Alex Ulster

@davidkersten We all work in capitalism. That’s the point

@AlexUlster Then you have no understanding of how Capitalism works. Or more precisely, who works in Capitalism and why.

Great for Socialism. Sucks for Capitalism.

@OliverKamm @portraitinflesh Oh it was drivel, and very much of its time. But more generically I think there’s a role for humour. Have you seen Death of Stalin?

@AlexUlster @portraitinflesh That’s a perfectly reasonable point of view. It’s not a sitcom like the slightly earlier & flatly racist It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. But it’s not like the evergreen Dad’s Army, either. I can’t warm to it.

I actually think 'Allo 'Allo!'s core linguistic conceit is quite clever, as these things go. All that said: for me, there's no getting around the *fundamental* tastelessness of a broad, bawdy sitcom set under Nazi occupation. Just imagine if it had been Poland, instead of France.

@OliverKamm @portraitinflesh It’s a really interesting question. And I’m not claiming to have the right answer. Yes, one needs to acknowledge the evils of history and trauma of people that experienced it. But still. I think humour has a role in processing that trauma and in weakening the power of Nazis etc.

@portraitinflesh @AlexUlster Yes; some 75,000 Jews were deported to the camps under Vichy. I can’t come to terms with a sitcom that treated the occupation as a laugh, regardless of the linguistic cleverness & fine actors (who include a close friend of mine, Francesca Gonshaw). I hope it wouldn’t be made now.

@portraitinflesh Yeah, that's fair, I get you. But ultimately, in that case one shouldn't make any comedies about WW2. Counter-point: better to take the piss out of the Nazis than make them always objects of fear.

@AlexUlster Not really, because quite a large number of atrocities *did* take place in Nazi-occupied France, as minor as they might seem in comparison to what went on in the east. A quarter of the country's Jews were exterminated.

Share your favorite tweets that aged like milk. I'll start with this one from a convicted pedophile:

The last remaining person in Parliament who served in the Armed Forces in the Second World War retired on Wednesday. Labour peer Lord Christopher, aged 101, bowed out, 81 years after WWII ended.

@mikeduncan Occupied! It was loyalist!

It’s gonna be a great panel about Occupied New York City during the revolutionary war

Hi folks! I will be at the Museum of City of New York this Friday. Come! mcny.org/event/divided-…

#Syria: Justice in its rare ideal form. Muawiya was just a teen when he wrote the famous graffiti in #Daraa in 2011, for which he was tortured for over a month. Today, he attended the public trial of his main, hierarchically speaking, torturer - now the one behind bars. For more about Muawiya, see post below. Video by @HadiAlabdallah.

@BowesChay @MFA_Ukraine Where’s the Republic of Ireland on that map Chay?

@MFA_Ukraine Ukraine is good at making things up. Fake casualty numbers. Fake popularity for the Narcofuhrer Dictator. Remind me where it is on this map.

“Chornobyl” is the only correct spelling Ukraine asks the world to use. Using Ukrainian transliterations respects Ukraine’s language and culture and moves away from Russian forms that were imposed by Russia during the Soviet era. It is also part of a wider effort to decolonise language and correct long-standing imbalances in global usage. Using the correct transliteration for a place in Ukraine affirms recognition of Ukraine as a sovereign state – a fact Russia tries to deny. We welcome the decision of states and international organisations to adopt the Ukrainian spelling of Chornobyl, including in the UN resolution of December 10, 2025. Like Kyiv, Chornobyl reflects Ukrainian pronunciation and thus aligns with the global practice of updating place names for linguistic correctness. The successful shift from the Russian spelling “Kiev” to the Ukrainian “Kyiv” is a clear example of this trend. All Ukrainian cities deserve to have their names rendered correctly. #ChornobylNotChernobyl #Chornobyl40

@The_AndyJohnson People’s cav were 13/18th Hussars

Here come 7 RTR, the Peoples' Cavalry!

@Dozibugger Excellent!

@AlexUlster They have them.

Ridiculously good is what we’re after.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

@AaronBastani I’m really interested to know why you think that

These guys still think Chanel aftershave and package holidays is ‘gdp’ like steel and car production. Saudi has a larger GDP than Iran. In a total war it would last a week.

@Daniel80659351 @HowlingToad @Marxist777 Who did we steal the islands from?

@HowlingToad @Marxist777 Again, all of this repetition of other colonial thefts is very obviously just to distract from the British stealing the islands, which you know was indefensible.

“I’m a lefty anti-imperialist but Argentina is wrong on the Falklands”

@OneQuantumLeap @KerryHolmekb We invaded Iraq and Afghanistan

@AlexUlster @KerryHolmekb Yea, of ocurse, the Western invader is going to call their invasion an invasion in front of the watching world. 🤡

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Former U.S. President, Barack Obama: “We cannot launch military operations to get out of an ideological or technological problem. History has taught us that conflicts in the Middle East are easy to start, but almost impossible to end in an orderly way. We must recognize that peace is not built on rubble, but on a regional architecture that provides stability. We must choose between difficult and persistent diplomacy, or a perpetual regional war that has no winners, only victims.”

@OneQuantumLeap @KerryHolmekb Intervention not an invasion. Those words mean different things

@AlexUlster @KerryHolmekb This from the 2016 UK Parliamentary Select Committee Report on the Libya invasion

@OneQuantumLeap @KerryHolmekb No one invaded Libya

@KerryHolmekb Says the man that invaded and destroyed Libya and oversaw the US/ European regime change operation in Syria