Adoption in the 1930s

“Instead of not being interested in it, Kay [her husband] liked it very much. ‘Isn’t it a game little thing?’ he asked admiringly. ‘If you really want a baby so young, I hope you’ll have this one.’”

”That settled it. We told the creature it was coming to us, and it grinned with the tears from coughing still in its eyes, as if it understood every word we were saying.”

Malachi Whitaker And So Did I (1939) p27

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The USA can’t be defended

Zelenskyy has reinvented warfare through sophisticated drone attacks. The USA is incapable of defending itself against coordinated seaborne drone attacks. A dozen trawlers equipped with 100s of drones could literally send 1,000s of drones in a very short space of time. And as Zelenskyy and the Russians have proved You can’t shoot them all down. Both the eastern and western seaboards of the USA would be devastated by these attacks.

The USA can’t be defended – YouTube This is an 8 minute video

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Tony Benn: A wise politician

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Why the defence budget is squandered

The defence budget is going to explode in the next three years. £300bn will be spent by three ministers none of whom are military men. They will be advised by the Chiefs of the Defence Staff. They are all career military personnel. They have tunnel vision and think that Britain is a global power. They aren’t thinking of Britain as a small power who should be spending money defending Britain.

Why governments make crap decisions – YouTube 3 minute video

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Londoners

Q) How can you tell someone is a Londoner?

A) They look both ways when crossing a one-way road.

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A Frankie Boyle gem

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How to defend Britain

The current £300bn defence budget misses the point. It assumes, wrongly, that the war will happen somewhere else. Britain will drop nuclear bombs and the aircraft carriers will be cutting edge weapons. But if the war is in Britain what is needed is ground to air missiles at key strategic sites like the Dartford Tunnel, Heathrow and Felixstowe.

Missiles at the Dartford Tunnel

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Black Lives Matter: Schools in 1940s south Carolina

The local white schools had brick buildings, running water, flushing toilets, and strict bus routes. The schools for Black children were wooden cabins without electricity or indoor plumbing.

Heat came from a single wood stove. Books were hand-me-downs from the white schools, often missing covers and pages.

The county spent $179 per white student. It spent $43 per Black student. If a Black child needed to get to the high school in Summerton, they had to walk the dirt roads.

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Zelenskyy has redefined warfare

Zelenskyy ahs redefined the battlefield. The 12 years of attritional warfare in the Donbas is now a strategic sideshow. The battlefield is Russia’s equivalent to Amazon, transport hubs and oil refineries. Zelenskyy is trying to destroy the quality of life of every Russian.

Zelenskyy is a strategic genius

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Gervais on science and religion

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