The Braverman reappointment is an atrocity
Simon Schama
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Simon Schama
@simon_schama
The past is never dead. It's not even past (Faulkner) . Historian, writer, art critic, cook, BBC presenter but not necessarily in that order
Joined August 2013
- It's very simple - the President of the United States has attacked the United States
- the face of surrender
- Dear fellow British-Europeans - you CAN grieve at midnight for what has been lost, what has been harmed, and when they tell you to "move on" DO move on - to the long, strong, campaign to rejoin; however hard the road, however long it takes; it starts now.
- Ought to be a big rally in London to demand a GE
- can someone please stand up and start shouting (it wont be the weasel Corbyn) "YOU ARE NOT CHURCHILL, fatso, and the EU is not the Third Reich. You do not have a war cabinet because THERE IS NO WAR. How DARE you invoke the sacrifices of those fought one!
- I know it's no surprise but isnt it unconscionable that the "Prime Minister" is partying at Chequers rather than dealing with a major national emergency ?
- It's actually all going wrong for Putin - taking Kyiv ( at a bloody cost) won't mean a thing in the long term. Putin assumed a lightning roll-over. Not happening. Ukraine, movingly has found its national fortitude.
- why do these dunces abuse history in the name of their simple- minded prejudices. 1) the Reformation was a pan European phenomenon, 2) it created a religious civil war in Britain that lasted 2 centuries
- The photo of Rubio sitting opposite Lavrov in Riyadh will forever be fixed in the historical album of infamous capitulations.
- It's blindingly simple really; freedom of movement works; Brexit doesn't. Now all we need is a political leader with the guts to say it.
- to the millions of good Britons grieving tonight: take heart; this monstrous act of self harm will not stand because the vast majority of the young repudiate it; will in time reverse it and will look back on all who made it possible with astounded contempt
- Truss' Oxford tutor commented on her obstinate refusal to concede she might be wrong even when confronted by evidence that she was
- I don't understand why this isnt on the front page of every major newspaper - it's an immense historical momentProtests in Central Tel Aviv
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