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“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.”
— Kenneth Clark
Andrew Cusack
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Andrew Cusack
@cusackandrew
Deputy Editor @CatholicHerald | Writer, school governor, charity trustee, @orderofmaltaGB volunteer | Southwark (Ex: New York, Buenos Aires, Fife, Western Cape)
- Look what they did to the library in Leinster House (Ireland's parliament building). It's the architectural version of a massacre.
- Every time we get post from the Vatican I admire their choice of typeface for their letterhead. Commendably restrained.
- You will never be as bad ass as Princess Anne during a kidnap attempt.
00:00 - This year marks a quarter-century of Westminster's Jubilee line station. Still looks magnificent: Piranesian Anglo-futurism.
- Tim Farron, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the late Queen “was a constant to us all… but the constant in her life was her faith in Jesus Christ.” Her religion was neither perfunctory nor ceremonial but “a living, active faith in a living Saviour”.
00:00 - It is barbaric that we used to print books in a size and format actually convenient and usable for readers and that this stopped without any explanation whatsoever.
- Man in a biohazard suit riding a unicycle playing the Rhodesian national anthem on flaming bagpipes. “… Give us strength to face all danger, and where challenge is to dare…”
- If you’re looking to buy a college campus, Cazenovia (f. 1824) in central New York is shutting this year.
- Communists are good at hiding that the USSR spent the first third of the war effectively allied to the Nazis. The 1941 May Day parade in Red Square included a delegation from Nazi Germany.
00:00 - Please pray for the repose of my uncle, Col. Matthew George Cusack, who died this morning.
