Truly I tell you, today you will be with me
To our American family: we're right here, forever. As we always will be in the joy, in the shock, or in the pain.
To our American family: we're right here, forever. As we always will be in the joy, in the shock, or in the pain.
Football, rugby, tennis, snooker, and the Paralympics all began on these islands. The games Britons now take up fastest come from Mexico, Hungary, and America, while our own newest export crowns its champions in France. A country with underused sports halls can do better than spectate.
Ministers hold every legal power needed to send foreign convicts home, and say so loudly. Yet the cells stay full, the bill passes half a billion pounds a year, and one nationality enjoys near-immunity on the strength of a 2007 ministerial statement Parliament never voted on.
Whitehall studied unidentified objects for half a century while telling Parliament it had no interest. It shredded files, planned to edit others, and now hides behind GCHQ rather than say what it holds. The alien spacecraft remain unproven. The concealment is signed, dated, and filed at Kew.
Victorian Britain gambled on buffer states with the Royal Navy and the Indian Army at its back. Its threadbare successor bankrolls Kyiv, slips paratroopers across the border, and courts Brussels for cash, while Moscow's paid saboteurs set fires in east London. We are playing a stupid game.