Monday, 6 June 2022

What they said

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“The Holy Spirit is practical, he is not an idealist. He wants us to concentrate on the here and now, because the time and place in which we...

Threats to the Disunited Kingdom

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The chief threats to the United Kingdom are from illegal immigrants (much the most urgent and important), refugees,  Islamists, the Irish an...
Sunday, 5 June 2022

Offices of the Illustrated London News decorated for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

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I remember this, at the 1976 US bicentenary. The band played 'That's Why the Lady is a Tramp'.

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Like the Queen Gerald Ford was unelected and inherited his position. He was stupid (he famously couldn't walk and chew gum at the same t...

Bucharest is the nicest place in the world to be in June

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New St. George's Church which is older than Old St George's. Razvan Church seen from Calea Mosilor New St. George's Church  Colt...

Historians will argue forever about the origins of the 2022 Ukrainian war

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Talking about it being completely impossible to tell the real left from the real right anymore (or to tell the left-of centre from the right...
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I said this ten years ago during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations

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The Prince of Wales said last night 'And we're now celebrating the life and service of a very special person, over the last 60 years...

Caitlin Johnstone's message to her fellow Americans on July 4 last year

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It's important to understand that the imperial propagandists don't just tell us what to think; they also train us how to think. Fee...
Saturday, 4 June 2022

Mr and Mrs Johnson were booed (and cheered too) when they walked up the steps of St Paul's Cathedral to the Jubilee service yesterday

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Here is the clip.  I heard boos and some cheers but listening to another clip the boos were very loud and persistent.  It has been suggested...
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Friday, 3 June 2022

No Republic any time soon

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Divine liturgy in the Antim monastery this morning.

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Royal Air Force flypast yesterday spelt out 70.

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'Germany Risks Becoming Sick Man of Europe Again as Woes Mount. Only Estonia is expected to post slower growth in 2022'

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In the 70s and early 80s it was Great Britain that was the sick man and Germany and Japan the wunderkinden. Now Germany, as detailed in thi...

I often disagree with Daniel Jupp, but he is right here.

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'I’m not one of those people who think the British Royal Family secretly control the world. They can’t even stop the media revealing the...

Turkey not Turkiye

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News agency today: Turkey’s government has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that it be referred to as Türkiye, the st...
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Thursday, 2 June 2022

The Americans who removed Trump now want to do the same to Putin

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Biden and the part of the American defence establishment that plotted to undermine Donald Trump hope they can remove Vladimir Putin.  I thin...
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Full Russian control of the Donbass is a matter of days away. America is now fighting Russia.

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'German Lieutenant General (ret) Roland Kather, a former Kosovo Force (KFOR) commander and member of the NATO Military Committee (MC), t...

H.M Queen Elizabeth II is more popular in Romania than anywhere else, including the UK

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  H.M. the Queen's Platinum Jubilee bank holiday starts in England today with much ceremonial and partying.  The Queen is more popular i...
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Going to Hell in a handcart. Fifteenth century glass at Ticehurst, East Sussex

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Give peace a chance

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Yesterday I happened on an article from the Washington Post from several years ago, about racism among Evangelical Christians as it happens,...
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