The Earth has no moons. 'The Moon', according to most recent scientific thinking, is now outside the definition of 'moon' and is actually a binary planet.
2. Everybody - even the uneducated - in medieval times knew the Earth was a sphere. Probably since the 4th century BC, in fact.
The 'Flat Earth' idea seems to have come from the American writer Washington Irving in 1829.
3. At the 'Southern Pole of Inaccessibility' - the loneliest place on the planet, there is one object to mark the spot - a bust of Lenin. It's been there since Russian explorers reached the spot in 1958.
4. You might have heard of the 'Seven Seas' but it never existed as an entity.
The Earth has 5 oceans (NOAA) (or technically, one big one) .. or just 4, as the 'Antarctic Ocean' still has to be officially recognised as such by the IHO.
And 5. : The Earth does not have 2 Poles.
There are 2 geographic poles, 2 geomagnetic poles, 2 magnetic poles, 2 poles of inaccessibility, 2 celestial poles, and 1 ceremonial south pole.
At some point in this campaign, an increasingly desperate Tory Party might drop the Zinoviev Bomb.
Let me give you some context.
The 1924 General Election:
Just 4 days before voting, the Daily Mail ran a story about a letter - the now infamous 'Zinoviev' Letter - from the Soviet Communist Party to the British Labour Party, suggesting (among other things) ... a UK and Empire-wide Bolshevik Revolution.
Just came across this lovely little history story:
Back in 1962, EMI were working on various computerised systems for various purposes. Due to funding issues, the entire department was to be closed down.
EMI were losing cash and in real trouble.
Then their music division discovered a band in Liverpool that looked quite promising ...
The cash generated by the global success of the Beatles propped up other struggling divisions within EMI, including the division run Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, allowing him to continue his research ...
Because we’re looking at the problem from the wrong end.
The small boats are not a crisis, only in that they add to the real problems:
- The rapidly growing shortage of hotels for asylum seekers;
- The interminably long delay for those people to have their applications processed.
Solve THOSE two problems … in an efficient, humane and legal manner … and the actual boats become a minor distraction, easily handled through a better process.
In addition, you solve the shortage of hotels … by solving the delays to processing of asylum applications.
By the way, in #London, The #ULEZ Expansion being implemented by Mayor Khan ...
... is by stipulation of the Tory Government in 2020.
1/3.
Precisely, by Transport Minister (at the time) Grant Shapps, to Sadiq Kjhan, 14/05/2022, Section 12, Part (h) .. as a part of the Central Government TFL Pricing Agreement.
2/3.
More precisely, this letter :
(This is why Shapps has been so silent on the matter)
So a Care ‘Charity’ set up by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had 1 employee, who not only had never worked in the arena, but was a former employee of Jeremy Hunt who resigned in disgrace, and who’s now re-employed by Jeremy Hunt, and received 2/3 of the charity’s income as salary.
In addition the ''charity' pledged to use donated funds to research and report on Patient Care.
Research completed : Unknown.
Reports published : Zero.