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Traditional Ale Flavourings
Ale and beer were traditionally associated with commoners, as was cider. Naturally some higher social orders drank it, but wine and spirits were associated with the u
Paper classes.
frankbeswick, on 05/05/2023
Understanding the British Political System
The monarch appoints on the advice of the prime minister.manchester manchester
frankbeswick, on 05/05/2023
Who were the Druids
Scholars believe that druids were priests of the oak grove, but there are no classical references to their using stone circles, which had probably become redundant by the time that druidry developed. Druids probably lived in wood and waggle ...
frankbeswick, on 05/05/2023
Understanding the British Political System
The first paragraph to your first subheading, The Main Institutions, describes the monarch as being "advised by a group known as the Privy Council, who are all senior ministers appointed to the privy council for life, but all that they do is ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/04/2023
How Should We Respond to Islam?
The United States allows alternative schooling to Muslim children through the organization of Islamic schools. Online sources count about 235 Unitedstatesian Islamic schools.
Does your, eastern-pond side have Islamic schools, and would that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/04/2023
Traditional Ale Flavourings
It's amusing to re-read this wizzley after having re-read your wizzley on Brexit. In the latter you mention The Secret People by G.K. Chesterton.
So I read the poem online through the John Derbyshire site. The latter says that "The common man's ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/04/2023
Brexit: a political catastrophe
The article The Secret People by G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, on the John Derbyshire site quotes the author as describing that poem as "my history of England."
It's interesting to read in light of having read People of the Abyss, about the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/04/2023
Who were the Druids
The article Modern Druids work in stone circles, but did the ancient Druids? on the Druidry organization site describes "classical writers" as deeming Druids gatherers in "sacred groves, caves, or remote valleys."
What kind of built or natural ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/04/2023
Alternatives to Capitalism and Socialism
The reason for the private ownership of water is that the capitalist gang who misrule Britain are ideologically obsessed with private ownership.
frankbeswick, on 05/03/2023
Civil Society: an option besides state and private
I think that various charitable organisations loaned money, and maybeibthe European Union helped, but I am unclear on the details.
frankbeswick, on 05/03/2023
Civil Society: an option besides state and private
I do not know the etymology of the name, but some place names in Devon and
Cornwall are anglicisations of ancient Celtic names, so they do not follow a Saxon model and are often not easy to explain.
frankbeswick, on 05/03/2023
Civil Society: an option besides state and private
But for a computer crash ;-{ that same paragraph in that same subheading called to mind another question.
It concerned the area families of Beer village, Devon, southwest England having "established a community land trust. In such pretty ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/03/2023
Civil Society: an option besides state and private
The second paragraph to your first subheading, Examples of Civil Society in Operation, concerns a village called Beer ;-D.
What does the village name mean?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/03/2023
Alternatives to Capitalism and Socialism
The last two sentences in the third paragraph to your second subheading, Distributism, considers that "Chesterton would have been appalled that water is privately owned in British society, for to him water would have been too important to be a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/03/2023
Tree Stories: a Review
I don't think that the percentages can be estimated.
frankbeswick, on 05/03/2023