@post_liberal I don’t understand why anyone would challenge it, though many do. It quite obviously is Lancashire regardless of the new modern administrative nonsense
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.
Alex Younger, with whom used to play toy soldiers with as a boy growing up in the Borders half a century ago, was an intensely moral man, perhaps unusually for a successful intelligence officer. Privately he was forthright in his criticism of those, such as Netanyahu, who were happy to slaughter the innocents among their enemies. This line in his obituary rang very true to the man I knew: "He was acutely aware of the corrupting powers of espionage and of the compromises it requires, but decried the “pernicious myth that, somehow, intelligence services are moral equivalents; that the end justifies the means, whatever the cost”. MI6 was not the same as the services of authoritarian states. “If we undermine the values we defend, even in the name of defending them, then we have lost.”"
“I would take the fight to change politics, and change this country, as high as I could”
On a potential Labour leadership challenge, Andy Burnham says he is “making no assumptions” on running in the Makerfield by-election, saying he wants to “rebuild politics”
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@Valkyrie250@UKLabour Highest ticket prices in Europe. Trains in parts of the country that are honestly embarrassing for a country like us
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. The root issues you mention are down to profits being extracted