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1 day ago |
shropshirestar.com | Peter Rhodes
One of Putin's favourite TV propagandists, Vladimir Solovyov, has warned of nuclear war with Britain and is advising our Celtic neighbours to jump ship while they can. As he puts it: “Scottish brothers, you must fight for your independence. Right? These English colonisers have no business on Scottish soil.”By coincidence, the new Scottish-based TV shocker, Dept Q (Netflix) has the occasional anti-English moment, as when one Scot is heard to whisper: “Give us our bloody independence.”
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2 days ago |
shropshirestar.com | Peter Rhodes
According to a weekend report on the Great British fertility crisis, the main reasons for couples not having kids include money worries and “not feeling ready.” What advice can we of the older generations offer these baby-ditherers? Only the eternal truth: if you wait until you can afford children, you'd never have them.
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3 days ago |
shropshirestar.com | Peter Rhodes
In the Gettysburg Address of 1863, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Today, the veteran Democrat politician Bernie Sanders defines America under Trump as “government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires.” Nice one.
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4 days ago |
shropshirestar.com | Peter Rhodes
Star columnist Peter Rhodes discusses the hottest topics from garden bulbs to Hitler's dietHitler was a vegetarian. Therefore, vegetarians are Nazis. Agreed? Of course not. The above is an example of what academics call Reductio ad Hitlerum, Latin for "reduction to Hitler," or playing the Nazi card. Put simply, it means that if, for example, you're discussing modern politics and start dragging the Nazis into the debate, you've probably lost the argument.
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5 days ago |
shropshirestar.com | Peter Rhodes
The renewal notice has just arrived for our roadside-recovery policy. It includes £63 “administration fee". If you have any similar examples of daylight robbery, let us know. Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.comand on Freeview 262 or Freely 565I suggested a few days ago that high-explosive artillery shells might be regarded as a sound investment, having soared in price from £1,700 to almost £7,000 in the course of the war in Ukraine.
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