We - like millions - obeyed the rules last Christmas. It was tough. My sister was up the road, my mum had just died, we all wanted to meet up. But we stuck to the rules - for the benefit of all. Then again... we're the little people aren't we. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
He's "doing his best" or something
If you think otherwise. It's you they hold in contempt. They think you're thick.
Definitely some people who think the likes of me are the elite and Boris Johnson is some kind of man of the people. But they have my sympathy.
And the nation gives a collective shrug.
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Long read on how British black propaganda and fake newsletters helped spark one of the worst atrocities in post war history. The events of 1965-66 in Indonesia and the purge against the PKI is little known here. Our part in them hardly known at all. theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…
Undoubtedly the History Reclaimed lot will just ignore this stuff.
In my twenties I bizarrely found myself talking to Margaret Thatcher at a drinks party and somehow the subject got onto this. "The problem with Indonesia is that it was never colonised by the British!" She declared loudly at me - and having drunk enough I politely corrected her.
Sounds impressive doesn't it. Cecil Rhodes the liberal who wanted to give "indigenous people" the same rights as white colonisers.
But take 30 seconds to fact check it and it falls apart like delicate tissue in a hot power shower.
Cecil Rhodes.... the reformer...
I went to school in Rhodes' hometown - Bishops Stortford - and they and we were all - then - very proud of him. The son of a small market town who had conquered Africa. I remember a very forthright teacher angrily lamenting the fact Rhodesia was being renamed Zimbabwe.
Ken Livingstone voice: You know there was another world leader, who fancied himself as a painter
Of the other world leaders (and dictators) who have painted it's weirdly - General Franco - who had the proper talent. Horrendous human being as he was
As Britons face soaring UK energy bills, rising Covid cases, benefit cuts, empty supermarket shelves and a petrol crisis.... Boris Johnson jets off for a luxury break in Marbella mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
In August a senior Government source told The Telegraph: “The PM’s going to staycation this year." But that was two months ago wasn't it.