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Aug 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: Historian Simon Webb provides the history of the song ‘Rule Brittannia’.
Referring to @BBC’s consideration of Rule Britannia as a Nationalistic song celebrating slavery, Simon said “It’s hard to explain the degree of ignorance involved here in terms of British history.”
(2) In the 17th century the seas around Britain were ruled by North African Muslim Slavers. They stopped
British ships and carried off the crews to be sold as slaves in Algiers and Tripoli.
The situation became so bad that fishermen from Devon and Cornwall wouldn’t put out...
May 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
DYNAMITE 🧨 Please read —
@talkRADIO interviews a Police Officer after a Rochdale Grooming Gang victim, who was raped and made pregnant when she was 13, was shopping with Asda with her children when she came face-to-face with her rapist who was supposed to have been deported...
Her rapist was in the unsupervised company of a minor.
Police had a DNA sample from the foetus to prove the rape but the CPS would not agree to a charge of Rape, as with the other victims. [Of course, Head of the CPS was Keir Starmer...now knighted and @UKLabour Leader]. ...
