Thread 45 Starmer: Una nación que olvida su pasado no tiene futuro.

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Rather underscores that Reform are very very much an English nationalist party.

I wonder how Aspire will do in Tower Hamlets.

@cardibach We went to Carcassonne a few years ago
( after reading Kate Mosse's book)
and thoroughly enjoyed it, we walked a lot, no car needed for us.
I am not mad about History despite doing it at A level (just why, we never learn ?)
but we really did have such a sense of the past there, especially walking along the river as well as in the old town itself where we stayed.
Enjoy!

We’ve booked! End of April/beginning of May.

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British opposition to the war in Iran has risen by 10pts according to YouGov.

I was just about to say that the direction of travel is the key takeaway.

It means there is no real support to be had from pushing the pro-US angle.

In other news, Nigel Farage was not photographed with Donald Trump this weekend.

Excellent. Long may it continue.

Hear hear 🎉

it’s interesting how many people I hear day to day are concerned about the war because Trump is taking the lead and his lack of remembering what he says one day to the next.

My exam anxiety nightmare is always A level history which I sat and passed. I either arrive in PJ's or I'm totally unprepared and haven't a clue what I'm going to write.

Yes indeed. I really hope the government is taking notice.

Was he ever photographed with Trump?

@placemats I feel for you!
I seem to have been having much more vivid dreams recently and in them I am often getting lost.
Not hard to analyse those dreams I guess.

I've learnt to tell myself it's just a dream and you can wake up. And I do.

Charles Stuart Parnell can get in the toilet - Irish History A Level (I didn't write that in my exam but I did think it).

DD did history A-level, she loved history at secondary school but she went right off it at college. She did quite well.

Her secondary school has a very strong history department, often beating high ranking private school in competitions. Not bad for a comp that got MN advice to avoid.

Stewart.

Not sure how they would police it without getting quite draconian, anyhow.

MPs reject call for under-16s social media ban, backing more flexible powers - BBC News https://share.google/jIOHUQbvSOsDMLboo

I other news, DH is on his way to Amsterdam for a work thing and has been stopped at security and swabbed, for the 3rd time in a row.

I think Reform have now changed their mind on Trump's war and the UK should not join it.

And yet a week ago they were busy calling Starmer a coward and weak.

Another u-turn?

I don't think they got that far in the alphabet.

Farage has seen the polls, perhaps?

What about Badenoch? Is she still posing with tanks?

"There is no low to which Kemi won’t go". John Crace.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/09/so-badenoch-farage-and-blair-think-the-iran-war-is-a-great-idea-hmm

Victoria Derbyshire

Reform UK on the war -

9 March, Robert Jenrick: ‘this war needs to come to an end as soon as possible….that’s why Nigel Farage immediately ruled out suggestions that UK might deploy boots on the ground. Nor do we see why British aircraft should become involved in offensive action.’ Daily Telegraph

8 March, Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice,: ‘We wld be helping the Americans and the Israelis in any way they saw appropriate’ GB News

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28 February Reform leader, Nigel Farage ‘ The Prime Minister needs to change his mind on the use of our military bases and back the Americans in this vital fight against Iran!’ Post on X

Relying on the public having memory of goldfish.

And no "journalist" bringing it up.