@peterrhague I think the audience are laughing at her. Look at who is and isn’t laughing when they cut to the audience. It isn’t your typical Green voters
Yes, without Britain, there would be no steam engine, steam trains, telephones, parliamentarism, modern constitutionalism, English as the lingua france, penicillin, end of the slave trade, ATMs, logarithms, Shakespeare, the theory of evolution and so much more.
In 1000 years, once we have gotten over neurotic jealously and third worlidsm, people will look at Britain with more admiration than we look at Ancient Greece today. It is quite evidently the greatest nation the world has ever seen. It's not even particularly close.
@lilbernadette@fool2theworld Still is in America. America’s maternal mortality stats are worse than Gaza and the West Bank. Genuinely third world levels
Today was the day I was invited to Windsor Castle to receive my MBE from His Majesty King Charles III, what an amazing honour, I still can't believe it but now I can sit and look at it and feel such a sense of achievement Thank you @mariecurieuk you are all absolutely fabulous♥️
Pope Leo XIV has appointed @EWTN's head of news, Maria Montserrat Alvarado, as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, replacing Paolo Ruffini who has served as prefect since 2018. Alvarado will become the first laywoman to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia. She will take up her new position on November 1.
@AimeeHAlexander@theSNP@ReformUKScot It’s total fantasy politics, too. The idea that all these Brits were taking advantage of FoM for work is just nonsense. More Brits in Australia than the whole EU
@WardProWords@ScottTheGeo The US doesn’t even do imperial properly. They use some sad, half baked version and miss out important measurements like stones