Having played too many video games in my youth, I have a bit of a soft spot for the medieval period. Don't you just, like me, hanker after the simplicity of those bygone days of knights, maidens and Whitsun Ales? All the food was organic, everyone was religious, and social media's invention lay many centuries hence. Damsels needed rescuing and the manly ideal of the knight – equal parts murderous maniac and emotional softy – reigned supreme. If a chap needed a safe space, he had to go and conquer the Holy Land to find one.
One other thing which was better in the Middle Ages: the overlords did have an enforced code - enforced by the Church - of 'noblesse oblige', of having to care for their serfs and underlings. That was done away by the welfare state where all of us tax payers are obliged to pay for what in the Middle ages would be termed 'ne'er-do-wells' and worse. They did make a distinction between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor - the horror!
Nowadays everybody is 'deserving', provided they have a good victim card allowing them to 'receive' without even a hint of a demand of ';contribute'.
Btw - don't diss stinging nettle tincture: it's better at curing bronchitis than anything the doctor prescribes or the pharmacist sells OTC. Only aspirin works better than willowbank tincture ...
I'm in Kent so I'll keep an eye out for the new Wat - probably going to be a well-pissed off white van man from Canterbury sick at the idea of being fined for driving to work/being a man/having a van/losing all his middle-class customers who can no longer afford new kitchens/etc
The nearest Wat Tyler figure in my opinion is Florida's Ron DeSantis, unfortunately many miles away in Florida.
If he does succeed in becoming the next POTUS, it might emcourage some much needed political eruptions here: we can but hope.
Meanwhile, the Tartan Tyrant looks set to have the thoroughly awful Gender Recognition Act passed into law when Holyrood's MSPs vote next on the 21st.
Many of us have written, protested,all to no avail and a recent court judgement by Lady Haldane is a gift to the GRA purveyors: sex is based on gender as well as biology, so it seems that we adult human females will shortly be sharing far more than hitherto deemed acceptable or permissible.
Harry n' Meghan continue with their sopsistic drivel, seemingly unable to understand why their effusions do not garner much enthusiasm from the plebs.
One other thing which was better in the Middle Ages: the overlords did have an enforced code - enforced by the Church - of 'noblesse oblige', of having to care for their serfs and underlings. That was done away by the welfare state where all of us tax payers are obliged to pay for what in the Middle ages would be termed 'ne'er-do-wells' and worse. They did make a distinction between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor - the horror!
Nowadays everybody is 'deserving', provided they have a good victim card allowing them to 'receive' without even a hint of a demand of ';contribute'.
Btw - don't diss stinging nettle tincture: it's better at curing bronchitis than anything the doctor prescribes or the pharmacist sells OTC. Only aspirin works better than willowbank tincture ...
I'm in Kent so I'll keep an eye out for the new Wat - probably going to be a well-pissed off white van man from Canterbury sick at the idea of being fined for driving to work/being a man/having a van/losing all his middle-class customers who can no longer afford new kitchens/etc
The nearest Wat Tyler figure in my opinion is Florida's Ron DeSantis, unfortunately many miles away in Florida.
If he does succeed in becoming the next POTUS, it might emcourage some much needed political eruptions here: we can but hope.
Meanwhile, the Tartan Tyrant looks set to have the thoroughly awful Gender Recognition Act passed into law when Holyrood's MSPs vote next on the 21st.
Many of us have written, protested,all to no avail and a recent court judgement by Lady Haldane is a gift to the GRA purveyors: sex is based on gender as well as biology, so it seems that we adult human females will shortly be sharing far more than hitherto deemed acceptable or permissible.
Harry n' Meghan continue with their sopsistic drivel, seemingly unable to understand why their effusions do not garner much enthusiasm from the plebs.