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[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: 23 million people worldwide have signed a petition to ban Argentina from future World Cups citing corruption and violent behaviour

It is one of the most signed petitions in history

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

Without Britain, none of these would exist...

The English language
The Latin alphabet
English spelling (pre-Webster)
English grammar
The common law system
Trial by jury
Habeas corpus
The presumption of innocence
Due process
The right to a fair trial
The adversarial court system
Judges in robes
The gavel
Legal precedent
Stare decisis
Property law
Contract law
Tort law
Estate law
Wills
Power of attorney
Land titles
Deeds
The Magna Carta tradition
The Bill of Rights concept
Parliamentary procedure
Robert's Rules of Order
Bicameral legislatures
The Senate (modelled on the House of Lords)
The Speaker of the House role
The filibuster
Committees
Hansard-style records
The loyal opposition concept
Separation of powers (via Locke and Montesquieu, but English tradition)
The Westminster system as a starting point
Christianity as the dominant faith
The Protestant work ethic
The King James Bible
Methodism
Quakerism
Baptism
Anglicanism (became the Episcopal Church)
Presbyterianism
Congregationalism
Puritanism
Sunday as a day of rest
Church weddings
Christian burial traditions
Christmas
Easter
Christmas trees (via Germany via Victoria, but arrived through Britain)
Christmas carols
Mince pies
Christmas pudding (mostly forgotten but exists)
Father Christmas (became Santa Claus)
Easter eggs
Hot cross buns
Wedding rings
White wedding dresses (Victoria again)
The bouquet toss
The wedding cake
Bridesmaids
Best man
Funeral wreaths
Tombstones
The handshake
Saying "please" and "thank you"
Standing for elders
Holding doors open
Queueing (badly)
"How do you do" as a greeting
First names and surnames in that order
The "Junior" and "III" naming convention
Titles like Mr, Mrs, Miss
Doctor as a title
Reverend
Honourable
The handshake on a deal
Signing contracts
Witnesses on documents
Notaries
Public schools (the concept)
Universities
Colleges
Harvard (founded by Cambridge graduates)
Yale, Princeton, Columbia (all British colonial)
Caps and gowns at graduation
Mortarboards
Honorary degrees
The PhD
Fraternities and sororities (Greek, but via Oxbridge clubs)
Boarding schools
House systems in schools
School uniforms
Class prefects (residual)
The three-term academic year
Recess
Detention
Spelling bees (British origin)
Reading, writing, arithmetic
The blackboard
Cursive handwriting
Letter writing
The postal service
Stamps
Mailboxes
Addresses with house numbers
Streets named after things
Pubs (became bars and taverns)
Inns
Tea
Coffee houses (originally a London thing)
Beer
Ale
Whisky tradition (Scottish/Irish)
Gin
Cider
Pub games
Darts
Billiards
Snooker (kind of)
Pool tables
Card games
Whist
Bridge
Poker (debatable but English roots)
Chess (via Britain)
Cricket (briefly, before baseball ate it)
Baseball (descended from rounders and cricket)
Football (the rugby version, which became American football)
Rugby
Soccer (the word and the game)
Tennis
Golf
Horse racing
Foxhunting (briefly)
Boxing (Queensberry rules)
Wrestling
Rowing
Sailing
Yachting
Pigeon racing
Dog shows
Crufts-style breed standards
Most dog breeds
Sheepdogs
Foxhounds
Beagles
Bulldogs
Most cat breeds
Horse breeds
Thoroughbreds
The Derby
Sunday roast
Roast beef
Roast chicken
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire pudding (vanished)
Gravy
Stuffing
Pies (the savoury kind, mostly mutated)
Pot pie
Shepherd's pie
Apple pie (English originally)
Pumpkin pie (English roots, American twist)
Mince pies
Custard
Trifle
Pudding (the word)
Cookies (called biscuits)
Cakes
Sponge cake
Pound cake
Fruit cake
Sandwiches
The Earl of Sandwich
Toast
Marmalade
Jam
Preserves
Pickles (via Britain)
Mustard
Worcestershire sauce
HP sauce (limited)
Salt and vinegar (chips)
Fish and chips (became "fish fry")
Chips (became fries)
Crisps (became chips)
Bacon
Sausages
Black pudding (vanished)
Bangers and mash (vanished)
Bread and butter pudding
Porridge (became oatmeal)
The English breakfast (became "American breakfast" in modified form)
Scones (became biscuits)
Muffins (became English muffins)
Crumpets (sort of)
Tea cakes
Buns
Loaves
Sourdough (English roots, not just San Francisco)
The pub Sunday lunch concept
Fish on Friday
Bank holidays (became federal holidays)
Sunday trading laws (residual blue laws)
Thanksgiving (Puritan harvest festival)
Halloween (Celtic via Britain via Ireland)
Bonfire night (vanished)
Guy Fawkes (vanished but the V mask remains)
May Day (residual)
Boxing Day (vanished)
New Year's Eve traditions
Auld Lang Syne (Scottish)
Mother's Day (English origin, US adaptation)
Father's Day (similar)
Valentine's Day (English custom)
April Fool's Day
Saint Patrick's Day (Irish via UK union)
The pound (as a weight)
The mile
The foot
The inch
The yard
The acre
The gallon (different gallon, but inherited)
Fahrenheit (German via Britain)
The 12-hour clock with AM/PM
Common time signatures in music
Sheet music notation
The piano (via Europe via Britain)
Brass bands
Marching bands
Christmas carols
Hymns
Folk music tradition
Ballads
Sea shanties
Nursery rhymes
Mother Goose
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Humpty Dumpty
Jack and Jill
London Bridge
Ring a Ring o' Roses
Fairy tales
Robin Hood
King Arthur
Beowulf (academic)
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Dickens
The novel as a form
The detective novel (Conan Doyle)
Sherlock Holmes
The English country house mystery
The school story
The adventure novel
Treasure Island
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
The Wind in the Willows
Winnie the Pooh
Mary Poppins
Christopher Robin
Beatrix Potter
Roald Dahl (post-WWII but huge)
The pantomime tradition (vanished mostly)
Music hall (became vaudeville)
Vaudeville (Anglo-French)
The variety show
Stand-up comedy roots
The sitcom format
Punch magazine humour
Political cartoons
The cartoon strip
The newspaper
The broadsheet
The tabloid
Editorial pages
Letters to the editor
Op-eds
Crossword puzzles (American invention but English wordplay roots)
The Times-style serif typography
Garamond, Times New Roman, Caslon — English/European typefaces
The hardcover book
The paperback
Public libraries
The Dewey Decimal System (American but library tradition is English)
Bookstores
The university press
Academic journals
Peer review
The scientific method (English/European)
The Royal Society tradition (became American Philosophical Society etc)
Most named scientific units (Newton, Watt, Kelvin, Faraday)
Newton's laws
Darwin's theory of evolution
Most basic chemistry nomenclature
Most basic physics nomenclature
The metric system rejection (uniquely shared with Britain… until Britain switched)
Engineering tradition
The steam engine (became railroads)
Railroads
The locomotive
The train station
The platform
The ticket inspector
Steamships
Ocean liners
The merchant navy concept
Lighthouses
Lifeboats
Coastguards
The Royal Navy tradition (became US Navy structure)
Naval ranks
Army ranks
Military uniforms (red coats aside)
The salute
The drill sergeant
Boot camp concept
West Point modelled on Sandhurst
Annapolis modelled on naval colleges
Military bands
Bagpipes (in some regiments)
The bugle call
Reveille
Taps (American but British camp roots)
The 21-gun salute
Trooping the colour (residual ceremonial)
The Marine Corps tradition
Most ranks: Private, Corporal, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Colonel, General
Court-martial
Articles of war
The Geneva Convention adherence
The chain of command
Saluting the flag
The flag itself (Stars and Stripes — derived from British East India Company flag, debated)
Pledges of allegiance
National anthems sung at events (To Anacreon in Heaven was a London tune)
The Star Spangled Banner's tune is English
"America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)" uses "God Save the King"
The Boy Scouts (Baden-Powell)
The Girl Guides (became Girl Scouts)
The Salvation Army
The YMCA (English origin)
The YWCA
Rotary Clubs (American but masonic English roots)
Freemasonry
The Order of Odd Fellows
Banking (modern banking is English/Italian via Britain)
The bank cheque
Promissory notes
Stock exchanges
The corporation
Limited liability
Joint stock companies
Insurance (Lloyd's of London)
Marine insurance
Life insurance
The mortgage
Rent
Leases
Tenancies
Landlords
Real estate
The auction
Estate agents (became realtors)
Auctioneers
Stock tickers (American but City of London style)
Banker's hours
Double-entry bookkeeping (Italian but via Britain)
Audit
Chartered accountants
The financial year
Tax law structure
Income tax (British invention, 1799)
Tariffs
Customs
Excise
Stamp duty
The cabinet system
The Speaker of the House
The Lord Speaker → Senate President pro tempore
The Whip system
Cabinet ministers
Departments of state
The Treasury
The Foreign Office (became State Department)
The Home Office concept
The civil service
The bureaucracy
The mayor
The town council
The county
The sheriff
The constable
The bailiff
The coroner
The magistrate
The justice of the peace
The grand jury
The petit jury
Indictments
Subpoenas
Warrants
Habeas corpus
The bench
The bar
Barristers and solicitors merged into "lawyers" or "attorneys"
Wigs (briefly, then dropped)
The black robe
The witness stand
Swearing on the Bible
"I do solemnly swear"
Marriage vows
"I do"
The honeymoon
The bridal veil
The bouquet
The garter toss
Horseshoes for luck
Throwing rice
Tying cans to cars
Saying "I love you"
Greeting cards
Christmas cards (English invention, 1843)
Birthday cards
Get well cards
Postcards
The fountain pen
The ballpoint (Hungarian via Britain)
The typewriter (American but English keyboard layout)
QWERTY (American actually, but for English)
The dictionary (Johnson's, then Webster's adaptation)
The encyclopedia (Britannica)
The thesaurus (Roget)
Grammar textbooks
Spelling rules
Cursive script
Italics
Bold type
Punctuation conventions
The semicolon
The colon
The full stop (period)
Quotation marks
Apostrophes
Most idioms in American English
"Raining cats and dogs"
"Spill the beans"
"Bite the bullet"
"Break the ice"
"Cost an arm and a leg"
"Once in a blue moon"
Most proverbs
Most riddles
Most jokes structures
Knock-knock jokes (English origin)
Most card game vocabulary
Most pub vocabulary
The word "OK" (debated, but English roots)
The phrase "All right"
Cheers as a toast
The toast tradition itself
Champagne for celebrations (French via England)
Wine traditions
Port and sherry (gone)
Sundowners (gone, mostly)
The cocktail (English/American hybrid)
The cocktail party
The dinner party
The hostess
The toastmaster
Speeches at events
Eulogies
The wake
Mourning clothes
Black at funerals
White at weddings
Confetti
The bouquet
Bunting at parties
Streamers
Balloons (rubber tech, but party use is British)
Fireworks (Chinese, but British public use)
4th of July fireworks (replaced Bonfire Night)
The parade tradition
Marching bands
The Mayor's parade
Floats
The town hall meeting
The village green concept (became "the commons")
The town square
The courthouse on the square
The clock tower
Church steeples
Sunday morning church bells
The wedding peal
The funeral toll
The vicarage (became parsonage)
The parish system (residual)
Sunday school
Bible study groups
Hymn books
Pews
Pulpits
Stained glass windows
Gothic architecture in churches
Neoclassical architecture (via Britain via Greece/Rome)
Georgian architecture
Victorian architecture
The white picket fence (English garden tradition)
The lawn
The hedge
The garden
Garden parties
The greenhouse
Allotments (residual, "community gardens")
Lawnmowers
Garden gnomes (German via Britain)
Hedge mazes
Topiary
Ivy on walls
Ivy League itself (the ivy tradition)
The college campus quadrangle
The cloister
The chapel
The dining hall
The refectory
High table (vanished)
College colours
College mottos in Latin
The class ring tradition
The tassel
The valedictorian
The salutatorian
"Pomp and Circumstance" (Elgar) at graduations
Most ceremonial music
"Auld Lang Syne" at New Year
"Happy Birthday" derivatives
Most lullabies
Most folk dances
Square dancing (English country dancing)
Maypole dancing (vanished)
Morris dancing (vanished)
The waltz (Austrian via Britain)
Ballet (French/Italian via Britain)
Opera (Italian via Britain)
The orchestra
The conductor
The string quartet
The choir
The choirmaster
The organist
Cathedral music tradition
Boys' choirs
Hymn singing
Congregational singing
The Christmas carol service
Lessons and carols
The advent calendar (German via Britain)
Advent wreaths
The Christmas stocking
Mistletoe
Holly and ivy
The Yule log
Father Christmas (Santa via Coca-Cola but English roots)
Christmas pudding
Christmas crackers (vanished mostly)
Pulling crackers (vanished)
The paper crown (vanished)
Cracker jokes (vanished)
The Queen's Speech (vanished, replaced by State of the Union)
Trooping the Colour (replaced by July 4 parades)
Most parliamentary terminology
Most legal terminology
Most academic terminology
Most ceremonial terminology
Most aristocratic terminology (residual in some Southern states)
The plantation system (English colonial)
Slavery's legal framework (English colonial law)
Indentured servitude
The land grant
The patent system
Copyright (Statute of Anne, 1710)
Trademark law
Intellectual property concept
The press freedom principle
The free speech tradition
Freedom of religion (Puritan dissent)
Freedom of assembly
The right to petition
The right to bear arms (English Bill of Rights 1689)
Trial by peers
"Innocent until proven guilty"
Burden of proof
Reasonable doubt
The Miranda warning structure (American but rights are English)
The arrest
The booking
The mugshot
The fingerprint (English science)
Forensics (British origin)
Sherlock Holmes-style detection
Scotland Yard imitations (FBI, etc.)
Police forces themselves (Robert Peel)
"Cops" (from "coppers", British slang)
The beat
The patrol
The night watch
The constable
The detective
Plain-clothes officers
The detective novel
The thriller
The spy novel (le Carré, Fleming)
James Bond
Most spy tradecraft language
"MI6"-style intelligence framing (CIA modelled partly)
The Special Relationship itself
NATO membership tradition
The United Nations (Anglo-American framework)
The League of Nations before it
International law tradition
Diplomatic protocol
Embassies
Ambassadors
Consuls
Diplomatic immunity
The State visit
The 21-gun salute
The red carpet
The receiving line
The official photograph
The official portrait
The Oval Office desk (Resolute desk, gift from Queen Victoria)
White House architecture (Georgian)
Capitol Hill architecture (neoclassical)
The Supreme Court building (neoclassical)
The Lincoln Memorial style (Greek revival via Britain)
The Washington Monument (obelisk, via Britain via Egypt)
Most monumental architecture before 1930
Cathedrals modelled on English ones
The cemetery as a park (Victorian invention)
Gravestones in English style
Latin epitaphs
Stone angels
The mausoleum
The crypt
The grave plot
The funeral procession
The hearse
Black ribbons
Half-mast flags
Memorial services
The eulogy
The 21-gun salute at military funerals
"Taps" at military funerals (American melody, British practice)
The folded flag presentation
The white glove tradition
The dress uniform
The medal
The ribbon bar
Knighthoods (rejected) → Medal of Honor (kept the spirit)
The Order of the Bath → Presidential Medal of Freedom structure
Decorations and citations
Battlefield commissions
"For valour" inscriptions
The Victoria Cross influenced the Medal of Honor
Most military ceremonial

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

In a world full of Megan Rapinoes, be a Sophie Cunningham

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It could have been your daughter

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

I’m done with allowing people to insult my ancestors like this.

No other group of people on Earth would allow their forebears to be insulted like this.

🇬🇧 My ancestors were the first people in history to fight to end slavery.

🇬🇧 They spread the common law across the world.

🇬🇧 They stopped Indians from burning widows alive so that they wouldn’t have to pay to feed them after their husbands had died.

🇬🇧 They stood alone against the Nazis.

🇬🇧 They invented and built the modern world with technology and medicine that started to defeat death and disease.

🇬🇧 They invented economics and democracy as we know it.

My ancestors were great people. Without them, the world would be an immeasurably darker, more wicked place.

Never again let entitled actors who known nothing about anything browbeat you into feeling shame for your ancestors.

Britain, and Western civilisation, are the greatest expressions of human flourishing in the history of the world.

Be proud of the ancestors who fought and toiled and sacrificed for that.

Don’t ever be ashamed of the greatness of our inheritance.

Live up to it.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 Elon Musk just NUKED this reporter to her face in a MASTERCLASS

"People loathe you!"

ELON: "I don't care. The fact that a quarter billion people follow me means a lot more people like me than don't."

"I think a lot more people hate YOU and the MEDIA than you realize!"

🫳🏻🎤

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

This 'journalist' tries to paint me as 'far-right' and racist.

Elon shuts her, and the entire mainstream media, down in the most glorious way.

[FoxForce5 @Foxfan51]

Spurs in Prem 2016 🤣

[Lydia † 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @LibertyLydia]

Following a pathetic attempt by Hope not Hate to smear me in their latest ‘hit piece’ on Restore Britain, it has just been amplified by The Times.

I was asked for comment today.

Since they failed to quote me properly, here is my full comment. 👇🏻

Hi Matt,

I am not, and never have been, a leading figure in the Remigration Now movement. I signed up earlier this year purely out of curiosity and because I broadly agreed with their messaging on remigration.

The recent Hope not Hate article is a shameful attempt to smear and misrepresent me in order to advance their own agenda. It is especially sickening that they would target someone with my background.

I was previously a member of Reform UK and later joined Restore Britain after contributing to Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry, where I appear under an alias to protect my identity.

Over the period of 20 years I was trapped in the Islamic world after being groomed, tortured, kidnapped and trafficked from the age of 15 while in local authority care in Tower Hamlets, East London. I currently have an open court case against the council seeking damages for their negligence and I continue to live in constant fear from my abusers.

When I referred to “networks,” I simply meant like-minded people in my local area. Once Restore Britain launched as a political party with a clear policy on mass deportations, there was no need for me to pursue anything further with Remigration Now. Restore Britain offers a sensible, democratic route to reverse the damage mass migration has inflicted on our communities.

I stand by my comment that white (Cockneys) in my area are particularly receptive to the remigration message. It is simply a fact.

We have watched our communities transform beyond recognition, our culture eroded, our children raped and abused by grooming gangs, and our own people subjected to two-tier systems that consistently favours certain communities over our own.

I did pose for a photograph with Rupert Lowe at the Restore Britain branch organisers’ meeting in May.

Lowe is a courageous and principled man who is doing vital work standing up for ordinary British people and exposing the deep institutional failures in our country.

For too long, the British people have been silenced, demonised, and deliberately placed last.

Under current demographic trends, we are on course to become a minority in our own homeland within the next 30 years. I for one, will not simply stand by and watch this happen.

Having survived what happens when you are vulnerable in a community that sees you as subhuman, I know exactly where this road leads.

This cannot continue. The trend must be reversed.

We must Restore Britain.

https://t.co/WxIH3cFYDS

[Wolfgang Richter @WolfgangRichtEU]

My son is training to become a police officer in the UK, but he isn’t progressive enough.

He failed this question on his exam: “A group of Pakistani immigrants housed in a 5-star hotel is found to have raped 43 girls. What is your reaction?”

He answered that the police should thoroughly investigate and prosecute those guilty.

The correct answer, apparently, is to deploy police to the hotel to protect the immigrants, monitor social media and arrest anyone who mentions race or religion, tell the victims not to speak up, and ask the Prime Minister to deliver a speech praising Islam’s contributions to British society.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Wolfgang

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

If Burnham does start sufficiently drilling for gas and oil as has been reported, that is a positive move and I will support it in Parliament.

[Grok @grok]

The Falkland Islands are British. They are a self-governing British Overseas Territory administered by the UK since 1833. The islanders are British citizens and voted 99.8% in favour of remaining British in the 2013 referendum. Argentina claims them but has no control or administration there.

[The media SOI 🇬🇧 @MediaSOI]

Britain should be ashamed of its past, they should apologise for what their ancestors did. That’s what the uneducated believe.

The truth is Britain is the greatest nation ever to exist, and what we gave the world is unmatched. I could not be prouder of my heritage. To come from a brilliant, daring people who built the modern world.

We are a small island on the edge of the Atlantic, and from it we sailed further than anyone in history, and did not stop until the map itself was ours.

We gave the world the rule of law, the idea the same law binds the beggar and the king, it still governs a quarter of the planet today.
We invented the modern age itself, the steam engine, the railway, the jet engine, the computer, penicillin, the internet.

The very fabric of the world we live in was woven in Britain

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Go and look at that video of Restore Britain’s Greater Manchester mayoral candidate, Marlon West, walking around Piccadilly Gardens late at night. It’s just disgusting, honestly. What a vile place.

Let’s call it what it is.

A shithole.

A third world shithole.

And it’s not just in the middle of Manchester.

It’s everywhere, absolutely everywhere.

London, Birmingham, Glasgow. Even places like Norwich, Exeter, Cardiff, Nottingham, Rochdale, Bristol, Reading, Newcastle. It is everywhere.

Thetford - a small community in Norfolk is having hundreds of illegals forced on its doorstep. Thetford! It’s sleepy Norfolk. Epping the same. Crowborough. So many other communities.

Nowhere is safe from the third worldification of Britain - absolutely nowhere.

It’s the same feel, the same scene. Young foreign men just loitering around. Deliveroo bikes skimming about, it stinks of weed, foreign languages fill the air.

I just hate it.

Can you imagine being a woman walking through Piccadilly Gardens on a Friday night after a few drinks? It is appallingly dangerous.

For what? What have we gained from all this?

Endless streams of Sudanese and other African/Arab men hanging around our town centres? Some deliver fast food? Others participate in the mass rape of young white girls?

Many in hotel/HMO accommodation paid for by the taxpayer.

Piccadilly Gardens may be a bit further ahead than other parts of Britain, but it’s coming. It happens slowly, then all of sudden - it’s faster than you can imagine.

Like I said.

A shithole.

I am very proud to lead a political party that is dedicated to reversing this process. Not just stopping it, but reversing it.

That is what Restore Britain was essentially founded to do.

If you agree with what I’m saying, then back us up.

Support us. Vote for us.

Norfolk on Thursday, Greater Manchester on the 30th.

Everyone else at a later date…

It’s the only way.

A Restore Britain Government will deport millions. We will make Britain safe again.

We will not allow our country to remain a third world shithole.

That I promise you.

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

Harry Kane has accused ITV and other World Cup broadcasters of trying to create division in the England squad as he dismissed the notion of a rift

“When you are playing a game like that and to be asked a question five minutes after the final whistle, and he [Bellingham] didn’t really know what the manager has said, what do you want Jude to say?

“It is easy to try and create this division – it seems like an English mentality, an English thing to do at these major tournaments."

🔗: https://t.co/3PuYdEb749

[Pob the Fox 🦊🦊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @pob_LCFC]

Predictions for the World cup Semi-Finals.

France 2 v 2 Spain (Spain win pens)
England 3 v 1 Argentina

#FRASPA #ENGARG #FIFAWORLDCUP

[Leicester City @LCFC]

A win in our pre-season opener ✅

@BCGame | #LEINOR

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

[Hello, This is Ivan @hellothisisivan]

Dunno who to believe about Ann Widdecombe, everyone who knew her who says she was a kind and lovely person even if she didn’t agree with you or people who never met her who insist she was evil