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Italian builds fake ancient amphitheatre and charges €40 a visit
Burnham’s bloodbath reshuffle
Shortly after Grandmother’s departure, Vera decided that the moment had come when Lili absolutely must have an English governess. If they waited any longer, Lili wouldn’t have the proper accent. Not knowing English herself, she got one of her friends who knew about such things to make a thorough check on the way of speaking of all the young English girls who applied for the post, and to choose only the ones with the purest pronunciation. Vera made it very clear to them that they were only engaged to look after “the little girl,” “the big girl” didn’t need them. It quickly became apparent that nothing could more anger Vera, and turn her against them, than hearing one of them speak to me in English, make any sort of remark to me about my education, in short, than seeing them take the slightest bit of notice of me. It seems to me now that this was perhaps an effort on her part to redress the balance of advantages, of opportunities, between Lili and me . . . I spoke very good Russian, a little German, I didn’t need English as well . . . What was more, a knowledge of English was for Vera a sign of distinction, of elegance, and it would put Lili a few points ahead of me. Also, perhaps, she considered that her mother had given far more to me than she had to her real granddaughter and that my father was rather too concerned with me . . . In any case, if Vera had wanted to inspire me with a passion for English, she couldn’t have gone about it in a better way . . . And then, it so happened that the language itself delighted me. And also, for the most part, I found them charming, those ingenuous young English girls, fresh blown from
Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage · Nigel Farage 10m Andy Burnham has no mandate to govern Britain. We need a general election now.
Widdecombe murder arrest shows danger politicians face, says Farage
"Mike Newton: Can Burnham really convince the Bond markets?" article here: https://conservativehome.com/2026/07/10/mike-newton-can-burnham-really-convince-the-bond-markets/
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – the follow-up to 2023’s Academy Award-winning phenomenon Oppenheimer – transforms Homer’s foundational saga into a boundary-pushing cinematic epic blending action and myth.
Meloni faces pact with devil to stay in power
effect of having withered inside his clothes like a kernel in a nut. He spoke with the faintest foreign accent and it was difficult to determine whether he was Jewish or of an ancient English family. He gave the impression that very many cities had rubbed him smooth. If there was a touch of Jerusalem, there was also a touch of St James’s, if of some Central European capital, there were also marks of the most exclusive clubs in Cannes.
A headline: "Starmer given deadline: Quit by Tuesday or face humiliation"
Talking on BBC TV in 1976. "We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step."
Mornin' Sarge (BBC2 sitcom 1990)
It is a general maxim in democracies, oligarchies, monarchies, and indeed in all governments, not to let any one acquire a rank far superior to the rest of the community, but rather to endeavour to confer moderate honours for a continuance than great ones for a short time; for these latter spoil men, for it is not every one who can bear prosperity: but if this rule is not observed, let not those honours which were conferred all at once be all at once taken away, but rather by degrees. But, above all things, let this regulation be made by the law, that no one shall have too much power, either by means of his fortune or friends; but if he has, for his excess therein, let it be contrived that he shall quit the country.
advert for "The Farage Factor" by Lord Ashcroft
Scene from "Bulman" (1985) where prison officer played by Tom Chadbon talks to Bulman as he prepares to go for his appeal hearing.
The episode of "Bulman" (1985) where he goes undercover in a prison.
Ben Elton in the "Nozin' Aroun'" routine on the first episode of The Young Ones
Page 2 of today's Sunday Telegraph, advertising a "poshcast" above a story about cuts in welfare spending.
To end the week Reform unveiled Laila Cunningham as its candidate elect for the London Mayoralty. This upset a lot of members who saw former SAS soldier Ant Middleton as the natural choice. Middleton gave a barnstorming speech at the party conference at the NEC last autumn, which was received with great enthusiasm by all those in attendance, and has since spoken regularly about his passion for the role and his determination to take it on.
Starting with the opening scene, he routinely flees the corporate bad guys using stealth techniques similar to an infant covering their face with their hand and declaring “You can’t see me.” One scene, which sees him hiding from a fleet of bad guys by ducking behind a slatted fence with massive gaps in it, is laughingly absurd. from https://nextmag.ca/review-stephen-spielbergs-disclosure-day-is-an-alien-light-disappointment/
"How saying 3 words can help instantly calm you down"
From Takimag: "Britain’s Anti-White Wokeness, America’s Pro-Israel Madness"
PREFACE WHEN the Oxford History of England was launched a generation ago, ‘England’ was still an all-embracing word. It meant indiscriminately England and Wales; Great Britain; the United Kingdom; and even the British Empire. Foreigners used it as the name of a Great Power and indeed continue to do so. Bonar Law, a Scotch Canadian, was not ashamed to describe himself as ‘Prime Minister of England’, as Disraeli, a Jew by birth, had done before him. One volume in this history treats Scotch universities under the head of English education; others treat the internal affairs of the colonies as part of English history. Now terms have become more rigorous. The use of ‘England’ except for a geographic area brings protests, especially from the Scotch. They seek to impose ‘Britain’—the name of a Roman province which perished in the fifth century and which included none of Scotland nor, indeed, all of England. I never use this incorrect term, though it is sometimes slipped past me by sub-editors. ‘Great Britain’ is correct and has been since 1707. It is not, however, synonymous with the United Kingdom, as the Scotch, forgetting the Irish (or, since 1922, the Northern Irish), seem to think. Again, the United Kingdom does not cover the Commonwealth, the colonial empire, or India. Whatever word we use lands us in a tangle.
Headline from Hello! magazine: "7 phrases used in the 1980s that have completely disappeared"
Stonehenge