Toby Purser

Writer, historian, Oxford BA, MSt, university lecturer, PhD, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Author of The Making of England: from Rome to Reformation.

[Toby Purser @PurserToby]

Bede or Beowulf? Reflecting on the Constructed Narratives of Teaching Medieval History in Schools in England | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/Q5XPvFhcCU

[Toby Purser @PurserToby]

@JulianDutton1 Alan Bennett? 🤣

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/RkuQG32rDB
Britain’s precious “two-state solution” is profoundly immoral. People who wage a 100-year campaign of mass murder to prevent and then exterminate a legitimate country, while turning down repeated offers of a state of their own because they want to murder yet more of those people and destroy that country, and who indoctrinate their own children to do so in perpetuity, deserve absolutely nothing.

Those like the British government, who have spent the past century rewarding such a programme and are now punishing its intended victims, can be described in two words: morally depraved.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

This is just a terrifying and atrocious murder by predator Russia. And a repellent symptom of our flinthearted world sickness

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Only in Britain could you fake your credentials, lecture students on white privilege to mask your own inadequacies, and still get a candlelit vigil from the cultural class.

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

List of countries Jews occupied:

Israel

List of countries Muslims occupied:

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brunei
Burkina Faso
Chad
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Comoros
Djibouti
Egypt
Gambia
Guinea
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Libya
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Mayotte
Morocco
Niger
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Tajikistan
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Western Sahara
Yemen

[Toby Purser @PurserToby]

@RobbieRinder A lovely post.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Heroes of history. Remember Khaled al Asaad of Palmyra

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

The death of Jason Arday is tragic, and makes me so angry.

Even the most casual observer could see he was a vulnerable fantasist.

A number of people at a number of academic institutions have serious questions to answer. They put him into positions he was clearly not qualified for so they could have a black wunderkind to show off, they pushed him into the spotlight for their own benefit.

His exposure was inevitable, a case of when, not if.

His whole world fell apart.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Today, Iranian regime hanged him in secret in Shahroud، no warning, no farewell. His family was told to come at 3am to collect his body.

Arvin Kheirkhah was 20 years old. This is his last words to his family:

"Don't let me be forgotten. Don't let the path we walked go silent."
💔

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

In 2014 ISIS burned 19 Yazidi girls alive in iron cages because they refused to become sex slaves.

Nearly 12 years after the 𝐘𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐝𝐢 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞, more than 2,500 Yazidis remain missing—many of them women and children abducted by ISIS…

[Toby Purser @PurserToby]

@EricIdle He’s not the producer, he’s a very naughty boy!

[Toby Purser @PurserToby]

@Baddiel Groupthink. Extremely damaging and difficult to change.

[Toby Purser @PurserToby]

@benonwine Big difference between CHI and JII!

[Alexander Steffen @Alex__Steffen]

Heute wird Salman Rushdie 79. 1989 verurteilte ihn das Regime in Teheran zum Tode. Ayatollah Khomeini rief alle Muslime der Welt dazu auf, einen Schriftsteller zu ermorden, nur weil ihm dessen Roman nicht passte. Khomeini lebt seit über 35 Jahren nicht mehr. Sein Mordbefehl aber lebt weiter, noch 2017 bestätigte sein Nachfolger Chamenei das Todesurteil.

Und es blieb nie bei Worten. Rushdies japanischer Übersetzer wurde ermordet, sein italienischer niedergestochen, sein norwegischer Verleger angeschossen. Der islamistische Terror gegen ein einziges Buch reichte bis nach Tokio, Mailand und Oslo. 2022 stach man Rushdie schließlich auf offener Bühne nieder, ausgerechnet bei einem Vortrag über Meinungsfreiheit. Er verlor ein Auge, der Täter verehrte einen seit Jahrzehnten toten Fanatiker.

Das ist der Kern des Islamismus. Er erträgt kein freies Wort, nicht einen Roman oder auch keinen einen Witz. Und während ein Schriftsteller seit fast vierzig Jahren um sein Leben fürchtet, verhandelt der Westen mit seinen Häschern, hofiert das Regime und überweist am Ende noch Geld dafür.
Wer Freiheit ernst meint, verhandelt nicht mit denen, die Schriftsteller auf Todeslisten setzen. Er nennt sie beim Namen: Feinde jeder freien Gesellschaft.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Britain's next Prime Minister.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Henry Nowak: “I have been stabbed.”
Police officer: “I don’t think you have, mate.”

Henry, eighteen years old and in his final moments on earth, said he couldn’t breathe.
Scared. Disdained as a “racist”by disgusting DEI @HantsPolice
Who was the officer?

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Remember ppl attacked us for kids attending Sat revision sessions?

Mr D runs our referral centre - here he is today (Sat) with yr 11 singing him Happy Birthday

One told him he was a second father to him

In the words of our Home Secretary, you white guilty liberals can F*CK OFF

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

“What kind of a depraved monster slices off a woman’s breast while she is being gang raped, and throws it into the dust to be used as a plaything? What kind of a twisted pervert turns rape into necrophilia by shooting a woman in the head while he is still defiling her?
What kind of ‘freedom fighters’ go into battle with a set of handy Arabic-to-Hebrew phrases, including ‘take off your pants’, ‘lie down’, and ‘spread your legs’?
What self-respecting human being presses nails, scalpels, a hammer, an axe, screwdrivers and other household tools into a woman’s genitals?
How hard do you have to rape someone, and with what, to shatter their pelvis? Who shoots a young girl in the face and then films her mutilated corpse on her brother’s mobile phone?
The answer is: Hamas terrorists. This is the stark reality of what they did to men, women and children on October 7, 2023. And the world must never forget.”
@WestminsterWAG