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Fwuw Victorian review of NDAs gets strong support for outright ban in sexual harassment cases Nothing gets Welsh blood boiling faster than a barb hurled this way from across Offas Dyke. Turbocharged by historic oppression and the adrenaline of umbrage, there is no taunt too trivial that it cannot end up being amplified into headline news. Habitual perpetrators of anti-Welsh put-downs ?Rod Liddle, Jeremy Clarkson et al ?are monitored with hawk-like ferocity.Yet perhaps there is an equally longstanding English attitude towards Wales th <a href=Link cup</a> at causes just as much damage: an over-romanticism that frames their small western neighbour as balm and refuge from the vicissitudes of modern life. As an En <a href=Link cup</a> glish Midlander who fell in love with Wales as a youngster, and moved here 20 years ago, I know this affliction all too well. In researching my book On the Red Hill, I found plenty of fellow sufferers.Wales as mythic retreat is an idea that never dies, but shape-shifts down the centuries. From young bucks compelled by the Napoleonic wars to pursue their Grand Tour in Snowdonia rather than Switzerland, to todays purveyors of glamping and gong baths, the vision of Wales sold beyond its border is eternally soft-focus. And it always works a treat. The land of crags, castles and bards stirs a particular kind of English sensibility, one perpetually prone to wistful nostalgia for <a href=Link water bottle</a> simpler times, simpler places.Inevitably, this escapist appeal is sharpened at times of crisis or bewildering change. Continental slaughter and rapid industrialisation at the end of the 18th century gave birth to Oxus Peter Dutton to seek aggravated damages in defamation claim against Shane Bazzi The first day of the Senate hearings to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court was a disgrace and a sexist spectacle.Amy Coney Barrett faces questions on legal record as nomination hearings continue ?liveRead moreFirst was the simple fact that the hearings are being held at all. A pandemic continues to ravage the United States, having killed more than <a href=Link cup</a> 210,000 people and devastating the American economy. Millions of Americans are out of work, struggling to pay the rent or the mortgage, worried about how theyre going to afford groceries. Republicans in the Senate cant get it together to pass a pandemic relief bill that Americans desperately need, but they can demand that the judiciary committee convene, in person, to jam through a hardline right-wing judge just days before the presidential election concludes ?and is presumably contested by a president who has already refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power.The fact that hearings are being held at all is also egregious given Mitch McConnells blocking of similar hearings to replace justice Antonin Scalia after his death, in February of an election year. Back then, McConnell and the Republican party insisted that confirming a justice would be inappropriate and under <a href=Link cup</a> mine the legitimacy of the court. Even many months before an election, they said, the American people should decide who appoints a new judge. McConnell blo <a href=Link espana</a> cked the Senate from even hearing from Merrick Garland, President Barack Obamas nominee. At t | |
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