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It is Armistice Day tomorrow - in 1918, at the 11th Hour, of the 11th Day, of the 11th Month, the guns fell silent ... good wishes to all who are commemorating #RemembranceDay Image
Good morning all on this Armistice Day/ #RemembranceDay , the 104th anniversary of the Great War's end. Australia's Great War (1914-1919):
- national population of 5m
- 416,809 enlisted
- more than 60,000 killed in action
- 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner Image
My grandfather in Aug 1918 with his beloved sister Vera before going to France. My late grandfather would arrive for the Allied advance to the Nov 11 armistice. Like many, he would feel guilty for having survived. So many friends killed & wounded in the Great War. #RemembranceDay Image
My grandfather, 2LT Connolly, was 19 & a reinforcement officer in the British Expeditionary Force in late 1918. He passed well before I was born & many records were destroyed in WW2. Indebted to @TJGodden for making these drawings that allow me to glimpse his war. #RemembranceDay Image
My great+ uncles served @HAC_TheCompany (the oldest continuing squadron/regiment in the British Army & a sort of 'Hooray Henry' unit in the 19thC) in the Boer War and then for all of the Great War. Some would then be detached to the Royal Garrison Artillery. #RemembranceDay ImageImage
Lieutenant PJ Connolly, RNVR, served in HMS Erebus during WW1 & after in the ill-fated Russian intervention. By all accounts a good officer, he went back to sea as a merchant mariner after the war & died before WW2 broke out.
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My uncles, Nicholas and Timothy, who would make careers in the British Army, serving in the BAOR, Ulster, one in Aden, before rejoining the family business .... and writing letters to the Torygraph on reviving the Latin Mass #RemembranceDay ImageImage
I was most grateful to be invited to speak this morning at the #RemembranceDay / Armistice Day service at the Bowral war memorial in the Southern Highlands. The war memorial lists the numerous southern highlanders who served in every war & operation from the Boer War to today. ImageImageImageImage
The audio of my address this morning to the #RemembranceDay / Armistice Day service at the Bowral war memorial in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia.

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Please feel free to post below for #ArmisticeDay / #RemembranceDay and share any familial reminiscences here #LestWeForget ImageImage
Good morning all & especially to all those commemorating #ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay or #VeteransDay . "Lest We Forget"
[Will Longstaff's "Menin Gate at Midnight" or "Ghosts of Menin Gate" (1927)] Image
Good morning all on this Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time. Also, good morning to all Veterans throughout the former British Empire on this #RemembranceSunday

[Chaplain Gleeson conferring the Last General Absolution on the Royal Munsters at Rue du Bois in France, May 1915] Image

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Apr 16
Holy/Maundy Thursday good wishes to all:

"Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that His hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved His own in the world and He loved them to the end" (John 13:1) Image
Good morning to all on this Good Friday:

"But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5) Image
It is interesting the number of people who find Good Friday hard - the betrayal, the disloyalty, the widowed Virgin Mary watches her son’s brutal, public death, with the women of Jerusalem & only John the youngest apostle who goes to the trial & Calvary (too young to know better)
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Apr 6
My #TartanDay thread for all who are celebrating & to all those with their familial ancestry in Scotland, or who, rightly, love the Scots as a people. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Image
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#TartanDay marks the anniversary of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath made by the Scots Nobility & Clergy to the Pope: "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom–for that alone which no honest man gives up but with life itself"🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇦 Image
"But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him Who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert." #TartanDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇦 Image
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Apr 3
Disagree-the signs were there in the 1990s and not just in the US. It was always going to end when first world countries' populations saw open trade & borders as making them less secure not more secure. Making China part of the WTO (Blob conventional wisdom) guaranteed this
I have thought more on this - as I was a school and then university student in the 1990s - and yes there was a whole 'whither the globalised world order?' Thomas Friedman sort of midwit debate that went on then & you can find it in many books from the era
At the same time, the 1990s, for every Globalisation point, you had:
- former Yugoslavia with combatants periodically massacring each other
- Somalia & Rwanda, which had their own causes & body counts
- Soviet collapse & then the Russians fighting the Chechens and Dagestanis...
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Apr 2
The problem of all Free Trade ideology for nation-states with real world responsibilities is its complete unrealism ... rather like open borders, free trade is utopian ... you cannot be a great or even regional power & rely overly on others supply to you in critical industries Image
Conservatism in the English speaking world, historically, was always Protectionist. The British Conservative Party & the GOP were historically for Protection and Tariffs (until Thatcher & the Bushs) - unchecked free trade & free markets were considered dangerous liberal heresies Image
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The British Empire was almost destroyed for two World Wars by liberal Free Trade's slow gutting of British industrial capacity & but for Imperial Preference in the 1930s, there would have been few if any UK & Empire industries left for WW2 esp the Alone period of 1939-1941 Image
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Jan 4
This @Telegraph long read by @SAshworthHayes @CDP1882 on the UK's long-running rape (and in some cases murder) gang scandal is bracing reading and not for the squeamish. But it must be read - and acted upon.

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Nov 25, 2024
Social media bill is another very poorly drafted law from the very same people who drafted the Voice constitutional alteration (which failed) & the Misinformation/Disinformation bill (which was withdrawn). Sheer lunacy for the Coalition to support the social media bill #Auspol
One of many problems we have with our Parliament in 2024 is its membership is simply not across how modern economies & communications work - you do not have to be any expert but you do need some lay understanding. One saw this in the Misinformation/Disinformation bill #Auspol
As a matter of public law - which binds everyone & should be as simple to follow as law can - the social media bill has ridiculous complexity & carve-outs ... and it is unreal to legislate on social media access separate from AI & exposure to its knowledge & also 'fakes' #Auspol
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