Lost and alone in a frozen zone and master of a full poor cell with only my books and my poetry to protect me.
May 8, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
8 May 1940: The 2nd day of the House of Commons debate, initiated by the Labour Opposition, into the conduct of the campaign in Norway, is as acrimonious as the 1st.
David Lloyd George, the veteran Liberal politician, who had been PM during the 2nd half of WWI, delivers a devastating attack on the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain:
Jan 28, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
@OxfordDiplomat@the_mcquade Completely disingenuous. "Palestine" - outside of the wider British-ruled mandate from 1920-48 - had no meaning before the 1993 Oslo Accords which created the Palestinian Authority whose remit has been expanding not diminishing.
@OxfordDiplomat@the_mcquade Map C does not show "Palestine" but parts of Egypt and Jordan annexed after the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, lost after the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 and voluntarily surrendered when Egypt and Jordan recognised Israel and ended the state of war in 1979 and 1993 respectively.