Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson of ukcolumn.org. Geopolitics, Christianity, education, constitution.
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"The National Banking Act of 1863 and what it had done to rural credit availability was not taught at all. The chain of cause and effect connecting federal monetary decisions to farm foreclosure rates across the Great Plains, a chain that farmers themselves had understood well enough to build a national political movement around it, was replaced with a narrative about individual thrift and market efficiency that contained no mechanism and no names."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uo87URQubs
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That’s one-sixth of the Submarine Service.

https://archive.is/8fXpf/
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Na Nisich (the Men of Ness at the top of Lewis), who now face down the world in their gannet-gathering on Sula Sgèir, are thoroughgoing Norsemen by temperament, though they speak Gaelic.

It’s a short crossing from the Port of Ness to the Faroes, where Adam Nicolson called in on his voyage that was first written up as Seamanship and then turned into the TV series Atlantic Britain.

With the same sentiment as the guga harvest protestors, Nicolson (a King James Bible expert but not a believer) gushed to a Faroese, “I’ve seen so many puffins while sailing up the British coast. I love puffins.”

“Ja,” replied the Faroese, “they are delicious, aren’t they?”

https://www.scotsman.com/hays-way/tiny-community-home-to-guga-hunt-faces-most-toxic-moment-in-modern-era-6041404
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