Chris Gillibrand

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

#PostOfficeScandal

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

My father..1993. Via the Wider Share Ownership Council he promoted workers having a share & say in companies. If the Post Masters had had some shares in POL, they could have made much more trouble earlier and things would not have developed as they did. https://t.co/JqEgZpLXQb

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

@arthistorynews The hustings will be a joy of behold.

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@AllisonPearson Says something big about his attitude to the rule of law.

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

This is starting to get interesting...

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

10 years ago. @afneil interviewing a living Euro-saint. No idea who he is, that said.

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

@dml Confirms my belief it has been downhill all the way since Lord Salisbury left off being PM

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

“Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or identity card.

He could travel abroad or leave his country for ever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his money for any other currency without restriction or limit.

He could buy goods from any country in the world on the same terms as he bought goods at home. For that matter, a foreigner could spend his life in this country without permit and without informing the police.

Unlike the countries of the European continent, the state did not require its citizens to perform military service. An Englishman could enlist, if he chose, in the regular army, the navy, or the territorials. He could also ignore, if he chose, the demands of national defence.

Substantial householders were occasionally called on for jury service. Otherwise, only those helped the state, who wished to do so. The Englishman paid taxes on a modest scale: nearly £200 million in 1913-14, or rather less than 8 per cent of the national income.

The state intervened to prevent the citizen from eating adulterated food or contracting certain infectious diseases. It imposed safety rules in factories, and prevented women, and adult males in some industries, from working excessive hours.

The state saw to it that children received education up to the age of 13. Since 1 January 1909, it provided a meagre pension for the needy over the age of 70. Since 1911, it helped to insure certain classes of workers against sickness and unemployment.

This tendency towards more state action was increasing. Expenditure on the social services had roughly doubled since the Liberals took office in 1905. Still, broadly speaking, the state acted only to help those who could not help themselves. It left the adult citizen alone.”

A. J. P. Taylor’s English History, 1914-1945.

With thanks to the @iealondon newsletter for highlighting this in yesterday's email.

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

@zatzi We live here. I think I have seen Miss Marple several times. https://t.co/AfXvRPWGE3

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

@davidsoskin @arusbridger Despite his already evident delusions of grandeur and importance, the North does not need Burnham but business whose grave is being dug by excessive regulation, taxation and energy prices. A malign triple lock and it won't do to deal with just one lock.

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

@davidsoskin @arusbridger Priorities! "Don't you know there is a war on?" as Betjeman asked as an attache in Dublin during WW2. My overwhelming impression from when living in Wales was another layer of politicians and bureaucracy feeding nationalist hallucinations.

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@simon_schama The Grenadier Guards! https://t.co/jBHYmTKint

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

@PaulinusOfTrier The stern unbending face of liberalism as my best friend used to call it.

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

@PaulinusOfTrier My goodness he is a blast from my past. My very conservative mother wanted to extract me from MGS to go to Westminster for the sixth form but my socialist father wanted me to stay put. He was very often on Any Questions at the time, from memory.

[Mark Urban @MarkUrban01]

WATCH: Has Ukraine managed to gain the upper hand? how is it prosecuting its attack on Russia differently? My latest video for the Times https://t.co/Ceb75UIj95

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

With soldiers' life expectancy as low as 20 mins and queues for petrol everywhere, Putin looks desperate
https://t.co/Hbazcvnsai

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

@davidsoskin @JAHeale You asked for this! I saw a glorious production in Oxford many years ago! https://t.co/BtOedYdpPI

[Chris Gillibrand @CGGillibrand]

After all these years, I finally own the master work of your fellow President, David Johnson. Just reading the index is a joy all of its own. @NicholasOShaug1

[Gawain Towler @GHWTowler]

Extraordinary testimony

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Various spellings of Gillibrand in an armorial.

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@robert_lyman @MattCartoonist The treasury was full in 1065 but 1066 was a very expensive year for him before it cost him his life. Presently our treasury is very empty.

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@robert_lyman @yalepress Somewhere, from memory, on the Maginot Line, there is a plaque "Defeated but did not surrender" or words to that effect.