BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pblakeney]

A lot depends on the nature of your property. In my case takes ½hr on the phone to get a house insurance quote (often they have to put he on hold and reference risk assessment specialists). Quite a few companies to go through the ½+ hr and get a "sorry we can't cover the nature of your property".

You use a phone to get quotes? 🤔
It's not 1999 anymore.

 

[briantrumpet]

Not breaking news, but a good read about how the barbarians are not 'at the gate', but 'within the citadel', and potentially we become the barbarians. Woolf (Leonard, husband of Virgina) wrote the original book in 1939.

For Woolf, to be modern, to be civilised, required an acceptance of universal truths, of democratic norms and of the rule of law in nations as in individuals. In these ancient civilisations, learning was prized, art and culture were venerated, though admittedly not for everyone.

What he saw in Nazism was a rejection of these norms and a nastier, narrower kind of man being formed. A man who eschewed learning as irrelevant, art as dangerous, notions of truth as smug and irrelevant. Is this sounding familiar yet?

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/katherine-cooper-the-barbarians-in-your-phone/