The Lights Are Going Out In Athens
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
A Spiritual Homecoming
Doreen's Story - Amburgers Syndrome (video)
Dear John Bull
Twenty-Five Questions My Mother Asks About Independence Every Time She Phones
Bollards of Britain
Methil Once More
Iceland's crowd-sourced Constitution
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All very interesting items,"Dear John Bull" and "Iceland's crowd-sourced Constitution" are well worth reading.
I thought they were all worth reading Apogee. :)
I think the Greece story was the best. Reflects what we'll see soon over here.
I expected it by mid January but the colleagues are still clinging on tightly.
The Greek article was scary RM.
Wasn't that bit in the Declaration of Arbroath mentioned in Dear John Bull, ie "Yet if he should give up what he has begun, seeking to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own right and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King" merely a rehash of clause 61 of the 1215 Magna Carta written by the same sort of nobles?
And English people are not subjects of the Queen, we are citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the title since 1953).
I think you're right Brian and I'll check that out.
Also the change from subjects to citizens - I didn't realise that was so early.
Rosie, actually 1948 with the British Nationality Act: a citizen has a right of abode in the UK.
Which included the Commonwealth countries Brian, or at least those who were given citizenship.
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