This is from the new book by U.S. Vice President, JD Vance. He is describing visiting abandoned churches in England with his Cambridge-educated wife, Usha. He gets it. The sense of a once-great civilisation teetering on the brink. Why can a foreign leader see what our own cannot?
Aren’t you the minister for safeguarding women against violence?
And you have to apologise for what you tweeted after a fellow female politician was violently murdered?
Isn’t that a resigning matter?
Best friend and I, convinced we could be pop stars (like the Spice Girls) recorded ourselves singing a song we wrote. No clue what address to use, we posted the tape to "Record Company London" with a letter and my address. Amazingly, EMI wrote back, saying sorry but best of luck.
Not sure who's fess but my husband has started eating really healthily, quit booze and working out a lot. I suspected an affair so did some snooping and turns out it's so he can cosplay his favourite anime character. Can't decide which one I think is worse.
Weak men create the environment for even weaker men who create the environment for even weaker men. We at the point of civilisational collapse because the strongest man we've had since WW2 was a woman.
This ‘Proud of Us’ video on slavery is well worth your time.
They have many other videos telling historical truths that are often kept from us
This is not just for kids!
All of us should watch them! 👍
The optics are dreadful.
The KC representing bereaved Covid families sharing a boozy lunch with the very politician whose actions are under scrutiny?
At the very least, this is an appalling lack of judgement that damages confidence in the inquiry.
Nicola Sturgeon having a glass of wine in the sun with her pal Claire Mitchell KC.
Wait a minute, isn't that the same Claire Mitchell KC who "cross-examined" Nicola Sturgeon at the Covid Inquiry?
Everyone knew how old the Earth was.
About 6,000 years, counted from the Bible.
Then a Scottish farmer rowed out to a cliff and proved it was older than the human mind could hold. 🇬🇧
His name was James Hutton. A farmer in Berwickshire, trained as a doctor, made rich from a soot factory.
For years he watched his own fields wear away in the rain and rebuild downstream. Rock turned to soil, soil washed to sea, and something deep and hot pushed it all back up. Slowly. Endlessly.
If that was true, the world was not thousands of years old. It was older than anyone could reckon.
He needed proof a person could stand in front of. He found it at Siccar Point, where flat red sandstone sits on top of older rock stood bone upright, two whole worlds of time in one cliff. One laid down, lifted, tilted on its end and worn flat, before the other had even begun.
The man beside him said the mind grew giddy looking so far back into the abyss of time.
Hutton put no number on it. He simply wrote that he could find no vestige of a beginning, and no prospect of an end.
Every time you hear the Earth is billions of years old, you are hearing a Scottish farmer who taught himself to read time in a cliff.
That is a Briton to be proud of.
We exist to remind the world we should be proud to be British.
The stories of our past.
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Saved for our future.
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