I’m not disagreeing with you because, I’m privileged, male or feel entitled. I’m just neurodiverse, so may not see the world the same way. Please be tolerant
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Remember the old days?
When politicians caught with their trousers down or hands in the cookie jar would just go. When leaders whose country lost at footie would commiserate but congratulate the other team?
Before honesty and decency became just sound bites?
Last August I was queueing at Trent Bridge for a cricket match when I collapsed with a near fatal heart attack. I was saved by Hayley (inset). Now I'm raising money for the BHF by walking from Birmingham to London this August
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Tolerance is not weakness. Intolerance is not strength. Racism is not patriotism. Misogyny is not manliness. Before you are anything, you have to be a decent human being. If your politics or world view is incompatible with that, you are on the wrong track
To all my churchgoing friends, I’d like to mark the beginning of Lent as today is Ash Wednesday.
To all the catastrophisers who were banging on about the lack of public figures marking Shrove Tuesday, that, like Christmas Eve, it is not actually in the religious calendar
Let us salute the ‘civilian soldier’. Whether he is the man who willingly learns to become a soldier in his spare time, or the man who dedicates the skill of his peace time trade in the Army in time of need, he merits our admiration and gratitude;
Each year I march on a local Remembrance Day parade and each year we get a little fewer. Others may not recognise the sacrifices made, in recent conflicts, but we do. If you are a veteran, or next of kin, then march with us. Let’s make ourselves visible. Lest they forget
When you think the hero of the parable of the Good Samaritan is the Pharisee, then you know you are (too) far right
David Tomlinson retweeted
Remembering Private Matthew Thornton, 4th (TA) Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, killed in an IED explosion, Lashkar Gah district, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 9th November 2011 aged 28. Matthew was from Barnsley. #Afghanistan
David Tomlinson retweeted
This weekend, we remember.
Join us, and @PoppyLegion, tomorrow evening for the Festival of Remembrance.
📺 Watch live, Saturday 9pm, @BBCOne
David Tomlinson retweeted
The military community unites for #LondonPoppyDay. ❤️
Sailors, soldiers, aviators and veterans are out in force today across the Capital’s train stations to sell poppies for @PoppyLegion. 💪
The annual fundraising drive is an opportunity to honour the sacrifices of military veterans, while appreciating the vital work of today’s Armed Forces. 🙏
ALT A Royal Air Force poppy seller smiles and holds his box of poppies.
Digital ID will make it much more difficult:
Illegal immigrants to get jobs and accommodation
Benefit fraudsters to make multiple claims
Terrorists to operate
People hiding assets
Tax avoidance
This may put some of these new found ‘civil libertarians’ in perspective
What percentage of people commenting on digital ID do you think actually know anything about digital ID?
Do give you a hint, I think it starts at 0,0XX % something
Integrity, decency, honesty, transparency, tolerance and respectfulness. These are not things we should aspire to in public life.
They are the basic minimum standards.
Miffy,
You could not be more wrong. Remembrance encompasses all nationalities, creeds and ethnicities who served. It is about gratitude for service and sacrifice, inclusiveness rather than division or rage. Wear your Poppy with pride.
