Guys, today I am definitely not in a good mood. I don’t know if you heard about it, but this morning around 7 o’clock 12 persons died in a motorway pile up in south east Bulgaria. 86 vehicles were involved - cars, buses, vans and lorries.Massacre
Tomorrow is a day for mourning 💔
@SianaNache79742 Horrible. When will people learn to slow down in fog?
BBC News - Twelve dead after motorway pile-ups in Bulgaria fog
https://t.co/2toTjpxLtu
@MyNamesGuy@TheRealJamieKay If 'half plus 60' means 60.5 then 20/60.5 = 0.3305785124.
150 - 0.3305785124 =149.6694214876.
It's all engagement farming nonsense. Nobody would phrase an arithmetical problem like that. You have to infer the brackets.
@gamecounsel I always thought he was very creepy. His abuse of Andrew Sachs, in association with that other creepy character Jonathan Ross, confirmed my gut reaction to him.
Thank you, members of the Dublin Civil Defense, for rushing to help victims of the attack in Kraków. Dear Irish friends, we are grateful for your courage, responsibility, and compassion.
'As a national institution, it is a place in which everyone has a stake. The government must get behind it, and look for an alternative solution.'
The Guardian view on the British Library: don’t privatise the reading rooms | Editorial | The Guardian https://t.co/BOyovkdmp9
Dear Poland
On behalf of all sound minded people in the UK I apologise for this pathetic excuse for a human known as Young Bob invading you today
At a time of crisis he’s gone to warn them about our migration, leftism & poulism 🤯
Do fuck off Bob
Today in 1798, Theobald Wolfe Tone stood before a court martial at the Royal Barracks in Dublin and made an iconic speech, in the uniform of a French officer, that would echo through history. Outside, the cursed rebellion of that summer lay it tatters, its other leaders hanged or shot or driven into exile.
Tone had been taken a month earlier at Buncrana, after the French flagship Hoche was battered into surrender off Lough Swilly. Sir George Hill, a Trinity man who'd known him from ages before, recognised Tone among the French officers. Tone had spent years in Paris persuading the Directory to back an Irish republic. His vision was simple and dangerous. Replace the labels of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter with the common name of Irish.
In the dock he didn’t deny the charge of treason, telling the court that from his earliest youth he'd seen the connection with England as the curse of the Irish nation, and that while it lasted the country could never be free or happy.
His one request was to be shot as a soldier rather than hanged like a felon. Cornwallis refused him. So on the night before the execution Wolfe Tone cut his own throat with a penknife.
John Philpot Curran, famous barrister and a friend of Tone's, went to the Court of King's Bench and argued that a military tribunal had no right to try a civilian while the civil courts were open. The judge, Lord Kilwarden, granted a writ of habeas corpus ordering Tone's execution delayed, but the army ignored it.
The self inflicted wound did not kill him quickly. Tone lingered in agony for about a week, and the story goes he joked to the prison surgeon that he was a bad anatomist. He died on 19 November, aged 35.
He's buried in the churchyard at Bodenstown, Co. Kildare, a place of pilgrimage ever since. Pearse delivered a famous oration there in 1913, and his dream that the people of this island should govern it themselves, united not by creed but by a shared home and a shared future, will one day come true.
@TheRealJamieKay That's Iceland in Brixton.
He's quite a chancer - we don't see many like him in Brixton.
On the outside wall of Icelandin Electric Avenue there is a plaque commemorating Brixton's united stand against the fascist nail bomber of 1997.
1938 postcard sent from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany by an elderly Jewish man who was imprisoned after Kristallnacht: Roughly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested following the events of that fateful night.
@implausibleblog The UK doesn't know how to do referendums properly. The few it has had have mostly been a disaster. They are banned by the German constitution for a good reason.
If you have to have one, ask Ireland to show you how to do it properly.
@CeeMacBee@UKLabour@BBC Service exports 'not affected by EU "red tape"...'
Not true. Brexit meant UK professionals from architects to vets lost mutual recognition of professional qualifications that enabled them to sell their services in the single market..
I now have to register in both the UK and EU.
Never thought I’d live to see the day when the leader of a fascist party would lay a wreath at the cenotaph on remembrance Sunday
Despicably disrespectful