Daniel

Research has pierced all extremes of my sex; call it a day.

[Daniel @Solasuke]

I make an attempt at solidifying the connection between two of my biggest loves, David Bowie and George Harrison. They both sang one familiar phrase: All Things Must Pass. What lay between the two? https://t.co/XHxi8KzgC7 #DavidBowie #GeorgeHarrison

[The Spectator @spectator]

Try as I might, I cannot think of an animal welfare issue that is more misunderstood than the survival of Dartmoor ponies.

Every maddening misconception about land management and every un-intended consequence of animal rights sentimentality is encapsulated in the sad reality of why the ponies will be culled in greater numbers than ever from this autumn, because the government has messed up the issue even more than usual.

The latest disaster to befall Dartmoor is the conflating of ponies with sheep and cattle by Natural England to produce a total number of grazing animals allowed on Dartmoor.

Because sheep always sell for good money because people eat them, and ponies don't (because people don't and horse riding is sadly not the predominant pastime of this country anymore), farmers will choose to keep sheep and not ponies (yes, the ponies are owned) and the pony herds will be drastically reduced, to the horror of ramblers and nature buffs.

✍️ Melissa Kite

Article | https://t.co/sX9gA5HLvo

[Tom Rowsell @Tom_Rowsell]

The horses in Devon are running on the beach.
yes.
YES.
The horses are out.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

It is hard to imagine, but if half of those 51,000 missing in Venezuela are under the rubble and most likely dead... The scale of this disaster is off the charts.
"Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans took the search for missing loved ones into their own hands Friday in the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes, citing the scarcity of government rescuers, as the human toll of the disaster climbed to at least 920 dead and more than 51,000 missing."
Heartbreaking.

[AM Scanlon @amscanlon]

Now this is pure dead brilliant

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

All has been made clear. 🔮✨
Now…should I or shouldn’t I?🤔🤷🏼😉

[Frank Wright @frankwrighter]

"I can assure you I will look back in anger till the day I die"
God bless Stephen Patrick Morrissey:

[Daniel @Solasuke]

@Graham__Hancock I’m very pleased to hear it Graham. Rest well!

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Sean Connery grew up in a time when everyone started smoking at three years old, breakfast was a solid brick of lard, and everyone's first job was either mining plutonium or using toxic smoke to chase gypsies out of the village.

[Daniel @Solasuke]

@BDSixsmith At least we always have @BDSixsmith to be thankful for.

[Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet]

Morrissey said this in 2007 and was labeled a “racist,” a smear that follows him wherever he goes. But he was right. He sounded the alarm and paid dearly for it.

“It seems to me that England was thrown away.”

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Only idiots and Britain haters blame Churchill for the Bengal Famine

This myth only became popular in 2010 after a ridiculous book was published by a far-left journalist with no historical training

This is what REALLY happened:

1. A cyclone hit Bengal in 1942, destroying crops

2. They were already suffering from the worst rice brown spot epidemic on record

3. Normally in a famine grain would be imported from Burma, Malaya, Phillipines, Thailand etc. But WW2 ws raging and our Japanese enemy now controlled those areas

4. The Japanese had bombed Indian ports, which also destroyed grain

5. Shipping grain in was hugely dangerous because Japanese fleet was blockading the Bay of Bengal and sinking ships
Remember, the Axis powers were sinking one ship every day and had sunk around a million tons of shipping in 1942.

6. On top of that local Indian speculative traders were unforgivably HOARDING grain. With inflation rife, this was classic wartime speculation as they could make (and expected to make) much more money by hoarding rather than selling immediately.

7. Local government and administrators were slow to act and initially told the UK government there was enough grain in Bengal.
One can blame the democratically elected Government of Bengal, people like Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (Minister of Civil Supplies for the newly formed Muslim League) and Sir John Herbert (the Governor of Bengal) for exacerbating conditions in the Bengal Famine. But not Churchill.

What did Churchill do? Everything he could.

Remember also, he was thousands of miles away in a different continent fighting the Second World War and preparing for D-Day.

Yet despite all his other commitments he worked hard to save the people of Bengal.

1. When the British government found out about the famine’s severity in August 1943, they authorised around 1 million tons of grain to be shipped to India between then and December 1944.

2. Churchill pushed Australia to send wheat

3. Churchill personally requested shipping assistance from U.S. President Roosevelt in April 1944 to transport it from Australia. Roosevelt declined, stating US ships were needed for the Pacific campaign and the upcoming D-Day operations.

4. Thanks to Churchill grain arrived from Iraq (barley), and Canada as well as Australia.

5. Crucially, Churchill was responsible for appointing the man who played such a pivotal role in stopping the Bengal Famine: Field Marshal Wavell. Wavell knew India and its people extremely well and was a magician of logistics. He drafted in the army to move food supplies and halted the famine.

Why are tax payers funding Helen Cammock's ignorant, anti-British propaganda at the @NPGLondon?

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Nobody does it better.

Makes me feel sad for the rest.

[Daniel @Solasuke]

@maccakither Seems to me to be more of a reference to Beatles f***ing each other over, legally/financially speaking.

[Daniel @Solasuke]

@Graham__Hancock Wishing you the very best health and a swift rapid return to your fine form!

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the greatest medieval castles in England.

Originally constructed by William the Conqueror in 1068 and later rebuilt in stone, Warwick Castle has been standing for nearly a thousand years. It’s older than the Aztec Empire.

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Last night's 97% Waxing Gibbous Blue Moon over Stonehenge during golden hour🤩🌕 Photo credit Nick Bull 🙏

[Daniel @Solasuke]

@lukecaverns Sensible decision, but don’t lose the fun along the way! Luke Caverns is a great name, keep it going somehow!

[Luke Reagan @lukecaverns]

Hang this on your wall — all 17 known Olmec heads🗿

[Joe Paul Kroll @JoePKroll]

The beginning of AJP Taylor’s ‘English History 1914–1945’ famously ‘goes hard’, as the internet puts it, but part of its brilliance is surely that it was written (or rather edited) to fit a single page.

[Daniel @Solasuke]

@BasilTheGreat This just gets worse and worse. What a dark terrible tragedy. How cruel.