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[Tricky @Tricky_1]

Who do we want to be Mayor of London?

#LondonMayor

[Dave #FoP 🇵🇸❤️🖤🤍💚🍉 @ItsOurDave]

This is a Francesca Albanese appreciation post ✊🏻 🇵🇸

[Tricky @Tricky_1]

@Juicy_Smolliet @zoomafrika1 Serious as a heart attack

[Tricky @Tricky_1]

@Pras_S The market might have something to say about that

[The African History School @_africanhistory]

The moment I realized how much work went into erasing African history from our collective memory, was the exact same moment I realized how much more work we need to put into restoring it.

[nada yousef @yousef_nad34430]

Stand up for Black people in Gaza
https://t.co/aWR8aYJli7

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The poverty of Africa is one of the most successful lies ever told.

Not because Africa has no poverty. It does. The poverty is real and it kills real people every day.

But the story of why, that is the lie.

The story says: underdevelopment. Corruption. Tribalism. Poor institutions. A continent that simply never found its footing.

The story does not say: 400 years of slave trade that forcibly removed somewhere between 12 and 20 million people, the young, the strong, the able, from the continent’s productive capacity.

The story does not say: colonialism that reorganized entire economies to produce raw materials for European industry and banned the development of local manufacturing.

The story does not say: the debt architecture of the post-independence era, which ensured that countries that escaped political colonialism immediately entered financial colonialism, with IMF conditions attached that dismantled the public institutions the colonizers had refused to build in the first place.

Africa is not underdeveloped.

Africa is precisely as developed as centuries of deliberate extraction were designed to leave it.

That is not misfortune.

That is a policy outcome.

[Tricky @Tricky_1]

@TheRealJamieKay Politicians subsidised meals

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@FS4420 @nexta_tv Were on the wrong side of assymetric warfare.

There must be a deal that could be done with someone like Ukraine where we help increase their productivity whilst we build our own

[Tricky @Tricky_1]

Bless him

He's restricted the replies

[Agent 47 @OCStationary]

Every major country has a long history of invading and conquering others - Britain included… Rome, the French, the Dutch, the Danes, and the Germans all invaded or occupied Britain at different times. Britain later did the same to others abroad. That’s normal history, not a uniquely British thing.

What is unusual is what Britain did next; It was the first major power to abolish the slave trade, then pay slave owners a huge sum (roughly 40% of government spending) to get them to accept it… and after that spent decades and thousands of lives using the Royal Navy to stop other countries’ slave ships.

That isn’t the behaviour of a country that wanted the trade to continue.

Since independence, Africa has received well over a trillion dollars in official aid. Yet many countries still lag far behind places that were poorer than them in the 1960s, especially East Asia.

The African countries that have done well (Botswana and Mauritius in particular) show the same pattern: better institutions, clearer property rights, and more competent governments. That points more to how societies are run today than to anything Britain did or didn’t do two centuries ago.

In other words - stop looking outwardly to resolve Africas issues. You’re being objectively dishonest and intellectually flawed.

[Sixty ✮ @sixtyglock]

Taco Bell security guard smacks the hell out of a woman as she attempted to order at a self-service kiosk.

[Tricky @Tricky_1]

@Juicy_Smolliet @zoomafrika1 Only one group in history has been subjected to the evil of chattel slavery

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Unexpected moment outside the court. “You should be ashamed of yourself!”
That’s not Russell Brand.
“Oh I’m thick, sorry” 😊

[Jerry Ima @ima_jerry15016]

Your blouse was ruined by your inability to fill it out!" is about the most dîabolical thing ever!😭😭

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

That was the first time, Mehdi Hassan publicly addressed the racist and violent comment made towards him by Ryan Girdusky on CNN.

[Football Talk @FootballTalkHQ]

There's nothing more beautiful than a tactical red card 😅

[Save Sudan @twt_inter]

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[Shegun 🌪️🌟 @ShegunTweets]

such a beautifully made movie, but definitely not one i'd recommend to anyone who's sensitive

[Tricky @Tricky_1]

@hr85socialist @OCStationary @bbcquestiontime It is said that debt was taken out in 1833 and finally paid off in 2015

[Tricky @Tricky_1]

@hr85socialist @OCStationary @bbcquestiontime So the next time someone says "my family didn't own any slaves" i would ask what trade they were in because the entire British economy was inextricably linked to the transatlantic slave trade.

Parliament borrowed £20m - 40% of the Treasury's annual budget to pay slave owners