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In Northern Ireland there was (and is) a genuine dispute between people who want it to remain part of the UK and people who want it to become part of Eire.
Both these causes, though opposed, are rational and not unreasonable in themselves. It’s the terrible and evil things people did in their name that generated the tragedy.In the case of islamic terrorists, the underlying cause itself, the creation of a global islamic caliphate, is totally unreasonable as well as what is done in the name of that cause.
Celebrating st paddy’s day in a foreign land is like a celebration of invasion.
St, Patrick was allegedly of mixed British / Roman birth and is thought to have been born in Somerset. He went to Ireland as a Christian missionary. Ironic, really!
But then the UK royal family is of German ancestry, so……
If fox numbers need to be controlled, so be it. But it should be done by professional marksmen, as a job, not by a pack of dogs followed by hooray Henrys on boy-racer horses.
I had a lovely holiday in Ireland last summer. We were in County Galway and we travelled right across the country to get there from Rosslare. Beautiful scenery, yes, and I was enthralled by it. But living as I do in the West Country of England, the ‘Emerald Isle’ bit was lost on me!!!
Irish teaching their English children that being Irish is better for them, racists.
So should Brits living in Spain teach their children that Britain is better than Spain?
While we’re on the subject of Celtic and Celts, the ‘indiginous’ English are, apparently, in terms of the gene pool, almost as celtic as the Welsh and Irish and about the same as the Scots. The English celtic / pre-celtic gene pool was diluted mainly by Danes in the north, while the Scots by Vikings and Picts. The Romans and Saxons might have conquered England and imposed their cultures but they didn’t significantly affect the genetic make-up. The last invaders, the Normans, remain as the aristocracy, apparently genetically remarkbly intact after nearly 1000 years.
I got some of this from a UCL study that set out to find the levels of Saxon and Danish genetic ancestry in the Britsih Isles. Apparently they found it difficult to distinguish between Dane and Saxon genes but the study threw up the surprisingly high level of celtic genes in the English. Not so surprising really, since the Iceni of East Anglia, led by Boudicca, were Celts. However, the greatest propertion of our gene pool is pre-celtic, dating back to the ‘aboriginal’ population, who migrated into the area at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels were lower because so much of the planet’s water was locked up in glaciers and most of what’s now the North Sea was dry land (15-20,000 years ago)
By comparison, the Celts invaded about 2500 years ago, the Romans 2000 years ago and the Normans in 1066.
We’ve got 2 cars, a trailer, 3 pedal bicycles and a petrol lawnmower.
Essentially that includes all the components that go to make a motorbike – but I’ve never been into motorcycles!
There is a lot of hypocrisy on this matter. If it’s wrong to leave a 14 year-old alone in the house, surely it would also be wrong to let them go out on their own! Nobody makes a fuss about children being allowed out unsupervised unltil they end up drunk in a park at 2 a.m.!
A childcare professional acquaintance once told me that, strictly, nobody under 14 could be left alone at all in a house. I reckon this, if true, dates from the times when most houses had open fires and the obvious fire risks were greater.
I was a Christian, by choice, as a child. I didn’t come from a particularly churchy family, just nominally C.of E. I desperately wanted to believe, but I couldn’t summon the faith. I would have been wonderful if what we were always told was ‘truth’ had been true. Funny how much the word ‘truth’ is used in Christian propaganda.
Anyway, by the time I was a teenager I was a doubter. As an adult, I’ve been a fully ‘out’ atheist. As for the ethical, moral aspect of my life, I’m a humanist.
I was a Christian, by choice, as a child. I didn’t come from a particularly churchy family, just nominally C.of E. I desperately wanted to believe, but I couldn’t summon the faith. I would have been wonderful if what we were always told was ‘truth’ had been true. Funny how much the word ‘truth’ is used in Christian propaganda.
Anyway, by the time I was a teenager I was a doubter. As an adult, I’ve been a fully ‘out’ atheist. Atheism covers my lack of belief, while I subscribe to the humanist philosophy on morals and ethics that boils down to ‘do as you would be done by’ – which is basically similar to the Christian ‘do unto others only that which you would desire others to do unto you’ but without the superstitions and myths added on.
