It's an interesting contrast between Usonian and British culture. In the UK we have a national Church and various other accoutrements - Coronation Oath and so on, and various acknowledgements su… (View Post)

It's mainly to do with hotels being timid that a guest may be "offended". Hardly anybody is offended, of course, but in some things tolerance is less than it was - especially around &q… (View Post)

And Clough Williams-Ellis (designed Portmerion) I think. (View Post)

This is an interesting little factoid. Mike de Santis is getting Florida authorities to issue cease and desist letters to TV channels running anti-abortion ban adverts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?… (View Post)

A strange family to my eye and one of the strangest was Michael Oakeshott, a mid-century Fabian - where there were all kinds of peculiar ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oakeshott Isobel … (View Post)