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@dieHexeerwacht @ourpussports At that time, printing and paper were more expensive, so for reasons of economy, many countries would probably have just gone for the French option as it would be more likely understood than Spanish.

@dieHexeerwacht @ourpussports In French, Chile is Chili with an I, so the spelling is correct, French being a major diplomatic language

Chilean passport issued to a Polish refugee in Bucharest, 1941, which was used to return to occupied Poland with the German issued "Polish Refugee" visa inside, the only one I have seen to date.

@Stink_Stiefel_1 These were issued by UK banks too, but we had our own domestic cheque guarantee scheme, so Eurocheques were mainly used internationally.

Unsere „Kreditkarte“ der 70+80er. Bankkarte+Scheck= Garantiert 200,- DM. Wer hat auch damit gezahlt?

@stuey_beef At first, I read it as Croydon, only later I realised it was Clapham!

This isn’t “a rough estate”. It’s Clapham High Street – £800k terraces, brunch spots, Waitrose – brought to a standstill by feral youth mobs in balaclavas. When even the “good areas” look like this, you don’t have a policing problem. You have a political problem.

@baggerScript @Globalstats11 2008 and 2009, UK has the same ranking of 6th. We must have left the EU for two years.

@Globalstats11 Another benefit of Brexit 🙄

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@RebeccaCait04 @Globalstats11 2008 and 2009 we must have temporarily left the EU then

@Globalstats11 thats brexit for you

@DanielJHannan Niqabs are all over parts of London, just as bad as the burka

Be honest. How many times have you seen an actual full-on burqa on a British woman? It is extraordinary how much political energy is expended on an issue whose real-world impact would, to a first approximation, be zero.

@Rusich7777 @DailyTurkic It's Cyrillic, not 'Russian'. Russia is one of many countries which use it.

@DailyTurkic With Russian letters 🤣

Kyrgyzstan is now printing its own national currency for the first time in history 🇰🇬 • The Kyrgyzstani Som is no longer printed in the United Kingdom.

@musawir92383693 @ourpussports International language of diplomacy due to its unambiguity in syntax and grammar

@ourpussports Why is it in French? Did Iran have any French connections?

Postwar Iranian diplomatic passport (1946).

@v8oholic Why not put it in a food donation basket at a supermarket rather than wasting them?

Bought these by accident. They’re disgusting and the rest are going straight in the bin 🤷‍♂️

@KosSamaras Succeeding by allying themselves with an ideology that dislikes them but will use them to get into power.

This is why the UK Greens are succeeding. And it’s a lesson the Australian Greens need to learn. Meet Mothin Ali. Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Son of a Bangladeshi immigrant who came to the UK in the 1960s and worked as a unionised steelworker in Sheffield. Mothin grew up in that world, the world of shift work, union solidarity and communities holding each other together. He’s now a Leeds councillor in Gipton and Harehills, one of England’s most deprived wards, where 40% of residents are Muslim and the cost of living is a daily crisis. He’s not the stereotype of a working-class northerner. But his family has been in those communities just as long as anyone. His father worked the same steel. Paid into the same union. Felt the same deindustrialisation tear through the same streets. Mothin Ali is working-class Britain, as it actually exists in 2026, not as a sepia photograph. We could say the same about the working class in Australia in 2026. That’s what the UK Greens under Zack Polanski have understood. Working-class communities are diverse. They always were. But they share the same material reality: rents going up, wages going nowhere, streets hollowed out, and a political class that stopped listening decades ago. The UK Greens are speaking to that shared experience, in English, Urdu and Bangla, and putting leaders who come from it at the front of the room. Now contrast that with the Australian Greens. The Australian Greens remain culturally anchored to the inner city. Fitzroy. Newtown. University-educated, professionally progressive, and genuinely well-meaning but culturally legible only to a narrow demographic slice. When they go to the outer suburbs, the places actually doing it hardest, they have historically struggled. The difference isn’t ideology. Both parties want economic justice. The difference is who is seen to speak for working people and where those people feel the party actually comes from. Mothin Ali spent decades in one of England’s toughest communities before he ever stood for office. That matters more than some appreciate. youtu.be/VPsR1hfTaAA?si…

@megha_lilly Completely subjective. I'm sure many people say the same about their language. I'm a native English speaker, and I find French far more delightful. But that's just subjective, too.

English is still the most beautiful, versatile, logical, poetic and wonderful language in the whole world. I speak six languages. Many writers from many other languages say this about English. Because it has been perfected over millennia of discourse, poetry and debate.

@jackmrankin The whole concept of bringing dependents is madness. Who goes to university and brings family with them?

Below is one of the University of Cumbria’s campuses. Where in Cumbria* is it? Nowhere near – it is in Tower Hamlets which is 288 miles away. This is just one example of London outposts allowing postgraduate students to bypass immigration rules and work in this country 🧵

@bphillipsonMP @educationgovuk It's not free, it's courtesy of the taxpayer.

This government is focused on the cost of living. At @educationgovuk, we're saving families cash: £450 on free breakfast clubs £50 on school uniforms £500 on free school meals £300 on school holiday clubs Now it's confirmed we've halved childcare costs, saving parents £8,000.

@robprogressive Banks and other financial institutions have a duty of care towards vulnerable people. If they do not use due diligence, they will get into trouble if that withdrawal is fraudulent or coerced.

My friend tried to withdraw £20k from his high street bank & their response was shocking For 30 years he’s has been a loyal customer of this major bank He called to withdraw the money & they said no, you have to come into the branch He went into the branch & asked asked to withdraw the £20k and they asked 'what it’s for'? He said ’none of your business, it’s my money’ They said ‘unless you can tell us exactly what the money is for, you cannot withdraw it' This should shock & terrify you, because your own money isn’t even yours anymore

@dshensmith @UKLabour Labour would say, 'Why not when you've got plenty of tax to be wrung from working people'?

@UKLabour Why would this possibly cost millions of pounds?

After years of Tory austerity, we’re backing councils to fix the basics - with a new £18 million fund to make sure kids have somewhere safe to play.

@MontgomeryToms Is it? They need to look after themselves, the same as men have to do.

It's our responsibility as men to protect women. This means protecting women's spaces from male perverts masquerading. Man up and do your job.

@MythoYookay Postal votes should only be available in exceptional circumstances, not just because it's 'easy and convenient'.

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Brexit could be a good town name

🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]

@harsh_vardhhan Learning language is not only about usefulness. It's like saying learning maths is useless as calculators and AI can do everything. It's about culture and using brain neurons.

This is why learning French language Is practically useless other than Canada (Quebec) and France It’s spoken largely in really low per capita income nations