The student from Ghana was insistent. “I want to meet him.” The stubborn, well-attired fool, groomed and keen to make a good impression, was attending the Senate House ceremony in Cambridge for honorary awardees. He was not the only one. In attendance on this warm June day in 2006 were a gaggle of rascals, well-wishers […]
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Eric Zuesse On February 4th was anonymously published online at https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Russia-I-02-04 not merely a data-dump such as Wikileaks famously does, but also a detailed news-report, which shows the key evidence, and which links to massive supporting evidence, proving that the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office of Her Majesty’s Government (“HMG”) has been, and is, the […]
Submitted by George Callaghan…
Britain’s monarchy is the most famous in the world. It is also the most outdated in Europe. As a passionate royalist I am obliged to say that an overhaul of the monarchy is long overdue.
The United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II has given her royal assent to Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit legislation which has finally made its way through Parliament.
Reuters reports:
A political disease usually found in countries ruled by insecure megalomaniacs hit London this week: hello, personality cult. In the Middle East, the disease associated with regions in which stunted political growth is the norm, has a distinct characteristic. Large portraits of the ruler and members of his family adorn street furniture, buildings and office walls. Depicted in their national dress and military uniforms with blemish free, beaming smiles, the aim is to develop affection for the head of the “national family”.
21st Century Wire says…
The ‘Kingdom’ of Bahrain may be a high income economy and a high ‘human development’ index, but it’s human rights are certainly nothing to brag about. And as for self censoring alongside journalists who risk jail for speaking ill of government, this shiny former emirate is as guilty as it’s Gulf neighbours.
As much as £45 million worth of weapons were sold to Bahrain from the United Kingdom up to last year.
John Dee was an eminent Elizabethan mathematician and astrologer. A painting of him has turned out to have a circle of skulls while he is performing an experiment for the Queen.
