A.Waters 🇬🇧

Recovering Brit…

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

Happy 4th July to my American friends.

I decided to do my bit for Anglo-American relations.

Flew in a P-51 Mustang in Southern California. Phenomenal experience.

Plane that helped to win the war. Cousin to the Spitfire. Both have Merlin engines.

Thrilling. 🇺🇸

[ᑭI᙭Iᔕᑌ🗞️ @pixisu]

Thinking about places.

Wherever you stand, there was once a human overjoyed to find it.

The muddy field, the icy plane, your village, your street, your city.

Someone once looked at the ground and the sky and thought, “I’ve found what I was looking for.”

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

Okay, Brits.

You want a reason to love England.

Basically no mosquitoes.

SoCal might be paradise but damn those mosquitoes get you good.

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

Victory. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

@mehercle @theepicmap And Chester (Deva Victrix), also a Roman city that nearly became the capital of the province of Britannia.

They were planning an invasion of Ireland, and wanted a more central location for the administration. Though, they ultimately called that off...

[ᑭI᙭Iᔕᑌ🗞️ @pixisu]

Man was not meant to bedrot.

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

We are seeing the wildest cultural exchange in history with this World Cup.

Truly a stroke of genius. Europeans are seeing the US, Americans are seeing real Europeans.

https://t.co/xtAKbj468j

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Economist really has lost the plot: this is exactly the de haut en bas contempt for plain folk that fuels the rise of the Right it affects to be so concerned about.

[ᑭI᙭Iᔕᑌ🗞️ @pixisu]

https://t.co/ZB0QvIBsi8

[British Army 🇬🇧 @BritishArmy]

This day in history 6 June 1944, #DDay, British soldiers landed in Normandy alongside Allied forces to begin the liberation of Europe 🪖

Today, we remember their courage, sacrifice, and service 🫡

Lest we forget.

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

82 years ago today, nearly 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, launching the liberation of Europe.

We are free because they were brave. 🇺🇸

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

@PP69153735 @vintagemapstore The UK occupied Iceland during WW2.

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

@vintagemapstore Why is the Korean Peninsula not red…

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

Here’s the problem…

There is a vast English speaking world out there with almost infinite depth and enough culture, history and scope to last many lifetimes.

But if you are British, you only get the legs of it.

If you are American you get a muscular torso.

Canadians and Aussies get an arm, Kiwis get a couple of fingers.

Then the rest get even less.

Almost everything wrong with the UK is remedied by simply allowing Brits access to the greater English speaking world.

The cynicism and parochialism evaporates. British pessimism falters with a change in the weather.

We are so much better when understood as one global culture united by the English language.

I hope one day everyone sees that vast domain the way I feel it. Truly, I do.

[A.Waters 🇬🇧 @Aaron_Waters]

You can get a tram in the desert and go up to a different biome. It’s like a ladder to heaven.