This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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Basil Seal retweeted
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
W.B. Yeats
Basil Seal retweeted
Our earth in 1969
Is not the planet I call mine
The world, I mean, that gives me strength
To hold off chaos at arm's length
My Eden landscapes & their climes
Are constructs from Edwardian times
When bathrooms took up lots of space
And, before eating, one said Grace…
W.H. Auden
Basil Seal retweeted
“If there is a single most deplorable intellectual failing on the conservative side, it lies in reducing every question of law, constitution, culture and society to a question of economics.”
Sir Roger Scruton
'The most important thing is not the colour of the skin of the person living next to you, but how much you earn and keep'
Some brilliant contributions at our live event with the Young Conservatives yesterday discussing what the party needs to do to attract more young voters
🎧 Listen to the full episode now through the link in our bio
Basil Seal retweeted
“Looking at those great works of western man & remembering all that hes achieved in philosophy, poetry, science & law-making, it does seem hard to believe that European civilisation can ever vanish. And yet, you know, it has happened once…”
Kenneth Clark
Basil Seal retweeted
Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir, and the air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behaviour of its inhabitants in 1776.
Bertie Wooster: What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves and Wooster
Basil Seal retweeted
Cricket at Combe in Oxfordshire in 1949, the year the ground was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh
Basil Seal retweeted
Now houses are units, & people are digits
& Bath has been planned into quarters for midgets
Official designs are aggressively neuter
The Puritan work of an eyeless computer
Goodbye to old Bath. We who loved you are sorry
They've carted you off by developer's lorry
John Betjeman
Basil Seal retweeted
Very sad. There are many causes - such as high energy prices and Labour’s tax on jobs but there is something even bigger. In Tesco you can buy Chinese made plates which look unnerving like Denby - knock-offs effectively - at a fraction of the price.
We continue to delude ourselves that ‘free trade’ is fair trade. It isn’t and the long-term costs to our society of this wanton de-industrialisation is devastating.
This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby @denbypottery
Basil Seal retweeted
“Still they stand, the churches of England, their towers grey above billowy globes of elm trees, the red cross of St George flying over their battlements... schoolmistress at the organ, incumbent in the chancel, scattered worshippers in the nave...”
Sir John Betjeman
Basil Seal retweeted
Reginald Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir, & the air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behaviour of its inhabitants in 1776.
Bertie Wooster: What happened in 1776, Jeeves? #Happy4thofJuly
