EV driver since 2014 and EV biker since 2016. Advanced motorcyclist, drummer, linguist. First electric motorbike End-to-Ender. https://teapaw.org/t.co/YhjvIDen25
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John Chivers retweeted
Remember when Antoinette Fernandez (Green Party speaker of Hackney Council) bemoaned the British bombardment of Lagos, forcing her great great maternal grandfather from power?
She forgot to mention the reason why.
And you won't hear a single peep of apology from this lot about it.
John Chivers retweeted
It's here at last! Select the video link below to be all set for the Premiere next Saturday, 7pm - it had to be Halloween!
Huge debt of gratitude and many thanks for the help and collaboration from @jtchivers Andrew James @oxtunes (Paul Hogg)
youtu.be/mUfDT97ne9s
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John Chivers retweeted
'Everyone should be able to communicate'
For too long, confident spoken communication has been kept for the few. Now, it will be the right of every child.
Here’s what I’m changing👇🏻
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
John Chivers retweeted
Wow, massive numbers for UK & Spain!
🌍 European countries that added the most migrants (2000–2024)
1. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: +7.1M
2. 🇪🇸 Spain: +6.8M
3. 🇩🇪 Germany: +6.4M
4. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: +5.8M
5. 🇮🇹 Italy: +4.4M
6. 🇫🇷 France: +3.0M
7. 🇦🇹 Austria: +1.4M
8. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: +1.4M
9. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: +1.3M
10. 🇧🇪 Belgium: +1.3M
11. 🇸🇪 Sweden: +1.3M
12. 🇵🇱 Poland: +917K
13. 🇮🇪 Ireland: +840K
14. 🇳🇴 Norway: +720K
15. 🇷🇴 Romania: +521K
16. 🇵🇹 Portugal: +476K
17. 🇩🇰 Denmark: +475K
18. 🇭🇺 Hungary: +393K
19. 🇨🇿 Czechia: +386K
20. 🇫🇮 Finland: +378K
Europe's migrant population grew by 40.8 million between 2000 and 2024, up 67%. The UK, Spain and Germany together account for almost half of that increase.
Source: UN DESA
John Chivers retweeted
Stephen Kinnock’s claim that there were no boat people because we were in the European Union is a straightforward lie. Illegal immigrants flooded in by lorry, train and cars. They disappeared into towns/cities and couldn’t be properly counted. When advances in technology made these methods of transport much harder to use the illegal migrants took to boats, courtesy of the people smugglers. Since the boats are usually interdicted on arrival the counting is easier. Nothing to do with being in or out of the EU.
John Chivers retweeted
Of course Russia interfered in Brexit
Who doesn't remember when Putin said we would go to "the back of the queue" if we didn't vote for it.
John Chivers retweeted
My vote on Brexit was affected by disinformation. I voted Remain because I was told if Leave won there would be terrible consequences.
The BoE Governor told me he would raise interest rates - he lowered them.
The Chancellor said he'd have an emergency budget - he didn't.
The Treasury said unemployment would go up - it went down.
Goldman Sachs and others said they would pull out of Britain - they spent billions on new HQs
The Chief Executive of the NHS Alliance said there would be an epidemic of super-gonorrhoea.
As for foreign interference - The EU, the US and Irish Presidents etc etc all weighed in on the side of Remain.
John Chivers retweeted
I have seen this at a high academic level and have said nothing. Yet it is very, perhaps existentially, important.
My latest article is about how a rogue Wikipedia editor confabulated and misattributed thousands of inventions and concepts to Muslims
This trolling made its way into blogs, articles, books, and TV programs. You might even believe some of his lies!
Link: cremieux.xyz/p/the-invention…
John Chivers retweeted
In Yorkshire, they christen puppies in the pub and tell them not to chase after livestock.
But this is a far right fantasy that definitely never happens.
Labour minister claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs, and black Labradors are a 'far-right' fantasy that 'never really existed' trib.al/K6xVOCo
John Chivers retweeted
Oh Jenny Riddell Carpenter @Jenny4SuffCoast here's your husband having a cheeky pint in a quintessential English pub. Far right bastard.
John Chivers retweeted
Labour’s DEFRA Minister for the Countryside Jenny Riddell-Carpenter: a short story of ‘bait and switch’ hypocrisy
John Chivers retweeted
"The European Commission will propose a major overhaul of how the EU takes decisions to bypass national vetoes"
You glad we left yet? As I sure as hell am.
The European Commission will propose a major overhaul of how the EU takes decisions to bypass national vetoes and introduce new rule-of-law safeguards as it seeks to incorporate additional members, such as Montenegro and Albania.
rapporteur.com/news/exclusiv…
John Chivers retweeted
In the 1990s Denmark took in 321 Palestinians.
By 2016, 204 had at least one criminal conviction.
And 189 were on welfare.
Then Denmark tracked their children.
There were 999 kids from the original cohort.
By 2019, 34% had at least one criminal conviction.
