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Strathallan School, Perthshire
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Be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy this year, just found Socrates corrupting the youth in my child’s Snickers.
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
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Was bored with work, wanted to do something rewarding, I volunteer a few hours once a month for a charity. It's amazing. A boring Fess, but it is rewarding. Just do something good for someone, it will make you and more importantly someone else feel better. Do it, please.
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Strange day yesterday: leading advocate of assisted suicide dies peacefully surrounded by her family while in the US we find that lethal drugs are not necessarily effective and can lead to a painful non-death, possibly involving brain damage.
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Below is the memorial honoring Lewis. Tolkien's memorial will be a bit different, and will be inlaid vertically within a stone pillar at Westminster Abbey, rising about 2.5 meters, featuring the imagery of a tree in a forest as its central theme.
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Shana Tova U'metuka. Happy new year: peace kindness and sweetness to all of you.
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The moment MPs voted against the assisted dying bill, with 286 votes against and 270 in favour
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Happy 100th Mel Brooks !
History of the World: Part 1 (1981)
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A surgeon, an engineer, and an economist walk into heaven... #ronaldreagan
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Thinking about a career in teaching? 📚
RE is a fantastic subject to teach.
From career pathways to funding opportunities, this guidance explains how to become an RE teacher and why it matters.
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Scotland is waking up to the devastating news that the Forth Bridge has been stolen.
I heard it on the radio and had to run along to see it for myself. The radio said they were following a positive line of enquiry with a local company that uses girders to make soft drinks.
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Worth a read for RE teachers and many others.
The row over the Trafalgar Square iftar has seen Jews and Christians coming to the defence of Muslims.
My thoughts on a fascinating and important trend:-
comment.press/iftar
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“Practice any art… no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”
- McKellen reciting Vonnegut
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On the Equinox day, like today, everyone visiting the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the capital city of Kerala, will see the setting sun aligning through each of the window openings in almost five-minute intervals.
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Wilberforce got the statue.
This man got the mud.
Thirty-five thousand miles of it.
His name was Thomas Clarkson. Born in England. 🏴 Cambridgeshire. 1760.
He was twenty-four years old when Cambridge set him an essay question.
"Is it lawful to make slaves of others against their will?"
He knew nothing about slavery. So he started reading.
Two months later he couldn't stop. He won the prize and rode home to London with something nobody had given him. A conscience he couldn't put down.
Halfway there, on a quiet country road, he stopped his horse.
Sat in the silence of the English countryside.
The trade was real. He had just proved it. And somebody had to stop it.
So he gave up the church and got to work.
Bristol. Liverpool. Every slave port in Britain. Into the taverns, the back rooms, the ships. Asking sailors what they had seen below decks. Men who had been there. Who knew what happened on the Middle Passage.
Some refused. Some were threatened. Some were bought.
Clarkson kept riding.
Thirty-five thousand miles. Ten years. Every testimony written down in longhand on the road.
All of it handed to a young MP named William Wilberforce.
Wilberforce went to Parliament and gave the speeches.
Clarkson saddled up and went back out.
In 1792 they put a petition together. Not from London. Not from the powerful. From ordinary men and women. Market towns, village squares, chapel steps across England.
Four hundred thousand signatures. The largest petition in British parliamentary history.
Parliament voted it down.
So they went again. And again. Eighteen years of going again.
25 March 1807. The Slave Trade Act passed. Britain outlawed the trade and turned the Royal Navy loose to hunt the ships.
History gave Wilberforce the statue. Coleridge called Clarkson the moral steam engine of the abolition movement.
Clarkson lived to see slavery abolished completely in 1833. An old man of seventy-three, who had started this at twenty-four. He died in 1846. The last surviving founder of the original committee.
He never held office. Never gave the famous speeches.
He just got back on the horse.
For sixty years.
Did they teach you his name?
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