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A thread about the English Establishment, state psychopathy, #COVID19… and why it really matters how people in power think. 🧐✊🇪🇺🇻🇳#history #ToriesOut #resist 🦠 
The popular idea of a colonial official during the British Empire days was of a paternal figure dispensing justice and spreading civilisation, as in the 1935 film “Sanders of the River” (see pic), a grossly patronising tale set in colonial #Nigeria... 😬🇳🇬 #BritishEmpire #Korda
The reality was, of course, very different. Consider the work of Charles Callwell, a British soldier with much colonial experience, pictured here on the WWI Caucasus Front as a Major-General in 1916. #Callwell #SmallWars #ColonialViolence 🇹🇷🇷🇺
In political jargon, a “useful idiot” is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandising for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders
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#researchED #Sabisky @vinceulam
The term was originally used during the Cold War to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and manipulation. The term has often been attributed to Vladimir Lenin, but this attribution is unsubstantiated
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#Propaganda
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1/ Amidst all the hoohah about #Sabisky, another disturbing Cummings hire slipped by unnoticed. The @FT reports that Dom has hired one Liam Booth-Smith, a "housing expert", to head up coordinating economic policy between No. 10 and No. 11.
@FT 2/ Booth-Smith was formerly director of policy at the Policy Exchange thinktank. Some other Policy Exchange policies: 1) Researching whether the power of judges has increased in the UK.
@FT 3/ It has argued that judicial overreach increasingly threatens the rule of law and effective, democratic government. The Project has also been a big supporter of the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and
