Notes from the U.K.

Let’s take a break from English history and catch up with life, politics, and any random thing that comes our way.

If you see human history as a story of unending progress, leading from ignorance to enlightenment, you might at the very least want to admit that progress hasn’t gone in a straight line.

As the 18th century limped to its end, leading British Catholics were paying court to King George III, assuring him and whoever else would listen that they were loyal subjects and could be trusted around gunpowder and sparklers.

On August 13, the town of Clacton returned Reform UK’s poster boy Nigel Farage to Parliament, allowing him to declare victory over Coun Binface, who the Guardian describes as “a parody candidate dressed as an intergalactic rubbish bin.”

Who says politics have to be grim and boring?

You know how sometimes you fix a thing and end up making it so complicated that the only solution is crawling back to bed for a week or two, by which time no one will remember your part in it?

On the evening of April 18, 1930, the British nation tuned in the BBC news and was told, “Good evening.

Picture a typical English village– No, sorry.

You have to love British politics.

In spite of what you might have seen on Facebook, Larry the Cat has not been knighted.