📉 'Some individuals got extremely rich through colonial trade. But Britain as a whole did not. The Empire was a White Elephant project, the HS2 of its day, a prestige project which benefitted some at the expense of others.'

✍️ Kristian Niemietz | The Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

I'm so grateful to everyone who donated to help me make, today, my marathon goal of £1,500 to support Afghanaid’s work with women and girls living under the Taleban.

I know many people who sacrificed greatly to help Afghanistan's people have a better life; this is for them.

Dawn Butler has spread outrageous disinformation about the Cass Review in parliament. She has mindlessly parroted the talking points of gender zealots and ignored the harm that transitioning causes kids. She should be ashamed, says Jo Bartosch
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Astonishingly this post is listed for 'special architectural or historic interest', Grade II. Historic England: 'Bull Ring or Bear Bating Post. Early C19. Square wooden post, approx. 5ft tall, with lead cap. Attached to it, a leather and iron collar on a chain. [Not present.]'

I am the good shepherd; I know my sheepand my sheep know me
-  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10: 14-15

It’s often overlooked but club cricket in Durham and Northumberland has always been very strong. Whistle down a coal mine for a fast bowler etc etc

I guess the #DefundThePolice era is now officially over.

'And then the policeman said, 'You can't cross the road with that hat on!''

Tourists did this (in Málaga)
'A foster care exhibition [photographic] destroyed. Each image, each story, was a ray of hope for children who need a home. They not only damaged the works, but also the hearts of those who fight for a better future for these children.'
Heartbreaking

Destrozados. Así nos sentimos al ver destrozada la exposición de acogimiento familiar. Cada imagen, cada historia, era un rayo de esperanza para niños que necesitan un hogar. No solo dañan las obras, sino también el corazón de quienes luchan por un futuro mejor para estos niños.

I shan't be voting, but I certainly won't be watching this. I can't imagine a worse line-up. The fact that vacuous smugmeisters Stewart and Campbell get an extra plug under their podcast title tells you exactly what it's going to be like.

Very good.

As a reminder, Moscow Marge is a conspiracy theorist who believes in QAnon, 'global cabal of satanist pedophiles', and of course Jewish space lasers.

She also poses as a 'Christian nationalist' while cheating on her ex-husband with a polyamorous tantric sex guru.

Three drunken tourists vandalise an open-air exhibition publicising a charity that encourages people to become foster parents in Málaga. It's a relief and a surprise to hear that they weren't speaking English.

La Catedral de Mallorca, una maravilla de la arquitectura gótica con casi 800 años de historia
#FelizDomingo #photograghy #travel

Map of countries that speak Brazilian

If this is a fair account of what happened, then we are in a terrible situation. Epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and axiology are now impossible disciplines because badly drafted laws and nonsensical 'hate crime' guidance have supplanted and silenced human reason.

So very sad to hear Sir Andrew Davis has died. He was a very special conductor and a joy to work with - an opinion I know I share with all my BBC Singers colleagues. My generation grew up with him conducting the Last night of BBC Proms. Here’s the year he sang the speech. Hero.

A much love doll, Olive, has just been lost on a train either at Doncaster or on the London North Eastern Railway train from Doncaster to London. I have a devastated little girl and I’ve seen these sorts of posts work before.