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Nicholas Mander @wolpen

Cotswold historian & writer• squire of low degree• topiarist• pilgrim• culture vulture• owls among ruins• sous les ifs noirs ils meditent• old *art owlpen.com @OwlpenManor in the Cotswolds Joined June 2009
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

6 months ago

This is genuinely extraordinary: x.com/MicloutT/statu… Speaking is General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He says that the UK "should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is." He goes on: "Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY [the emphasis is his] clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy." He predicts that "this thing is going to go south very, very quickly." He highlights in particular just how foolish it was to kill Ayatollah Khamenei: "The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable."

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Nicholas Mander @wolpen

2 years ago

@bcdyingmuseum It was Celestino Panchieri who created the wonderful internal porch in St Peter's Wolverhampton for my great-grandfather, Charles Tertius Mander. Also the memorial tablet for his son, Charles Arthur, in St Bartholomew's, Tong.

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Toby Young @toadmeister

2 years ago

According to Bridget Phillipson, Shakespeare is 'outdated'. She's devising a new 'decolonised', 'anti-racist' curriculum which she's going to force all schools to teach in the name of 'diversity'. dailysceptic.org/2024/12/30/lab…

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Nicholas Mander @wolpen

2 years ago

Let's preserve Viollet-le-Duc's stained glass windows at Notre-Dame de Paris - Sign the Petition! chng.it/h5qn4BNFRg via @UKChange

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Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes

2 years ago

Treasury Admits New Farm Tax Is Based on Research From Only One Academic order-order.com/2024/11/11/tre…

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James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville

2 years ago

This is absolutely outrageous from former Labour political advisor John McTernan: “We can do to the farmers what Thatcher did to the miners. It’s an industry we could do without. We don’t need small farmers.”

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Historic Houses @Historic_Houses

2 years ago

Our thoughts on yesterday's Budget, and the impact on heritage below👇

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Kirsty Hartsiotis 🇪🇺 @StroudStory

2 years ago

A huge privilege to visit Owlpen Manor and Cotswold Farm with the @AttinghamTrust this week after welcoming them to @TheWilsonChelt to talk #Cotswolds #ArtsandCrafts - what a fabulous day! And here's a fitting #SteepleSaturday image of the manor with its church above it.

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Nicholas Mander @wolpen

2 years ago

Our obit in today’s Telegraph to my dearly beloved friend and maestro conjurer of stone, Simon Verity, with thanks also to Isabel Bannerman and Iona McLaren

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Christopher Howse @BeardyHowse

2 years ago

The gravestone of Sir John Betjeman, born on this day in 1906. It was carved by Simon Verity, whose remarkable obituary appears in the @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

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Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace

3 years ago

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳

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Damian Thompson @holysmoke

2 years ago

Full text of Times letter in support of the TLM with its amazing list of signatories:

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Damian Thompson @holysmoke

2 years ago

Full list of signatories asking Rome to save the Traditional Latin Mass:

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Mapping Women's Suffrage @mappingsuffrage

2 years ago

The vote is ‘a symbol of freedom, a symbol of citizenship, a symbol of liberty. It is a safeguard of all those liberties which it symbolises’. So wrote Mrs #Pankhurst. Do use your hard-won #vote at the #GeneralElections2024 tomorrow

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Nicholas Mander @wolpen

2 years ago

Flute Magic on election night, 5.30 on the Fourth of July at Owlpen Manor

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Nicholas Mander @wolpen

2 years ago

@StroudStory @BSMGP @CarolineIrwin3 @CathyRLowe @chartres_Fiona @churchartnature @DavidMa16901372 @todbooklady @Portaspeciosa @PosyHill1 @Horatioforever Owl-pen!

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Gad Saad @GadSaad

2 years ago

Throughout human history, there was one thing that protected one's tribe: The recognition that the tribe across the river was dangerous and would attack if it thought it could win the battle. This is history. Imagine that now in the West, our most fundamental virtue is to REJECT any survival reflex in seeking to protect ourselves against ideologies that exhibit perfect animus toward us. Rather, we celebrate those ideologies and seek to turn our societies into mirror images of countries where such ideologies rule. It is the ultimate civilizational collective mind parasite. It is the ultimate Greek tragedy. It is Collective Seppuku albeit void of any honor or dignity: "Take our children, take our women, destroy our culture, mock our societies, destroy our religions, but please please please don't call us bigoted. I'll show you the way to my children as long as you don't call me a bigot." The greatest tragedy that humanity has ever seen because it is fully self-inflicted due to parasitic thinking and suicidal empathy. [Save this tweet]

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Nicholas Mander @wolpen

3 years ago

@StroudStory @CarolineIrwin3 @CathyRLowe @chartres_Fiona @churchartnature @DavidMa16901372 @Horatioforever @todbooklady @Portaspeciosa @PosyHill1 @mutley7781 I was always told that Downside Abbey, at 166 feet, was the SECOND highest tower in Somerset. Though C20.

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Paul Graham @paulg

3 years ago

This UN vote shows how completely isolated we are from world opinion. Is it because only America is smart enough to understand the Israeli point of view? Or because America's most powerful lobby has dragged us onto the wrong side of history? The answer to that is obvious.

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