Retired History teacher; cricket fan; lover of folk music. See https://xitter.gq/t.co/IFH0U6ZVoU & @AuntWar for ongoing WW2 History Project.
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80 year ago today my father, then Corporal Donald Falconer in The KRRR was serving near Forli in northwest Italy not far from Ravenna. It was his 24th birthday and he was on duty, but between 01.00&02.00 that morning a shell, probably from a German 88 gun, exploded near him.1/3
ALT Donald Falconer (1920-2007) of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, photographed in 1943 at the age of 22.
Spot on.
There will always be some racists & xenopobes, but we need to return to a time when people largely kept that unfortunate aspect of their character hidden away in private. Once, a source of shame, something to hide & feel guillty about, has now often become for many something to publicly flaunt & be proud of. Racism needs to crawl back to its proper home - under a stone!
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This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.
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Trump says Zelensky should be replaced. Please repost if you believe that Trump must be replaced as soon as possible. – at Brighton, England
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Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull.
Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.
If your definition of Englishness excludes a man like him, it is your definition that needs challenging.
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For several days, my timeline has been full of people doing a good impression of the Death Eaters from Harry Potter insisting only purebloods can call themselves English. No time to reply to all of them, but five quick questions for any who care to engage 1/6
An entire population could be facing erasure. Israel has crossed red line after red line in Gaza. It's time for every single one of us who’ve been horrified by the events to speak up. I have joined the Red Line for Palestine. Will you? oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/ca…
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Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"
"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with European Union countries and we could return people"
"But that's to Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and the Conservatives, we tore up those agreements when we left the European Union, and now we have this problem"
"I hope when he's on your program you'll ask him to apologise"
"What Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson did is have a magnet of people, more and more people coming to the UK, because we can't return them"
"So again I ask you please, that Nigel Farage is exposed for his failures and contributions to the small boats crisis"
- Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
Unacceptable violence.
We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.
But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.
A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.
We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.
Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.
#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow
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So we should ask the obvious question: Why does spray paint on a rich man’s golf course draw the full weight of anti-terror law, when the demolition of homes and the burning of groves draws only statements of concern?
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Jenrick’s latest response to any criticism of his policy is “So what, they’re foreigners”. That’s where we’re at. It’s neither small “c” Conservative nor big, it’s fundamentally un-British and it’s nakedly far-right. He himself is married to a foreigner and Farage was too and he’s with a French woman now. The hypocrisy is ludicrous. Go away.
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First it was the EU.
Farage said Europe was the problem.
Then it was the ECHR.
They said human rights were the problem.
Then it was refugees.
They said refugees were the problem.
Then it was foreigners.
They said foreigners were the problem.
Then it was disabled people.
They said they were the problem.
And each time, Britain was promised that once they were dealt with, everything would be better.
But Britain didn’t get better.
Farage simply found someone else to blame.
So when Nigel Farage points at the next group, don’t just ask whether you’re one of them.
Ask:
WHO WILL HE BLAME NEXT?
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This is a disgusting comment that betrays our allies - the brave French resistance fighters who gave their lives, including facilitating the British retreat at Dunkirk.
Comments like this show why Reform is completely unfit to govern.
Pity the French did not show the same resolve in defending their sovereignty in June 1940.
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About 90,000–100,000 French soldiers were killed during the Battle of France (May–June 1940), when Germany invaded. Around 92,000 is the figure most commonly cited.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…