Biscuit 🏴🔶️ retweeted
Kenneth Branagh gives the best rendition of this speech in his 'Henry V.'
“This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
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At this rate I don't think we'll be ready in 1000 years
UK must be ready for war in 1000 days says Streeting trib.al/Tzf9Jil
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Happy Trafalgar day btw
#OnThisDay 221 yrs ago in 1805 @RoyalNavy was successful in defeating the Franco-Spanish Fleet at #Trafalgar confirming British superiority of the seas. Lord Nelson died before the end, having done his duty, handing over Command to another great commander Admiral Collingwood.
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Biscuit 🏴🔶️ retweeted
For those who fantasise looters as great revolutionaries
The revolutionaries of 1830, 1832 (the "Misérables") 1848 executed pillagers
The insurgents even waived flags indicating "Respect for properties; death to thieves."
Not your salon or twitter revolutionaries
The revolutionaries of 1830, 1832 (the "Misérables") 1848 executed pillagers
The insurgents even waived flags indicating "Respect for properties; death to thieves."
Not your salon or twitter revolutionaries
Il y a un énorme malentendu sur la tradition révolutionnaire française, qu'on évoque dès qu'il y a aujourd'hui une voiture brûlée ou des boutiques Nike dévalisées comme si c'était une continuité historique. Les insurrections parisiennes au XIXe siècle n'étaient pas des moments de révolutionnaires de 1830 et 1848, notamment, n'aimaient pas les pilleurs et s'organisaient spontanément pour les mettre hors d'état de nuire. En 1830, Louis Blanc rapporte que "les propriétés, au mois de juillet, ne coururent (...) pas le moindre risque", décrit des surveillances spontanées autour des objets de valeur, et rapporte même que des voleurs, pris sur le fait, furent fusillés par les insurgés ; "le peuple se surveilla donc parfaitement lui-même".
En février 1848 pendant la prise du Palais-Royal par la foule, Marie d'Agoult raconte que "des postes d'hommes du peuple (...) exerçaient une police rigoureuse à la sortie du palais, afin de prévenir ou de châtier toute tentative de vol". Des drapeaux portaient l'inscription anti-pillage "Respect aux propriétés ; mort aux voleurs".
Il y eut bien sûr beaucoup de morts dans les affrontements entre l'armée et les insurgés, et des dégâts lors de la prise de bâtiments très symboliques comme les Tuileries (et encore, plus mesurés qu'on ne le pense, là aussi parce que les émeutiers s'organisèrent pour pouvoir par exemple rendre intactes à la Reine ses laines et ses soies à broder !). Mais le pillage pour le pillage, les destructions aléatoires, ne faisaient certainement pas partie de leur environnement.
Louis Blanc, Histoire de dix ans, tome I, chapitre V (1842)
Marie d'Agoult, Histoire de la Révolution de 1848, tome II, chapitre XXII.
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My favourite medieval poem is the 'London Lickpenny', which follows a man wandering through London, unable to afford anything offered to him, not even his own stolen hood. At the end of the day, he uses what little cash he has to buy a pint. Clearly, it's still quite true to life
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Biscuit 🏴🔶️ retweeted
Government spending in France is nearly 60% of GDP. If people still struggle to eat and sleep perhaps the problem runs deeper than a lack of social services.
But yes, I'm sure burning down the Eiffel Tower will put food on the table.
But yes, I'm sure burning down the Eiffel Tower will put food on the table.
même la tour eiffel pourrait tomber je m’en bas les couilles de votre patrimoine y a des gens qui ne peuvent pas boire, manger et dormir dans de bonnes conditions
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Biscuit 🏴🔶️ retweeted
“Last chopper out of Saigon”:
Tired: Graduating high school before covid.
Mired: Graduating college before AI.
Inspired: Graduating elementary school before they stopped teaching phonics.
Tired: Graduating high school before covid.
Mired: Graduating college before AI.
Inspired: Graduating elementary school before they stopped teaching phonics.
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Biscuit 🏴🔶️ retweeted
İn his book"What Is To Be Done?" Lenin actually criticised random violence of 1905 Russian Revolution and similar small scale mass protests because they were not organizes and achieved nothing. Communists celebrating 2026 "French" protests show they have not read Lenin once
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Biscuit 🏴🔶️ retweeted
France has government spending at 57% of GDP and runs an over 5% of GDP budget deficit. This isn't a country being deprived by neoliberal austerity.
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How it feels reading about the British economy
Annualised UK GDP growth so far in 2026, with two-thirds of the year gone, is 2.7-2.8%
Is expected to slow in q4, but that was also expected in q3. And q2.
City economists (eg Pantheon) say “we have to shift from describing UK growth as resilient to calling it strong”.
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