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England is set on copying Russia.. .where Cummings learnt his dark arts trade... permanently on the fringes of Europe in every sense... and make an enemy of the EU and so blame the EU for all the country's woes... ignore basic human rights.. .ruled over...
England is set on copying Russia.. .where Cummings learnt his dark arts trade... permanently on the fringes of Europe in every sense... and make an enemy of the EU and so blame the EU for all the country's woes... ignore basic human rights.. .ruled over...
Former French PM Francois Fillon has been sentenced to five years in jail, with three of them suspended, and a hefty fine for paying his wife hundreds of thousands of euro from public funds for a minor job she was assigned. Fillon was found guilty of...
Theatres are falling thick and fast, with no funding, more worryingly, no answers from the government. It is baffling that pubs, cinemas, and restaurants can re-open, and yet theatres still have no timetable and no answers. Theatres don't have drunk people...
I just can't understand why the government is doing next to nothing ab out the theatres.. I obviously don't expect them to help for cultural reasons - despite Johnson's hero Churchill's words about culture being what we were fighting for - but surely...
Sluglife, that's the word on the ground. Have lost all the Rocket and there are some potato leaves chewed down to their veins. A natural surge when the ground's newly dug over and we get generous rainfall after weeks of drought, but the plan to grow lettuce...
Most people experience Covid-19 as a short-term illness: once the infection has been fought off, they bounce back to health. But evidence is emerging of a significant minority – sometimes referred to as “long haulers” – who struggle with long-term symptoms...
Edward Hopper was born in New York in 1882. He studied illustration and fine art in the New York School of Art from 1900 until 1906. After graduation, he traveled to Paris, France, on three occasions between 1906 and 1910. Painted in 1913, the scene for...
Here at my wee village in Scotland On the peninsula where the USA flew their helicopter above us. US Air Force hybrid helicopter It is known as a V-22 Osprey US Air Force and Marine Corps It is a Bell Boeing - cost $70 million It is a futuristic-looking...
Good to see people are allowed to use the great outdoors at last for more than jogging and muscle-flexing, despite the predictable cretinous Tory shambles in giving braindead indoor boozers, eateries and cinemas the green light 16 days earlier. The pre-pandemic...
In The Netherlands children are tested in the 6th grade, secondary education is divided into several levels of education (4 to be precise). More and more parents hire people to train their children for these tests which defeats the purpose of testing...
In order to save the breed of the Clydesdale horses they have now this year gone undergo an embryo treatment The Mares from Collessie Clydesdales in Fife, Scotland have been undergoing treatment at a St Andrews clinic. For centuries the Clydesdale horses...
The people like Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings and many Tories, they are always in front of the queue for State handouts, yet they shout blue murder when those that are more deserving needed it. They believe it is their birth right and...
General Washington was in friendship with Tadeusz Kosciuszko, A Polish military enginier who fought on the American side during American war for independence. He was even considered as an architect of several American victories because his field fortifications...
The making of cheese on Scottish Islands has long been practised as a way of conserving the rich plentiful milk of spring and early summer, the grass is stimulated into luxuriant growth. The cows then have an abundance of herbage on which to graze. They...
Conservationists are to try to save wildflower meadows, rare pinewood plants and arctic alpine flora from dying out in the Cairngorms. Species such as twinflower, which has tiny, pink, bell-shaped flowers, are on the verge of extinction in the area. Wintergreen...
Poor people wish to be wealthier , they wish to have the consumer lifestyles that the west have and are sold on their TVs and phones.. there isn't a great mass of poor who all wish to live like Brazilian rainforest communities with no impact on their...
From Across the Water Viewing the USA dream It seems to us out here That it seems a divided It seems like two lands A lot of bickering out Lots of bad blood out It would be nice for it To be a great USA United to make it great Lovely to see the dream...
I have got so many things to do in the house! But I decided to break things down into smaller tasks .So for example, I collected all the mugs etc and washed them.Then I took a bag and gathered up dirty things that because of poor coordination means I...
Beethoven put birdsong into his 6th symphony, 'The Pastoral'. He also included a tavern band suggesting that they had the drink taken. I have heard a few jazz bands, of the trad type, who quite definitely had sampled the local brew, but usually to good...
St. Rumon, also known as Ruan, Ronan, and Ruadan, nothing much is known of him beyond that he was probably an Irish missionary and that many churches in England in Devon and Cornwall were named after him. Some authorities believed he is the same as the...
Back then (way before today) foreign made goods had a mystique. Also France could not compete with West Yorkshire textiles. So Paris built their brands around fashion and what was chic, not function. It was a successful move. For some reason Paris and...
As the pandemic lockdown has demonstrated, more people have come to appreciate the significance and importance of their gardens, allotments and parks, people have at least had a go at growing their own food is another stage in addressing that 'disconnect'....
Cool, briny pickles straight from the fridge are one of the simplest pleasures of summer. Quick pickling is also a brilliant solution for preserving a plethora of vegetables from the market or your garden. Quick pickling doesn’t require canning or a bushel...
The 'megascience' of mycology Fungal diversity lies at the core of our ecosystems and thankfully both academicians and citizen scientists are beginning to make inroads into knowledge of the Fungi kingdom. The British Mycological Society has been active...
