My government paid $2 million! for a bathroom in a park. Yet it’s often empty, and it’s already missing a sink.
By contrast, this public but PRIVATELY RUN park spent much less, while renovating a public toilet so well that people line up to use it.
Our instinctive love of home, or oikophilia, as Roger Scruton called it, is intertwined with a desire to care for and cultivate it.
When my grandparents moved into their bungalow in Lincolnshire, the front garden was little more than a blanket of grass. Three decades on, it has become my grandad’s pride and joy. This is oikophilia in action, and it is beautiful to behold.
“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.”
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
Our brave officers confronted a man they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat. Using only their training, courage and tasers, they detained him while he continued to try to attack and stab them. This took true courage.