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This forum is usually full to the rafters of anti Brit threads. Whether it's Police fuckups, lying politicians, chavvy kids, authoritarian governments, a crappy football team, racism, guardian readers etc etc etc. I just thought we'd have a thread on any Brits -past or present- you look up to with pride.

Is it Newton? We all travel in cars, on buses & planes. We've all seen man walk on the moon & have digital tv from satellites in space. Most of the physics involved is based on Newtons theories, so where would the world be without him?

Is it Darwin? How many species did he name? There's 'Natural Selection' for one. Contradicting the churches views on mankinds evolution, and in doing so, influenced lots of other biologists thinking to this very day. Would biologists have discovered DNA and cured many bacterial & viral disease so quickly without Darwins works & theories? Will his natural selection theory be used to save our planet in the future from mass extinctions because of mans actions?

Or is it Shakespeare? Someone I overlooked in my youth, yet every play, tv series and film that put fear, happiness, and sadness within you, all used Shakespearian techniques in some form or other. He also invented over 600 words, helping English be the most expressive language in the world....ever.

There's my three candidates, what about yours?

Douglas Bader.

Davie Cooper ....Legend


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Keith Richards closely followed by John Lydon.

Isaac Newton

William Shakespeare

William Blake

No specific order:

Air Chief Marshall Dowding

Sir Steve Redgrave

Daley Thompson

Bobby Moore

The list could go on and on.

It's probably just me but any list of greats also has to have Misty McCaine, Laura Turner, Hayley Russell and Georgette Neale on it as well !grin!

Bomber Harris ( They have sowed the wind and now they will reap the wirlwind) he said after the Nazis bombed London!love!

For me, the only Brit that mattered is gone but not forgotten
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Joe Strummer

Nice thread Sam.

My three are Newton, Darwin and Paine.

The first two for the very reasons you have given.

My third is Thomas Paine, the revolutionary pamphleteer and liberal idealist.

Writer of such texts as "Common Sense" (pro American Independence), "The Age of Reason" (anti Church) and "The Rights of Man" (anti monarchist) Paine also worked on the invention of a smokeless candle, patented a single span iron bridge design and worked alongside John Fitch on the early development of steam engines.

While Thomas Jefferson is acclaimed as the main author of the Declaration of Independance signed in 1776, the basis of the text lies very much within the writings of Paine. Paine was staunchly anti-slavery, and he was one of the first to advocate a world peace organization and social security for the poor and elderly.