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Neil Clark retweeted
I remember this too.
Neil Clark retweeted
They haven't just diverted buses from Oxford Street; they've actually cut back several routes across central London. Along with restricted access for cars, taxis and cyclists this is hugely inconvenient for large numbers of transport users, including those with mobility issues.
So sad what they’ve done to Oxford Street. Its red buses, black taxi cabs and other traffic were a key part of what gave it such a buzz. I remember the excitement of Oxford Street in the late 70s when my Dad would take me to see the Christmas lights.
The magic of London is being destroyed.
The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street starts tomorrow.
✍️ My piece in The Spectator.
For those inclined to make negative comments, I strongly suggest reading the piece FIRST.
spectator.com/article/pedest…
We have to make sure this new happens. Again it’s all about doing everything they can to make driving too expensive for ordinary people.
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Yes there are more Pyramids in Sudan than Egypt. 👇
The Nile is not a border.
This is the simplest version of the argument and also the one that should require the least explanation.
The Nile flows from the interior of Africa northward to the Mediterranean.
The civilizations along its length were in constant contact, trading, fighting, exchanging people and ideas and religious concepts and agricultural techniques across what was not a separation but a connection.
The civilization of ancient Egypt did not emerge in isolation.
It emerged in relationship with the Nubian civilizations to its south, some of whose cultures predated the unification of Egypt, which contributed to and drew from Egyptian culture across millennia.
The kings of Kush would eventually rule Egypt as its 25th Dynasty.
And across the centuries that followed, Kushite civilization would leave behind something that still surprises people today.
More pyramids.
In what is now Sudan.
Built by the civilization that the Western imagination has most completely erased.
There are more ancient pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt.
Most people reading that sentence right now are encountering it for the first time.
That is not because the information is obscure.
It is because the information does not fit a story that someone needed to be true.
And the information that does not fit the story does not make it into the classroom.
ALT The Royal Pyramids of Meroë, Sudan. An aerial view of the ancient royal burial grounds of the Kingdom of Kush, one of Africa's great civilizations. These pyramids were built largely between the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE to honor Kushite kings and queens. Centuries earlier, Kushite rulers had governed Egypt itself as its 25th Dynasty. Today, Sudan contains more surviving ancient pyramids than Egypt. These monuments are evidence of a civilization that developed its own traditions while exchanging culture, knowledge and power with its northern neighbour across centuries. The Nile did not divide these civilizations. It connected them. The pyramids are still standing. What remains missing from too many classrooms is the history of the people who built them.
Another excellent episode of a superb drama series from the late 1970s.
Highly recommended if missed.
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That was a really terrible storm last night which did a lot of damage (& still is this morning in many parts).
Neil Clark retweeted
The country is directionless. Marriages crumbling, families breaking apart. Divorce too easy. Single mothers. It all feels so negative.
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It is also politically useful in atomising the population so that it can become more manageable through cultural and social engineering ... that is breaking down but the social damage has been done and may not be reversible.
He’s right but loneliness is an epidemic throughout Britain, not just in rural areas. So many places where people in previous generations could meet and make new friends or find new partners, be they pubs, dance halls, discos, social/works clubs, you name it, have closed down. Social life in Britain is worse now than probably at any other time in our history (bar the grim Cromwell years).
But no politicians are talking about it, even though the cost to individuals and society is huge.
Neil Clark retweeted
Also, any kind of socialising now, even just popping out for coffee and cake, costs the equivalent of a week's wages.
The way things are going making eye contact with people will soon be illegal.
Neil Clark retweeted
Cities embody the notion of the lonely crowd. This has happened, not by accident, but rather, by design.
Their end game is to have us imprisoned in nondescript open prisons, called 15 minute cities.
He’s right but loneliness is an epidemic throughout Britain, not just in rural areas. So many places where people in previous generations could meet and make new friends or find new partners, be they pubs, dance halls, discos, social/works clubs, you name it, have closed down. Social life in Britain is worse now than probably at any other time in our history (bar the grim Cromwell years).
But no politicians are talking about it, even though the cost to individuals and society is huge.
Neil Clark retweeted
In many places across the West, not just Britain.
He’s right but loneliness is an epidemic throughout Britain, not just in rural areas. So many places where people in previous generations could meet and make new friends or find new partners, be they pubs, dance halls, discos, social/works clubs, you name it, have closed down. Social life in Britain is worse now than probably at any other time in our history (bar the grim Cromwell years).
But no politicians are talking about it, even though the cost to individuals and society is huge.
He’s right but loneliness is an epidemic throughout Britain, not just in rural areas. So many places where people in previous generations could meet and make new friends or find new partners, be they pubs, dance halls, discos, social/works clubs, you name it, have closed down. Social life in Britain is worse now than probably at any other time in our history (bar the grim Cromwell years).
But no politicians are talking about it, even though the cost to individuals and society is huge.
