Gabriel Ward 🇬🇧

Oxford MSt Intellectual History | Burkean Democratic socialist & Muggletonian marxist

[Gabriel Ward 🇬🇧 @Gward_2001]

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[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

"If a certain department of knowledge specially attracts a man, let him study that, and study it because it attracts him; and let him not fabricate excuses for that which requires no excuse." A.E. Housman's inaugural lecture, University Coll. London, 1892: https://t.co/Zpkg4YJ97F

[Nervana Mahmoud @Nervana_1]

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[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Norman Jackson climbed out of a Lancaster bomber onto the wing, in the freezing slipstream, four miles above Germany, to put out an engine fire with a hand extinguisher while the aircraft flew on through the night. It is one of the most physically unbelievable acts of courage in the history of the air war, and the fact that he survived it at all is a miracle.

Jackson was a flight engineer, and by April 1944 he had already finished his tour of 30 missions. He did not have to fly again. But his crew still had sorties to complete, and he would not let them go without him, so he volunteered for one more, a raid on Schweinfurt. On the way home a German night fighter tore into them, ripped open the wing, and set the fuel tank ablaze. A wing fire on a bomber full of fuel meant the aircraft would explode within minutes. Everyone aboard knew it.

Jackson, already wounded by shell splinters, did the only thing that might save them. He got a fire extinguisher, strapped on his parachute, and had his crewmates feed the rip cord out slowly so his canopy would billow behind him as an anchor. Then he pushed himself out through the hatch into a 200 mile an hour wind and hauled himself out onto the wing of the flying bomber, in the dark, at 20,000 feet, and started fighting the fire by hand.

He nearly did it. He got the extinguisher onto the flames and had the fire coming under control. Then the night fighter swung back for another pass and raked the aircraft again. Jackson was hit in the legs, the fire flared back up and burned his hands and face, and he was swept off the wing into the night. His parachute, already burned by the fire, streamed out only partly open and smouldering.

And he lived. He fell four miles with a half-burned parachute and hit the ground with a broken ankle, a shattered leg, and terrible burns, but alive. The Germans found him and he spent ten months in hospital before a POW camp, from which he later escaped. His own crew, who bailed out and assumed he was dead, survived to tell what he had done, and that is the only reason the story is known.

They gave Norman Jackson the Victoria Cross. He climbed onto the wing of a burning aircraft in flight to save his friends, and then fell out of the sky on fire, and got up and walked away from it.

[St2station @St2station]

Castlereagh’s calling out of Canning for a duel in 1809 came in the form of a letter that was nine pages long. Canning—who’d never fired a pistol in his life—accepted the challenge with “By God, I’d rather fight than read all that.”

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

Hah! No.

This is the perfect story. Jason Arday is the perfect awful DEI candidate: useless as an academic, his work contains a large amount of plagiarism, and he is obviously a liar and a fraud.

Jason Arday-gate will hopefully keep going and going. In the very optimum outcome, this story becomes so big that Cambridge University is forever tainted with it. And other universities can see what happens when you go full DEI.

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

Both adults and children discuss the negative aspects of the high rises of 1960s Liverpool. You can hear that even the children can tell its not natural.

"The children feel imprisoned in them"

[Hilton Holloway @hiltonholloway]

Jfc. We want soft grass and trees. 'Escape from the right angles'. And what do they come up - more state. A play leader. The dead head of the state. And the next-gen tower block estates were even worse. Famously smashed to pieces in L'pool with a decade.

[Michael Knowles @Express_Knowles]

Exclusive: One of the biggest investigations I've worked on...

More than 1,500 convicted foreign criminals are living in taxpayer-funded asylum accommodation because they have not been deported.

Labour is battling a growing removals backlog, with almost 20,000 foreign crooks living across Britain.

And an 11-month probe by this newspaper can reveal around 1,509 offenders have been given free homes found for them.

Critics said our findings “reveal that the Home Office is paying for illegal migrant criminals to be scattered in communities”.

The Home Office insisted that the decision to release a foreign criminal into the community is “never taken lightly”, before adding “suitable accommodation is sourced prior to their release to manage them effectively”.

This collaborates evidence given to MPs by asylum accommodation provider Serco, who revealed a “lack of returns agreements with certain countries means their nationals will never be deported”.

They added: “These individuals are therefore transferred to asylum accommodation on an indefinite basis.”

[Michael Knowles @Express_Knowles]

Full story on a huge crisis erupting in Britain's asylum system: https://t.co/rPRh416xj9

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

This is a very significant story.

There are more than 1,500 foreign criminals living in asylum accommodation at OUR expense.

The government is placing foreign criminals in British communities, and the taxpayer is stumping up for the privilege.

[Gabriel Ward 🇬🇧 @Gward_2001]

@si_rubinstein Ahh, but isn't Thomas Skinner really just a sincere & well-meaning eccentric? You can't be too hard on the fellow ... expecting political consistency, for example ... he's too busy on his allotment! Doubtless I'm being sentimental but he gets a pass from me.

BOSH! 🏆🍻

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“There is nothing in front but a flat wilderness of standardisation, either by Bolshevism or Big Business. But it is strange that some of us should have seen sanity… the rest go forward chained eternally to enlargement without liberty & progress without hope.”

G.K. Chesterton

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'Is it not the same principle?'

Emily Carver asks Labour MP Tris Osborne why Spain is able to use its military to stop migrants entering the country, but the UK can't.

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[Jonathan Sacerdoti @jonsac]

Millions are watching the Islam debate from Oxford. The discussion is spreading around the world. That is why I accepted the invitation to speak.

Earlier, I discussed with @SamaramGill what happened in Oxford, and why the debate is important.

[Sarah Deech ☕️ @londonette]

All breakfast show producers (and former producers ✋🏼) the world over are Neil Bennett, here.

[Gabriel Ward 🇬🇧 @Gward_2001]

@tanjil_rashid_ I would say that any subject is worth investigating & studying - if it is done objectively & fairly. The process of the attainment of knowledge (i.e. the study of education) is worthwhile. However, it appears that certain subjects tend towards politicisation by their nature.

[Gabriel Ward 🇬🇧 @Gward_2001]

But, Professor Imbrisevic, why shld we trust Cambridge to handle it given they created this mess in the first place? Isnt it fair to say that scepticism is warranted?

[Miroslav Imbrisevic @Miroandrej]

Let's give this a rest now on social media - the papers have picked up the story - and let Cambridge handle it.

https://t.co/LeSNoyaQPa

[Gabriel Ward 🇬🇧 @Gward_2001]

@jonsac @TRobinsonNewEra This is naturally speculative, but it could be that Aisha is, deep down, struggling to reconcile her personal views with her public defence of Islam, and this tension expresses itself through inconsistent arguments and moments of personal warmth toward opponents.

[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek @karenalainehunt]

The fact that Aisha doesn't understand how what she said gives the entire argument over to the other side is classic Islamic behavior.

It's like when I lived in Luxor, Egypt and the men insisted with great conviction that Egypt won the 1967 6 Day War. They could not explain exactly how but there was no way to make them see the absurdity of their belief. It got quite embarrassing, actually.
I was almost 11 years old when the war broke out and my family was in Cairo just days before the war started. I remember it well and know from my own experiences the absurdity of their claims.

As @jonsac says:
It’s hard to understand how she thought this was an argument for not being suspicious of Islam. Her claim is that simply debating it in a student club apparently required Muslim “generosity” and “protection” to hold back a “riot” which would otherwise harm the speakers. It’s like saying you shouldn’t be suspicious of the mafia because their ‘protection’ keeps you safe from harm.

Oh and I also knew many Aishas in Luxor. It was a popular name for "reverts" who came to live there, married to the local men who bled them dry of every penny--and the women still denied that they were being cheated. It was a very strange place, but very insightful into the reality of Islam.

[Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi]

Worth remembering that Nathan Cofnas in particular, who wrote the initial Substack on Arday, was actually hounded out of Cambridge, while Arday remained.