For the absurd Westminster manoeuvres of the past few weeks, and of the weeks to come, are not an isolated event. They are the end of a far longer process of decline and decay.
It took more than five years to get the house warm and snug, but the exterior is still painted a dusty pink, as it was in Monica’s day.
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Our neighbour, farmer Will, called out the Tregaron fire-engine.
Everyone around brought sandwiches and coffee to watch and sympathise, while their children took turns to ride in the fire-engine.
The eldest is now 16 and the youngest nine.
There are cots and toys still around, bicycles and tricycles, an uneven ping-pong table, a battered trampoline.
I have a new travel-and-food book to focus on. I’m still young enough to anticipate joys to come, not least the company of my grandchildren and a chance to reconnect with old friends.
It will be a new beginning…
Margaret Thatcher’s vaunted revolution, promised in 1979, with its flashy wrappings and bold slogans at home and abroad, devastated our manufacturing industry and did nothing to halt or slow the great Left-wing moral and cultural revolution which now has us in its grip.
Absurdly posing as the foe of terror, even as it gave power and concessions to the terrorist godfather Martin McGuinness, it smashed up the ancient liberties of its own constitution, and engaged in disgraceful state-sponsored kidnaps overseas, which are only just coming to light.
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AND worst of all, I fear that such a person, and his supporters, will bring our long age of free civilisation to an end. PETER HITCHENS: The real cause of knife crime?
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