Old school jazz, funk and soul boy. Amateur historian, Ipswich Town fan, animal rights supporter, science fiction aficionado and atheist.
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Noel Baker retweeted
ISLAMOPHOBIA AWARENESS MONTH 2026
Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM) takes place every year throughout November.
In order to tackle Islamophobia, we need to analyse where this phenomenon comes from.
Below is a list of incidents that I maintain and update to track the global origins of Islamophobia:👇
GERMANY - Munich Olympic massacre 1972 - 12 dead.
UK - Iranian Embassy siege, London 1980 - 2 dead.
SCOTLAND - Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103 bombing 1988 - 270 dead.
USA – World Trade Center Truck Bombing 1993 - 6 dead, over 1,000 injured.
INDONESIA - Bali Bombings 2002 - 202 dead from 23+ different nationalities.
SPAIN - Madrid train bombings 2004 - 200 dead.
NETHERLANDS - Assassination of Theo Van Gogh 2004.
UK - 7/7 bombings - London 2005 - 52 dead.
INDONESIA - Second Bali Bombings 2005 - 20 dead.
INDIA - Mumbai attacks 2008 - 166 dead.
USA - Fort Hood Shooting 2009 – 13 dead, 32 injured.
USA - Boston Marathon bombing 2013 - 3 dead, hundreds injured …including 17 who lost their limbs.
UK - Murder of Lee Rigby, London 2013.
CHINA - Kunming train station attack 2014 - 31 dead.
BELGIUM - Brussels Jewish Museum Shooting 2014 - 4 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Lindt Cafe Siege, Sydney 2014 - 2 dead.
FRANCE - Charlie Hebdo shooting, Paris 2015 - 12 dead.
USA - Chattanooga Military Shootings 2015 - 5 dead.
USA - San Bernardino attack 2015 - 14 dead.
FRANCE - Coordinated Paris attacks 2015 - 130 dead.
BELGIUM - Brussels airport bombings 2016 - 32 dead.
USA - Pulse nightclub shooting, Orlando 2016 - 49 dead.
FRANCE - Nice truck ramming attack 2016 - 86 dead.
FRANCE - Normandy Church attack 2016 - Priest dead.
USA - Ohio State University Attack 2016 - 11 injured.
GERMANY - Berlin Christmas market truck ramming attack 2016 - 12 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne Bourke Street car ramming 2017 - 6 dead. Islamic convert.
UK - Westminster Bridge and Parliament attack 2017 - 4 dead.
SWEDEN - Stockholm truck attack 2017, - 5 dead.
UK - Manchester Arena bombing 2017 - 22 dead.
UK - London Bridge and Borough Market attack 2017 - 8 dead.
SPAIN - Barcelona van ramming attack 2017 - 13 dead.
USA - Truck Attack on New York City Bike Path 2017 - 8 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne, Flinders Street SUV ramming 2017 - 1 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne Bourke Street attack 2018 - 1 dead (Sisto Malaspina, famous cafe owner).
SRI LANKA - Church and hotel bombings Easter 2019 - 269 dead.
UK - Reading stabbings 2020 - 3 dead.
FRANCE - Murder of Samuel Paty 2020.
AUSTRIA - Vienna Shooting, 2020 - 4 dead.
BELGIUM - Brussels International Shooting 2023 - 2 (Swedish soccer fans) dead.
ISRAEL - Hamas attack, October 7th 2023 - 1195 dead, 251 taken hostage (of which 85 later died or confirmed dead).
RUSSIA - Moscow Crocus City Hall attack 2024 - 145 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Bishop Mari Emanuel stabbing 2024.
GERMANY - Stabbing attack, Mannheim 2024 - Police officer dead, 5 injured.
UK - Southport stabbings 2024 - 3 dead.
GERMANY - Solingen Festival Stabbing 2024 – 3 dead, 8 injured.
GERMANY - SUV Christmas market attack, Magdeburg 2024 - 6 dead, 299 injured.
GERMANY - Car ramming attack, Munich 2025 - 30 injured.
GERMANY - Car ramming attack, Mannheim 2025 - 2 dead.
USA - Pickup Truck ramming attack, New Orleans 2025 - 15 dead.
UK - Manchester Synagogue attack 2025 - 2 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Bondi Beach shooting, 2025 - 15 dead, 41 injured.
NIGERIA - Ongoing Christian genocide - Since 2000, 62,000 Christians in Nigeria have been victims of genocide perpetrated by Islamist extremist groups Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and organised Fulani jihadists.
* NOTE: 9/11 (2001 - USA, 2977 dead) has been deliberately left off, because the above list is already more than enough to outweigh and silence conspiracy / false flag whack jobs 🤪
Noel Baker retweeted
Marc Andreessen revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...
Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.
He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.
He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.
The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's The Machiavellians (1941).
Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.
Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.
Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.
Then, he said, something broke.
Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.
The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.
The consequences were:
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate
"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.
For 30 years, they haven't.
Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.
But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.
Look at SpaceX.
"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."
Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.
"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"
Andreessen's conclusion:
"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."
Noel Baker retweeted
Rain stopped when I go there and sun light was pleasantly coming through the ancient windows of Escombe Church yesterday.
One of only three complete Saxon churches in Britain.
County Durham
Good morning
🧠 Quiz of the Day - Oct 28
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Noel Baker retweeted
28 October 1962. 1st episode of ITV children's science-fiction puppet TV series, Fireball XL5 was broadcast. In the series Colonel Steve Zodiac leads the defence of the Earth from interstellar threats. It ran for 39 episodes until 27 October 1963.
Noel Baker retweeted
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Noel Baker retweeted
Given that this was Trafalgar Week, I finally showed Master and Commander to my preteen kids - still sugared up from watching the MCU's Infinity Saga these past months. I almost wept as they sat there mesmerised, watching Captain Jack Aubrey, his good friend Dr Stephen Maturin, and the gallant HMS Surprise take on the Frenchies. They loved it so much they begged to watch the sequel. Alas, not.
We were promised a whole ocean of sequels drawn from Patrick O’Brian's twenty-book treasury, yet we were left with only this one magnificent voyage.
The disappointment cuts deep in its sadness. The picture came out just after everyone had stuffed themselves on Pirates of the Caribbean's rum-soaked capers. And although it was critically adored and pulled in respectable money worldwide, it didn't quite deliver the obscene domestic blockbuster numbers the studios now insist on before they'll green-light another expensive wooden ship full of extras getting wet and cold for months on end.
So the Surprise sits at anchor in our heads, her powder magazines untouched, while we quietly grieve the French frigates we never chased, the dinners in the great cabin we never attended. We wonder how the Hollywood bean-counters - who never once smelled salt spray or heard a broadside - managed to convince themselves this particular adventure wasn't worth continuing.
Alas, Master and Commander is one of those quiet sorrows that all film buffs will continue to carry like an old wound from a duel they never quite fought.
🧠 Quiz of the Day - Oct 23
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Noel Baker retweeted
The Brits gave 78% of it to Arabs:
A Palestinian Arab state was established in 1946. It was granted 78% of all the territory of British Mandatory Palestine, and it is called Jordan. The remaining 22% of the land was to be divided once more between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews. It was called the UN Partition Plan of 1947. The Jews accepted this plan and established their state, while Arabs rejected the plan and started the war against Israel. This war has lasted for nearly 80 years with varying intensity, and the Arabs still reject a two-state solution, which would mean recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. They want to establish their state on all the territory "from the river to the sea," and won't agree to anything else.
And, besides, a "Palestinian people" has never existed in history, no matter what leftist and Muslim propagandists may claim. "Palestine" has always been the name of a territory, but not of a state or a nation.
Noel Baker retweeted
Happy Trafalgar Day!
On this day in 1805 the greatest naval battle of the age of sail took place off the coast of Spain.
#Nelson #RoyalNavy #FrenchNavy #SpanishNavy
Noel Baker retweeted
I would actually give up my introvert status to hang with these women for an afternoon.
🧠 Quiz of the Day - Oct 19
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Noel Baker retweeted
A reminder that the Benin bronzes were made with European brass that the Portuguese used to pay for slaves. Slaves that West Africans, including probably Boateng's ancestors, received for enslaving their neighbours.
They were seized by the British following an invasion to quell attacks by the Kingdom of Benin, also known as Dahomey, which the movie "The Woman King" completely fictionalised. Here is a description of the actual city of Great Benin when the British entered it.
"The British Museum is the largest depository of stolen goods known to man."
Lord Paul Boateng (@UKHouseofLords) on the British Museum and the return of the Ethiopian Tabots, Benin Bronzes and Ashanti gold.
Watch the event in full: bit.ly/4hZmDSe
Noel Baker retweeted
"Why did they waste so much time making a flying car no one can use in the real world?"
Because not everything is about whether you can imagine it being useful to you. Because like art, sometimes we make things for the glory and challenge of making them. Because we don't know if what we'll learn will make your toaster work better and you'll never realize it because you take for granted that things get better without thinking through how that happens. Because you can't inspire people with toasters, but a barrel-rolling car that can drive upside down is absolutely setting someone on fire right now.
I'm not a car person and you shouldn't trust me with a rocket, but I want a roadster because I make art and that thing is absolutely a thing made for love and passion and I get that in my heart.
(Also because I'd look really cool in one.)🤣
