Tuesday 19th of March 2024

the anglo mafia....

Cambridge University is teaching students that the Anglo-Saxons never existed as a distinct ethnic group, in an effort to “dismantle the… myths” of English nationalism, the Telegraph reported on Saturday. Liberal academics have long decried the term for its association with “whiteness.”

Cambridge’s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC) will seek “to dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism – that there ever was a ‘British’, ‘English’, ‘Scottish’, ‘Welsh’ or ‘Irish’ people with a coherent and ancient ethnic identity – by showing students just how constructed and contingent these identities are and always have been,” the British newspaper reported, citing information from the university.

By denigrating the idea of a distinct Anglo-Saxon identity, the university said that it aims to make its teaching more “anti-racist.”

The controversy over the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ began in 2019, when Canadian academic Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm resigned from the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists over the “inherent whiteness” of the field. Rambaran-Olm, who is not white, went on to write that “the Anglo-Saxon myth perpetuates a false idea of what it means to be ‘native’ to Britain,” and that the term is “historically inaccurate.”

The society changed its name to the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England, but some academics were furious, describing the controversy as an attempt to impose American racial identity politics onto a British field of study. “The conditions in which the term is encountered, and how it is perceived, are very different in the USA from elsewhere,” 70 historians wrote in an open letter in 2020.

“It’s a continuation of what’s been going on for some years, where pride in national identity is being attacked,” political commentator Anthony Webber told RT. Pointing out that the modern-day English owe a third of their ancestry to the Anglo-Saxons, he added: “I don't think it serves the cause of anti-racism to suddenly make sections of the population feel that they shouldn’t be proud of their background.”

Historically, the Anglo-Saxon period denotes the time between around 450 and 1066 AD. During this period, Germanic peoples – Angles, Saxons, and Jutes – arrived in Britain and established kingdoms that were consolidated into the Kingdom of England by Athelstan of Wessex in 927. This period saw the development of the first iteration of the English language and the creation of epic poems like Beowulf and Waldere.

So influential were the Anglo-Saxons on modern British and American culture that the French and Russians use the term as shorthand for English-speaking elites on both sides of the Atlantic. 

 

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https://www.rt.com/news/577453-anglo-saxons-cambridge-university/

 

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driving too fast.....

Suella Braverman, the UK minister of all extremes

 

Muse of hardline Brexiters with a fiercely anti-migrant stance, Britain's ultra-conservative Home Secretary is making ever more outrageous statements. Now she's reached the point of even shocking those on her own side.

 

Is Suella Braverman going to resign or not? The British Home Secretary – the most controversial figure in Rishi Sunak's government – is piling up controversy after controversy. The latest came at the end of May, following revelations in the Sunday Times. The 43-year-old – very much on the right of the Conservative Party – was suspected of having breached the ministerial code by asking civil servants if they could discreetly arrange a special road awareness course for her following a speeding offense in the summer of 2022.

An aficionado of colorful dresses and big earrings, Braverman gave another version of events, maintaining that she "deeply regret[ted]" her infraction, but that everything was in order, having paid her fine. She added that instead of attending a driving course with strangers, she had accepted the loss of points on her her driving license.

Despite Labour Party calls for Braverman's resignation, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak accepted her explanation. He probably felt that getting rid of this muse for hardline Brexiters in his own party was not the best idea. It's a group that is once again becoming agitated, believing that Sunak is pursuing too moderate an agenda.

 

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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2023/06/02/suella-braverman-the-uk-minister-of-all-extremes_6028871_117.html

 

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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/suella-bravermans-critics-ignore-an-uncomfortable-truth/

 

 

 

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