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Brian Gannon

@bjgann

Books, mostly.

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bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… So now could be a good time to remind people to register to vote: gov.uk/register-to-vo… You can do it online in minutes, now including NI too.

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This is a ground-breaking achievement that will define the standard for integrated care in England. Well done, Kainos Evolve® & Kainos Digital x.com/kainossoftware…

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“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” Samuel Beckett x.com/mikeh_pr/statu…

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‘The destruction of the past, or rather of the social mechanisms that link one’s contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century.’ Eric Hobsbawm, 1994 x.com/bbcnewsnight/s…

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The very quote used by Hobsbawm to paraphrase the social and moral crisis that emerged at the end of the twentieth century. x.com/juliebertagna/…

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Friendly reminder that Tommy Robinson is out on bail, he pleaded guilty to the charge for which he was jailed, he is not a journalist, he has jeopardised rape trials, he has convictions for assault & fraud, he is not a martyr, he is not a hero, he's just a massive racist bellend.

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Chloe’s using the Dorries ‘stop picking on poor little me’ defence. Increasingly common amongst Leavers (cf. poor Darren, whose only crime was breaking the law.)

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Another example of the need for historians, who are the ‘professional remembrancers of what their fellow citizens wish to forget’ (Hobsbawm)