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Tom Jacobs retweeted
You Tories who are about to choose our next PM. Please read this, watch the video... and then think very carefully. You are being played and you could well be taking us down a very dark path that history will not look kindly on. theguardian.com/politics/201…
Tom Jacobs retweeted
As historian of fascism & Holocaust, I would also call these centers concentrations camps. As a Jewish person who lost family in Holocaust, I regret that some Republicans use memory of the Holocaust to defend racist policies of trumpism. @aoc is right. wapo.st/2WTq6v1?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Hi @Liz_Cheney, I worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where I gave tours to tens of thousands of folks, introducing them to things everyone should know about the Holocaust, things you'd know if you actually visited. @AOC is right... (thread)
Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.
Tom Jacobs retweeted
During the trial of a man charged with aiding undocumented migrants, the prosecutor accused him of doing almost verbatim what the Bible calls on Christians to do
Tom Jacobs retweeted
Three years ago, the Suffolk countryside was plastered with pro Brexit placards. Drove home tonight through barley fields kissed by the evening sun and lit up by Stop Brexit banners! ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
Tom Jacobs retweeted
Tonight’s debate was a reminder of Britain’s problem negotiating Brexit. 5 Cabinet ministers cannot agree a common position. Yet 27 EU countries, both main parties in Ireland & the EU Commission have stayed united.
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Britain's next PM will be decided by a 160,000-strong Tory membership that is 70% male, 97% white, 86% social class ABC1, 50% of whom read the Telegraph or the Daily Mail and who have an average age of 57, according to @ProfTimBale's presentation to an Oxford conference today.
Tom Jacobs retweeted
Message for Boris: I’m mostly off-radar right now, supporting a relative in the High Dependency Unit of my (brilliant) local hospital. He’s had a rough ride but is on the mend. And I know it’s very un-English and impolite to mix the personal..1./
Tom Jacobs retweeted
After three bloody years, & despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, a significant portion of the country remains in thrall to fact-free pantomime toffs braying that Brexit is deliverable & desirable. They won’t explain why it’s broken & can’t describe how they’ll fix it.
Tom Jacobs retweeted
This should be required viewing for everyone in UK. It won't make an impression on
those voting for the C&U party leader, nor the Brextremists, but that's because it's simply statements of fact. Kudos to Sky News for at least once calling out the bullshit
Thanks @Stone_SkyNews & @SkyNews for showing us what the EU thinks of the Brexit plans the PM potentials are offering.
#ToryLeadershipContest
Tom Jacobs retweeted
It now seems very likely we'll have our *20th* Old Etonian as prime minister.
In our entire parliamentary history, we've been governed by an Old Etonian as PM for 101 years out of 298.
So 34% of the time.
Whatever their individual merits... this country is absurd.
Tom Jacobs retweeted
A 40,000-year-old severed wolf's head, preserved by permafrost complete with teeth and fur, has been discovered in eastern Siberia, where locals looking for mammoth ivory found the remains on the banks of the Tirekhtyakh River in Yakutia
cnn.com/2019/06/11/europe/ru…
Tom Jacobs retweeted
Not a SINGLE ENQUIRY FOR SASHA in 4 YEARS 💔💔 How much longer will she wait?! 😢😢😢Are you kind, patient and looking to adopt? Then please e-mail [email protected] and ask about SASHA. We arrange all that is needed to get her to the UK #AdoptDontShop
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#OnThisDay 1982: Cricket was declared to be scientifically impossible.
Tom Jacobs retweeted
Here's the essential state of English politics in 96 seconds by my colleague @rafaelbehr
Tom Jacobs retweeted
Unbelievable! A 2 page spread on getting rid of weeds including dandelions, brambles, clover, vetch, buttercup. All the things we welcome in our orchard for pollinators. I’m shocked @Telegraph (note: Not my paper, I don’t buy this!) @LGSpace @Kate_Bradbury @Bex_Cartwright
Tom Jacobs retweeted
So sad to report the passing of Norman Dewis at 98. He started work in 1934 aged 14 to look after his mum and basically never stopped. D-type, E-type, MkII, XJ6, the way they drove was his work. And he developed disc brakes for road use. A true great has left us. Rest well Norman
Tom Jacobs retweeted
Compelling argument here from Chernobyl Lloyd Grossman.
After @Femi_Sorry was done getting water thrown at him and poked in the face with flagpoles at the Brexit Party rally, he bumped into Breitbart's @JamesDelingpole!