I won't define one - as it's a nonsense. But the Tory party wage an ideological war every so often on who they determine to be culturally acceptable, and who are not.Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
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I won't define one - as it's a nonsense. But the Tory party wage an ideological war every so often on who they determine to be culturally acceptable, and who are not.Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Dianne Abbot was on Today this morning, I thought I'd heard/seen some car crash interviews but this one takes the biscuit!
http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/201...rre-interview/
She's a total dingbat.
The media have been jumping on everything and anything the new Labour leadership do or say - and for the first time they actually have something moderately important to pick on. Although, personally, I don't see what the big deal is with changing policy. Things changes, strategies adapt.
"All that unites us is our oppression under the Norman yoke" That would be me.:sweatdrop:
Technically it is a Combo Norman/French/English/Scottish/Dutch/German Yoke, British for short.Quote:
I learned from you there's no such thing.
I'm a West Saxon and you're either a Northumbrian or a Dane.
All that unites us is our oppression under the Norman yoke.
Let's not forget about the Saxon yoke oppressing the poor Celts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greyblades
What about the Celtic displacement of the indigenous Beaker people?
I heard that the "Celts" never referred to themselves in such a way and probably never thought of themselves as a homogeneous culture.
~:smoking:
Fearsome wars were fought between different Celtic tribes. Some Celts in Northumbria worshipped the blue sky, and they hated those of their neighbours who worshipped the red fires of hell. Some of the Celts in the midlands threw in their lot with the Romans, naming themselves after their luxurious Roman houses. They were constantly at war with those who preferred to live outside, who were identifiable by their frequently frostbitten faces. The fiercest inter-tribal wars though were fought between those who identified their lineage through the Celts and Germans. They called themselves the Celtics and the Gers, respectively.Quote:
Originally Posted by rory_20_uk
:laugh4: I suspect that our international friends will not get this!Quote:
Some of the Celts in the midlands threw in their lot with the Romans, naming themselves after their luxurious Roman houses.
Concepts of nation, tribe and ethnicity are very different now to antiquity. Add to that, archaeologists are want to create broad themes and narratives from scant evidence. These often override the small subtleties and contradictions that are always the condition of real groups of humans.
Neither do Finns now. And?Quote:
Originally Posted by rory_20_uk
On a similar topic - Another left winger speaking in 1992. How much of this was considered loony left fringe nonsense? And how much of it is clearly obvious to us now?
https://www.facebook.com/cloakedtrut...26445/?fref=nf
A fair bit, though I do note that we have also learned that in pracice toppling dictators becomes even more detrimental to all involved than propping them up.
I also find him somewhat naiive, the notion that great minds working on weapons development would be better spent elsewhere is idealistic and impractical. Even without the illegal arms trade there is still a need for weapons development on the part of nation states.