If it was a lone 16 year-old that felled the sycamore on Hadrian's Wall, then they've not been wasting their early years entirely. Felling a tree of that girth requires a whopping blade on a chainsaw and it's extremely dangerous and difficult. However, the images show that it's been done by someone extremely proficient, with a big old chainsaw.

So, it wasn't some bored twerp, it was someone who had the requisite skills and confidence; cock it up and you're dead.

The tree and the gap it sits in have been immortalised by countless photographs and, of course, the Robin Hood film of 1991. Whilst I agree that it is sad to have had an iconic view changed, it's somewhat ironic that there has been such an outpouring of emotion.

The sycamore tree is not native to this country. It was introduced and it has been very successfully colonising these lands. Justifiably, it is considered a threat to native species, which it outbreeds and outgrows, and even its name, Acer pseudoplatanus, suggests trickery. When Robin Hood came upon it (on the silver screen), he found mistletoe in the branches; a parasite. The other thing about sycamore is that it grows incredibly quickly and it would be almost certain that something will spring up from the cut base.

It's worth watching the scene from Prince of Thieves, in which Robin Hood teases the Moor for his integrity and sense of chivalry. Of course, they go on to learn a lot from each other, the most important of which is how to reject tyranny and live a good life outside of 'the system'.

"We would not allow them to be sold in this country if they were not safe."

So said Therése Coffey, about Roundup, in 2018. Doubtless she has been able to use the same phrase about other products since early 2021, because she knows masses about science.

This month, she has come out to confirm that glyphosate will continue to be applied liberally to as many parts of the foodchain as possible.

Neither the government nor the food industry has any interest in a healthy environment or a healthy public.

A chink in the clouds?

'Worries about low uptake in the capital saw councils send letters to parents in recent months warning unvaccinated children may be excluded from school for three weeks in the event of an outbreak in their classroom.'

Possible win-win scenario; no toxins and no indoctrination.

On homeschooling, Gwen posted the attached picture in the comments. It is from issue 500 of the British Church Newspaper, 4th September 2023.

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https://britishchurchnewspaper.co.uk/

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 is awarded to two people who—according to Robert Malone—added something to the mRNA vaccine so that it could be dressed up as a drug that would defeat 'COVID'. So, like Nobel himself, they have invented something that hasn't killed everyone....yet.

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/

This query has been posted in the comments. Any advice gratefully received.

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Does anyone have any advice on how to avoid quaceene ‘mandates’? Daughter at University told she ‘must have’ 5 arm stabs to go on placement in a hospital.

She is only 18 and is feeling very pressured/ coerced into taking them. 🤬 thank you

Looks like something Alistair Williams should have a joke for.

If it can be used to catch shoplifters, it can be used to catch attenders of verboten assemblies.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/02/uk-passport-images-database-could-be-used-to-catch-shoplifters

Official statistics suggest that 384,000 members of the Armed Forces were killed during the Second World War. This was a period of emergency used to change, completely, the economic and social structure of the country, as more and more of it fell under state control.

Today, the Office for National Statistics still prints the 'death toll' from 13 March 2020 to the present day, making the distinction between deaths that are considered meaningless and deaths that can be attributed to 'COVID-19'. The latest bulletin puts the figure of those sacrificed to the 'enemy' at 207,814 (England & Wales only).

Try finding a Government policy document that does not cite this 'emergency' as the catalyst for an accelerated version of the proposed action.

If only people dedicated as much time to making their own lives bulletproof as they do to assessing the conduct of this fellow.

Today's dose of pure speculation:

'We know not long after it formed, the Moon had a powerful magnetic field, which started to decline about 3.2 billion years ago. Such a magnetic field is generated by motion and convection in the core, so what the lunar core is made of is deeply relevant to how and why the magnetic field disappeared.'

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https://www.sciencealert.com/its-official-scientists-confirm-whats-inside-the-moon

'Lies, damned lies and statistics'.

Never mind who said it first, it fits this, which is from the coronavirus section of the Government website.

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https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

On 20th October, there is to be an adjournment debate on 'Trends in excess deaths'.

You may have been in touch with your MP already, in order to request that they fulfil their role in representing you by attending this debate. If not, here is the link:

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https://whatson.parliament.uk/event/cal45670

For added weight to the above correspondence:

The 'Excess Mortality in England by Age Group' for the 0-24 category (click on the first document shown to access this). Note the absence of a spike on the left of the graph, in early 2020, but the consistent excess death from mid-2021.

An EEPRU study from 2018, which estimated that of the 237 million medication errors which occur in the UK each year, 66 million are ‘clinically significant’.