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Fox's McEnany Complains To Trump DHS Spox About Acquitted Sandwich Guy: 'You Can Just Throw Sandwiches at CBP Officials?!'
"75% did not know it was after 2000 that British taxpayers finished paying off the money borrowed by UK government in 1833 ... to compensate enslavers for their 'loss of property'."
I'm in that 75%. I had no idea it was only after 2000.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/most-britons-do-not-know-scale-of-uks-involvement-in-slavery-survey-finds
For my European friends now waking up.
How far did Bilbo and Frodo walk?
The Shire is a barely hidden reference to the Garden Counties of England. Before the Ice Age, it was possible to walk into Europe.
The superimposed map shows the Lonely Mountain near Chojnice, Poland, and Mount Doom down around Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
That's some hiking.
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