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This is such an important episode. Congrats @ZackPolanski - I love @DalrympleWill - such an incredible historian. So important to hear the history of what Britain did in India and Pakistan and Bangladesh, and to Palestinians. I recommend a listen.

it’s a really interesting journalistic choice to use a picture of people at the beach for these reports. sort of like reporting on approaching floods while showing a picture of kids splashing around happily at a water park

Oh god, here we go again.

The picture emerging from the Burnham takeover is that we're allowed to have either have a pseudo-Blairite Labour government, or an actually Blairite Labour government. It's good to know the acceptable spectrum of views on the left.

A guy who hasn't been in politics for over 15 years, was implicated in torture when he was, and even his biggest fans can't actually articulate what's supposed to be good about him. @UKLabour is truly a zombie party.

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Zack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation" Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them" "Which means most British people are entirely ignorant for what is for better or worse the most important thing Britain ever did" "Britain drew it's empire, completely changed the face of the world over the course of 300-400 years" "Not only did they change it within a local European context, but they completely upended flows of global trade and eco-systems which had existed for millinia" "For most of history, India and China dominated the world economy, and Europe was an add-on" "They were producing about 70% of the world's GDP, that's still the case in the 18th century" "When we're looking at the world today, China already the world's number two economy, and India about to be number three overtaking Japan and Germany" "What we're seeing is a reversal of the trading system to a pr colonial period - it's taken 80 years since the British left India" "We're seeing the world recover form this brief blip where Europe smashed its way around the globe moving populations and natural resources around, looting some places, bringing wealth to Europe" "If you look at the big National Trust country houses, if it's a big palladian house, the sort you'd see in a Jane Austin Sunday night drama" "If it's on the east coast of the country, quite probably it was built by the East India company money, in other words the looting of India" "If it's on the west coast, near Liverpool or Bristol, it's more likely to be slave money, from the Caribbean" "These two sources of wealth brought capital into Britain, and cotton into Britain, which was then milled in the industrial revolution, which gave the seed capital for Britain to accelerate massively through the industrial revolution" "Which catapulted England from an upper middle position in Europe" "It transforms Britain and the world" "But what gives us great prosperity often detracted from the prosperity of the looted countries, or countries that have been plundered for enslaved people" "And it remains a strange quirk of our history system that we learn more about the wives of Henry VIII, than we do about the entirely looting of India, or the Caribbean slave trade" "Two crucial moments in Britain's and the world's history" "The reason we don't learn it, is because when the British empire ended, it became something people stopped talking about" "By the time you get to Monty Python in the 1970s or late 60s, the Empire is a joke"

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm proud @ZackPolanski went to help and support people in Calais seeking asylum. That Reform want to criminalise this under the name "The Polanski Law", tells you everything you need to know about their disgraceful, hateful brand of politics.

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Good to see my County Councillor @GinaDowding pointing out the rather big elephant in the room. The people that ran Labour into the ground are still in place, playing their sociopathic power games & serving the usual vested interests. The Jury is very much out on Andy Burnham.

Purnell as chief of staff, David Miliband as Foreign Secretary, Shabana Mahmood either Chancellor or minister for attacking migrants. If briefings are true, a repeat of Ed Miliband's leadership: appoint a right wing Cabinet to appease the PLP, be a prisoner in it, lose badly.

Green cllr Gina Dowding: "Is it that we've seen a Keir Starmer project or has this been.. a Labour Together project, & is there going to be any change, because its looking very much like Starmer was the front man for that outfit & they're still very much going to be in control"

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An outstanding podcast. British Colonial history is being taught in *some* schools, but those who received their formal education a few years ago (or those who don't have the privilege of teaching this stuff to Years 7 and 8 😊) are ignorant of this 👇 Thank you @ZackPolanski

You can guarantee @UKLabour will never fail to let you down.

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What ‘difficult choices’ never means is discomfort for the billionaire — especially the billionaire media and political party owning — classes. It means another squeeze of the squeezed middle and a kick in the face for anyone starting out wanting to make a life for themselves.

Deary me. Which Blairite is Andy Burnham going to wheel out next and give a plum job to? Maybe Tony Blair himself?