Adam Bishop 🇬🇧

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

You have a birthday.

So does England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

And it’s today. The 12th of July.

Almost 1,100 years ago, on this exact day, England became a country. Almost no one knows it.

The island was old long before it had a name. Farmers. Romans. Saxons. Then out of the sea came the Danes. ⚔️

They came to raid. They stayed to farm. And one hard question hung over the whole land.

Two peoples, Saxon and Dane, one small island. Whose country was it now?

Alfred of Wessex held the last corner and turned the tide. But he wanted more than a truce. One country. For both peoples. One England.

He died before he could build it. 🔥

So his family finished it. His son took back town after town. His daughter Æthelflæd led the armies herself. A woman commanding armies more than 1,000 years ago.

But it was Alfred’s grandson who ended the work.

Æthelstan.

In 927 he rode north and took York, the last Viking crown in England. One man now held every English kingdom.

Then he did something stranger. He called the other kings of Britain to a bridge in the north. A quiet place called Eamont. 📜

Scots. Welsh. The kings of the north. There, by the river, they bent the knee.

And that morning he took a new title. Not king of Wessex. Not king of the Saxons.

King of the English. All of them.

That bridge, on this day in 927, is the closest thing we have to the morning a country began. ⚖️

He made it real. One law, coast to coast. One coin, struck the same everywhere. On it he wears a crown, not a war helmet.

Then in 937 they came to destroy it. Vikings, Scots, the men of the north. The largest army the island had ever seen. They met him at Brunanburh.

Dawn to dark. Five kings fell. And when the sun went down, Æthelstan was still standing. 🏛️

England had been tested. And England had held.

He left no son. He died in 939 and chose a quiet abbey at Malmesbury. Alone, in the country he had made.

But it never came apart. Every king and queen of England since has sat on the throne he built. More than 1,000 years. Unbroken.

You were taught 1066. The Tudors. The wars. But not this. Not the king who made the country. Not the bridge. Not the 12th of July.

Æthelstan. The first king of England. And the one we forgot.

Next year it turns 1,100.

England has a birthday. And now you know when it is. 🇬🇧

You did not choose to be born here. But you inherited a country with a beginning. A name won on a bridge, 1,100 years ago. That is yours. No one can take it from you.

Help us remember the king who made us.

Help us remember who we are. 👇🙏

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Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, said Ann Widdecombe to an Oxford chamber of students that needed to hear it. God love her.

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Over 300,000 people die of drowning each year. In order to protect society, it is now illegal to consume or possess water.

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The people of Europe should withdraw from the EU to regain their sovereignty

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David Lammy wants to scrap the right to trial by jury, a protection that dates back over 800 years to Magna Carta.

Jury trials are a cornerstone of English liberty, and a crucial safeguard for free speech.

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We have passports, we have driving licences, we have National Insurance numbers…

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When people stop talking, bad things happen.

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All Charlie Kirk did was have a respectful open dialogue with people he disagreed with....

Absolutely sickening.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Linehan today, you tomorrow.

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This is a ludicrous waste of our money - entirely unjustifiable.

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People in other countries are still fighting and dying to get the chance to vote. Don't waste yours!

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The Online Safety Bill received royal assent yesterday.

Time to take the advice of this guy👇

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