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Dr Adam Rutherford

22 Mar, 14 tweets, 7 min read

@jamesowild

This is the Conservative Party Manifesto for the 2019 Election.

64 pages, How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero.

bit.ly/3sdbtyd

https://twitter.com/jamesowild/status/1374052717841223683

@jamesowild

@jamesowild This is MP for North West Norfolk James Wild's website.

How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero

bit.ly/2PcODIl

@jamesowild

This is MP for North West Norfolk James Wild's Facebook page.

How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero

bit.ly/3sgc8Pe

@jamesowild

@jamesowild This is Prime Minister Boris Johnson's webpage:

How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero

bit.ly/3se0wwn

@jamesowild

@jamesowild This is Prince Charles' website.

How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero

bit.ly/2Plhc6h

@jamesowild

This is Prince William's website.

How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero. Six First Order stormtroopers though.

bit.ly/2NG2SVB

@jamesowild

This is the official Tourism Website of Great Britain.

How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Half of one.

bit.ly/3raYfkd

@jamesowild

This is the website of the Houses of Parliament.

How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

It's none. I am bored now.

bit.ly/3sesDLF

@jamesowild

One more just for fun. This is the website of the Royal Air Force.

How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Go on, have a wild stab in the dark?

bit.ly/3vS1DnG

Not even the Brexit Party have a Union Flag on their website

bit.ly/3seuzDZ

British Lions, nope
bit.ly/2NNuyrS

British Museum. Nada, just some old cats.

bit.ly/31a3yWk

British Government? A flag free zone
bit.ly/QKqFiJ

YES! I've found one! The Great British Bake Off! Loads of Union flag bunting!
<Swells with pride. And cake>

bit.ly/3lHVHbX

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https://twitter.com/quillette/status/1369941666639966213

Correct

https://twitter.com/quillette/status/1369941666639966213

This is not even a contestable fact. It’s demonstrably true. Human classification sits at the roots of the emergence of science in the 18th C, and in all cases it was both hierarchical and in service of the political ideology of European expansion, colonialism and subjugation.