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Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 1d

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 15h

Does he realise that the Nobel committee read/hear this stuff?

GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 15h

:-)

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 15h

Slow hand clap for @bathnes.bsky.social who have closed Entry Hill to build a zebra crossing (which is going to take 6 weeks to build!) while there are still roadworks on Bradford Road.

GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 16h

Just arrived.

Sorry @honnopress.bsky.social but a first addition was cheaper than the paperback.

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 16h

Two parcels were due to be delivered by 3pm. Guess how many have arrived?

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 18h

Man who is desperate to get the Nobel Peace Prize wants local politicians locked up without trial.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 20h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22h

I really hate the dogwhistle "would you leave your front door open for anyone to come in" question. That's the wrong question.
The real analogy is "If a stranger knocked on your door and asked you for help, would you help them?"

and for me, the answer is yes, in a heartbeat. every time.

Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 22h

Very proud of my fellow Green councillors for proposing this motion. "We are a rich tapestry, we are strengthened by our diversity, and we must stand up as a council and as a city for that diversity, unite against the far right and the divisive narratives of them." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford City Council backs city's minority communities in vote

A Green party motion called on Oxford City Council to oppose far right rhetoric.

www.bbc.co.uk

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 22h

100 years ago today on 8th October 1925 the city of Belgrade was awarded the Czechoslovak War Cross 1918.

GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 22h

100 years ago today on 8th October 1925 the city of Belgrade was awarded the Czechoslovak War Cross 1918.

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 22h

Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. He served in the Italian Army in the Great War, was captured by AH troops, and spent two years as a POW.

He died 100 years ago today on 8th October 1925.

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 22h

Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. He served in the Italian Army in the Great War, was captured by AH troops, and spent two years as a POW.

He died 100 years ago today on 8th October 1925.

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 22h

There are words for people like him. They include hypocrite and bigot.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22h

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 22h

First time on this route in a long time.

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 1d

Arnhem and Nijmegen. 😀

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

I really cannot stress enough how little I care whether Keir Starmer regards my general or specific attitudes as un-British or not.

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 1d

Mustard burns on a Flemish farmer who picked up a shell this summer.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 1d

MOT tomorrow so annual car wash today.

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Gresa Hasa @gresahasa.bsky.social · 1d

Two years ago today, the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel took the lives of 1,200 #Israeli civilians and other nationals, while 251 people were taken hostage, 20 of whom still remain captive.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Jan 5

In November 2024, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick, and Lee Anderson (among other high-profile political figures) attended a dinner at the Carlton Club where guests laughed at Hitler jokes and sang ‘we’re all racist now’. #ToryRacism
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ins...

Inside Carlton Club bash where guests laugh at Hitler jokes and sing 'we're all racist now'

The dinner was attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick and Lee Anderson among other high-profile political figures.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.