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Our latest newsletter listed a selection of March’s notable and interesting titles. Among them, we can highlight "1066 and All That" by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman.

It's a comic parody of English history, mocking how schoolchildren misremember facts. It reduces centuries of events to "Good Things," "Bad Things," and memorably mangled kings, battles, and causes — hilariously unreliable by design.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/

#books #literature

Just some humor I found in a UK page:

Donald Roy 23h ago

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M.S. Bellows, Jr.1d ago

@cstross
Them: "American conservativism is a legitimate political movement advancing sincerely-held, patriotic American ideals and is not at all a front for pro-Russian foreign operatives trying to destabilize our country."

News story: "The [former, pro-Putin] Hungarian government has been bankrolling the Conservative Political Action Conference for years."

Donald Roy 1d ago

Charlie Stross 1d ago

Holy shit.

Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC

Magyar noted that his government will be investigating Orbán’s expenditures, and will no longer finance CPAC or other right-wing institutions abroad.

https://newrepublic.com/post/209035/hungary-prime-minister-victor-orban-paying-cpac

Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC

Péter Magyar called the payments a “crime” and said his government would stop the funds.

The New Republic

Donald Roy 4d ago

Anon Opin 4d ago

If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6

Donald Roy 5d ago

A website called 'On London' has just analysed the apparent ethnic origins of candidates put forward by #reformUK in the #londonborough of #BarkingandDagenham for the impending elections. It has found that roughly half of them would not meet #mattgoodwin 's definition of #british - appearing to originate from #romania and #southasia . For #us readers this is the equivalent of #maga running a ticket made up largely of #haitians and #somalis ! The hypocrisy and irony are quite breath taking ! 😆

Donald Roy Apr 8

Steve Herman Apr 8

President Trump, on social media, declares “a country” supplying military weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, “on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately.”

Donald Roy Apr 8

mmalc Apr 7

It's frustrating that the UK is trying to follow in the USA's political footsteps…

#USPol
#UKPol

(Not sure who to credit for the artwork.)

Donald Roy Apr 7

Babs E Blue #ReleaseTheFiles Apr 7

Timothy Snyder: “Whatever happens tonight, or any other nt in this war, is now legally defined by the president’s stunt. In practical application of the law of genocide, Genocide Convention of 1948, the difficulty is usually in proving “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Henceforth intent is on the record, in the published words of the president of the U.S. & commander-in-chief of the armed forces abt death of “a whole civilization.”😡

Donald Roy Apr 5

Steve Herman Apr 5

Easter Sunday message on his social media account from the president of the United States: “…Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. …”