Abolish the monarchy? A better idea, since it is actually achievable within the relatively near term, is to create a new British constitution, which clearly enshrines – and re-asserts – human rights and freedoms, while precisely detailing the powers and strict limits of political or governmental powers, as well as
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Views from the Beltline: England no longer a Christian nation
England is having its troubles these days. Economy in recession, a plague of strikes, living standards falling, highest inflation in 40 years, National Health Service on life support, millions can’t afford to heat their homes, government in disarray, and so it goes. One thing the English won’t be doing so
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Charles In Charge
Well, it finally happened. The Queen of Canada died, at 96 years old. She passed a couple days ago at her Scotland estate, and I still haven’t heard a cause of death, but I doubt the COVID bout she had earlier this year helped her any. Prince Charles gets promoted
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: BoJo Recovers, Thanks NHS Profusely
My great hope is that he’s now less of a jerk. https://t.co/Xt0aX4E6KJ — Paul Doroshenko, Q.C. (@PaulDoroshenko) April 12, 2020 The UK’s PM has apparently recovered from a serious COVID-19 infection that sent him to the ICU. https://saskboy.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/bojo-unwell-like-the-economy-and-environment/
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: British Political Humour Getting Their Own Trump-basketcase
I will keep bigging up Marina’s impossibly brilliant work until she is rightfully appointed Queen of Everything. The stunning last line here should be beamed into the brain of every living human being https://t.co/uXHyhl1cGJ — David Lewis (@davidclewis) July 12, 2019 “We’d be better off picking someone at random and
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Why Canada’s belligerent Conservatives are likely praying for peace in the Persian Gulf
PHOTOS: The nuclear powered American aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf in in 2014. (U.S. Navy photo.) Mighty warships are the carriers, but in the constricted waters of the Gulf, vulnerable nevertheless. Below: A map of the Gulf…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta’s Wildrose Opposition: just off the turnip truck … or what?
ILLUSTRATIONS: Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital, back in the day. Below: A newer version of the same hospital, one of the buildings that’s now falling apart. (From CardCow.com) Below that image: Wildrose Health Critic Drew Barnes; Richard Starke, MLA, and Richard Starkey, MBE. Anybody who’s been inside the Royal Alexandra Hospital
Continue readingLeft Over: To The Left, To The Left…Second-Guessing The Youth Vote
Free to dream, I’d be left of Jeremy Corbyn. But we can’t gamble the future on him Here is a comment I made re an opinion piece in the Guardian by Polly Toynbee… This is an oddly similar discussion to one happening in Canada today..but we are just
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: How come so many UK leftists are Trots?
In Terry Bisson’s interview with Ken MacLeod in The Human Front (PM Press, 2013), there’s this great answer to Bisson’s question “How come so many UK leftists are Trots?” : Short answer: because Trotskyists in Britain moved fast on the CP’s crisis in the 1950s, and moved with the times
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: England Loses in World Cup – So Do English Women
[Police fear rise in domestic violence during World Cup] Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: DWR PSA, England, Violence against Women, World Cup
Continue readingTrashy's World: Go England!!!!
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Continue readingLeft Over: Tomb Much Death-Worship
Tomb Found At Richard III Burial Site To Be Opened LiveScience | By Megan GannonPosted: 07/23/2013 2:53 pm EDT Just great, another wealthy religious group spends millions on still another church/Disneyland while the poor in England get tossed from their housing, the social fabric is being eroded, and the government continues to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bones of Kings
The discovery of Richard III’s grave is pretty awesome. Bonus, he was still inside it! It’s really hard to get the motivation to leave a grave though, it doesn’t happen very often anyway, and is entirely with assistance. And here’s another thing entirely:
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: England Threatens to Risk War With Latin America to Please United States!
I wish my title was embellished, but it’s been a crazy 24 hours. The background to this story is that Wikileaks‘ editor Julian Assange is holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, waiting for the Ecuadorian President Correa to rule on his asylum bid. It’s expected that asylum will be
Continue readingArt Threat: Walking as art to avoid global catastrophe – Review: The Robinson Institute by Patrick Keiller at Tate Britain
Portrait of Patrick Keiller. (Photo: Samuel Drake) It is not always the case that definitive moments in art history can be precisely located. Certainly not the first act of artistic creation, that “strange beginning” of Gombrich’s Story of Art — a 35,000 year-old mammoth ivory carving, perhaps? The American architectural
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Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Jean Charest fails to silence the Quebec student movement,
As the talks to end the Quebec student strike broke down Thursday (thanks in large part to the Jean Charest Liberal government’s inability to think in a non-partisan manner, thus ending further bargaining for the time being), I am nonetheless encouraged by the increasingly epic support that the student movement here
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Jean Charest fails to silence the Quebec student movement,
As the talks to end the Quebec student strike broke down Thursday (thanks in large part to the Jean Charest Liberal government’s inability to think in a non-partisan manner, thus ending further bargaining for the time being), I am nonetheless enco…
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Jean Charest fails to silence the Quebec student movement,
As the talks to end the Quebec student strike broke down Thursday (thanks in large part to the Jean Charest Liberal government’s inability to think in a non-partisan manner, thus ending further bargaining for the time being), I am nonetheless encouraged by the increasingly epic support that the student movement here
Continue readinggay persons of character: London Bus Campaign: ‘Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!’
Source: http://www.facebook.com/stonewalluk Well this is neat. Throughout April, 1,000 buses in London, England, are carrying ads from the British charity, Stonewall, to promote marriage equality. Bearing the tagline, “Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!” the ads link to Stonewall’s equal marriage campaign website, which includes details of the charity’s response
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