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Dave Shackson
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🇦🇺 Welsh-Aussie Assistant Headteacher, historian, in London at a Girls' School. Traveller, Cycle Commuter. PC games. Former Intelligence Corps Reservist. Surrey CCC. Irony warning. #NAFO, NATO Matters. Will block if you DM unless I have got to know you
I too like the more important freedom of feeling safe from gun violence.
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We do something for Eid.
December 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
So cool to see that picture given I visited the Panama Canal not so long ago.
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Send some my way.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Dave Shackson
The full video is here and parts of it still take my breath away youtu.be/cI8bJO-to8I?...
寻找新疆集中营 - 城乡随拍[5/8]
YouTube video by guanguan
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
True, but had we known how paranoid Andropov was at the time we might have not been so sure of certainty of it all.
December 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Have used that clip many times.
December 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Me, with beer and wine in any pub/bar being served by millennials.
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Teaching the History of Medicine and looking at Roman Britain I had always taught that it was a mixed bag with Romanisation because you got sanitation but urbanisation in general was unhealthy, lead pipes and communal bathing in water that was changed infrequently also worked against good health.
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Trying to oppose war started on potentially different and nuanced grounds each time just means you keep having to change your banners and talking points each protest. Much simpler to just have the one cause.
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM