Richard Lewis

@docrussjackson @BROKENBRITAIN0 Yes, he got it by choice as an adult. There was no previous ties to Russia. He must surely be the first native British person to undergo this situation of having his British citizenship revoked in such a manner?

@29bus @BROKENBRITAIN0 Bullen has Russian citizenship

For the first time EVER, the UK government has STRIPPED a person who was born here of their citizenship 🇬🇧 That person is Mark Bullen. A former police officer who has been living in Russia for a long time after taking part in exchange programs with Russian police, he has obtained a Russian passport, and has ties to Zenit football club.

Bold, brave, even provocative

@docrussjackson @BROKENBRITAIN0 But in the case you mentioned, he was still born a dual national (Canadian father). Not withstanding the fact Canadians are mostly ethnically similar to Brits, he still always had another nationality.

Nope. Mark Bullen is categorically NOT 'the first British-born person stripped of citizenship'. He's not even the first white British-born person to be deprived of UK citizenship. Seven years ago, in 2019, the UK government revoked the British citizenship of Jack Letts, born in Oxford, England, to a white British/Canadian father and a white British mother. This case predates Bullen's by several years and involved a white British-born person (raised in the UK, with no non-European ethnic heritage). There have been 175–200+ British-born national security-related deprivations since 2006, though most publicised cases involve individuals of South Asian, Middle Eastern, or African heritage (such as Shamima Begum, who is British-born but of Bangladeshi descent).

@Liquid_TMG @starsforyoongs It's true.

@starsforyoongs I swear I've seen more poles and russians talk about Bandera than Ukrainians themselves

Russians out of nowhere: BANDERAAAAAA

Warsaw pact soldiers at 'Exercise Shield 84' joint military exercise in Czechslovakia, 1984.

@BorutaHope @eastblocvisuals Not for the first time!

@29bus @eastblocvisuals OCDmaxxing

@Aldamir Maybe but goulash is on the menu throughout central and eastern Europe. Hungary used to be a much bigger country! My adopted city Wroclaw was even briefly under Hungarian rule.

@29bus Looks nice, but cultural appropriation from Hungary...

Goulash with Silesian dumplings. Central-Euromaxxing

@WielkiElo @nexta_polska I suppose I worked in a shop at aged 16

@29bus @nexta_polska Zamiatanie, sprzątanie, porządkowanie w firmach.

15-letni uczeń z Krakowa oddał 3388 butelek i zarobił prawie 1700 zł Zbierał je przez około półtora miesiąca w centrum miasta i na bulwarach, czasem wyciągał z koszy. Raz udało mu się oddać ponad tysiąc butelek w godzinę. Przyznaje, że „ręka potem bolała”, ale nie zamierza przestawać.

@_Zojka Like being an Englishman in a third-tier US city

Balkan travel tip: If you speak Russian while in Serbia, a local creature called a 'Serb' will appear and start sucking your dick

@Aldamir Ahh right. Well they have no other battles to fight anymore so resort to this.

@29bus Same here, but this was a response to nationalists complaining about a union flag on Marks & Spencers shopping bags...

My local Lidl in a unionist area of Northern Ireland has Irish products branded with Irish tricolours. Should I start complaining?

@Empireaesth My Polish wife's great-grandparents met in a German labour camp.

“England’s Shame” German anti-British propaganda poster (1939)

@Luv_Xcuses Tex Mex cuisine or similar is really good!

Be brutally honest, what's one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world??

The easiest thing to do would be to photoshop the flags to get them in the right order

@WielkiElo @nexta_polska What jobs can 15-year-olds get?

@nexta_polska A moglby popracować u kogoś te godziny zamiast zbierać smieci ;)

@BelTel These kinds of "battles" are the only things left that Nationalists can fight for.

M&S has ditched its union jack bags from a flagship store in Northern Ireland following a backlash from nationalist shoppers. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/local/antrim/f… belfasttelegraph.co.uk/local/antrim/f…

@JohnSimpsonNews @stevenchamster

@stevenchamster I see you describe yourself as a Christian, with English values. Not much of either in your reply to me.

Today could be a big turning-point. If Hungary votes to oust Viktor Orbán, Putin’s (and, weirdly, Trump’s) ally inside the EU and NATO will be gone. The EU can give more help to Ukraine, which is anyway doing better on the battlefield. And the tide could turn against populism.