#great britain

[arianeka]

Isle of Skye, 2025.

[desimonewayland]

Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding, Great Britain, mid-19th century

Yale Center for British Art

[dasloddl]

ID in alt

we get it, it’s beans ON toast and ants would eat that, also we get it, ants aren’t that loyal to their queen, they kill her off if she’s out of line

[illustratus]

A Lighthouse on Fire at Night by Joseph Wright of Derby

[melodeelaine]

Razorbill Guillemot, Bempton Cliffs on the East Yorkshire coast of England, UK

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding.

Place of origin: Great Britain

Date: mid-19th century

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

Under Starmer's leadership, the Labour Party attempted to rebranding themselves as "centrists". Now, racists are burning down immigrant neighborhoods; there's a national anti-trans bathroom ban; and the Labour Party is well behind the nationalist Reform party in the polls.

[eretzyisrael]

I went to an anti-Israel dinner party. It did not go as planned.

They described it as “a safe space for difficult conversations.” What they really wanted was an Israeli who would sit quietly and confess.

by Nachum Kaplan

He smiled tightly. The second course arrived: sea bass on a bed of something green and politically sustainable. Theo, who had been silent until then, cleared his throat: “Surely the core issue is that Israel was created by Europeans on Arab land.”

I looked at him. “Which part of that sentence would you like to examine first?”

“It’s simply historical fact.”

“No, it’s a slogan wearing a waistcoat.”

He blinked.

“The Jews who established Israel were refugees and indigenous people returning to their ancestral homeland. Many were already living there. Others came from Europe because Europe had spent centuries persecuting them and then attempted to exterminate them. After Israel was established, hundreds of thousands of Jews were expelled or fled from Arab and Muslim countries. Today, a large proportion of Israeli Jews descend from communities from the Middle East and North Africa.”

Theo frowned. “But Zionism was a European colonial movement.”

“Colonial movements generally have a mother country.”

“Britain.”

“Britain fought the Zionists, restricted Jewish immigration during the Holocaust, and eventually left due to Jewish insurgency. Israel was not established as a British colony.”

“It was enabled by Britain.”

“So was Jordan. You seem less emotionally agitated by Jordan.”

“That’s different.”

Naturally. Everything is different when the Jews are involved.

Simon entered the conversation: “But surely you accept that the Palestinians had their land stolen in 1948.”

“Some Palestinians lost homes during a war. As did some Jews, such as the 850,000 expelled from Arab states.”

“A war started by whom?”

“Israel.”

“No. Israel declared independence after accepting partition. Arab armies invaded. Palestinian and Arab leaders rejected partition and chose war.”

“Because the partition was unjust.”

“That is a position. It does not reverse who started the war.”

“You’re being pedantic.”

“I’m describing the difference between invasion and being invaded. Civilisations have occasionally found that distinction useful.”

Nadia shook her head.

“This is why these conversations are impossible. You keep retreating into facts.”