years?
Q: What did you do?
A: Nothing.
Q: Nah... If you'd done nothing you'd only have got 10 years
(forgive me if you've heard that one already - its prob in Solzhenitsyn)
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@LewisSJ
@TimesCorbyn
@SkyNews
She was Manchester Uni Law Society candidate for Diversity Officer 2022. Campaigned on making the place a ‘safe space for all’ regardless of sex, race etc.
Unless you’re Jewish, right?
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People like this informed on their neighbours, staffed the Stasi & NKVD, seized grain from starving peasants in Ukraine & wept at Stalin’s funeral.
And disowned relatives when they were arrested and sent to the Gulag.
Every population has a % of them - the ‘useful idiots’.
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🇷🇺 has long held weird paranoia about Britain. In 1927, after HMG expelled Sov diplomats for spying their charge d’affaires stopped to meet Warsaw Sov Ambassador. A monarchist assassin shot Ambassador. In retaliation Sovs shot over 100 White Russians prisoners…
As British spies
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"British countryside is a ‘racist and colonial’ white space, wildlife charities claim"
For goodness sake, just STOP IT
@Natures_Voice
(RSPB),
@nationaltrust
@wwf_uk
This is utter nonsense and the vast majority of people in Britain are fed up with this and with you all.
Why
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Goodness knows I am not a fan of Trump but I cannot understand the hysteria over his reinstatement while twitter leaves the state accounts of 🇷🇺 which has caused the deaths of tens of ‘000s free to operate.
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@JacquiDeevoy1
Try being a mum of young children and then finding they might be left growing out without you, facing months of chemotherapy, possibly radiotherapy, and losing your hair.
You’d look gaunt.
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@PastorMark
Loves his country?
His official salary is $140,000.
His actual net worth is thought to be $200 billion. He’s a crook who robs his people blind.
Meanwhile in rural Russia, according to state figures, 2/3 of Russians have no access to indoor toilets, 43% use outhouses, and 18%
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What is even worse, the New York Times made an agreement with the Soviet government that its reporting would reflect the government line and its star
#Pulitzer
prize winning journalist Walter Duranty out and out denied reports of the famine he knew to be true.
@nytimes
#holomodor
“[The Soviet Union,] in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn't even notice it. The world didn't even notice it...”
#Solzhenitsyn
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@Fox_Claire
@GBNEWS
In 2014 the BBC was promoting puberty blockers to children.
I defy anyone to find anything
@GBNEWS
has done that is anywhere near as so heinous as endorsing the surgical castration of children.
In 2014, CBBC - BBC's children's channel promoted puberty blockers to children as harmless and completely reversable.
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@stpaulswesthack
St Pauls it’s pretty unbecoming for any CofE church to start picking a twitter spat against the priest of any denomination. You aren’t representing Christ to the wider world. Lay off.
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The British hard left never change. In Dec 1939 when Stalin invaded his smaller neighbour Finland, they marched to 'Stop the War' (familiar?), demanding an end to 🇬🇧support for Finnish 'fascists' in this 'millionaire's war'.
Daily Worker's now Morning Star, Corbyn's paper.
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Marlene Dietrich gave the whole salary from one of her films to help provide guarantees to allow Jews to escape from Germany.
Meanwhile in a later generation a different actor used their fame to...
Vote actually! Please don’t let the rain stop you!
#votefaiza
#VoteLabourToday
#ge2019
#chingford
#woodfordgreen
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This unbelievable.
@itvnews
what an utter disgrace.
The second half of this clip has her on Press TV openly praising the Hamas murderers.
@ofcom
surely should investigate.
BREAKING 🚨
@itvnews
platforms Iran propagandist who presents antisemitic programme Palestine Declassified.
Latifa Abouchakra only last week appeared to justify the murder of Israeli civilians who she calls "settlers" and labelled the attacks "the homecoming"
WATCH TO THE END
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Britain's most notorious subscriber to the concept of Whiteness is Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University.
Andrews has even written a book entitled The Psychosis of Whiteness. In another article he writes
'Whiteness cannot be reasoned with
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In June 2021 an article in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association called whiteness "a malignant, parasitic-like condition."
In the article, the author wrote that "white people have a particular susceptibility" to the "parasitic" condition, which he claims
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Here, for once, I need to come to Ngozi Fulani's defence. Most Brits don't realise that Black Caribbean ppl with Brit sounding surnames only do because their forebears were named after their slaveowner. A Headley owned slaves in Barbados.
If it was me, I'd change my name too.
@calvinrobinson
Apparently born in Hackney as Marlene Headley, to Mildred & Gladstone Healey, both of Barbados ...
Apologies if this unconfirmed info proves incorrect ...
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Soon cinema will just be the same as it was in the USSR - all scripts to be compliant with prevailing propaganda. Writers who dissent or accidentally cross the line simply deemed ‘anti-Soviet’ (or its modern equivalent) condemned to be ‘non people’ and disappear from public view
It's time we addressed all of the red flags in Love Actually.
🚩Nearly everyone is white
🚩Mark is clearly a stalker
🚩All the couples are straight
🚩They fat shame Natalie
🚩All the women seem controlled by men
Is it time to stop watching it?
@theJeremyVine
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Same Russian town, I remember sitting down to tea with an old lady. All was going well until the conversation changed - as she berated Britain, Churchill, &, it seemed, even me, for not opening up the second front earlier in WW2. Over 60 years earlier.
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Surprise, surprise Andrews also hates the royal family ('I don't mourn the Queen ... the symbol of racism') and anything to do with Britain's past history. Apparently we killed more people than the Nazis.
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Honestly… it ended in 1739. The lordly prelates of the church would have delegated most of their financial affairs to secretaries. Even then bishops were lamenting the suffering of slaves. 🧵
Can we please move on?
Sound bites and ‘laments’ ignore the context & nuance.
Archbishop of Canterbury apologises for church's slave trade links and dubs profits a 'source of shame'
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"You don't need to be a Nazi or even far right to recognise the positives as well as the evils in Hitler's rule. Not least his restoration of the German economy by re-energising its defence industry..."
Yes, millions died in the Revolution, Civil War and fwg famine, but... 😵💫🤦♂️
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A good rebuttal of the charges against Churchill.
We need to wake up to why is he such a target today. He stands alongside people like Nelson as one of the nation’s heroes. If your aim it to rewrite GB history as evil these are the ones you must tear down first.
In Defence of Sir Winston Churchill - the man who saved civilisation.
Taking apart the key ahistorical lies & accusations made against the statesman.
A Thread 🧵
(Sources are found at the end.)
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It's worth also remembering how all this fits with the left politics favoured by so many of these church activists.
Marx said the only way to the liberty of humanity was to overthrow those who owned property. His modern successors now expand ‘property’ to include possession of
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