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The Most Horrible Paragraph I’m Seen in Years

Posted: August 27, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Is this one from a story about what is happening in England these days:

Other journalists are nervous. Tim Stanley, the Telegraph commentator, admits it. Discussing the case of the 69-year-old widower jailed for nearly three years (after what many deemed a ‘justice-as-revenge’ show trial, complete with nationally distributed mugshots and televised proceedings), he suggested that the man’s situation should be carefully examined. ‘But,’ he went on, ‘I’m reluctant to do it, lest my words are taken down and given in evidence.’

The whole piece is worth reading but as a person whose father fought in World War Two and who thinks that Winston Churchill was one of the greatest English speaking persons in the last 100 years that England should have fallen this far.

What the hell did The Few die for?