Shem

I’m better than you, and you know it.

[Shem @shemsational]

I think the sooner I realise and accept the world is full of fucking morons the saner and happier I’ll be.

[Shem @shemsational]

.@CelticFC FYI

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔵🔴 Understand Roony Bardghji and Barcelona are set to explore a move in the final weeks of the window: decision made.

Roony will leave to get more game time.

Barcelona plan to keep future control as they believe in the potential of the Swedish talent.

[Hulu @hulu]

In ONE WEEK, experience a life louder than fear.

Stream Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear on Hulu and Hulu on @DisneyPlus August 13.

[Shem @shemsational]

Anyone else notice that if you’re watching any @WWE event on @netflix on a mobile device (iPad/iPhone), that it’ll go to a black screen with one minute left and only give audio? So annoying. Fix it! #WWE #Netflix

[Celtic Football Club @CelticFC]

⚡️ 212 appearances
⚽️ 79 goals
🏆 5 league titles
🏆 3 Scottish Cups
🏆 2 League Cups

Arigato, Daizen 🫶

#CelticFC🍀

[Shem @shemsational]

Arigato.

[前田 大然 Daizen Maeda @M_daizen_1020]

Thank you Celtic. Hail Hail 💚🤍

[Shem @shemsational]

Already had my vote, but this cinches it.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

A Restore Britain Government will allow pub landlords and other venue owners to install a smoking room.

If adults want to smoke inside a contained room, and the landlord is happy to provide that, then it's none of our business.

Crack on.

[Shem @shemsational]

With the exception of Shakira, that #WorldCup half time might be the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

[Shem @shemsational]

It’s NOT coming home. #ENGARG #WorldCup

[Shem @shemsational]

@FantasyAdvice99 Thanks for everything you’ve done. Look after me you first, and hope to have you come back.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Shem @shemsational]

@UniversalORL Thank you for making sure she gets acknowledged, and we’re fine with the fist bump, but we’d also like to make sure she gets some sort of professional recognition internally please. She really turned my son’s day around, and I can’t thank her enough.

[Shem @shemsational]

@UniversalORL good afternoon. I wanted to shout out the AMAZING service from Amaree about 10mins ago. My 7 year old son was an inch too short to ride the Hulk ride, he burst into tears and she got him a shirt and 2 express tickets. Went over and above. Please thank her for us.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: Sex crimes are now officially at their highest level in Scotland for 60 years according to Government statistics

We all know why

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

WHAT A GOAL TO BREAK THE WORLD CUP RECORD.

It can only be Lionel Messi 🐐

[Shem @shemsational]

Travelling all the way from Scotland to Baltimore to acknowledge his Tribal Chief @WWERomanReigns and yeet with @WWEUsos at #MondayNightRaw. Also hoping to see our fellow Scot @joehendry. Someone is so excited for his first ever #WWE event. #WWERaw

[Shem @shemsational]

@AmericanAir good morning, sorry to bother you. My flight AA3114 from Orlando to New York has been delayed a few times, and I’m worried my 7 year old son won’t get to NYC in time to watch our nation Scotland play in the World Cup. Do you expect many more delays sorry? Thank you!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their home town is what’s making people angry, not “social media”!

[Shem @shemsational]

Right Twitter, do your thing. Recommendations for bars/pubs/places to watch the @ScotlandNT game v Haiti in New York that I can take my 7 year old to. #Scotland #NewYork #WorldCup

[Paul Joseph Watson @PrisonPlanet]

Shame the Premier League season has ended, because I'm sure every single player would be taking a knee for Henry Nowak before the games this weekend.

Right?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.

Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why.

During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.

They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.

This needs to stop.