Derek Hill

Closer relationship with EU - re-join when we can. Reform voting and constitution. RTs not agreement. Lib Dem. PhD in medieval history.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

‘Government is showing poor judgment’, says Labour MP on local elections U-turn

https://t.co/SsGODp3D01

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@anders_aslund ‘Not handcuffed by history’ smacks of hubris. Read Thucydides onwards.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@SykesCharlie @TheRickWilson I have visited the African-American Smithsonian in Washington. Harrowing section on slavery but also an uplifting section on African-American achievements, which I enjoyed. The whole was realistic and balanced. Why is Trump so concerned?

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@Helen_Whately @BobBlackman @onward Is there a source for the assertion that foreign nationals receive £12bn a year? And ‘foreign nationals’ are a wider group than those in the Express article.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@brianmoore666 Also those fees paid for services like customs, agricultural support, scientific research which are often more expensive to replicate at a UK level.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@j_amesmarriott @solange_lebourg Classical education outlasted the disappearance of imperial institutions in the West. Virgil was always read. But texts disappeared as scriptoria and libraries closed, and the focus was on Christian writings. The East was different and Aristotle was passed on to Arabic learning.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@PaddyBriggs @markpack A unicameral system under FPTP would be dangerous, giving one party with a majority huge power. A second chamber elected on a different basis, perhaps with some weighting for regions/countries could provide a useful check.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@doctorrem @dr_andrealove I think Jenner (smallpox) was equally cavalier in how he delivered the first vaccine.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@aigne_aighne Not sure disdain is universal. Irish writers in English are certainly respected and an Irish accent is far less ridiculed than say Brum.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@the_tpa £20m a year is arguably not that much to ensure (eg) that patients are properly diagnosed.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@ProfKarolSikora If all those working on diversity, equality and inclusion roles went there would be savings. Do you know how much? My suspicion is that it would not be a magic money tree. You also assume that the removal of these posts would be without effect, which again is a bold assumption.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@afneil Mass immigration is in part the result of policy failures - lack of housing, poor maternity facilities, misdirected education - leading to a declining birth rate as well as success in prolonging old age.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Starmer on grooming gangs: "Why didn't the last govt implement the Jay report? For ten years we've had reviews and reports. Did they do anything? No they're now tweeting and talking."

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@DanMulhall A strangely dated view - I thought Ireland now had net immigration?

[Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 @vivamjm]

Don't forget UK has also now officially dropped any notion of trying to enforce UKCA !!
So the Single Market continues for UK's EU/EFTA competitors ..but now only one way, to their advantage.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@RupertMyers Why are returns on farming so low compared to asset value? Is it because agricultural land values are inflated by IHT exemption? It doesn’t make sense.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@NostalgiaFC1 @Dkarbowitz @Irishchutzpah And the means by which large parts of Western Europe became Christian, not least Scotland and parts of England.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@old_wino2 @SimonForrest11 Horace meant it. It took Owen to make it ‘The old Lie’. Difference between the classical pre-Christian world - with all its bloody splendour - and our world.

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@danielmgmoylan Parricide? Who did he murder?

[Derek Hill @davmhill]

@RedCloudSundown @Dannybooboo0 @historyinmemes Compare and contrast with Africa and Asia, colonised by Europeans but where the inhabitants had been, for the most part, exposed to Western diseases.