Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

    • CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
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      12 days ago

      I mean, after doing a genocide Cromwell declared his son his political heir… I don’t disagree but it just never had a chance because British people barely knew what a republic was. They literally just had classical-inspired vibes about it.

      No joke, I wrote a paper in college that sourced an Enlightenment era English writer who claimed that the English state was a monarchal republic because the citizens had more rights than the French.

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 days ago

      Well, Cromwell the issue was that it was an extremist fascist coup by a religious extremist

      He literally banned parties, and advocated that instead everyone must go to church and make good with god