#scout #jamboree being evacuated today
A quick primer on #BearGrylls - the scout leader who said "look after each other, keep a positive mental attitude" as children phoned parents convinced it was for last goodbyes before their imminent death.
Bear is the son of a disgraced corrupt #tory MP who was at the center of the cash for questions scandal. Bear scraped through eton and then joined the TA (reservists) which he characterzies as being "in the SAS".
@scaramanga
"This journey from an atavistic faith to a more organised understanding of religion was aided by the Alpha course, an evangelical immersion programme also recently attended by Brand, originating in west London, which became extremely popular during the 1990s. Its developer, Nicky Gumbel, is an Old Etonian, like Grylls. “He reminds me of Tony Blair,” the journalist Jon Ronson wrote of Gumbel, in 2000, when he was investigating the Alpha course."
Cos Tony Bliar is such a fine chap.
@scaramanga
There appears to have been some coverage of Alpha by Ronson in the Revelations TV series on the UK's Channel 4 a couple of decades ago, but it's gone now.
Ronson certainly appears to have taken the brown acid, whether that was before or after his nervous breakdown I know not.
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