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Historian | Studying Political Economy BSc, KCL | Churchill & Empire | Cigar Aficionado | ✍️ @spectator @hillsdale @TheNatlInterest | Publisher @barnthorn
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Sir Winston Churchill is known for his heroic leadership in leading the campaign of resistance against Nazism & fascism.
Unfortunately, he is under frequent attack by historically illiterate political activists.
🇬🇧🧵 Tearing apart the most common lies against the British Lion.
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Sir Winston Churchill neither caused nor contributed to the Bengal Famine of 1943.
As someone who has spent countless hours reading through hundreds of pages of primary sources, what was actually said and done, here's what really happened.
(Sources are cited at the end.)
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Sir Winston Churchill is under frequent attack by political activists.
From accusations of antisemitism to engineering the Bengal Famine.
After reading through 10,000s of pages of primary sources, I'm now going to tear apart these ahistorical conspiracies.
(Sources are cited.)
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Sir Winston Churchill looks out to the cameras on his 90th birthday.
Perhaps the saddest thing about the great statesman is that not only was he deeply unwell at the end of his life, he saw his life as a failure.
The Old Lion's Last Roar. 🧵
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On the 11th July 1944, Winston Churchill wrote to Anthony Eden regarding the Auschwitz concentration camp. He stated that,
“There is no doubt that this is probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world, and it has been done by
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Ah yes, ‘man made famine.’
Churchill caused the cyclone that hit Bengal and Orissa in October 1942.
Churchill caused Japan to invade India and bomb the eastern and southern Indian ports - destroying food grain shipments.
Churchill caused Japan to occupy all surrounding
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Hey
@OwenJones84
, might interest you to know that it is now 2023.
In other words, its been about 75 years since the British mandate in Palestine ended & about 87 years since that Criminal Code Ordinance.
So, what's your point exactly? Gaza isn't a British colony. There's a
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Great Britain would often use its superpower might into bullying other nations to abolish slavery - despite sometimes violating international law & territories in the process.
A thread on the great lengths Britain would go to enforce abolition - using Brazil as an example. 🧵🇬🇧
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@MailOnline
In this article, Danielle says she "felt like the most awful person."
That is because she is in fact an awful person.
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Great Britain wielded her geopolitical & naval might into bullying much of the world to abolish slavery - at a time when this evil was the global norm.
A thread on how under the White Ensign, slavery was globally challenged for the first time. 🧵🇬🇧
(Sources are cited.)
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Oh, do shut up.
A 2021 FOI request showed the Trooping The Colour cost the MoD £59,662.70.
UK public spending for the FY is estimated at £1,145,000,000,000.
In other words, Trooping The Colour is less than 2 seconds of public spending.
Being miserable for miserable sake.
Watched about 90 seconds of this
#TroopingTheColour
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What a pointless, antiquated waste of time, effort and money.
By a rough calculation, you could run between 7 to 9 food banks for a year for the money.
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Your historical illiteracy here is so great, it's deafening.
Between August 1943 - December 1944, over 900,000 tons of grain is shipped to India to alleviate the famine, despite the threat that Imperial Japan had to shipping (and its invasion).
You're also wrong on Churchill's
Winston Churchill, the man who deliberately killed 4 million Bengali’s during the time of the Holocaust because he hated our people and our religions.
Churchill is Bengal’s Hitler.
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The Guardian thinks three-masted ships must represent slavery.
You know who else used three-masted ships? The Royal Navy when it enforced abolition globally for the first time in history.
Between 1808-1860 the West Africa Squadron captured 1600 slave ships and freed 150,000
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Sir Winston Churchill didn't cause nor contribute to the Bengal Famine and he didn't hate Indians either.
As someone who has read through thousands of pages of primary sources, here's the actual relationship between Churchill, India & Bengal Famine.
(Sources cited at the end.)
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Humza Yousaf has resigned as First Minister of Scotland.
Here are his greatest achievements in office:
- He is the first SNP First Minister to not get arrested.
- He was the most reported person to Police Scotland for Hate Crimes.
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No, Sir Winston Churchill neither caused or contributed to the Bengal Famine of 1943-1944.
Blaming Churchill for the famine is wrong.
A thread on what actually happened.
(Sources are cited at the end. Please like, share & retweet this so people can see the actual truth.)
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Bless. Touch grass.
i have found the single greatest map of all time
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The most misunderstood part of Sir Winston Churchill's life is his relationship with India.
He neither hated Indians nor did he cause/contribute to the Bengal Famine.
After reading through thousands of pages of primary sources, here's what really happened.
A thread 🧵
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Tippu Tip (1832-1905), one of the largest slave traders in East Africa.
Though well established in the historiography of the slave trade, in general discussions the original slave capturers & sellers - mostly indigenous Africans themselves - are often ignored.
A thread. 🧵
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That’s not a hot take, you’re just historically illiterate.
A cyclone hit Bengal & Orissa, wiping out the rice crop harvest in October 1942.
Surrounding areas previously used to purchase foodstuff to alleviate famines/shortfalls had all fallen to Japan. This being Burma,
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Nope, Churchill neither caused nor exacerbated the Bengal Famine.
Given your severe ignorance & arrogance, I doubt you’ll listen to the truth.
Nonetheless, I’m going to tell you what actually happened anyway:
The Bengal famine of 1943-‘44 was caused by a number of factors: a
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“The Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization.
Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of
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“When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did,
Their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet: ‘In three weeks, England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.
‘Some chicken….Some neck!’ ”
- Winston Churchill, 30th
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On this day in 1940, Winston Churchill gave his iconic ‘We Shall Fight Them on The Beaches’ speech.
Within this grand speech to the House of Commons, Churchill proselytised that,
“I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the
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Nope, go read some actual history. Churchill is completely innocent.
October 16th 1942 - cyclone hit Bengal & Orissa, wiping out the rice crop harvest.
Surrounding areas previously used to purchase foodstuff to alleviate famines/ shortfalls had all fallen to Japan - ie, Burma,
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This smoke is for all of the xenophobes who’ve been berating me for the past day.
Cry harder.
Funny how you ‘British patriots’ are upset with me, someone who’s dedicated to countering the ahistorical character assassination on Churchill, just because you don’t like my
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This does...
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When Great Britain waged war against slavery despite it being the global norm.
A thread 🧵🇬🇧
The uncomfortable truth is that the great evil of slavery, practised across all cultures, races and continents, was universal across history.
(Sources are cited at the end.)
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8 months! I’ve been counting - the statue of Sir Winston Churchill has been barricaded off for 8 months now.
What a sad state of affairs for this county.
An absolute disgrace to the memory of the man who was at the epicentre of the campaign of resistance against Nazism.
The
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Sir Winston Churchill's legacy is under frequent attack by political activists who peddle ahistorical lies.
From accusations of genocide to 'crushing' Welsh miners, I'm going to take apart as many of these fallacies as I can in a single thread.
(Sources cited at the end.)
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No, he didn’t. It’s annoying watching historically illiterate muppets blame the great tragedy that was the Bengal Famine on Sir Winston Churchill.
The Bengal famine of 1943-‘44 was caused by a number of factors: a cyclone had hit Bengal & Orissa in October 1942, wiping out much
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‘Great’ Britain - the country where classical liberalism was birthed, the Industrial Revolution & the biggest reason slavery is no longer the global norm.
Reduced to barricading off the Cenotaph & Churchill for what appears to be the foreseeable future.
What a fall from grace.
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This is Her Majesty the Queen carrying out her Royal duties, as our constitutional monarch, literally a couple days before she died - at age 96.
What nonsense are you on about?
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It's rather concerning that a current MP wants the Bengal Famine 1943-1944 declared as genocide.
Though a terrible tragedy in which 1.5-3 million died, the accusation that Churchill committed genocide is completely false.
Let's review what actually happened. A thread 🧵
@craigcavyleader
Absolutely. I’m a second generation Indian whose family lived through the Bengal famine in Kolkata, and it always alarms me that this is rarely spoken about.
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Sir Winston Churchill looks out his window to the cameras on his 90th birthday; 30th November, 1964.
The man who saved the free world.
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He died because he voluntarily went on a hunger strike in prison.
He was in prison because he decided to blow up a civilian furniture company because he was a morally depraved IRA terrorist.
I hope he’s somewhere very, very warm.
The final salute by the IRA at the funeral of Volunteer Bobby Sands, May 8, 1981. He died for political status which was denied him and his comrades by Thatcher’s government. He and his comrades opposed British rule, the British presence and the British courts in the north.
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The top 1% pay an estimated 30% of all income tax revenues…
Call me a cynic, but I sense Nels hasn’t got any clue whatsoever as to how to make up for shortfalls in tax revenues made by the rich leaving.
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Speaking of history - on the 20th June 1897, 2000 former slaves paraded in Seychelles celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
Carrying Union Jack flags printed with the words ‘The Flag that sets us free’,
All had been rescued by the Royal Navy from the East African slave
In order to look to the future, the UK needs to be able to have mature conversations about our nation’s past. This includes confronting the legacy of slavery and colonialism.
I was recently asked on LBC if the Royal Family should apologise for slavery. Here’s what I said:
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The old lion. The free world will forever remain in his debt.
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Great Britain would use its superpower might into bullying much of the world to abolish slavery, despite this evil being the global norm.
A thread on how under the Union Jack, slavery was globally challenged for the first time ever. 🧵🇬🇧
(Sources cited at the end.)
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Great Britain yielded its geopolitical & military might into bullying much of the world to abolish slavery - at a time when this evil was the global norm.
A thread on how under the White Ensign, slavery was globally challenged for the first time ever. 🧵🇬🇧
Sources cited at end.
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Between 1808-1860, the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron captured 1600 slave ships and freed 150,000 slaves.
Great Britain had tasked herself with suppressing slavery despite this great evil being the global norm.
Below shows a sketch of a ship used in this squadron.
This
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On the death of Sir Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle wrote to Churchill's wife Clementine, "Dans le grand drame, il était le plus grand."
Translated, it means "in the great drama, he was the greatest."
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The calibre of politicians in this country has really dropped…
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On the 26th January 1965 at 11:00 a.m. in Paris, NATO held a tribute to Sir Winston Churchill, who had passed two days prior.
Within this meeting, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee - Charles Paul de Cumont - stated that:
"We have met today to honour the memory of
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Scotland was one of the key Empire builders of the British Empire.
Pretending otherwise is historically illiterate.
🏴 Join us in Glasgow for the Believe in Scotland March and Rally on Saturday 20th April.
@HumzaYousaf
will be speaking alongside an array of voices from Yes movement.
📍Assembling on Kelvin Way, with march setting off at 12:30pm and ending in George Square at the rally.
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@GBNEWS
Your own host was smirking throughout it - sounds like it was acceptable to him.
Ridiculous channel.
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I was born in this country, you clown.
As was my father and my grandfather came to this country in 1955 from British Cyprus - and never rescinded his British passport.
I’m just as British as you are - and I know that kills you, given that you’re clearly some fringe
@AscendedYield
He’s a goof too. Foreigner who moved to England and thinks he’s a native because he shills Churchill, smokes cigars and promotes classical liberalism. Our culture is very much his costume and I can’t stand it.
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On 20th June 1897, 2000 former slaves paraded in Seychelles celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. 🇬🇧🇸🇨
Carrying Union Jack flags printed with the words ‘The Flag that sets us free’,
All had been rescued by the Royal Navy from the East African slave trade.
Once all had
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Bobby Sands was an IRA terrorist.
As Thatcher rightly pointed out to the Commons,
"Mr Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice that his organisation did not allow to many of its victims."
Thatcher for me is the person who allowed Bobby Sands and 9 other republicans to die on Hunger Strike in the H Blocks she is despised by many people even in her own country whilst Bobby Sands has been a source of inspiration to those involved in struggle throughout the world
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On the 28th May 1940, Winston Churchill told the full cabinet that,
"If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground."
The following day Churchill issued a strictly confidential note to Cabinet
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@amacmathuna
No, I’ve read thousands of pages of primary sources for a paper I’m writing on it.
You’re just historically illiterate.
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Even though she blocked me immediately afterwards, I'm still going to respond to this.
My point is a simple one:
If Britain and her Empire capitulated after the Fall of France, when they stood alone as the only major power for a year, Germany could have dedicated its entire
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Never heard of the Malvinas. You must mean the Falkland Islands.
The Falkland Islanders are British subjects living in a British territory that they overwhelmingly want to remain geopolitically as.
They, like all other British subjects - be it in the mother country or in its
The UK is going through a difficult social situation, but spends millions of £ every year, to maintain the colonial situation in
#Malvinas
I share my opinion on this matter published today in
@ScotNational
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The most grievous accusation made against Winston Churchill is that he engineered the Bengal Famine & had a genocidal hatred of Indians.
After reading through the 1000s of pages of relevant primary sources, I can tell you these are complete lies.
Sources cited at the end 🧵
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This is a prime example of where one lets their emotions get in the way of facts.
No, Churchill neither caused nor contributed to the Bengal Famine.
The famine was caused by a number of factors: a cyclone had hit Bengal & Orissa in October 1942, wiping out the rice crop
@churchill_alex
That fat bastard murdered 3 million Bengali’s, how many are you planning to murder?
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“There are a good many people who say,
‘Never mind. Win or lose, sink or swim, better die than submit to tyranny-and such a tyranny.’
And I do not dissociate myself from them. But I can assure them that our professional advisers of the three Services unitedly advise that we
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But not his full quotations I see.
Because if you did that, it would be clear that he was talking about using tear gas against rioters - and your goal is to take him out of context clearly.
The full departmental minute of the War Office on the 12th May 1919:
"It is sheer
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After France fell in June 1940 till the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, The British Empire remained the only global power fighting fascism and Nazism.
From fighting in North Africa, Greece, air raids over Europe and more, Britain & her Empire maintained the struggle.
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Someone placed parts of Sir Winston Churchill’s famous speech, on the 4th June 1940, with the soundtrack of Dunkirk.
This speech being, to the House of Commons, on the last day of the Dunkirk evacuation.
It is perhaps the greatest thing I’ve heard this year. Unashamedly crying.
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In Defence of Sir Winston Churchill - the man who saved civilisation.
Taking apart the key ahistorical lies & accusations made against the statesman.
A Thread 🧵
(Sources are found at the end.)
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Sir Winston Churchill and India
A thread 🧵
As someone who researches the great statesman, it is exhausting watching many of the ahistorical lies and accusations made against him when it comes to his relationship with India.
Below we will go through it:
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On the 26th January 1965 at 11:00 a.m. in Paris, NATO held a tribute to Sir Winston Churchill, who had passed two days prior.
Within this meeting, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee - Charles Paul de Cumont - stated that:
"We have met today to honour the memory of
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A lot of friends have asked me why I bother with my relentless attempt to counter the ahistorical character assassination on Churchill.
I’ve seen a number of people call it futile - and it certainly often feels that way, particularly when the death threats come in.
My view is
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Man-made?
So Churchill caused the cyclone that hit Bengal & Orissa in October 1942?
Churchill made Japan invade the surrounding territories (Burma, Malaya, Philippines & Thailand) that would have been used to send grain relief?
Churchill made Japan keep a military presence in
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I'm always baffled when I see comments like this.
For those of us who have read up on Churchill, you just come across as arrogant and historically illiterate - its rather embarrassing.
I've covered these topics in depth before, you can easily find them across my timeline.
Winston Churchill’s PR is crazy.
- Starved nearly 4 million people in the Bengal Famine
- Set up Concentration camps in Kenya
- Extremely racist
- Advocated for the use of poisonous gas
He was a genocidal tyrant. Fuck him.
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Absolutely delusional.
47 years ago today, Mao Zedong made his greatest contribution to humanity - the evil tyrant finally died…
47 years ago today, we lost the teacher, Great Helmsman, wise and brilliant revolutionary, Chairman Mao Zedong.
Rest in Peace 🕊️ 💕
Long live Chairman Mao!
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I’d like to apologise to all of Scotland for being ‘a jerk.’
I will no longer point out to Scottish nationalists that they have a massive budget deficit that is financed by the Union - even though this is empirically true.
@AndreasKoureas_
@CountofDown
Everyone in Scotland thinks you're a jerk.
Stay out of Scottish affairs, wannabe Economist.
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In 1907, off the coasts of Zanzibar and Mozambique, a Royal Navy ship spotted slave traders carrying slaves to be sold into the Arab slave trade.
The Royal Navy sailors then boarded the ship, arrested the slave traders, freed the slaves, and gave them a new set of clothes.
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In 1907, off the Zanzibar & Mozambique coasts, a Royal Navy ship spotted slave traders carrying slaves to be sold into the Arab slave trade.
The Royal Navy sailors then boarded the ship, freed the slaves, gave them a new set of clothes and arrested the slave traders.
(The
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Nobel Prize for Literature; fought in five campaigns in four continents; escaped a prisoner of war camp; crossed No-Man’s Land 30+ times in WW1; a historian, a bricklayer & artist,
Led the campaign of resistance in the world’s darkest hour.
The greatest man of the 20th century.
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The entire Sovereign Grant (which the public doesn't even pay for anyway - as it comes from 15-25% of the the Crown Estate profits; the rest goes into the treasury) would literally fund UK public health spending for less than 5 hours...
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On this day in 1883, Marx gave his greatest contribution to mankind: he died.
His ideas & works caused untold suffering across the globe.
Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. His work helps us not only understand capitalism, but fight for a world free of exploitation and domination.🧵
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* Saved the free world by leading the campaign of resistance against Nazism when to many rational people, the war was lost.
If Britain and her Empire capitulated after the Fall of France, fighting alone as the only major power for a year, the Nazis could have dedicated their
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On the 18th April 1955, Sir Winston Churchill wrote to our late Queen Elizabeth II,
"Our Island no longer holds the same authority or power that it did in the days of Queen Victoria.
A vast world towers up around it and after all our victories we could not claim the rank we
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The statue of Sir Winston Churchill has been barricaded off for about 4 months now.
We are not a serious country.
What an embarrassing, ungrateful and tragic state of affairs.
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He didn’t force a famine in Bengal - that’s a very historically illiterate & clueless statement.
The famine was caused by a number of factors: a cyclone had hit Bengal & Orissa in October 1942, wiping out the rice crop harvest.
Surrounding areas historically used to purchase
Yeah. A racist hero.
They can both be true. Led Britain through the war effort whilst forcing a famine in Bengal and hating anyone that wasn’t white 🤷🏾♂️
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This is beyond the line.
Mika, a trans female, should be able to do whatever they wish with their own body & with consenting adults.
However, there is a baby involved here. A biological male should not under any circumstances be 'breastfeeding' a child.
In the end, I only breastfed my child for a few weeks.
I then had to stop because I had a cancer relapse and didn't want to poison my child.
Here's me on the bus to hospital for the 1st chemo round, feeding my child for the last time
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Actually, my dad was born in this country. So, he and I have always had British passports.
My grandfather came to this country in 1955 from British Cyprus, before its independence from the Empire.
As such, he’s also been a British subject his entire life.
Idiotic xenophobia.
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A thread on the British Empire in India.
With widespread physical infrastructure investments, social reform and collaboration with many Indians, this colonial history is more complex and nuanced than generally perceived.
(Sources cited at the end.)
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“The Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization.
Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of
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This has got to be one of the dumbest tweets of all time.
There’s multiple layers of asinine reasoning to unpack here…
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After multiple years of deep analysis, I’ve concluded that this is the most gangsta photo of Churchill…
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You should check your notes again because you’re speaking utter drivel.
That’s not why the French fleet was sunk at Mers-el-Kébir. It was imperative that they did not fall into German hands.
They were given clear, reasonable options:
1) to sail alongside the British fleet
Did he say that before or after destroying the French fleet for *checks notes* no reason other than to impair their ability to compete post-war?
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Me after receiving like my thousandth death threat from a historically illiterate ignoramus because I’ve dared to correct conspiracies on Churchill.
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Sir Winston Churchill with David Ben-Gurion, the first PM of Israel, in 1961; London.
I find it rather baffling that journalists & activists are calling Churchill an antisemite, given that he was the opposite.
🧵A thread on his lifelong friendship with the Jewish people.
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Sir Winston Churchill saved civilisation.
There are very few occasions in all of history where one man lay at the very bedrock & foundation of the continuation of the free world. A thread on Churchill during humanity's darkest hour. 🧵🇬🇧
(Relevant literature cited at the end.)
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It appears I have once again upset the Hindu nationalist quadrant of twitter/x.
No, I won’t stop trying to put out the most accurate picture of Churchill’s relationship with India - even if it deeply offends you.
As you were with your stupid threats & bouts of abuse…
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A very stupid way of looking at history.
It was also under Great Britain that classical liberalism and industrialisation were birthed, which together have lifted billions of people out of oppression & poverty.
Britain also challenged slavery globally for the first time in
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He would’ve been an absolute menace on Twitter.
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In December 1899, Winston Churchill escaped the camp he was kept in as a prisoner-of-war in Pretoria, South Africa.
Naturally, he couldn’t help himself but leave a smug letter in his cell for his captors:
“Sir,
—I have the honour to inform you that as I do not consider that
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That’s literal Nazi Propaganda right there.
The bombing of Dresden killed between 20k-25,000 people.
Though a high number, stop using Goebbels’ propaganda - you muppet.
Also, quick history for you. The bombing of Dresden was signed off by Clement Attlee, not Churchill - as
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Throughout his life, Sir Winston Churchill championed Jewish rights, liberties & the establishment of a Jewish state.
On the day he died, Israel’s Prime Minister (Levi Eshkol) wrote to the British PM (Harold Wilson) his letter of condolence:
“May I ask you to deliver to the
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Without question, one of the greatest - if not the greatest - orators in history.
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