Dr Greg Roberts

Historian of celebrity during the Regency era, Wanstead House & the scandalous life of William Long-Wellesley. Roofer, Father, Londonist & Eejit #uniwestminster

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@queensu A new book about the man who laid the foundation stone for Queen’s University in 1841 - the story of Mary & Charles Bagot - who also brought responsible government to Canada for the first time & created her southern border with USA

https://t.co/njSAzl4A7N…

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@KingstonHerald You may like this new book about one of Kingston’s most notable residents - the story of Mary and Charles Bagot - who brought responsible government to Canada for the first time & created her southern border with USA

https://t.co/njSAzl4A7N…

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@GeoffyPJohnston You may like this new book about one of Kingston’s most notable residents - the story of Mary and Charles Bagot - who brought responsible government to Canada for the first time & created her southern border with USA

https://t.co/QFzIDhDcSQ

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@TorontoStar find out about the early history of Canada via the life and times of Mary & Charles Bagot - who brought responsible government to Canada & created her vast border with USA

Have a look at The Rebel and the Peacemaker: https://t.co/yJvFd26rzU… via @canelo_co

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@mtlgazette find out about the early history of Canada via the life and times of Mary & Charles Bagot - who brought responsible government to Canada & created her vast border with USA

Have a look at The Rebel and the Peacemaker: https://t.co/yJvFd26rzU… via @canelo_co

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@globeandmail Check out this new book about the life & marriage of Sir Charles Bagot who introduced responsible government to Canada and also created the longest undefended international border in the world

The Rebel and the Peacemaker: https://t.co/yJvFd26rzU… via @canelo_co

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@nybooks A new book about young America rebuilding a new relationship with Britain after the White House was burned down in 1812

Have a look at The Rebel and the Peacemaker: https://t.co/yJvFd26rzU… via @canelo_co

[Historia – the HWA @HistoriaHWA]

Why write history?
"Non-fiction books are crucial for preserving stories about women and men who make ground-breaking changes in the world," says Geraldine Roberts.
She reflects on the experience of researching her new book, The Rebel and the Peacemaker: https://t.co/8ZGhQUM9q2

[Historia – the HWA @HistoriaHWA]

Enjoy publication day Geraldine Roberts, The Rebel and the Peacemaker is out. Leaving Regency England, Charles and Mary settle into their new home among the mudflows of Washington to serve their penance as the first British Ambassadors to America. https://t.co/pN2LSJd4tR

[Historia – the HWA @HistoriaHWA]

Why write history?
"Non-fiction books are crucial for preserving stories about women and men who make ground-breaking changes in the world," says Geraldine Roberts.
She reflects on the experience of researching her new book, The Rebel and the Peacemaker: https://t.co/8ZGhQUM9q2

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@Tim_Couzens Well Dickie did pinch his woman

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

Nice to see Dicky (Marquess Richard Wellesley) and his brother Arthur (Duke of Wellington) side by side at the Foreign Office when I had the privilege to visit yesterday

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

The grand staircase at the Foreign Office in Whitehall is a thing of beauty to behold

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@Tim_Couzens Haha
I don’t think the Americans would be so keen on an ambassador with brain cells.

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

Doing my bestest Duke of Wellington impersonation at the Foreign Office today

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer is so awful that he has made the British public side with Tony Blair.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Why I have decided to back Andy Burnham for Labour leadership http://t.co/0rwPLtkxaB

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

@PolitlcsUK She put more effort into this Resignation Letter than she did into dealing with the many Muslim Grooming Gangs that have long operated with impunity across Britain. History will not be kind to Jess Phillips.

[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

The biggest Labour lie and delusion - that they represent working people and that increasing minimum wage will somehow stimulate employment.
It’s anti-ambition, anti-growth, and stigmatises businesses

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Our party has suffered a historic defeat.

Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.

What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.

The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.

We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.

Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.

Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.

Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.

In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer. 

We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.

The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism. 

Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.

For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.

But we have the chance to fix this. 

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[Dr Greg Roberts @D_Profundis]

@OVOArena your men’s toilets are an absolute disgrace.
25 mins to get to the toilet and no urinals
Why would you do that??