Martin Rose

Retired British Council officer (Baghdad, Rome, Brussels, Ottawa, Rabat) now settled on the Essex Chalk and concerned with history, churches, dogs and books.

[Tes magazine @tes]

The Treasury forecasts that around 3,000 pupils will be expected to move into state schools before the end of the 2024-25 academic year following private school VAT plans
https://t.co/6RwJJR0NxV

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

@KPW1453 @hellohistoria Green man? It's clearly Thomas the Tank Engine.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Given that the UK a) has ALWAYS regarded the West Bank & Gaza as illegally occupied by Israel

and b) we have ALWAYS, under every government, supported a Two State Solution, what conceivable excuse can @DavidLammy & @Keir_Starmer produce for abstaining on this motion in the face of all sane readings of International Law?

What is this strange urge to back Ben Gvir & Netanyahu in their war crimes and slaughter of Palestinians? Do you both really wish the indigenous people of the West Bank to be wiped out or ethnically cleansed? Because that is exactly the endgame that British policy is heading towards.

This is an utter disgrace at any time. Under a Labour Government its even more unforgivable.

UN members back resolution directing Israel to leave occupied territories. General assembly votes overwhelmingly in favour of Palestinian resolution after ICJ ruling in July

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[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

Photos reveal Zaha Hadid Architects' Central Bank of Iraq nearing completion in Baghdad https://t.co/cYOGIpa8lM via @dezeen

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

Utterly, utterly revolting. And this is the army that touts itself as "the most moral in the world". But it's a Palestinian horse, and thus a member of Hamas.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Some of the most shameless depravity gleefully shared of our time.

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

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[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

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[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

This, you will recall, is "the most moral army in the world". Really? I think not. Using fragmentation bombs against children doesn't strike me as awfully moral. https://t.co/qKL0c9K1gm

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

@DrFrancisYoung More likely perhaps that JKR waved her wand, conjuring up narbutts ...

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m

(Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration with Democracy for Sale. Narration by @CarolVorders)

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Pretty chuffed with my first day as Kemi Badenoch's new Director of Comms. Just logging on to Twitter now...

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

@robertness1000 I plead innocent! Martin

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

Sunak's earnest promises to compensate blood victims and sub-postmasters by the year end needs to be understood in the light of his "working assumption" that there will be an election in the 4th quarter. Don't hold your breath, victims of government malfeasance!

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

How should #History undergraduates communicate in essays?

In a new post for @RoyalHistSoc's blog, Elizabeth Goodwin (@YorkStJohn) asserts the importance of encouraging, and hearing, students' voices and personal opinions in their work https://t.co/2GAJbhES9n #twitterstorians

[Qays Sediqi @QaysSediqi]

@Bushra1Shaikh This one keeps embarrassing herself more and more 🤣

[Julian Shea @juliansheasport]

#OnThisDay in 2019... #BorisJohnson #LocalElections

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

@memilies Worcester Gardens, 1970? 71? 72? Magic.

[Saffron Walden County High School @tweetswchs]

No booking needed! Join us at SWCHS on Thursday April 25th, in Q6 from 4pm to 5.30 in Q6, as award-winning author & broadcaster @ClareMulley talks about her best-selling book #TheSpyWhoLoved - Visit https://t.co/QE8qAmqgHo to get a taste of the adventure

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

@HershamBoySteve Almost published ... it has been a long saga (and a long book!) But I am now signing off the final proofs. Let me know your email (mine is [email protected]) and I'll email you when it's finally published. Best wishes, Martin

[Martin Rose @MarforioRomano]

This morning (give or take 11 days), in November 1703, Plymouth woke to see the Eddystone rock empty - the lighthouse had been torn off it by the Great Storm, along with Henry Winstanley, its architect. My biography of HW, The Last Renaissance Engineer, to be published in January