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Dr Zareer Masani

2 years

My take on the British Raj:

THE BRITISH RAJ: An Assessment - History Reclaimed

India exemplified a model of indirect governance that the British Empire perfected and which lingers on in UK multiculturalism today. The key was the collaboration of local elites, who ran most of...

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My letter in today's Times suggesting inquiry on war graves missed the point

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@Sathnam They didn’t get votes under indigenous warlords either. Many come from areas where British were never there.

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Amazing that the truth is 4 notorious Churchill-bashers, masquerading as scholars, without a single dissenting voice, trashing his reputation under auspices of college founded as his memorial.

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@joepike @Fox_Claire @BorisJohnson @itvcalendar He did look at photo, expressed regret for such bad experiences and handed you back your phone. Presumably putting it in his pocket was a reflex, not some sinister theft. Stop scaremongering. Impartiality makes better journalism.

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The British state leads the world in solemn, moving & beautiful ceremonial that we saw at Prince Philip's funeral, part of the mystique that I'm convinced once inspired the Empire. I wept as I hadn't since my mother's funeral. His passing marked the end of an era.

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Happy to receive letter confirming election to Fellowship of Royal Historical Society:

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My BBC Radio 4 documentary on the Jallianwala massacre, repeated Monday @ 9pm, available to listen now on iPlayer. Your chance to hear from Prof. V N Datta, foremost historian of Amritsar, now in his 90s, but as clear as ever.

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@simon_schama I would have thought a historian of the Holocaust would have been wary of using such apocalyptic language about a mere Cabinet appointment, and that too of a democratically elected woman of colour.

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My piece in today’s Spectator Coffee House on return of the Elgin Marbles.

The Elgin marbles and the rot of ‘decolonisation’

The proposed return to Greece, in the guise of loans, of some of the British Museum’s most iconic objects, the Elgin marbles, is a measure of how far the ‘decolonisation’ campaign has gone in...

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An announcement I should have made earlier, the passing on 1st August of my beautiful 16-year-old companion Susie, rescued stray from Glasgow, taken within a half-hour by sudden, fatal heart attack, hours before I was flying to India. At least I was with her till the end.

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Outrageously partisan, biased @BBCNews with black journo regurgitating BLM propaganda re "decolonisation" & "Rhodes Must Fall", interviewing black teachers who echoed her views, not a single dissenting voice. How is this news & not blatant opinionating?

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@meralhece So should we visit the sins of the German Reich or Napoleon on the present EU?

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@_paullay I fear your sarcasm might be wasted on them.

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@GoodwinMJ With 4 decades experience of working for BBC, I can second that. Not a single Tory voter in my Current Affairs Dept.

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@PoliticsJOE_UK @DalrympleWill Britain needs to stop apologising & be proud of its imperial past, which brought democracy, science, medicine & the English language to most of world. It's what makes UK theworld's most multi-cultural, tolerant & cosmopolitan country today, & will continue to, Brexit regardless.

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@PriyamvadaGopal @Twitter @CambridgeCops So glad @CambridgeCops following up YOUR hate mail. Hope you're suitably grateful to capitalist, postcolonial state for coming to your rescue. Do make sure King's porters now call you PROFESSOR>

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@James1940 So glad we agree.

Churchill and the genocide myth | Zareer Masani | The Critic Magazine

Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine…

thecritic.co.uk

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@kenanmalik @ObserverUK Stating the obvious. For the historical record, Cleopatra belonged to a Macedonian dynasty that preserved its bloodline purity by marrying only one’s siblings. Macedonians were typically fair-skinned, often with blonde or red hair. 1/2

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My comment on this new "decolonising" madness: Woke warriors take dig at a new target: the ‘colonial roots’ of plants

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@ChukaUmunna Not a fan of Rees-Mogg, but good grammar & punctuation DO NOT belong on different planet.

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Memories of my father & Indian liberalism:

A Son Remembers: Minoo Masani And Indian Liberalism

Minoo Masani, the politician of the '70s, who formed the Swatantra Party with C Rajagopalachari, was a socialist, says his son Zareer Masani.

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My Spectator essay on British Orientalists who rediscovered India’s classical heritage:

How the British saved India’s classical history

In India, a generation has been brought up on the academic Edward Said’s unhistorical prejudices towards the British and what he called the ‘colonial gaze’. In his eyes, British Orientalists were...

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@anandcheam @DalrympleWill Some might think it’s Wee Willie who needs to go back to school. Pity he both lacks @KemiBadenoch ’s razor sharp intellect or historical balance. Pity he can’t read serious Indian economic historians like @RoyHistory1 on how empire cost UK much more than it earned post 1900.

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@BaytAlFann @Zarb_e_Kalim36 Interested to know who “the wicked men” were who came, captured him & sold him to Christians, i.e. Europeans.

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@calvinrobinson Most of us see a great man. Didn’t realise you were Putin apologist.

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@sagarikaghose @RahulGandhi Sagarika, the most refreshing thing @RahulGandhi could do for poor old Congress is to emigrate & allow free contest to elect NEW LEADERSHIP.

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BBC on Al Qaeda, 9/11: “The attacks were carried out by the terrorist group al-Qaeda…..an international terrorist network that was founded by Osama Bin Laden in the late 1980s….al-Qaeda has targeted both civilians and soldiers in other serious attacks around the world.”

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The Koh-i-Noor belongs in Britain, not India

Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran might also claim the right to the diamond. They should all be ignored

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@joncstone @WillHeaven Only those too dim to realise that animals travel in cargo hold, humans don’t.

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@GerryHassan The Kashmir dispute was creation, not of British, but of Nehru, who annexed Kashmir AFTER independence & promised U.N. plebiscite he later backed out of. Hong Kong would love to have Britain back. British influence marginal in Palestine. Stop blaming yourself for everything!

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My piece in the Spectator's Coffee House: Statue wars: what should we do with controversial monuments? via @spectator

Statue wars: what should we do with controversial monuments?

Robert Jenrick’s pledge to protect monuments and statues from mob iconoclasm with new laws and powers is very welcome. It’s an issue on which the Government has been quiet in terms of legislation,...

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Excommunicated for being “snarky” about the Great White Mughal:

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The Raj revision: why historians are thinking again about British rule in India via @spectator

The Raj revision: why historians are thinking again about British rule in India

Is there anything good to be said of British rule over India? The verdict of many politicians, museum curators, TV presenters and even journalists in India is clear: the Raj existed only to exploit...

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My letter in today's Times about absurdity of proposed British museum of shame, equating empire with Nazi holocaust:

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@darrengrimes_ Straw man. No such choice or priorities. Nowzad flight will carry 100 humans in cabin & animals in baggage hold. Kindness to animals or fellow-humans never a choice. It’s what makes us human.

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My letter in Times re Bengal Famine: 1/3 Sir, It’s a measure of the woke times we live in that even Max Hastings (Notebook, Feb 15) has swallowed fake news about Churchill and the Bengal famine. Might I suggest that, far from being “deplorable”, Churchill’s response to the famine

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@toadmeister @DalrympleWill writes very graphic historical stories, but is most emphatically not a historian. Neither, to be precise, is @NigelBiggar , whose work as an ethiciist I much admire.

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@DalrympleWill @RanaSafvi @DailyO_ Also ignores cultural reality that Mughal courts, packed with Farsi-speaking Turks, Persians, Afghans, Arabs etc. more alien to average Bengali, Tamil or Marathi peasant than European traders who at least tried to learn their vernaculars.

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Just switched off Michael Palin, well past his sell by date, pontificating on British guilt for slavery in Nigeria, ignoring role of African slavers, incl. 3 million in modern slavery in Nigeria today, long after independence.

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@MahanEsfahani Pankaj Mishra is a professional Indian Marxist, married to very successful baronet’s daughter (who publishes his books), consistently trashes anything positive to with UK or its past empire.

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@adgurunathan @michael_hal QED. I knew her grandfather well at Oxford, charming womaniser. She's no chip of the old block, I mean charm-wise. Wonder where she inherited her venom.

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My piece on India’s tragic, self-inflicted Partition:

Partition wasn’t inevitable

‘Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.’ Imagine if those famous words had not...

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@holland_tom We Indians have been cannibalising previous structures since time immemorial. British archeologists rescued several of our key Buddhist & Hindu architecture from similar fates.

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@DalrympleWill @RanaSafvi @DailyO_ He doesn't know basic economic difference between Total GDP & per capita GDP. Repeats old tropes of pre-colonial India having 20% of world's GDP, while ignoring that was its share of world population, economy declining after Akbar, agriculture stagnating.

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Did Britain Educate India? via @Openthemag

Did Britain Educate India? - Open The Magazine

THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY of Indian independence has triggered a remarkable outpouring of post- colonial guilt in Britain and anti-Raj anger in India. For a younger generation, who have no first-hand...

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@dotslondon If you have a London collection point, I can deliver some bags + several tins of Royal Canin Gastro-Intestinal Low Fat (for my dog who recently died).

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#TheGandhiIssue My essay on Ram Guha's monumental second volume on Gandhi

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@nickfshort Role of British Indian army grossly undervalued today in Hindu chauvinist India, but much celebrated by everyone from Churchill to Imperial War Museum in UK. It was a volunteer, professional army, not conscripted.

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@theJeremyVine Do cycling fanatics like you ever apologise for all the rules you break?

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@XerxestheMagian Urdu was most beautiful Muslim import to India, merged with Hindi to give us Hindustani, actual spoken language of northern India, unlike Hindi, ugly, artificial creation mainly spoken by politicians. Nehru sensibly wanted Congress to adopt Hindustani, Gandhi insisted on Hindi.

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@ChrisKimberley @DAaronovitch Is the football team doing anything besides silly curtsies? Priti is making the best of a thankless job.

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@kenanmalik @ObserverUK 2/2 While no contemporaries commented on Cleopatra’s colouring, her coins show her profile as unmistakeably Mediteranean with a rather prominent aquiline nose, rather like Faiyum paintings of Greco-Egyptians. Not remotely Black African.

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@SpotTheDog90 @SocialM85897394 @BBC Over a million tons foodgrains shipped to Bengal from other provinces & other Dominions during famine year. Problem was distribution in midst of Jap invasion.

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@TulikaBose_ @AndreasKoureas_ @aroberts_andrew @RoyHistory1 Some us write serious history, not Mukerjee’s agitprop:

Churchill and the genocide myth | Zareer Masani | The Critic Magazine

Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine…

thecritic.co.uk

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@AllisonPearson NATO membership so academic. Putin will go eventually, so Ukraine must live to fight another day.

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@SpiritofHo They become your enemy when they invade you or your friends. I hope Putin pays you well for your friendship.

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@AndreasKoureas_ @Sathnam Indeed, 30 million Indian men & women got vote under 1935 Constitution of Raj.

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@Neoavatara Pity you put Tharoor in same league as Gilmour and James. Pe-existing hatred=prejudice.

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@fakebensiegel Apart from the first, these look like modern reproductions, not contemporary Mughal.

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@domdyer70 @Nowzad @PenFarthing @BorisJohnson @ZacGoldsmith @rickygervais You don’t mention the fate of the animals. Are they to be abandoned? I donated yesterday towards a chartered flight for them.

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@vikramvc @MrMaitra My ancestors willing partners, not slaves. Sorry yours were latter.

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@AndreasKoureas_ British were the first to abolish it effectively. These ex post facto indigenous claims are spurious. Sawantwadi, cited here, was a tiny principality. This is the usual Hindu nationalist denial sati ever existed and caste too.

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@joswinson @paulasherriff This Lib Dem voter thinks he was quite right to call it humbug.

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Rhodes's survival shows a muscular approach to the culture wars can pay dividends

Now the Government must hold fast to its insistence on historical context when dealing with controversial monuments

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@yusufpore I’m afraid no one except Shashi Tharoor & BJP take Durant seriously. As he confesses,, his knowledge of India was as superficial as his history, and he was animated by an early woke-American hatred of all things British.

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@vikramvc @MrMaitra Masani, not Masrani. You referred to Raj as enslavement. Sorry you felt enslaved. My family felt they were partners.

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@saliltripathi Poverty reduction only began in 1980s with liberalisation of economy. Nehru-Indira socialism prevented economic take-off like far eastern tigers.

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@DalrympleWill @RanaSafvi @DailyO_ Worth remembering that your beloved Akbar reputedly slaughtered 80,000 old men, women & children at Chittor, not entirely benevolent because he also took some Rajput wives into his harem. I do value my Mughal heritage, but not at cost of whitewashing its atrocities.

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@scribblercat You don’t seem aware of basic conventions of constitutional monarchy. Palace NEVER comments on political controversies, least of all about free speech. Can you remember QE2 ever doing so?

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My rejection of an unhistorical diatribe on Churchill vs Indian independence:

The Churchill Paradox - Open The Magazine

WALTER REID IS THE VERY MODEL OF a successful, non-academic gentleman-historian, with a string of historical books to his name. His last was a reassessment of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime...

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My letter in today’s Times, defending Churchill:CHURCHILL’S LEGACY :Sir, Jawad Iqbal’s Thunderer rightly challenged the fashion among younger people to dismiss Churchill as a racist imperialist, not our saviour from the Nazis (“Churchill had flaws but we forget his legacy …1/3

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@kapskom How was Babri hubris, any more than other mosques? Or do you buy myth of Ram & Ayodhya? How would Congress castigating mosques as contempt for our "dominant religion" have reconciled us to 7 centuries of past Muslim rule? Love to know your solution, if any.

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@Adrian_Hilton The answer is very few. Most Muslim women I know favour a ban on burqas. As for Boris, a pity that left liberal political correctness has banished the British sense of humour.

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@Sathnam Long time ago? Some of us changed all that in the 70s, before you were born, Sathnam.

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@Ram_Guha Didn’t Congress do much the same with its own heroes from Gandhi to Nehru & his dynasty?

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@jesse_history What a muddle. French revanchism was one of several causes of WW1, but it was to regain Alsace-Lorraine & nothing to do with fear of Royalism.

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@Iza_2021 No greater kindness than deciding to let him go when he’s suffering. Terrible decision, I’ve had to make it for 3 dogs when the time came.

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@Sathnam No hatred from me @Sathnam . Just noting that your editors @Channel4 & @SandpaperFilms wasted a day of my time recording 3 hour interview disagreeing with you, only to be dumped. They claimed they had others challenging you. I wonder.

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@SteveBakerHW @RobertBuckland This BAME person has no confidence in any report by Lammy, who epitomises the victimhood some of us hate.

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@Adrian_Hilton @DouglasKMurray @ChurchillCol @Cambridge_Uni It would serve her right if he sues. She's been pretty libellous about me too.

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with Churchill’s newly appointed viceroy, Lord Wavell, intervening decisively to end the famine by 1944. Hardly “deplorable”.

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In spite of major food scarcities in Europe, Churchill’s war cabinet minutes and Government of India records show that more than a million tons of grain were shipped to Bengal during that famine year,

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@AatishTaseer Sadly Hindu majoritarianism dominated Congress long before independence & drove secular Muslims like Jinnah to demand safeguards, leading to Pak demand as bargaining counter. Jinnah vindicated by current plight of Indian Muslims 18% population, 2% parliament representation.

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@jaredlandry @BaytAlFann @Zarb_e_Kalim36 It was a genuine question. I still have no idea whether they were Africans (there were & are differences), Arabs, Muslims or Pagan. You clearly have all the answers. No need for ageist abuse.

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@_SaveOurStatues And why is he considered an expert witness?

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@Ram_Guha History requires us to see the Nehru legacy in its totality & that includes his dynastic heirs.

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@AndreasKoureas_ @Sathnam We Indians got votes for first time in municipal elections from 1860s.

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@taslimanasreen She’s not wearing much else either.

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@PoliticsJOE_UK @DalrympleWill So many non sequiturs for this Remain-voting historian of empire. Having lived half century in UK, I've encountered little nostalgia for empire & none among Brexiteers, nor belief that Britain can survive without allies. Lesson in pitfalls of trying to make history contemporary.

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@dukeofnewyork3 @darrengrimes_ Tell me which pre-colonial society accepted homosexuality?

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My defence of empire at Cambridge Union:

This House regrets the fall of the British Empire | Cambridge Union

Debate Results: 26 Ayes | 301 noes | 38 abstentionhttps://www.facebook.com/TheCambridgeUnion/photos/pcb.5038177682869358/5038177489536044.......................

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@theJeremyVine Have you thought of joining police? They need vigilantes like you at every street corner, esply to catch all the cyclists ignoring rules of road.

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@SophieSandor @spectator The Guardian, which I once used to write for, has become a far left rag I no longer read.

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@RashmiDVS @UniofOxford Some of us delighted you were barred. We have enough of your Hindutva poison in India, delighted to be spared it in UK. You are the oppressor, not the victim.

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@dhume Half a century overdue!

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@toadmeister @metpoliceuk @darrengrimes_ I bet Starkey, ever the brave contrarian, would be delighted if they prosecuted him & gave him his day in court.

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@gcgaydude @yuanyi_z Cyprus & Palestine NOT partitioned until after British left.

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@toadmeister @jeremycorbyn I wonder if we should demand that Labour leads the way by publishing the class background of Team Corbyn.

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@aljhlester @nationaltrust @RestoreTrustNT As a Restore Trust member, might I suggest the policy is in the name. It would by no means prevent research on imperial connections, but would refrain from making patronising, PC or woke value judgements on the properties it's there to conserve. That's not it's job.

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