@WalkerMarcus

A clergyman in the Church of England in the Diocese of London. Musings in Church and State and late Roman History (and, in fact, any history).

 City of London, London
Joined August 2011
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Western Exile
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This indeed cannot be emphasised enough. The German Chancellory saw it as a geopolitical priority to prevent, at all costs, the restoration of the French monarchy after 1870. They knew a republic would foster unending civil strife and permanently maim France.
Milscent de Bouillon@Deusregnat_Oct 22
Voici les raisons pour lesquelles Bismarck, grand ennemi de la France, a remué ciel et terre pour instaurer la Ripoublique chez nous après la défaite de Sedan.
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Sebastian Milbank
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100% humanities scholars have destroyed the reason for what they do by neglecting the business of stewarding beauty, creating citizens and cultivating virtue in favour of the driest sort of archivism and pseudo-empiricism
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_HarperOct 23
Humanists should be snobby about the fact that they are stewarding a tradition that stretches back thousands of years rather than doing busy work involving little technical puzzles. Instead they find dumb “research” niches to fill because STEM gave them an inferiority complex.
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RS Archer@archer_rsOct 23
It's amusing to read that Paris looters are discovering the watches they stole from Rolex and Patek Philippe stores are worthless shop units without working movements and secondly that all the Apple phones are display technology that locked the moment they left the store.
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I went to the refurbished and redesigned Istanbul Archaeological Museum yesterday. It’s a a terrible disappointment. The displays are much improved but they’ve completely got rid of the Istanbul Through The Ages section, disbursing the artefacts around the museum (like the serpent’s head) - and getting rid of major displays (like the chain from the boom over the Golden Horn). It’s also been lanyarded - everything is now BCE / CE 😡
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Interestingly named hotel. I wonder whether the owners keep any geese….
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Proudofus.uk
@ProudofusUK16h
209 years ago today, Britain ARMED an African king. 🇬🇧 Muskets. Gunpowder. Ten thousand gun flints. Four hundred red coats. 💂 British sergeants to train his army. A salary in gold and silver, every year. 💰 Britain wanted him to win. 👑 Valley after valley. Chief after chief. Until two-thirds of Madagascar was under his rule. 🗺️ On purpose. 👀 Why? 🤔 Because on that island, chiefs raided villages and sold the people. To French slave ships. To Arab dhows. To other African kingdoms. ⛓️ Then they bought guns with the money. To raid more villages. 🔥 Guns for people. People for guns. 🔁 Britain had banned its own slave trade in 1807. But it couldn’t guard every beach on an island nearly a thousand miles long. 🌊 So a sergeant from Cork travelled 28 days, by canoe and on foot, to reach the king. 🛶 For two months they bargained. Then he made an offer nobody had authorised. 🤝 Every gun the slave trade gave the king, Britain would give him free. If he stopped selling people. ✋ On 23 October 1817, the king signed. Selling his people abroad would be punished by death. ✍️ Then Britain helped him take the island. Port after port, every one closed to the slave ships. ⚓ They teach you Britain profited from slavery. 📚 They never teach you how we got them to stop selling their own people. 🤫 Britain armed an African king. On purpose. 🇬🇧 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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شاهد | الملك يطمئن على مصابي عملية الكرك الإرهابية في المستشفيات ويتوعد منفذيها #الأردن #عملية_الكرك_الإرهابية #هنا_المملكة
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Annunziata Rees-Mogg
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“People are allowed a glass or two” 🙄 Er…. It may not be wise, but given alcohol is (still) legal, I’m pretty sure he meant: “people are allowed as many glasses as they bleeding well want to get through the disasters my government has created”
Politics UK
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham criticises Angela Rayner for including a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in her survival kit “I’m not sure that’s the top of the list… You need to have a clear head in a challenging situation. Some tins of food, bottled water. People are allowed a glass or two”
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After a conviction by a jury of their peers?
Politics UK
@PolitlcsUK18h
🚨 BREAKING: John Healey will announce at the Budget that HMRC will be given powers to seize money directly from the bank accounts of people who fail to pay their tax
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This is still in force!
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Burnside
@BurnsideWasTosh16h
Read the beginning of AJP Taylors history of 1914-1945 and weep.
Politics UK
@PolitlcsUK18h
🚨 BREAKING: John Healey will announce at the Budget that HMRC will be given powers to seize money directly from the bank accounts of people who fail to pay their tax
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Is this him admitting he turned off Starlink / Starshield on a whim?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk16h
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people. The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
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While it’s easy to knock down the argument being presented, the bigger question is ‘can a nation rely on this technology not to be switched off if the CEO decides he doesn’t support the fight any more?’
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Timothy Snyder
@TimothyDSnyder18h
I am beginning to think that “superpower suicide” understates the case.
Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 19
Trump: "Russia could've done a lot more to help Iran. Russia has done very little for Iran. China could've done a lot more for Iran. And I remember that."
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So after the inevitable orgy of “let them go” and “we don’t want people like that here”, what is the plan for actually covering the taxes they paid?
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How terrible on every level. Terrible for the family, for the Christians of Jordan, and for the Kingdom of Jordan, which has been such a safe haven in a turbulent region.
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal17h
🇯🇴🚨BREAKING: ISIS claims responsibility for DEADLY church attack in Jordan Gunmen opened fire directly on a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, turning a mourning family's grief into an absolute massacre. At least six people were slaughtered and 28 others wounded as the terrorists ambushed the gathering 110 miles south of Amman. Writer: Bri
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It was telling in Egypt that every monastery had a keep - and actual fortress in which to hide should they come under attack. Christians know that their survival is utterly contingent on the goodwill of their neighbours, and that when that dries up, they die.
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Ghanem Nuseibeh
@gnuseibeh21h
Horrific news from Jordan with at least 7 dead in shooting at church in Karak. Praying for the victims and their families
قناة المملكة
@AlMamlakaTV21h
7 وفيات على الأقل بعملية إطلاق النار على كنيسة في الكرك #عاجل #هنا_المملكة
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Stefan Roberts
@stefanrobertsOct 22
Cheers, Nicolas Flamel is crying now, nice one
Marathon Fusion
@MarathonFusionOct 21
Replying to @MarathonFusion
In 2025, we published a bold proposal to use fusion reactors for gold production. And now we’ve done it: Mercury transmuted into stable gold, using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record set by CERN in 2025. We’ve reduced alchemy to a series of difficult but tractable engineering problems.
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Calgie
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JeSuisAngie
Politics UK
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham criticises Angela Rayner for including a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in her survival kit “I’m not sure that’s the top of the list… You need to have a clear head in a challenging situation. Some tins of food, bottled water. People are allowed a glass or two”
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