Do you know that the death rate for sailors on the famous Brooks slave ship was higher than the death rate for slaves?

Because that statement is true, but it isn't the whole truth, it shows how deceptive statistics can be when taken out of context.

Here's the story... 🧵 In 1788 the Plymouth chapter of ‘The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade’ published an engraving of the slave ship Brooks (or Brookes) which graphically illustrated the horrific conditions in which the slaves were packed, shoulder to shoulder, for the infamous ‘Middle Passage’ from Africa to the Americas.

Possibly the first example of a really successful mass advertising campaign, the print marked a turning point in the public perception of the trade, as copies were distributed up and down the land and were hung on walls in homes and inns.

Further stories of slaves being thrown overboard alive from the slave ship Zong to save drinking water for the remainder only added to the public revulsion the Brooks revelations had sparked.

Yesterday I returned to the British Museum for the first time in a number of years.

I reached a number of conclusions, primarily that @britishmuseum appears not only to hate Britain and British history but also, paradoxically, to really rather dislike the museum itself.

The bookshop open shelves face everyone who passes through the central Great Court and this is the message they give the hundreds of British visitors and tourists who pass them every day…


Decolonisation, Dalrymple, and, of course, Edward Said, the founding father of postcolonialism.

Education has always been a target for those seeking to create the utopian Socialist society of their dreams.

Bridget Phillipson's latest plans to 'refresh' and 'decolonise' the national curriculum and force those but the richest of privately educated children back into the clutches of the state and its propaganda are no more than the latest in a line that stretches back to Marx...

...who taunted his readers in the Communist Manifesto as follows:

‘Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. Communists seek to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class’
and, as his first comment makes clear, from the family.

Unlike Phillipson, earlier Socialists have been quite open about their aims...🧵 Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin’s wife, was quite clear about it, condemning the ‘bourgeois approach to raising children’:

‘Socialist society cannot remain indifferent to the fact that the family shapes the child's attitude, and this will not coincide with [socialist] norms of society’

=> Socialists want to take children away from the influence of their parents.

“Definitely and clearly our purpose is to deprive these people of their way of living"

The early Labour party openly advocated for the expropriation of privately owned land.

Now the man advising them on the farm inheritance tax is doing exactly the same. 🧵

Read this. It’s from an official Labour publication, The Case for Socialism, published in 1933

“Socialism is an attack upon the institution of private property in land and capital. We advocate the expropriation of the landed and capitalist class.”
“Definitely and clearly our purpose is to deprive these people of their way of living" And then this is Labour’s farm tax adviser today, in 2024.

Advani advocates for “the state taking part-ownership of land and becoming the landlord to tenant farmers.”

Straight back to Stalin (much admired by the Labour Party of the 1930s) and his expropriation of kulak farmers.

order-order.com/2024/11/18/lab…

You can make 'history' say whatever you want it to. Sir Hilary Beckles, who leads the Caribbean #reparations campaign certainly does.

Beckles may be a knighted historian, a vice-Chancellor of the University of West Indies and an enormously respected figure across the Caribbean... but here's how cavalier he is with his facts. 🧵

He writes: "The British imported some 3 million Africans into the Caribbean and upon emancipation in 1833, only about 700,000 had survived. Barbados, where it all began as an economic explosion, received 600,000 people from British ships over 200 years; only 83,000 survived."
He calls this genocide. Let's address that "the British imported some 3 million Africans into the Caribbean" first...

Remember - he's an 'eminent slavery historian' so he should get his figures right.

Clue - he doesn't.

The Transatlantic slave database states that 2,318,254 slaves were landed in the Caribbean, 2,208,296 on British ships.**

He's out by 800,000, inflating the actual figure by 36%. He could look it up (I did) and he's a historian, so surely he would, wouldn't he? He might also concede that Barbados was a stopping off point for slaves shipped on to other islands, which would reduce the total still further.

But why water down a good campaigning number with detail. These people don't want facts to interfere with their opinions.

What is horrifying about these numbers is that 2,763,411 slaves embarked in Africa. This means that about 445,000 perished before they reached the West Indies. It is a terrible statistic but it bears no relation to the figure Beckles gives.

**All these figures are from slavevoyages.org

I have just been re-reading the manifesto of the Communist Party of Britain. It includes:

· "The abolition of charitable status for private schools" - as a prelude to their abolition (🧵)
· "An annual wealth tax on the richest section of the population"
· "Replacing council tax with local income, wealth, land and property taxes"
· "The right to vote at 16"

All these happen to be current or trailed Labour policies. "The abolition of charitable status for private schools would be the prelude to their incorporation into the public sector"

The Communist Party are at least open about it.
Meanwhile the Labour Party hides behind 'we need it to fund more teachers in the state sector'.

Every measure the CPB proposes in its manifesto is also to finance making Britain a fairer more socialist country.

Not much difference?

Unbelievably, the Soviets shot 157,000 of their own service men and women in WW2 for ‘military crimes’.

Today the execution of 300 Brits in WW1 is considered a scandal. Just one was shot for desertion in WW2.

Stalin’s murderous response to Red Army failures and his earlier paranoid fear of a coup left a trail of corpses through the years before and during the war 🧵 The Soviet military did not escape the purges of the Great Terror of 1937-38. Between 15,000 and 30,000 of the officer corps were shot, including, 11 of 13 senior generals, 57 of 85 corps commanders and 110 of 195 brigade commanders.

Some, such as Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky, were no loss to humanity. Tukhachevsky had quelled a peasant revolt in the Civil War by the use of poison gas. He also blamed his defeat by the Poles at the battle of the Vistula in 1920 on Stalin, would have made him a marked man from then on.

Stalin’s resentment at that defeat was a major driver in his hatred of the Poles, which would later have terrible consequences, leading to the death or deportation of millions.

I'm delighted to be able to announce that my next book At Dawn They Came: Soviet Terror and Repression 1917-1953 is scheduled for publication by @HofTotalitarian at the end of September.

It recounts the history of Soviet repression from Lenin's first labour camps through to their fully fledged climax as the Gulag system under Stalin. 🧵

(Yes, the labour camp system began with Lenin, not Stalin. Lenin is sometimes portrayed as the 'good communist' whose ideals were betrayed by Stalin. This, as my book shows, is nonsense. ) The title 'At Dawn They Came' is the opening line of the first stanza of Requiem ('Реквием 1935-1940') by Anna Akhmatova, one of Russia’s greatest twentieth century poets. Anna's husband was shot by the secret police in 1921 and then, much later, her son and common-law husband were both arrested and sent to the Gulag. Only her son survived.

Requiem movingly describes her son’s arrest and the agony of the years she spent waiting for his return, not even knowing if he was still alive. Kept under close surveillance by the authorities, Akhmatova wrote Requiem in secret.

Such was the climate of terror that Anna could not keep any copies of the poem on paper. Once she had written a stanza, she committed it to memory and then burned it. Next, she gathered her closest and most trusted friends and recited the poem to them, repeating it until each had memorised it exactly.

Only when Stalin had died could the poem be performed to select gatherings. But even then it was too dangerous for it to be published.

Now considered one of the most poignant testimonies of life in the Gulag era, the poem was only finally published after her death.

The IRA also allied with the Soviet Union against Britain in the 1920s in addition to cosying up to the Nazis in WW2.

Stalin secretly bankrolled the IRA for a couple of years, enabling it to survive when it had almost been put out of business.

The money was laundered through a Russian bank in London which had a British pro-Soviet Labour MP as a director. It was uncovered when a couple IRA gunrunners were arrested of Tottenham Court Road in possession of a large number of handguns. They also had bank notes in their possession which could be traced back to the Russian bank - which thought their scheme was untraceable. It wasn't.
🧵 2/ In 1925, two years after its defeat in the Civil War, a group went to Moscow to beg the Soviets for financial support.

They met Stalin who agreed to give them £500 a month in return for them spying for the Kremlin in Britain and the US.

It was always going to happen. How did anyone think that, with massive immigration and (as we see now) the failure of ‘multiculturalism’, parliamentary candidates were going to have to bow the knee to their cultures?
Early advocates in the Blair era wanted mass immigration partly in order to reduce the power of the naturally conservative middle class white British vote.
This has been the project of the left ever since Marx and Lenin 1/n 2/ “We must rescue children from the harmful influence of the family”
According to Lenin’s associates, the conventional family was a major obstruction to the building of communism

"This country has to protect itself against a new and insidious menace (which has) one object and one only: the forcible destruction, at first by secret methods and then by open methods, of our liberty, our Constitution, our laws, our religion, and our heritage.”

Those words were written by the Deputy Director of MI5 in 1933 on the threat posed then by British 'useful idiots' - Britain's Stalin enthusiasts.

Today, 90 years on, the same might be said about their political heirs and those they cynically ally themselves. Here is the full text 🧵 "This country has to protect itself against a new and insidious menace. Not all our enemies work in the light of day. Those most dangerous to our public security and peace today are doing evil work in the dark.

They evade our laws, while working secretly to destroy those laws by force. At the same time they appeal to those laws for their personal protection.

The Church of England wants to appoint a 'Deconstructing Whiteness' officer as part of its new 11 person £440k pa plus West Midlands Racial Justice team.

What is the 'whiteness' they feel they so urgently need to deconstruct? In the words of academics and church activists...

It is “a malignant, parasitic-like condition [which] renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse.”

It is “a powerful fiction enforced by power and violence"

"It is a psychosis, hallmarked by a distorted view of reality."

Really? Yes, this is what they believe and the CofE is appointing someone who believes this malign fiction about white people and white/British culture so that it can be eradicated in British church.

Read on for the detail of these and other quotes, beginning with the secular academics and then the liberal activists who have now infiltrated the western church🧵 In June 2021 an article in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association called whiteness "a malignant, parasitic-like condition."

In the article, the author wrote that "white people have a particular susceptibility" to the "parasitic" condition, which he claims "renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse."

He explained he believed whiteness establishes "entitled dominion" that enables the "host" to have "power without limit, force without restriction, violence without mercy," and increases one's drive to "terrorize." newsweek.com/research-artic…

What is astonishing about all these nutters is the degree to which they have all swallowed the conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to take over the world and already control America and the world financial system.

It's ludicrous but yet thousands on the streets in these protests believe it. How did it begin?

It was largely started and then massively weaponised by the foreign intelligence services of the Soviet Bloc, working in concert to throughout the Arabic world, sending in both hundreds of agents working as doctors, engineers, etc and hundreds of thousands of copies of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', translated into Arabic for this specific purpose.

The evidence for this comes for the highest level intelligence officer ever to defect from a Bloc nation - Romanian General Ion Paceba 🧵 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the most notorious and widely distributed antisemitic publication of modern times.

Its lies about Jews, which have been repeatedly discredited, continue to circulate today, especially on the internet. The individuals and groups who have used the Protocols are all linked by a common purpose: to spread hatred of Jews. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

The Great Terror began in August 1937, 86 years ago this week. The start was signalled by the infamous order No. 00447, signed 30th July by NKVD boss Nikolai Yezhov. It set quotas for executions and arrests for each region of the USSR. In 18 months almost 700k would be dead. 🧵 This is a page from Order 00447, with a translation. Region by region, the 1st column lists the number to be shot, the 2nd to be send to the Gulag & the total in the 3rd. An extract from a later page gives the number for the Leningrad and Moscow regions.
Mass murder by quota.

“You shall have no other gods…”
Punch Feb 1930 on Stalin’s mass arrests of priests & rabbis, destruction of churches/mosques & persecution right down to icon painters and Jewish butchers. As the yr advanced the news became even worse… 🧵 The Soviets, deciding to ‘liquidate’ a whole class of (mostly 🇺🇦) peasant smallholders, deported 1.8m incl intellectuals and believers to gulag camps in Siberia and the Far North.

https://twitter.com/gilesudy/status/974221513279836160

EU regulations now require every customer with an EU bank account to declare their
Total annual income after tax
Total taxes paid
All mortgages & loans paid p.a.
Value of all property, shares, deposit accounts.
Sources of all income.

If not supplied, your cards are cancelled Here it is chapter and verse.

Lynch's TV technique is very slick - and slippery. He deflects every difficult question with a smokescreen reply. Yet their Asst Gen Sec Dempsey has said the @RMTunion is 'trying to create a culture of civil disobedience in this country'.

Dig deep & there's a lot more to this 🧵

https://twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1602585777489297409

The collective leadership of RMT are overwhelmingly Marxist or one sort or other. Interviewers raise it but never explore WHAT that means - eg mass nationalisation & overthrow of parliamentary system. The detail is alarming. This 🧵explores that & shows how deep their ties are

So many fascinating takeaways from this article which shows that Putin’s gambit in 🇺🇦 has been a massive blunder which looks like tanking the 🇷🇺 Russian economy, defence capability, and arms export industry.
Do read it.
cepa.org/article/its-co… from the American point of view “US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment.”

The drought is bad but sloppy journos are taking licence with dramatic photos. Example 1: Daily Mail - "The river Rhine is pictured with low water ... threatening German industry."
Its a small tributary leading into the Dutch Waal. NB the barge in background on the main river🧵 Yes you could stretch the point, the Waal IS a Rhine feeder river but the dramatic bike is not in the dried up Rhine. Here's the river in winter flood (Dec 18) and an aerial view of the backwater the Mail photo implies is the Rhine. It isn't.

Honestly… it ended in 1739. The lordly prelates of the church would have delegated most of their financial affairs to secretaries. Even then bishops were lamenting the suffering of slaves. 🧵
Can we please move on?
Sound bites and ‘laments’ ignore the context & nuance.

https://twitter.com/gbnews/status/1537691673328865281

Here’s Bishop Fleetwood in 1711. Doesn’t fit the narrative. Slaves were ‘equally the workmanship of God [with slave owners] who thus use [them] cruelly’.
No not every bishop got it but the implication they deliberately mandated capture and transport of slaves is divisive & wrong

And CofE isn’t racist anyway. Individual racism yes, just like bullying (which seems far more common) but ‘institutional’? No.
People need to look past emotions to the stats.
The % of BAME ordinands matches U.K. BAME %. Bishops don’t but there’s a reason... 🧵
@calvinrobinson

https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1526669051610669071

It’s quite simple. Say you become a bishop after c30 years. Ordained at c25 yrs old means born 55 years ago c.1967. Left school late 80s
Point 1. What % of immigrants were there in UK in the 60s/80s? NOWHERE NEAR the % today = the pool was smaller.