- Oud-Heverlee natuurwandeling door vier seizoenen
A year in the natural world in our home village; lovely.
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World leaders on Twitter
- New EU-Morocco Fisheries Protocol signed today
EU conniving in plunder of natural resources from the occupied Western Sahara (again).
- Atos Slated by DWP…
Why the fall of ATOS is not automatically a good thing…
- Jack Monroe: the face of modern poverty
‘I get infuriated by people who say, "Oh, just eat lentils." Not everyone wants to eat lentils.’
- Majority of FG Senators will oppose Kenny over Seanad
..and all 11 @Labour senators say they will vote against their 2011 manifesto commitment.
- The Peace Process Is Back
Article is less starry-eyed and more hard-headed than the title. "Many Israeli politicians claim that any pressure is counterproductive and negatively impacts peace efforts. Well, they would say that. But not only is it an obviously self-serving argument, it is also wrong."
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I don’t know the story in question, but I am sure you are quite right, though I might express the language as “the lost language of which Welsh was an Eastern dialect” :-).
But could there not have been a more successful series of Irish invasions than there were historically, such that (say) they colonised Cornwall and Devon and then slowly took over the lowlands of England. Implausible, but surely possible given some concatenation of events.