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Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

7 months

How did Britain's sixth oldest university end up with staff tweeting support for Hamas, inviting a speaker who has called holocaust victims “cowards”, and appointing an academic who wrote that “the white woman cries out for rape”? Me for @TheCriticMag

Edinburgh’s decolonial decline | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine

This is the story of an institution, steeped in the glories of the Scottish Enlightenment, whose alumni include Hume and Darwin. An institution which, in only a few short years…

thecritic.co.uk

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@JSMilbank

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I’ve never encountered a species that less wanted to exist than Pandas — just totally ready to go extinct, really up for it, but the CCP just keep dragging them back into the light

Nature is Amazing ☘️

@AMAZlNGNATURE

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Pandas usually give birth to twins. However, they would neglect one and keep the other one close. So what these caretakers are doing is that they give mommy Panda an apple to eat and swap one baby with another. This way both babies are fed properly.

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@JSMilbank

2 years

Fascinating how if you scratch the surface of pro-immigration politics you discover a festering hatred of working class people

Liverpool Dave

@LiverpoolDave1

2 years

@BBCScotlandNews It's like something that the EDL would say.

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Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@JSMilbank

7 days

Me (a very serious historian): the students are always right

David Veevers

@DavidVeevers1

9 days

Were they wrong on Vietnam? No. Were they wrong on South Africa? No. Were they wrong on Iraq? No. They won’t be wrong on Israel, either. Signed, A Historian.

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@JSMilbank

9 months

Spain exhibits like zero post colonial guilt and cheerfully puts on costumed re-enactments of the reconquista, but it’s hand wringing Britain which gets the stick. Lesson? Never say sorry, nobody respects it

Mufasa

@Chamakuvangu01

9 months

Thank you Spain for breaking the hearts of our colonizer

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@JSMilbank

1 year

The reactions of others fascinating here — they can sense a low status opinion and know to pounce on it and express performative outrage

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@JSMilbank

4 years

On the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle story, I have every sympathy for them wanting to escape the ghastly intrusiveness of the tabloid press, but that isn't what's happening - they're not seeking to withdraw from public life but rather are seeking to become US style celebrities.

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@JSMilbank

2 months

Centuries of British rule couldn’t put an end to Catholic Ireland — American cultural imperialism has done it in a single generation

Aidan Regan

@Aidan_Regan

2 months

The first two paragraphs of the Constitution: If I am not mistaken, it is the only Constitution in the world that directly references the Holy Trinity and the Dive Lord, Jesus Christ (all capitalised of course!). Delete this nonsense.

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@JSMilbank

5 years

Liberal 'diversity' yet again quickly exposing itself as mere consumerism whereby ancient and profound cultures are reduced to products casually tossed into the same shopping trolly. The real message: cultures don't matter, the global economy matters.

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@JSMilbank

2 months

Be the Britain that Iranian conspiracy theorists believe you to be 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Luka Ivan Jukic

@lijukic

2 months

This is what half of Eurasia believes unironically

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@JSMilbank

4 years

Even if I wanted the social advantages of being a liberal, I couldn’t take the amount of cringeworthy ritual required

Brad Galli

@BradGalli

4 years

Kate McKinnon played RBG in a tribute on @nbcsnl . No words spoken. ‘Rest in power’ written. #SNLPremiere

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@JSMilbank

5 months

Your regular reminder that the government caps the number of medical school places every year, and has not lifted or significantly increased the cap in the past two decades — whilst continuing to import thousands of oversees medical professionals

nazir afzal

@nazirafzal

5 months

Reminder: Immigration is NOT the reason that you CANT get a hospital appointment Immigration is THE ONLY reason that you CAN get a hospital appointment An NHS is only surviving on immigrant doctors, nurses & support staff If you want to blame someone, think who’s in power….

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@JSMilbank

6 years

Being a progressive is very hard work, you're never quite certain that you're up to date with all the latest directives - and you have to make yourself available to receive re-education at a moment's notice! So spare a thought and a prayer for Lauren at this difficult time.

Lauren Duca

@laurenduca

6 years

Hey! My pride tweet -- saying that no one is 100% straight -- was meant to encourage acceptance. After seeing the responses, I totally get how it could read like some trash "all lives matter" declaration. That's not at all what I meant, so I deleted it. Lesson learned. I'm sorry.

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@JSMilbank

6 months

Nice argument — pity it’s not true. In fact non EU migrants are MORE likely to be unemployed, on disability and live in social housing. We’re importing huge numbers of economically inactive people.

Fraser Nelson

@FraserNelson

6 months

Mass migration has allowed UK to cover up a welfare crisis where 4,000 a day (!) are applying for sickness benefit and 20% of Birmingham, Glasgow & Liverpool are on out-of-work benefits. My column on the case for a frank discussion:-

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@JSMilbank

2 months

If you don’t like this country, why live here? Why seek political office? I find people like this incomprehensible

MsAlliance 🇪🇺🔸

@MsAlliance

2 months

This just came through our door. The OH: “I thought it was from Reform, but it’s Labour.”

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Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@JSMilbank

3 years

The destruction of social capital, the chart:

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Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@JSMilbank

7 months

The point here is that she’s right and decolonisation is an ideology committed to ethnonationalist violence and always has been. Time to exile it from the academy, media and politics (I’m not holding my breath though)

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@JSMilbank

1 year

2020: It is NOT my job to educate you about race 2023: my highly paid job in race education has been terminated, this is NOT OK

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@JSMilbank

11 months

None of these things are "foreign", they've come from elsewhere and become part of British culture - nobody on the left would go to Thailand and go "Buddhism, foreign" and claim Thai culture doesn't exist.

Laurie Mcflurry 🍧🏳️‍🌈

@GirlOffence

11 months

@PaulEmbery What's British culture? Fish and chips, foreign. Textile industry, foreign. Curry nights, foreign. Orange order, foreign Saint George, foreign. Royal family, foreign. Christianity, foreign. What is left that is truly British?

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@JSMilbank

1 year

Here’s the problem—we aren’t a religious country anymore, but nor are we a country of devout secular humanists, godless nationalists or atheistic progressives. We’re a country of people who believe literally nothing at all and I think we are not going to like what that looks like

Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

1 year

A crucial moment. This is a secular country, no matter how strenuously religious authorities try to pretend otherwise.

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@JSMilbank

1 year

We'll be told that this is some sort of important racial reckoning, but what is actually happening here is an old women being publicly humiliated by a younger one for a private slight, in order to build up the younger woman's career and public profile. Why do we all play along?

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

1 year

'Why can't we get something positive out of this.' Charity boss Ngozi Fulani says she 'has not heard from the Palace' but she 'would be happy to have a discussion'. Prince William's godmother Lady Susan Hussey resigned after the incident.

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@JSMilbank

4 months

This is going to be shocking to the good prof, but its possible to DISAGREE with international law as it is currently applied. Laws that were designed to help people fleeing genocide are being taken advantage of by economic migrants and people smugglers.

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

@lottelydia

4 months

Yes, this is cruel and inhumane and immoral, but it's also just... incorrect in international law. On a basic level, it isn't factually accurate. It's not correct. I don't really understand why the Telegraph is happy to print something that is just wrong.

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@JSMilbank

1 year

Why do people who hate the Middle Ages become medievalists? It’s a mystery

Florence of Northumbria

@FlorenceHRScott

1 year

Oh you 'love are king' and 'respect British traditions'? Name all 10 extant pre conquest pontificals containing royal coronation liturgy

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@JSMilbank

3 years

I’m sick of well educated pundits pretending that England is a vague idea - it’s a 1200+ year old culture, and anybody vaguely familiar with history & literature knows what comprises it - they’re just cosmopolitans who think they are above such specificity

I love the football team but can’t get tribal about England. What’s going on? | Kenan Malik

So thin is the idea of Englishness that its primary symbol is eleven sportsmen

www.theguardian.com

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@JSMilbank

9 days

An incredibly representative reflection of the population that wants to drive trains

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

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Train drivers overwhelmingly middle-aged white men

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@JSMilbank

7 months

Public school girl, Oxbridge graduate, and barrister Afua Hirsch wants to tell you about how she's a victim, and has a book published by Penguin in which she explains how much of a victim she is.

Decolonising My Body by Afua Hirsch review – reclaiming beauty

A black woman’s gentle quest of learning and relearning how to understand her body

www.theguardian.com

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@JSMilbank

1 year

My first piece for the @Telegraph –– on how Ngozi Fulani is walking away from her experience of “abuse” with accolades and a public platform, whilst an 82 year old who has given decades of loyal service has had her role removed and reputation ruined

The sacking of Lady Susan Hussey is ritual humiliation masquerading as social justice

In framing this encounter as unequal, many in the media and on the Left are revealing their own ingrained prejudices

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@JSMilbank

6 months

Are younger Simpsons writers under the impression that choking your child was acceptable behaviour in the 1990s?

Culture Crave 🍿

@CultureCrave

6 months

Homer will no longer choke Bart in #TheSimpsons as 'times have changed'

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@JSMilbank

1 year

Of the 6.4 million Ukrainian refugees worldwide, 90% are women and children. That's what real refugees look like, they're the most vulnerable, not the least. They're at risk of crime, not committing crimes. Meanwhile 90% of those illegally crossing the channel are men.

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@JSMilbank

1 year

Don’t like people smoking cannabis outside your child’s bedroom window? Sorry to hear you’re literally Enoch Powell

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@JSMilbank

3 years

This form of “conservatism” - shallow, utilitarian, nasty, materialistic, against all that is poetic and religious in the human soul - is simply the other face of liberal modernity. It’s a slavish, unworthy way of looking at reality and those who embrace it deserve our contempt.

Jason S. Campbell

@JasonSCampbell

3 years

Daily Wire host responds to recent extinctions: "Who cares that these species are going extinct? What do we need them for?"

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@JSMilbank

6 months

Personal responsibility not a big feature of boomer autobiography I notice

Daily Mail Online

@MailOnline

6 months

Stephen Fry, 66, says childhood sweets like candy cigarettes were a gateway to his cocaine addiction

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@JSMilbank

11 months

Since people seem to keep forgetting this fact, I will just remind them — the Pakistani grooming gangs were not headline news because of their race, they were headline news because police IGNORED their crimes because of their race.

Esheru

@EsheruKwaku

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Members of Britain's 'worst-ever' child sex abuse gang are jailed for 190 years - if these were Pakistani men, it would be headline news for @SkyNews @BBCNews Telegraph @Daily_Express @TheSun & the hypocrite ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦ @SuellaBraverman ⁩

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@JSMilbank

2 years

But that’s the point and why I hate “progressive” or “woke” politics — we define social phenomena by how upper middle class professionals experience the world, and everyone else is assumed to be biased or in need of education

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@JSMilbank

3 years

Why are medievalists all so obsessed with the 5 black people wandering around medieval England? What is the point they’re trying to make? Honestly nobody knows least of all themselves

Florence of Northumbria

@FlorenceHRScott

3 years

In light of the most recent controversy over the racist term 'Anglo-Saxon' I want to explain why it's important to have conversations about the existence of Black people, and wider cultural diversity, in early medieval England. THREAD🧵 1/

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@JSMilbank

1 year

Why is a solid 90% of Britain defined by these grey decaying high streets full of spotty teenagers and depressed looking mums, lined with bookmakers, charity shops, late night takeaways — it’s like Britain is some kind of eternal bleak purgatorial realm

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@JSMilbank

1 year

How anyone can look at modern Britain and conclude that this situation is a bad thing utterly escapes me.

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@BBCWorld

1 year

Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past

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@JSMilbank

2 years

Immigrants are, as experienced by upper middle class bobos, nice fully integrated doctors and fellow professionals, closer to them than supposedly vile and stupid white yobos. Working class families in Rotherham may have had slightly different experiences…

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@JSMilbank

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It's interesting how European overseas empires are seen in such wildly different terms than all other historic empires. Literature on the Chinese, Persian, Indian, Arabic and even Mongolian empires is either neutral, or even positive about these historic polities.

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@JSMilbank

4 months

Was going to visit Ely Cathedral yesterday, but they wanted to charge me £15 for the privilege — quite apart from the mad price I just hate the feeling of paying to enter a church, it’s a sacred space you shouldn’t be charging admission

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@JSMilbank

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Pro mass migration rhetoric presents itself as humanistic (aren't we all people?) but is really dehumanising: she's saying humans are interchangable economic units, and our culture, religion, birthplaces are all irrelevant.

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@JSMilbank

2 years

This is just historically illiterate - British Empire was never "built" on any one ideology, but instead arose from a variety of ideals, interests and causes (one of which, incidentally, was the campaign to emancipate slaves)

Jason Hickel

@jasonhickel

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The British Empire was one of the most violent institutions in modern history, built on explicitly racist ideology and guilty of serial crimes against humanity. It is astonishing that OBEs and other honours are given, accepted and celebrated in its name.

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I'm astonished at how moved I am by the funeral - it isn't just losing the monarch who has reigned all my life, but something about seeing my country, for the first time I can think of, turn away, all together and at once, away from the trivial and towards the eternal.

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Canada's MAID system is the classic problem of stressing liberty over love (a second order over a first order good) –– Canada says to its citizens "maybe your life isn't worth living, it's up to you" when what it should say is "your life IS worth living & we'll fight to save you"

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@JSMilbank

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At the time I was shocked to learn that support for Meloni and her coalition was highest amongst young Italians. Looking at voting patterns across Europe I discovered a clear trend –– national populism is a youth movement outside of the Anglosphere

The kids are alt-right | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine

Outside the Anglosphere, right-wing populism is a youth movement…

thecritic.co.uk

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This clip is deeply misleading, and I imagine many who are angry think that these teenagers were put in prison merely for angry messages. In fact machete attacks were planned AND CARRIED OUT, and the group was stockpiling weapons and planning to kidnap young girls

Channel 4

@Channel4

1 year

Top student Ade is serving eight years accused of plotting a revenge attack. His conviction was based on messages he sent in a Telegram chat even though no one mentioned in them was hurt. #C4Untold investigates how he ended up in prison.

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Whilst the UK was spending tens of billions on HS2, the Spanish quietly built a similar line for £1.4 billion, which had to ascende 300 metres, traverse ravines, and at one point they simply built a 150 metre viaduct to avoid an archeological site. 🤷‍♂️🚄

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Ultra high trust and open Scandinavian society — “yes sure you can find people’s addresses” — encounters imported third world violence. It’s an extraordinary culture clash, that will leave Sweden a different society one way or another

Ben Sixsmith

@BDSixsmith

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I feel like the freedom of information laws might not be the root problem here.

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@JSMilbank

3 months

I’m astonished on a daily basis by the number of supposedly educated people who can’t understand a concept as basic as supply and demand

Kenan Malik

@kenanmalik

3 months

“What prevents British workers from having British homes are not queue-jumping immigrants but the failure of the authorities to build sufficient housing. Yet, the myth persists… nurtured by politicians, pundits and academics”: My @ObserverUK column:

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@JSMilbank

3 years

England has already seen off historical oppressor's like the invading Dane and the goose-stepping Prussian, but now its the big one: the eternal Roman. Coming over here, taking our tin, forcing us to use unnatural contrivances like roads and basic hygiene. That all ends today.

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Why are so many people just frantically and obsessively determined to pretend that Britain is America. British greatness mostly built by eccentric blokes tinkering in sheds in the provinces and that’s what I love about my country

Marcus Chown

@marcuschown

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Britain is an immigrant island. Has been since Roman times. It's the source of its energy, its vitality, its greatness.

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@JSMilbank

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If you oppose mass migration (an unprecedented and dehumanising social experiment), you’re an extremist. But you can openly advocate for Brave New World-style eugenics in language that wouldn’t shame Mengele in the pages of the Times and still remain a centrist Dad 🤷‍♂️

Yuan Yi Zhu

@yuanyi_z

1 month

Matthew Parris says the quiet part out loud about euthanasia: “we simply cannot afford extreme senescence or desperate infirmity for as many such individuals as our society is producing.”

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@JSMilbank

7 months

Instructive lesson for reporters — if you’re going to ask a politician a question be specific, have quotes to hand. If you lob vague insinuations you can be absolutely poleaxed like this within 30 seconds by anyone competent

J.

@PresentWitness_

7 months

All you have to do is ask the shitlib ‘what do you mean’ and he crumbles. The truth is that they don’t even know what they mean. These people literally do not have thoughts of their own.

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@JSMilbank

1 year

I'm xenophobic for thinking not every society can become a liberal democracy overnight, and many don't want to either. Who am I racist against exactly? NATO?

Oz Katerji

@OzKaterji

1 year

What the fuck do you know about Middle Eastern society values? Absolutely fucking nothing. The problem isn’t that I’m a liberal, it’s that you’re a xenophobic moron.

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@JSMilbank

3 years

America is a country immolating itself over insane racial ideologies, I pray that Britain doesn’t follow

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@JSMilbank

1 year

I don’t think you have to be a mad right winger to think that there’s a level of migration that simply ends Britain as a culture and a functional society, and this is approaching it

Social Market Foundation

@SMFthinktank

1 year

🚨OUT TODAY: Immigration at 1 million could become new normal for UK. In this new report, @JTmigratory argues that British politics and policy need to be better prepared for an era of high migration flows. Read the report here:

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@JSMilbank

4 years

Would be really nice if people on the left had ways of communicating their ideas that didn't involve industrial quantities of condescension. 'Educate yourself' is a disgusting slogan, especially when deployed by privileged university educated people against the working classes.

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@JSMilbank

1 year

I don't know how one can look at these revisions, of books with a central cultural importance, read by millions of children, and not wake up to the fact that the culture war is very real, and is being waged almost entirely by one side

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@JSMilbank

2 months

Not sure comparing mass migration to the Norman Conquest is quite the own Ash thinks it is

Ash Sarkar

@AyoCaesar

2 months

Are you joking? It wasn't until Henry IV, some 200 years after the Norman conquest, that a monarch spoke English as their first language!

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@JSMilbank

4 years

Ironically what Meghan misses is the responsibility free deference and adulation granted to US celebrates who mouth liberal platitudes whilst living lives of total narcissistic self indulgence. Duties and responsibilities are for other people.

Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@JSMilbank

4 years

@SalemLola Classic example of how the elites of meritocratic and socially egalitarian America that are entitled and complacent in their privilege - concept of noblesse oblige seems to have come as rather a shock to the Hollywood actress.

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@JSMilbank

8 months

82% of people will, unsurprisingly, tolerate things that don't affect their lives, but after seeing men in women's prisons, men "winning" awards for women, everyone getting HR emails asking them to put pronouns in their bio, people have had enough

Nancy Kelley

@Nancy_M_K

8 months

Deeply saddened to see today's British Social Attitudes Survey shows such a marked decline in positive attitudes to trans people. In 2019 82% of us said we "weren't prejudiced at all" towards trans people - now just 64% of us feel we can say the same. 1/5

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@JSMilbank

2 years

Unprecedented social and demographic experiment that nobody can adequately explain the reason for

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@JSMilbank

3 years

What a beautiful Easter cover from the @spectator

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@JSMilbank

1 year

Planning a train to Liverpool and my brain has just exploded and I’ve gone blind

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@JSMilbank

4 months

The problem with this argument (it saves us money even if it should be parents job) is that at the point people are so irresponsible that their children’s teeth aren’t brushed, the social contact on which stuff like the NHS etc relies has totally broken down

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

4 months

'For actually a relatively small amount of money we can put supervised tooth brushing for kids aged between 3 and 5' Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting told #BBCBreakfast Labour want more action to improve dental health for children

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@JSMilbank

3 months

The type of music. I'm a brutal elitist on these questions. High culture is, by and large, reverential and serious, and does not subvert the sacred purpose of church buildings. Disco music is about individuals gyrating clumsily, with crude flashing lights flashing around them.

Clive S G Billenness

@cliveatsynod

3 months

I am seeing huge controversies about a silent disco in a Cathedral. Yet 12 years ago the English National Ballet were welcomed to dance "Suite en Blanc" in St Paul's. So what is the objection to ? The type of music or the act of dancing itself ?

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@JSMilbank

1 year

Why do we have such low, miserable, self-loathing standards as a country? Every working person in this country should be earning enough to support a family, save to own a house, and contribute to society. Why do so many on the right want a race to the bottom?

LBC

@LBC

1 year

Nick Ferrari: If you are a mum and/or a dad and you haven't got money to buy your child a toothbrush, you should never have become a parent in the first place @NickFerrariLBC

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@JSMilbank

4 months

Tweet 1: how dare you suggest we make it easier for people to have children, this is just code for the conspiracy theory that we're being replaced by migrants Tweet 2: Here's the thing, we need to replace our declining population with migrants. This is good news.

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@JSMilbank

9 months

I genuinely hate these people, they take something normal and joyful like playing with your sons and infect it with malignant manosphere crap about “becoming more dangerous” and “ascending to manhood”

Foundation Father | M.A. Franklin

@FoundationDads

9 months

Boys are knights in training. A boy who is not becoming more dangerous will not be able to protect anything. He will not be able to ascend to any sort of manhood. Here are 11 ways to raise dangerous sons. 🧵

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@JSMilbank

3 years

I am yet again begging Americans to just be normal

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@JSMilbank

4 years

Making use of the Penguin Classics cover generator () to make a history of modern philosophy in four wojaks

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@JSMilbank

9 months

If you pour funding into studies about how evil your history is you’re not bravely confronting the past, you’re myopically alienating yourself from your own culture and doing PR for your (totalitarian, corrupt, murderous) geopolitical rivals

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@JSMilbank

7 months

There aren’t that many of them, so why is this surprising — I’m sure they can name plenty of modern day black public figures, why do we have to play a game of let’s pretend about British history?

The Guardian

@guardian

7 months

Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds

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@JSMilbank

3 years

Many hope the young will challenge capitalism, but this is as much a delusion as it was in 1968. It’s impossible to challenge capitalism when your appetites, tastes and habits have been formed by consumerism - anti capitalism will simply be another brand, another identity.

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@JSMilbank

3 years

Guy using onion powder for his sad little chicken curry: “I am living better than medieval royalty”

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@JSMilbank

1 year

This is typical of how modern liberals think. Freedom, liberty and democracy aren't something you "deserve", which implies they are "given" by authorities. They're values your society either embodies and realises or it doesn't.

Oz Katerji

@OzKaterji

1 year

Dictatorships aren’t “stability”, and my people are no less deserving of freedom, liberty and democracy than yours are. Shameful comment.

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@JSMilbank

2 months

The denial that anything in Britain has changed for the worst in the past 20, 50, or 70 years is not a persuasive case. It just makes these people look too dumb or sheltered to notice how crap things have got in many areas of life.

Nihal Arthanayake

@TherealNihal

2 months

Can anyone identify what it is that the country no longer has, that Lee Anderson wants back?

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@JSMilbank

6 months

What was Suella talking about when it comes to politicised policing? Well you’re seeing it when a couple mobbed by irate protesters are the ones reprimanded and moved away by police.

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈

@MrAndyNgo

6 months

Breaking: A British woman is left in tears after she and her husband were confronted in Victoria Station in London for the Palestine “Million Man March.” They were apparently accosted for the patriotic pins they were wearing for #RememberanceDay . #VeteransDay

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@JSMilbank

4 years

Given the fertility of atheists relative to the religious, from a strict Darwinian standpoint atheism is an evolutionary maladaptation that will be bred out of existence within a few centuries.

Atheist Republic

@AtheistRepublic

4 years

Here is a shirt by Atheist Republic "Support Intelligence, Sleep with an Atheist" Shirt Get yours here: What would you like us to write on our next atheist shirt?

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@JSMilbank

2 years

I'm so tired of self-professed “conservatives” pretending that the gradual disappearance of the traditional British summer under a constant and worsening series of heat waves is some leftist plot, rather than the deadly consequences of unconstrained consumption and pollution.

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@JSMilbank

3 years

Genuinely curious to know how the 'culture war stuff is made up/overblown' crowd deal with this sort of thing. Obviously this is an ideology, obviously it is shaping things at the highest levels, obviously it is insane.

Thomas G Phippen

@ThomasPhippen

3 years

House Democrats' rules for the 117th Congress remove gendered terms for referring to representative's families. No aunts or uncles, only "parent's siblings." e.g. "Hello Johnny, I'm your parent's sibling."

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@JSMilbank

2 years

Of course your average progressive will protest they do care, but the revealed preference of this class is for working class people who parrot their own politics back to them — Jack Monroe is the quintessential example of this (and is of course not actually working class)

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@JSMilbank

3 years

I think it can't be overemphasised the degree to which people dealing with severe pain, disability or mental illness need to feel wanted and needed by those around them as a matter of survival. If euthanasia laws weaken that by even an iota, they would be wicked for that alone.

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@JSMilbank

7 years

@RitaPanahi Girls who want to build, fight and climb trees are being GIRLS! Not boys, not gender fluid, but normal healthy playful girls.

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@JSMilbank

2 years

At the root of the thinking of. people who insist we for some reason MUST have constant mass migration, behind all the economic and moralistic arguments, is a desire to be global citizens, and a dislike of their own countries supposed narrowness and backwardness

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@JSMilbank

4 years

The world has seen absolutely no meaningful technological progress in my lifetime - all we've had are faster and smaller computers, bigger networks, slightly more efficient machines and medicines. No true breakthroughs, no world-changing discoveries.

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@JSMilbank

4 months

Situation will only continue to get worse until deportation for illegal entry is an automatic process rather than one that involves years of legal and administrative wrangling after which most are allowed to stay

GB News

@GBNEWS

4 months

‘With thousands of migrants on route to northern France, it is likely Border Force Officials will be busier than ever.’ GB News Home and Security Editor, @markwhiteTV , explores the migrant crisis, revealing small boats are expected to reach record numbers in 2024.

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@JSMilbank

1 year

The single most frustrating thing about the republican, progressive vision of Britain is that there isn't one. They have a great deal to say about what Britain isn't, but have nothing positive to offer as an alternative

The Guardian view on the coronation of Charles III: a dated pageant that should be rethought |...

Editorial: Many are open to ideas about a better system for a head of state. It is surely time to properly debate them

www.theguardian.com

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@JSMilbank

3 years

This marks one step closer to children being treated as a commodity

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@JSMilbank

4 years

Good to know that the only thing standing between Toby Young and child prostitutes is his wife. The hardest job in British politics etc.

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@JSMilbank

4 years

This is quite frankly vile, and I've always been baffled why fellow lefties think its fine for people to spend money on designer handbags but not their children's education. It's a bizarre adolescent moral universe I have never inhabited and have no wish to.

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@JSMilbank

1 month

Time for a boomer remainer take 🇪🇺🥖🍷 — France feels like a civilised country in a way Britain doesn’t. It’s a nation that wills and desires it’s own culture with a stubborn dignity, even to the point of occasional absurdity. I wishes we were more like France in this respect

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@JSMilbank

6 years

Me: don't be absurd, the NHS is popular and important but nobody actually treats it like a reli...

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@JSMilbank

1 year

Modi is a violent totalitarian religious nationalist but watch the Left line up to kiss his ass because of this post-colonial bullshit

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@JSMilbank

2 years

I just have the overwhelming feeling that I'm living at the end of history, I can feel everything slowly deteriorating around me, and I don't know if what happens next is a collapse or just a grim slow slide into a quietly dysfunctional society going nowhere - and which is worse

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@JSMilbank

2 years

You can directly correlate support for open borders with a lack of comfort with patriotic symbols, the monarchy, the U.K. armed forces and a belief that Britain is a historically racist country — open borders mindset reflects a dis-identification with British history/identity

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@JSMilbank

6 months

Why are these people not in prison or a plane out of here? They openly call for the violent conquest of non Muslim states and their subjugation to Islamist theocracy, this should be simple.

Metropolitan Police

@metpoliceuk

6 months

Tomorrow, Hizb-ut-Tahrir will hold a static protest outside the Egyptian Embassy in South Street. Conditions under Section 14 of the Public Order Act mean they cannot start before 1pm and must finish by 3.30pm. They must stick to the area marked in red on the map below.

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@JSMilbank

2 years

God Save the Queen, the thoughts and prayers of everyone at @TheCriticMag are with the Queen and her family

God save the Queen | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine

The rain is falling outside the window, the sound of students from the Westminster school drifts over and blends with the sound of sirens. And there flies the flag on top of Parliament…

thecritic.co.uk

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@JSMilbank

4 months

Parliament has not been “bypassed” because the path to military action never ran through parliament in the first place. You may not LIKE how our constitution works and want to change it, but don’t feign surprise when it works as intended and as it always has

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️

@LaylaMoran

4 months

Shameful. Parliament shouldn't ever be bypassed - and certainly not when it comes to military action.

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@JSMilbank

1 month

This is Hilary Clinton feminism — already powerful and famous women demanding further privileges and playing the victim. It’s as alienating and self defeating an approach as can be imagined.

emily m

@maitlis

1 month

BREAKING : I've been given sight of a formal letter proposing the names of several women to become the first female members of the Garrick club - inc former Home Secretary Amber Rudd. This comes ahead of a crucial club meeting April 4th -which will bring this matter to a head 1/

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