Two Tier Policing: A Thread 🇬🇧🧵

Two Tier policing is the primary criticism of the police by the British right, who argue that British law enforcement treat some people harsher than others.

Is there evidence for this? Let's take a look. It's important to note that Britain's police are not a monolith. The three legal systems of the UK (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, NI) organise police differently and there are different leaderships in different areas. Because of this, this thread will focus on police in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 alone.

Paneuropa: The Vision of Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi 🇪🇺☀️✝️ Dismayed by the conflict of the Great War, Kalergi was impressed by the idealism of Wilson and joined with Archduke Otto von Habsburg to launch the Pan-European Union. A year later he published his manifesto, Pan-Europa, containing his vision for Europe and the world.

The Neajlov Valley in Romania, a centre of the Gumelnița culture which formed the greater Old Europe complex. This fascinating complex of European cultures marks the beginning of civilisation in our continent, but is largely forgotten today.

THREAD 🇪🇺🧵 The term "Old Europe" was coined by Marija Gimbutas in her book "The Civilization of the Goddess" to refer to a complex of pre-Indo-European cultures in central Europe and the Balkans.

Refuting the myth that Easter is a holiday which is pagan in origin.

THREAD 🧵 This is a popular claim with two primary baseis that play into each other.

1) Easter is the name of a pagan deity.
2) Easter customs are associated with that deity.

Each of these will be refuted.

In February 1934, the right-wing government led by Engelbert Dollfuss defeated left-wing paramilitaries in the short Austrian Civil War. Dollfuss would be assassinated later this year by Nazis opposed to his regime.

Thread on the Dollfuss regime and Corporative Austria 🇦🇹🧵 The interwar situation in Austria is often described as a war between democrats and fascists, but it is not that simple. For starters, the leader of the right-wing coalition, Engelbert Dollfuss, was not a fascist and the right-wing were not a homogeneous bloc.