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4 months

"Mr Venizelos, why are Greek soldiers in Turkey?" "If you don't mind, I will take 30 seconds or one minute to give you a little historical background... After the Trojan War, the hero Aeneas fled to Italy. There, his son Ascanius founded the city of Alba Longa..."

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> "I am in danger of my life." > "My life is not worth $20/month"

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Black women were most likely to die in the medieval London plague. You might disagree. You might even have some evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth losing my job over? Black women were most likely to die in the medieval London plague.

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@BBCNews

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Black women most likely to die in medieval London plague

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2 years

In the summer of 416 BC, an Athenian fleet of 38 ships carrying over 3,000 soldiers dropped anchor off the small Greek island of Melos, located south of Athens and east of the Peloponnese. The inhabitants, the Melians, were the descendants of colonists originally from Sparta.🧵

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@bbcstudios @holland_tom @RoryStewartUK @BBCTwo @BBCiPlayer The late Roman Republic was ruled by a class of kleptocratic oligarchs that had progressively impoverished the common man, overseen a breakdown in law and order, ignored popular demands for reform, and was obsessed with its own image. Very timely comparison!

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Disclose.tv

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Germany is preparing to accept refugees from the Gaza Strip.

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11 months

All foreign spies must now register via the .gov.uk portal and pay a fee before carrying out activities in the UK. 🇬🇧💪

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@umairh

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3 years

Something went very wrong with the West in the 90s. I still insist it was Excel.

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3 years

Discuss.

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In 1025, at the death of the victorious Basil II, the Empire of the Romans was at its medieval peak of power and wealth. Its rivals had been smashed and the emperor even had to build new treasuries to store his plunder. Yet it would soon experience a dramatic collapse. /1

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2 months

You're not allowed to talk about one of the greatest changes in this country's history while it's going on before your eyes. You're just not allowed to, OK? It's not normal.

Ross McCafferty

@RossMcCaff

2 months

"The decline in the white population" is an UNHINGED thing to say

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3 years

Just don't see this kind of community spirit anymore, people just stare at their phones.

𝐉𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐎𝐑 ☭🇵🇸

@realJulesTaylor

3 years

Girls making molotov cocktails in Ireland in 1969

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An 'industrial revolution' doesn't automatically happen when you acculumulate enough science points or something. There has been one, and the fire was lit in one country, by one people, and then spread elsewhere. Study their circumstances and culture.

Jonatan Pallesen

@jonatanpallesen

1 month

@GuthmannR It is an interesting thought whether the industrial revolution could have happened in The Roman Empire.

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5 months

Amazing that the BBC, despite its fascination with America, doesn't even find this newsworthy. They want you to know about an aging murderer getting executed in Alabama though!

Bennett's Phylactery

@extradeadjcb

5 months

Updated map Governors who have cosigned Abbott's revolt represent 140M people, 42% of the country's population

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2 years

How women can be mortally offended by men spreading their legs slightly too wide on public transport but not by drag queens is a continuing mystery.

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3 years

@JournosPostLs You people are so cruel. She was young, pretty, with an exciting career in journalism ahead of her. He had a face of only 64 pixels.

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2 years

Multiculturalists have constructed an amazingly destructive situation where low-grade immigrants don't identify with the host society at all and high-grade immigrants identify with globalism. Both want to hollow out our nation for their own purposes.

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Hippokleides

@Hippokleides

7 months

Britain doesn't have a "world-leading university sector", it has credential factories and visa scams with a couple of dozen quality institutions running PR for them.

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2 years

Lord Ahmed of ... *checks notes* Rotherham.

Lord Ahmed: Former Labour peer guilty of child sex offences

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is convicted of assaulting a young boy and a girl's attempted rape.

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Hippokleides

@Hippokleides

1 year

The only enemy the Irish have is themselves.

Moira Donegan

@MoiraDonegan

1 year

I think British people don’t understand how many white Americans have a strong Irish ethic identity, even if that identity often gets reduced to kitsch—and how deep the resentment of British tyranny against our ancestors is among that group.

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7 months

This isn't "high-skilled immigration", it's a scam for Nigerians to access medical treatment at the expense of UK taxpayers, with the complicity of the Tories.

Aylmer

@AylmerTH

7 months

In the past it was unusual for students to the UK to bring dependant relatives with them, and this has historically been a negligible source of total immigration. However, dependants now account for 25% of study-related immigration, up from 6% in 2019[1]. I decided to do some

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5 months

All Anglo countries suiciding themselves to keep Uber wages down and prove they're not South Carolina circa 1850. Very cool, so clever.

sid 🌹🌱🔆

@lilbabygandhi

5 months

Canada is a prime example of how an open border policy can ruin a country. We simply brought too many people in at an unsustainable level and have obliterated our social cohesion and housing market.

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In a few short days, we've moved from pundits mournfully intoning platitudes about the terrible return of war to Europe (completely ignoring the 90s, of course) to shrieking for a great power war and explaining nukes aren't that big a deal anyway. This is political psychosis.

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Paul Broadbent

@paulbroad1

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@AvonandsomerRob Why can’t we have more houses? Most of the UK isn’t built on. Around 11% of habitable land has houses on it that’s all. Plenty of space still

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Gonzalo Lira didn't deserve his fate but sitting in a foreign country engaged in an existential war and cheerleading for the other team is extremely fucking stupid.

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This thread totally works if your entire knowledge of the fall of Rome was gathered from 20th century Hollywood films. Pagan orgies in the 1st century caused the collapse of a Christian state in the 5th century. Of course they did.

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2 years

America doesn't believe in negotiated peaces, it believes in dictated peaces. If it can't bear the costs of a conflict, it simply copes, seethes, and leaves. It still doesn't negotiate. It can't, because it can only conceive of its goals as universal moral goods.

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Everybody wants to build a time machine and kill Hitler, nobody wants to build a time machine and kill Gavrilo Princip. This is all the proof you need that humans prefer popular solutions over effective ones.

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1 year

How it started... how it's going...

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America waged two wars to ensure Iraq could be safely dominated by Tehran. The US's superpower is super-retardation.

James

@GravitysRa1nbow

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@ElbridgeColby The Iraqi military is more experienced in a major war than we are. Humility is in order.

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@Hippokleides

7 months

Sure thing, bro.

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@Hippokleides

5 months

A basic thing about modern Anglosphere states which most fail to grasp is that all of this applies to them, except the bit about getting the job done. Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Net Zero, overseas aid, high speed rail. Money goes in, failure comes out.

Roland Oliphant

@RolandOliphant

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It fails to grasp a basic thing about modern Russia. Which is that when the state sets itself a goal, vast sums are embezzled, successes exaggerated, and ordinary people pay the price. It also - generally - gets the job done.

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@Hippokleides

2 years

Classical liberals haunt Twitter as White émigrés once haunted Paris, calling for the restoration of a regime they proved incapable of defending.

Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵🛵

@sbkaufman

2 years

If you're a true classical liberal, you will criticize the excesses of the left and the excesses of the right in equal measure, attempting to restore liberalism to democracy. A lot of people call themselves classical liberals but spend their entire days only yelling at the left.

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Close your eyes, can't happen here Ru Paul on the TV is near NAMBLA won't come back, you say Queer out or you will pay Queer out or you will pay California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California

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@Babygravy9 I love the way he assumes their culture is an artifical imposition by the capitalist elites but his own college-cultivated sensibilities are somehow free and authentic.

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@Hippokleides

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@Paracelsus1092 It's an admission of a uniquely strong feeling of inferiority. All peoples claim descent - ancestral or ideological/intellectual - from previous cultures that held great prestige, while scorning others. Afrocentrists are laying claim to *everything* because they have nothing.

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@Hippokleides

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British stoicism was not "lost", it was relentlessly attacked as 'emotional repression', 'insensitivity' and, latterly, 'toxic masculinity'. Don't start with trad crocodile tears just because you're turning 40 and Norwood. Show some grit.

Aaron Bastani

@AaronBastani

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Growing up it felt like society was full of old men who, regardless of politics, exemplified stoicism & temperance. I certainly remember them at school - old boys who’d done national service and believed in dispassionate calm. Genuinely feels like a lost civilisation now.

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@Hippokleides

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@SadiqKhan If you have mould problems, Stop, Check, Think: have I blocked all ventilation in the bathroom?

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@Hippokleides

7 months

Whitey's no longer on the moon but at least nobody is hungry any longer, right?

Smallest Violin

@XiaoVilin99

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$451 billion is more than double the cost of the entire 13-year Apollo programme every year. The US could probably put a man on Mars with a single year's worth of this funding.

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@Hippokleides

2 years

We are skilled at military operations deep under the sea. We mention this for no particular reason.

Department of Defense 🇺🇸

@DeptofDefense

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The flag flies everywhere 🇺🇸. @USNavy sailors assigned to various Naval Special Warfare commands operate a diver propulsion device during high-altitude dive training in northern California.

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Inside you there are two wolves. They're both Jewish.

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2 years

Actual psychopath in the wild here.

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@kunley_drukpa Unrecorded how many had to check what party policy on flipping coins was before answering.

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10 months

The whole line that Russia couldn't make war because its economy only produces fuel and weapons tells you everything you need to know about strategic thinking in the West.

Multipolarity The Podcast

@MultipolarPod

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...the size, development and importance of the Russian economy. The idea that Russia was "a gas station with nukes," had sunk into the Western received wisdom to such an extent that even usually thoughtful intellectuals like Yuval Noah Harari appeared to believe it. 8/n

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@KateAndrs When did mass immigration become a 'core liberal belief'? I must have missed "infinite foreigners" in the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

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@mjfree @BrexitBlogs

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I promised the good Herbalist @paracelsus1092 a thread on Byzantine prophecy to mark my recent milestone of 1,000 followers. Since true promises, like true prophecies, must be fulfilled, here is a 12th-century tale of astrology, imperial folly, and blood. /1

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Hippokleides

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Thucydides self-consciously wrote his work to be timeless – a colossal act of hubris, except that nearly 2,500 years later, we still read it. If you enjoyed this thread, which will soon be lost in time, I encourage you to read his history, still one of the greatest ever written.

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Sunder Katwala

@sundersays

1 month

A most artfully crafted question to deliver a strikingly different result from asking whether to implement (38%) or scrap (40%) the Rwanda policy straight. Rwanda was the **32nd word** in this question!

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If the English fail the test for an ethnic group, nobody else is passing it either. The only people to seriously contest English ethnicity are, ironically, English midwits who use a 40+ year-old cliche about their ethnogenesis 1000+ years ago to signal their horror of "racism".

Mithras

@Tauroctonia

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On English ethnicity. The English are an ethnic group according to the definition of ethnicity outlined by the archeologist Peter Renfrew, as are the other British peoples. To take each claim in turn below …

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Hippokleides

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The whole concept of illegal wars irks me. There is no war police; laws without coercive power are moral aspirations expressed in obtuse language. Medieval kings swore treaties on relics and called down the wrath of God on oathbreakers; a more honest understanding of reality.

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Empire is a form of rule legitimised only by success. Admired when rising, friendless when falling, disdained by all but romantics and nostalgics once gone.

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@graceblakeley If I'd gone to Lord Wandsworth College and Oxford and wanted to consider myself a heroic proletarian, I'd say this too.

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@Hippokleides

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Honestly amazing how many reasonably intelligent people continue to believe the Conservative government is in any way hostile to migration, simply because it says so for the cameras. It is the most pro-immigration government in British history, whether legal or illegal.

Concrete Horizon

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That is 155 out of 29,437, a removal rate of 0.526%. Truly we are Fortress Britain, a hellish fascist state, only allowing in 99.473% of those than illegally arrive. No wonder the French help escort their own illegals to our shores when we are so unwilling to turn anyone back.

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@Hippokleides

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"That went well"

gum

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5 months

@Hippokleides @SealOfTheEnd The radars don’t exist anymore, the control centres don’t exist anymore, the launching sites don’t exist anymore, the depots don’t exist anymore You have a very simplistic dumb worldview, it isn’t like throwing a rock. You need the facilities, hope you understand now.

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"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face" says ex-leader of Importing Leopards to Eat People's Faces Party.

Boris Johnson

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7 months

Almost 80 years after the end of the Second World War it is shocking to hear nakedly anti-Semitic chants on the streets of London today. There are people who plainly want to ignore the Hamas massacre of October 7. They want to wipe Israel off the map. That is what they were

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Now it is 2024 Knock-knock at your front door It's the rainbow badge secret police They have come for your untrans'd niece Come quietly to the camp You'd look nice as a eunuch lad Don't you worry, it's for a cause Feeding GAE corporations' claws

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EPILOGUE If you’ve read this far, the dialogue might bring comparable situations to mind. Reading history was once considered essential for aspiring statesman; now many are ignorant of it. Many things change over the millennia, but has human behaviour really changed so much?

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@Hippokleides

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So Paul Pelosi was either hospitalised as a result of targetted political violence or a bizarre homosexual encounter that escalated to violence. It's quaint to remember that once we would have looked to journalists to establish the truth.

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@Hippokleides

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@BarnabasCalder @BrutalHouse @OSaumarezSmith @C20Society @DocomomoScot @docomomo_uk @SOSBrutalism @ArchitectsJrnal @edwinheathcote @RowanMoore It's grotesque and the real shame is that it was ever conceived. Architects should be compelled to dwell amidst the ugliness of their own 'experiments'. If you want to save carbon, don't construct hideous concrete people-pens.

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"Mr President, our analysts are predicting a 3% increase in Political Stress next quarter, is it time for civil war?" A culture entirely incapable of taking anything seriously unless it is padded with spurious statistics is itself a cause of political stress.

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The failure of Prosperity Guardian is more significant than the failure in Afghanistan and the ongoing failure in Ukraine.

The US dangles Yemen bait, but Ansarallah doesn’t bite

The US has secretly offered a stunning array of concessions to Ansarallah to halt its naval operations in support of Gaza – to no avail.

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@Hippokleides

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@mikebuttleman @BurnsideNotTosh @sajidjavid I'm not sure "this country has been invaded previously" is really the own you think it is.

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@Hippokleides

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And when was "building a multi confessional & multi racial society" ever presented to the public as a goal? A fundamental change has been instigated by oikophobic liberals relentlessly going against public wishes to achieve their asinine dream of living in a poundshop USA.

Dan Snow

@thehistoryguy

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@GoodwinMJ Don’t get me wrong. Some of those statistics are v worrying. Building a multi confessional & multi racial society has always been a challenge. I just wonder whether this small group of maniacs supporting terrorists should provoke the condemnation of a complex decades long process

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@Hippokleides

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Cameron... > destroyed Libya > started EU migration crisis > wanted to bomb Syria in support of jihadis > collapsed UK's European policy Tories: "Welcome your new Foreign Secretary!"

Conservatives

@Conservatives

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He’s back 🔥 Congratulations @David_Cameron 👏

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The Athenians address only the reality, not the morality, of the situation, suggesting the Melians do likewise. They do not pretend to be doing anything other than taking advantage of their superior power. The final phrase has become one of Thucydides’ most famous observations./9

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@Hippokleides

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"We can stop the Houthis firing at ships, but it's just not worth it lol"

Gmoney223456

@Gmoney2234561

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"Ah yes, America is deeply invested in protecting Chinese junks going to Europe and Russian oil tankers going to India"

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@Hippokleides

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'UK national' status is obtained 12 months after getting Indefinite Leave to Remain, possessing basic English skills, and passing an easily gamed test. ILR itself is awarded with 2-5 years employment, depending on visa. Most of these people are British only administratively.

Peter Apps

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And yes, in London, it is still overwhelmingly going to UK nationals. Thanks to the many, many anonymous accounts who have expressed an interest in this particular question! You can find all the data here:

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@Hippokleides

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No higher power exists to enforce law on states. To appeal to the ‘court’ of world opinion is to appeal for allies. Ultimate outcomes depend on the power of the parties. As famously translated by Crawley in 1910: ‘The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.’ /10

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Every measure against "misinformation" is destined to be captured by groups who will use it to spread their preferred misinformation. Community Notes is doomed.

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@Hippokleides

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Social media influencers, influencing targeting decisions.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

2 years

🔴 British volunteer fighters are feared to have triggered a deadly airstrike on a Ukrainian military base after their phones were detected in the area

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@Slatzism You missed this one...

Norwich transwoman spared jail over indecent images following 'unusual' decision

A transwoman from Norwich who admitted having dozens of indecent images of children has been spared jail after magistrates said they took an…

www.edp24.co.uk

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The relentless, pitiless message is this: we have to deal with reality as it is, not how we would wish it to be. /24

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@Hippokleides

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Amazed to discover British nationalist accounts who believe Britain has some deep alliance and affinity with Israel. Total post-9/11 cultural import. In the 20th century Anglo-Israeli relations were at best cordial and often deeply unfriendly.

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@Hippokleides

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We must support regional governments by copying their policy. We must listen to indigenous voices and learn from non-Western ways of knowing.

Visegrád 24

@visegrad24

8 months

There will be no refugees in Jordan and there will be no refugees in Egypt,” says the King of Jordan, Abdullah II, at today’s press conference with German Chancellor Scholz.

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US power is teetering on the brink of collapse. There are already too many fires burning for it to put out but it completely lacks the resolution to reduce its committments. Time for its adversaries keep pushing, play the arsonist, make more Happenings.

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Hippokleides

@Hippokleides

1 year

Hutu Radio, a new channel from the BBC.

Richie Brave 🇬🇾🇬🇾

@RichieBrave

1 year

Some of you racist little RATS wouldn’t even be alive if it wasn’t for the Caribbean people who arrived during the Windrush era. Some of them even nursed your ill family members whilst they hurled abuse at them. Disgusting, unscrupulous hogs.

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God, historians are woeful. What does "breakfast" look like for historians, really? How do they experience "breakfast"? How would they know what they would feel like if they hadn't had "breakfast"?

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

@lottelydia

6 months

God, political scientists are woeful. What does "immigration" look like for British people, really? How do they experience "immigration"? How do people know who is an "immigrant"? When and how do British people interact with "immigrants"? What are those interactions like?

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2 years

Thought for the day: The times will get harder, but they will also get funnier.

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The true nightmare was for the girls who were repeatedly, brutally raped and then denied justice in an act of cowardly complacency that you consider nobility. How do your daughters feel about it, Tom?

Tom Holland

@holland_tom

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The true nightmare of #Rotherham is that the motives of those who turned a blind eye, however monstrous the consequences, were indeed noble.

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Prediction: Gopal will not leave and she will pay. Her ludicrous vanity does not permit otherwise.

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@Hippokleides

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@jameskirkup @spectator "Immigrants never use public services or require new infrastructure. I am very clever."

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@Hippokleides

2 years

So when Thucydides wrote about the negotiation on Melos, he presented it as a philosophic dialogue. It explains why Athens invaded Melos, but mostly it concerns the nature of power, realism versus idealism, the hazards of human self-deception. Let's read the Melian Dialogue. /7

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@Hippokleides

2 years

You may think you have problems, but spare a thought for a Roman peasant in 1350s Thrace.

gare de guerre

@garrrish

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@angellcynn

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@Hippokleides

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@butt_watermelon The state forcing businesses to keep stores open so that locals can steal from them is the most perverted form of communism imaginable.

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@Hippokleides

1 year

A fun thread on Byzantine beauties. While Arabs got hot and bothered about the women, the attractive and dignified appearance of the Palaiologoi emperors, the final Byzantine dynasty, is often remarked on by contemporary westerners.

ShadowsOfConstantinople

@RomeInTheEast

1 year

Medieval Arab writers stereotyped Byzantine women as promiscuous/immoral - yet also desirable. They are stereotyped in varying ways as “the most shameless,” adulterous, beautiful, uncovered, uncircumcised, & being uncontrolled - but also as attractive and beautiful (a thread)

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@Hippokleides

2 years

"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" – Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen

@vonderleyen

2 years

The EU is turning to trustworthy energy suppliers. Azerbaijan is one of them. With today's agreement, we commit to expanding the Southern Gas Corridor, to double gas supplies from Azerbaijan to the EU. This is good news for our supplies of gas this winter and beyond.

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@Hippokleides

2 years

There is a certain amount of motivated reasoning in the 'tanks are obsolete' discourse. We are witnessing battle between Europe's two largest tank armies. Both sides are shipping in replacements, so they clearly serve some function other than as targets.

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@Hippokleides

2 years

A few weeks ago, many on here were imploring everyone to accept extreme restrictions on activity to save the lives of the elderly. Now, apparently the elderly must accept freezing to death to save the lives of Ukrainians. The commonality here is not a desire to save lives.

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@Hippokleides

2 years

So was Thucydides a liar? Perhaps. But he was also a genius, a word I do not use lightly. His history is not just a description of the war between Athens and Sparta but an attempt to use the particular to illustrate general truths of human behaviour. /6

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@Hippokleides

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@jameskirkup Poductivity low? ⬆️ immigration. GDP/capita low? ⬆️ immigration. Housing too expensive? ⬆️ immigration. Social cohesion falling? ⬆️ immigration. Nobody breeding because of all above? ⬆️ immigration. Can I have a job at a thinktank now? Left, right or centre, answer is the same.

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@Hippokleides

5 months

“A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.”

David Blagden

@blagden_david

5 months

Yep, nothing to see. Just the wholesale retirement of RN amphibious capability, because a country of >67mn can’t contrive adequate personnel policies meet a ~30k manpower target.

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@Hippokleides

2 years

@paulg Has it ever occured to you that somebody might not be telling the truth here?

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@Hippokleides

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People will say any old drivel to justify their fetish for immigration. Statements like this are not even remotely in good faith, simply gaslighting by enemies who wish to destroy nations so they can rule over the rubble.

Tony Yates

@t0nyyates

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We shouldn't forget that IMO we have no natural ownership rights over this place. It's by chance that we ended up in a corner of the world relatively blessed with a legacy of good institutions and a prosperous economy.

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@Hippokleides

2 years

Suicide after our new estrogen gas Your egg is already hatched Future for you is being a trans hoe When you mess with President Joe When you mess with President Joe California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California

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@Hippokleides

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A central theme of the dialogue is laid out in its opening. The Melians protest to the delegation that Athens is acting in an unfair, immoral and bullying way. The Athenian response is essentially “Yes, but what will you do about it?” /8

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@Hippokleides

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Sparta and Athens were enemies and we call their gruelling conflict the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). Athens would eventually lose. But in 416, this was still far from obvious; Athens held naval supremacy in Greek waters. /2

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@Hippokleides

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Suspected for a while that as living memory of WWII died, we'd start to see its horrors lose their edge. War becomes imaginable again, the crimes become contextualised or forgotten; everything loses its emotional immediacy, becomes the Past, like a faded sepia photograph.

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@Hippokleides

2 years

THE COURSE OF EMPIRE: A pictorial essay In the desert, there lay a pyramid.

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