Jim Steele

Recovered from cancer by listening to Bruce and E street band to help my road back . A workplace rep for @walesunitereps .These are my views and my views only

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

This week on Reichs & Republics: the "German Revolution" of 1918. We explore the tumultuous uprising that toppled the German monarchy and ultimately replaced the Kaiser as head of state with Friedrich Ebert, a former saddler. Out now on all platforms.

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

Happy birthday 108 years ago today saw the birth of Czechoslovak #Czechoslovak #CzechRepublic #Slovakia

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov, dies aged 90 #RIP
https://t.co/jLZYNr46Bk

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

@HelenJennerMS Vote Reform get a load of ex tories

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

My Dortmund programme is out on the BBC World Service today: Germany's Rust Belt Revival. "Another fascinating dispatch from Germany by academic and author Katja Hoyer," says the Telegraph. Live on the radio today and tomorrow or available online here 👇
https://t.co/ik38tkiDPi

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

The clocks go back at 2am #clocksgoback

[Rob Cameron @RobCJournalist]

The Babiš govt advanced a bill scrapping TV and radio licence fee at 4:36am as protesters chanted outside.

The opposition warns of Orbán-style illiberal democracy.

The govt says it’s fulfilling an election promise.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

https://t.co/zIfwdS1LGY

[Ian Willoughby @Ian_Willoughby]

Protest outside Czech parliament tonight, as the government plans to push through legislation to end the license fee system for public broadcasters, hobbling them financially and, critics say, increasing likelihood of political interference. #pressfreedom

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

24 October 1945. Norwegian Prime Minister and Nazi collaborator, Vidkun Quisling (aged 58), was executed after being found guilty of high treason against the Norwegian state. The word “quisling” became a byword for “collaborator” or “traitor” in several languages.

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

@HeldinEU You can apply on line

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

60 years on: The Aberfan disaster through the eyes of those who survived #wales
https://t.co/7O1v4EPfCQ

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

@HeldinEU Lets hope so

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

17 October 1997. Remains of communist revolutionary Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara were laid to rest in Cuba as part of a huge memorial, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

A portrait of Erich Honecker hangs above a Robotron computer in a former nuclear bunker near Suhl.

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

@WW2girl1944 Looking good , whats your secret to the weight loss?

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

14 October 1906. Hannah Arendt was born in Linden, Hanover, Germany. She’s best known for her theory of Totalitarianism which suggested the regimes of Hitler and Stalin were broadly similar and for her study of the trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, The Banality of Evil.

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

@HeldinEU Be proud of who you are

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

@HeldinEU Yes

[Jim Steele @clock1258]

Polish ambassador joins WW2 plaque unveiling in Checkendon #Poland
https://t.co/Kvz4bMDsRD

[Guy Walters 🇺🇦 @guywalters]

As he is now being blamed for Australia's bush fires, I write in defence of Captain Cook in the Telegraph...
https://t.co/LyMNv2PaP6