Roger Allen

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Roger Allen

@RogerAl88319799

Katılım Nisan 2022

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·8h

@NicholasOShaug1 Not Swift, I think, but the king of Brobdingnag: “I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”

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Nicholas O'Shaughnessy@NicholasOShaug1·8h

Hitler killed the Jews. Stalin killed the Kulaks, an entirely invented social class. Pol Pot killed everybody who could read or write. Don't we all agree with Swift, that man is the most perfidious little insect ever to crawl under God sun?

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·11h

@aledornell When Franco ruled Spain he tried to encourage a campaign for the "restoration" of Gibraltar. Britain has ruled Gibraltar for longer than Spain, and the Moors ruled it for longer than both combined, so the obvious solution is...

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Alessandro 🇧🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸@aledornell·20h

Besides all the discourse about whether the Argentinian claim on the Falklands is legitimate that has been relitigated dozens of times, I genuinely do not understand how this issue became so central to Argentine identity Spaniards don’t constantly bring up Gibraltar unprompted

acei(tuna) 🇦🇷 VA A VER A SKZ@tulvsbchan

lo unico q nos falta, q nos prohiban mencionar el nombre de NUESTRAS islas xq les hace mal recordar q son territorio argentino invadido hasta el dia de hoy por los ingleses

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·11h

@TheGameVeda @David__Osland To be fair(!) to the earlier Rothermere, after the violent BUF rally at Olympia in 1934 he turned against Mussolini and his support for Hitler was entirely limited to within Germany

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Navdeep Singh Rajwanshi@TheGameVeda·21h

@David__Osland Well the precursor of Murdoch: Lord Rothermere press did a pretty sharp U Turn too dropping support for Adolf Hitler and Hurrah's for Blackshirt Traitor Sir Oswald Mosley after 🇬🇧 went ANTIFA not NAZI in WW2

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David__Osland@David__Osland·22h

Pleased as I am to see the Murdoch and Rothermere press attacking Farage as stridently as they previously lavished praise on him, I can't help wondering what has brought on the recent U-turn

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·17h

@BorisDralyuk But which wrote better prose and which was the better psychologist?

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Boris Dralyuk@BorisDralyuk·17h

Found one:

John Attridge@John_Attridge

I don't have anything to say about this except that Stendhal is great and a "Henry James bro" is an objectively funny concept

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·17h

@RasberryRazz It's a good thing Sugarpuss didn't know about Richard III's character and relations with his wife!

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Molly🎧🏳️‍🌈@RasberryRazz·1d

It does say a lot about our collective anti-intellectualism that a romantic comedy from 1941 starring two of the biggest names in Hollywood has a proposal scene that references William Blake and Shakespeare and people today would consider it pretentious.

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@kmflett Did no-one think to sell tickets for the Thompson-Sigal fisticuffs? It'd be much more fun (and dialectically interesting) than a couple of dozen people booting a ball about.

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keith flett@kmflett·2d

What were Stuart Hall, Ralph Miliband & E P Thompson doing on 30th July 1966, the World Cup Final at Wembley? kmflett.blog/2026/07/12/wha…

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@warpingwood ...or the Battle of Goose Green

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luca@warpingwood·2d

ENGLAND YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE HARDER THAN AT THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@amasterofarts @SebMilbank David Amess and Jo Cox may have been killed by people "of unsound mind", but the fact that their "unsoundness of mind" took religio-political forms is noteworthy.

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Magister Artium@amasterofarts·3d

@SebMilbank It was probably a lunatic as well (like with David Amess and Jo Cox). “Care in the community” isn’t always the best option.

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Sebastian Milbank@SebMilbank·3d

I can't believe Ann Widdecombe, literal Ann Widdecombe, has been murdered. I feel like we're a much nastier country than the one I grew up, one in which surreal baudrillardian violence and violation periodically invades our ever less managed national decline. I'm so sick of it

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@juliet_turner6 @PaulWelters A future as nanny and nursemaid to generations of magpies.

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Dr Juliet Turner@juliet_turner6·1d

@PaulWelters It’s possible!

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Dr Juliet Turner@juliet_turner6·1d

I gave Ajax this ball and in exchange he gave me one of my gel earplugs that has been missing for a week that he *somehow* knew was hidden in that specific plant pot under that particular leaf.

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@nguyenhdi How many other Restoration writers are much read now? the only ones often mentioned seem to be Rochester and Behn.

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Di (Yee)@nguyenhdi·2d

It is crazy how much Dryden's fame has declined. He so dominated the literary scene of his age that it was known as the Age of Dryden. Now his translations are out of fashion; I also rarely see his name in bookshops, in either the poetry section or the drama section.

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@JohnWight1 How, precisely, are the Falkland Islanders "ungrateful"? Why does Mr Wight think they "swan around in Union Jack underpants"? They would surely swan around in Argentine-flagged underpants, for the same reason Mrs. Paisley wore underpants with the Irish tricolour on them.

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John Wight@JohnWight1·1d

It's a terrible indictment that 255 predominately working class men from Britain were sent 8000 miles away to die, just so that a bunch of ungrateful sheep shaggers can swan around in Union Jack underpants.

The Telegraph@Telegraph

Argentina’s foreign minister called Falklands islanders an “artificially implanted” population in a lengthy essay demanding Britain enter talks to hand over the territory. 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@stendhalist ...and the Falkland Islands had a much better football team.

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@stendhalist Perhaps the Falklands ought to annex Argentina. I t would ensure Argentina had a much better government.

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Woland 🇵🇸@stendhalist·1d

I have an Argentine friend who thinks the Falklands stuff is insanity (one of only 3 people in the country) and I asked her about the fact that Falklanders don't wanna be Argentine & she said the consensus is those who don't are settlers and should be forcibly expelled

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embarrassing to still believe the fiction for a war a desperate fascist junta started to try and divert attention from the fact they were throwing anyone remotely left wing off of helicopters

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@DarrenMJones200 A "living fossil" with no known dead fossils. Officially "critically endangered" but grows successfully as far north as Inverness.

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Darren M Jones@DarrenMJones200·2d

Wollemia is a coniferous tree native to Australia. It's a 200 million year old "living fossil and known as the Wollemi pine Discovered in 1994 growing in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided, sandstone gorges. Surviving since the time of the dinosaurs. #FolkloreSunday

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@YousufPash69914 @BBCNews It's actually been British (1713-2026) for longer than it was Spanish (1462-1713)

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Silent Observer@YousufPash69914·1d

@BBCNews Finally admitting what everyone knew—Gibraltar was always Spanish territory. 118 years of British occupation ending. Time to return the Rock home.

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BBC News (UK)@BBCNews·1d

New era for Gibraltar with removal of 118-year-old border controls with Spain bbc.in/44YjzQ2

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@soyandyolivera "Ooh! We are cross!"

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Andy Olivera@soyandyolivera·2d

Graves disturbios en Suiza tras quedar eliminados

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·1d

@Stratty1882 @SCFCJosh96 Henry V thought so. A lot of Frenchmen think France should own England,

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Why do the Argies have a mass psychosis over the Falklands? Can't just be the proximity can it, it genuinely seems to be part of their national story

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·2d

@5Pillarsuk "Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War" Er... It's also probable that there were worse slaughters in Chechnya in the 1990s.

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5Pillars@5Pillarsuk·2d

More than three decades after the Srebrenica genocide, families are still laying victims to rest. As thousands completed the annual Peace March, survivors and their children shared harrowing stories of loss, survival and why the world must never forget Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War, writes Anadolu’s Hazel Belkis Belge. 5pillarsuk.com/2026/07/12/eve…

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Roger Allen@RogerAl88319799·2d

@fwrenzo1 I miss when the BBC's news was just a guy in a suit on the radio telling you "There is no news," on 18 April 1930, before returning to an opera broadcast.

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Renzo™@fwrenzo1·2d

I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.

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@gnominate_ @theiaincameron Sukarno dictator of Indonesia - said Indonesia would join the Comintern if they didn't get Dutch New Guinea. The USA persuaded the Netherlands to hand it over to them.

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