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Many thanks to Harry Hayfield, for providing the fun for Christmas Day.
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Eight is Brent North.
Birmingham Perry Bar
The give away was the M6/M5 junction at top left!
Number Six: Broxbourne
Number Seven: Faversham and Kent Mid
Number Eight: Birmingham, Perry Barr
Number Nine: Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Number Ten: Arfon
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529146/Bomb-explodes-near-Baghdad-church-Christmas-Mass-killing-15-people-injuring-30.html
https://twitter.com/SarahDuggers/status/415947813458296833/photo/1
my daughter bought me a Nike Dallas Cowboys #8 Troy Aikman jersey for Christmas. I know for a fact it's $95 at the NFLshop site or in the store. Like me she refuses to pay more than $30 for sports shirts.
She paid $21 for it. It's brand new, genuine Nike down to the attached 'genuine Nike' tag attached to it, and the packing it arrives in.
They also have Premier League and major European club home and away jerseys.
So check out 21jerseys.com. They charge shipping for < 10 items.
I have no association with it other than as a happy customer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7oqz6Ykpd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MraSZ8NA-f8
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/25/if-germans-won-first-world-war
I can see your interest.
Today's Britain might have ended up as a modest north European social democratic republic – like Denmark without a prince.
At least Scotland has the opportunity to make this outcome factual.
There are a couple of PBers including stodge and myself contributing over here:
http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/
Some of the finished timelines read like books and can be utterly absorbing. The research which goes into many of them is astonishing, and the nitpicking and pedantry from bystanders would put even PB to shame.
Another interesting question is why the current UK state has decided to place so much emphasis on the outbreak of WWI. It has all the symptoms of a state defining its creation (or its rationale) myth.
Every country needs such a myth, and for many years, the Empire provided that since Scotland didn't so much unite with England in 1707, but with the English Empire (out of which we did rather well financially).
With the end of Empire, the raison d'etre of the UK disappeared. A sensible series of London Governments would have set about establishing a new mythology, and the structure to support that) - but failed to recognise the need to do so.
Many on my side of the independence debate recognise that the UK could have been made to work after WWII, but that there was no will to do so in Westminster (or perhaps Whitehall?)
England doesn't need the Somme etc to be given such mythological significance - nor do the other parts of the UK. Only the UK as an institution would try to self-define itself on such a basis - and to do so makes it even more irrelevant in the 21st century.
I'm feeling happy because the lovely Lukwesa Burak is now following me on Twitter. (She's a Sky News presenter).
mobile.twitter.com/SKYLukwesaBurak/tweets
Cook's not made a good start to the day.
My dear Joseph "oldnat" Campbell, your absence from PB has had a deleterious effect on the intellectual justification for your nationalism. Had you remained here and subjected yourself to the daily cynicism of the wise men of PB, then you would not be claiming that the Battle of the Somme has had mythological significance foisted upon it by London governments in an attempt to justify a continuing relevance of the 1707 Union.
Your mentor made this clear when he spoke of the "pathology ... [of] political interpretation of myths to the advantage of one group within a society, or one society within a group of nations.”
The 1707 Union was with the 'English Empire' not England? Surely this an attempt by the Scottish Nationalists to do their own post hoc political interpretation of events in order to create new myth?
And when did this English, and post-Union British, Empire end? Is there a date in the history books which closes the Empire chapter? August 1914 seems to be too early: a milestone maybe but not a journey's end.
If the Somme has mythological significance it is that which derives from the sacrifice of a lost generation and the need for its rebirth in a new social order. The Tommy or Jock who died in the mud of Flanders was Everyman, not a 19th century romantic nationalist.