My older daughter has now tested positive for Covid. I hope all the delightful ar**holes who think not wearing masks and keeping some distance are really pleased with themselves. Other daughter can't go to work either, and although I'm John Prescotted [2 jags] and tested negative yesterday, I'll still have to be careful, and keep testing, for the next couple of weeks.
There's a great interview with a Scottish band called Mogwai I was reading yesterday. The answer from their singer Stuart Braithwaite, when asked -What did he make of Eric Clapton and Ian Brown questioning the safety of the vaccines? “It’s the toxic mix of weed and YouTube. People probably shouldn’t be looking to Ian Brown for sensible advice in the first place. " Quite. Get that man into Government now. Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Have I got this right? The government subsidises Tescos wage bill?
Yes, of course,  if someone takes two days work a week because that’s all they can get, they need a top up, so if he earns £50 in Tesco and his UC is £100. They only pay him £50. UC  these are not exact figures because I don’t know that, it’s not my busses but his,  but that’s the principle  of it. Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Interesting links but decisions made in wartime that resulted in the famine doesn't prove they were racist decisions nor the article didn't make clear they were directly WC'S decisions neither.
Then the Ireland article. Was WC hated I Republic and NI? It seems to me he's simply a fervent unionist which quote possibly went down well in NI or the unionist side.
I personally dislike WC for other reasons. Warmonger, empire man, white/male privilege, etc. Perhaps there's many reasons to reduce his standing. I also question his near mythical importance in WWII. It's known he's made real crap decisions as well as doing good, I'd like to know if anyone has critically looked into whether WC was the great war leader he is portrayed as. Certainly as white, male privilege goes there's enough to dislike.Â
Please tell me you have something other than the opinion piece of someone on medium website who's picked on the excesses of British empire as Churchills doing. No sources just heavy bias.
Let me make it clear, there are enough instances with credible sources to back the idea Churchill was no saint and in modern times would share a cell in den Hague pending trial. But there's none of that credibility in that link. If you seriously get your information from medium website then I'm shocked. You could as easily quoted a guardian "comment is free" piece and get the same credibility.
Am I the only one who finds the modern Internet is too full of lazy articles and comment pieces passing themselves off as credible research and information?Â
One of the most laughable examples was a vegan campaigning group that quoted small sections of serious reports so out of context that if you read the original you'd quickly realise it was saying the opposite. Take half a sentence you get backing for your views, read the whole sentence you don't. That's how bad it was.Â
 Any human life examined in forensic detail will reveal flaws ... no one's perfect ... Churchill was a man of and for his time ... had he been born 50 years later he may well have been a nobody ... but it's a lesson to us all not to make heroes of our leaders ... they will all have feet of clay to a greater or lesser extent ... because they are human. Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Other daughter can't go to work either, and although I'm John Prescotted [2 jags] and tested negative yesterday, I'll still have to be careful, and keep testing, for the next couple of weeks.
These people need putting away @Dovefromabove.Â
There's a great interview with a Scottish band called Mogwai I was reading yesterday. The answer from their singer Stuart Braithwaite, when asked -What did he make of Eric Clapton and Ian Brown questioning the safety of the vaccines? “It’s the toxic mix of weed and YouTube. People probably shouldn’t be looking to Ian Brown for sensible advice in the first place. "
Quite.
Get that man into Government now.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
these are not exact figures because I don’t know that, it’s not my busses but his,  but that’s the principle  of it. Â
Then the Ireland article. Was WC hated I Republic and NI? It seems to me he's simply a fervent unionist which quote possibly went down well in NI or the unionist side.
I personally dislike WC for other reasons. Warmonger, empire man, white/male privilege, etc. Perhaps there's many reasons to reduce his standing. I also question his near mythical importance in WWII. It's known he's made real crap decisions as well as doing good, I'd like to know if anyone has critically looked into whether WC was the great war leader he is portrayed as. Certainly as white, male privilege goes there's enough to dislike.Â
Let me make it clear, there are enough instances with credible sources to back the idea Churchill was no saint and in modern times would share a cell in den Hague pending trial. But there's none of that credibility in that link. If you seriously get your information from medium website then I'm shocked. You could as easily quoted a guardian "comment is free" piece and get the same credibility.
Am I the only one who finds the modern Internet is too full of lazy articles and comment pieces passing themselves off as credible research and information?Â
One of the most laughable examples was a vegan campaigning group that quoted small sections of serious reports so out of context that if you read the original you'd quickly realise it was saying the opposite. Take half a sentence you get backing for your views, read the whole sentence you don't. That's how bad it was.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.