Anyway, it's heavily implied that at least one ruled in Arnor. What is more, you should remember that Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon literature, and the Nine (and Numenoreans in general) are strongly *Norman* coded wrt English folklore.

I will find the proper quote in the Fellowship of the Ring tomorrow and photograph it for you.

Oh really? "They were once men; great kings of men. Then Sauron the Deceiver gave to them nine Rings of Power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question, one by one falling into darkness. Now they are slaves to his will."

Goodnight Hookland x

Night Ash!

All politicians are careerists who want to do eye catching stuff, so when you put them in charge of the Police, prisons, the benefits office and immigration, the results are inevitable.

I love that she let him carry on and get worried about it while saying nothing.

I bet her friends know, though.

Not if you live on Spam.

Tldr

It is not the tax havens or their customers. It is who is allowed to administer and profit from them, which is where you will find a member of the high Aristocracy.

See also Lloyds Names.

He's Glasman's protégé: Glasman, whom Farage introduced to Bannon.
Blueshirt Labour is a Trojan Horse for Bannon, Putin/Dugin & co. It needs to be rooted out.

Unedifying spectacle.

is not *really* social mobility.

although I do not, because I know that every ordinary English person cannot aspire to be a gentleman, which Beruma considers they could. He is overly impressed in my view, by the ability of *very rich* middle class children, like Sunak, to he accepted into the upper class, when you and I know that

them in favour of the system of rules, honour codes and institutions that come down to us from the Normans, Plantagenets and Stuarts.

Sorry this is so long, but it is a unique take but now supported in part by Mr Buruna's book, where he moved among these people, and in fact mainly admired them

was eroding those institutions, from my pov, especially class, and that was taken as a personal attack on our old Aristocracy and upper middle class.
My commentary is that the resilience of working class English, Scottish and Welsh cultures mean nothing to them, in fact they actively undermine

and Farage was still a Tory. It is to preserve the exclusivity of the fixtures and fittings of the upper echelons of society (public school, Oxbridge, gentleman's clubs) because the UK's national identity is defined by its laws and institutions (from the Upper class pov), not ethnicity. The EU

lost its mind over Brexit. Much earlier than has been considered on here. Factortame was a huge case and the fishermen were up in arms. However, what is striking is that the central rationale for Brexit had already been worked out, at the time when Johnson and Rees Mogg were just joining the party

It's not entirely the tax havens. I'm fairly sure I've got to the bottom of it. I read a book called Voltair's coconuts, by a Dutch journalist called Ian Buruma, who wrote for the Spectator under Charles Moore and Dominic Lawson. Chapter 14 starts in 1990 and covers the period when the Tory Party

Yes it has. It is the root of this.