Plain Speaking

Grooming Gangs, UK Edition, and Shame on GBNews

Lord, it's awful.  Decades long abuse.  Years long inattention from TPTB. Today, Suella Braverman, British Home Secretary, pledges to track down, punish, and stamp out grooming gangs and stop the sexual abuse of white, underprivileged, English girls at the hands of deviant (important word) Pakistani men. From her lips to God's ears. Meanwhile, a huge… Continue reading Grooming Gangs, UK Edition, and Shame on GBNews

Education, History, Literature, Medieval

The First Eighteen Lines: “Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote”

I know many of you know them by heart. I’ve seen some of you say so, on Ricochet, over the past thirteen years. At some point in your lives, you probably had them thrust at you; you might have struggled through them; maybe you cheated with the Cliffs Notes; perhaps you said you couldn’t possibly… Continue reading The First Eighteen Lines: “Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote”