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Is there a word less erotic in the English language than wedlock Some entirely unoriginal people would, of course, argue that moist is worse, but for me nothing beats wedlock. Other than hubby . Seeing it appear in the papers, in light of new figures showing that the majority of babies in England and Wales were born out of wedlock in 2021, brought on a stro stanley cup becher ng feeling of queasiness.Its a similar feeling to the one provoked by reading about the rollback of abortion rights in the US: th stanley cup e anxiety that the past is so not as distant as you, an autonomous woman in the 21st century, once thought. Its a reminder stanley website that there are still people in the world who think in terms of words like wedlock and bastards and illegitimate , and, usually, sin .So, according to the Daily Mail, which was citing the Office for National Statistics, only 48.7% of newborns in England and Wales were to a legal couple , falling below 50% for the first time since records began in 1845. Im sure all the illegal couples out there are examining their life choices on reading this. Except, no one actually cares: marriage is simply not as much of a priority any more. Where once there was the notion that it conferred stability, for women and children, there is now the psychological insight that an unhappy home, even one with a marriage certificate nestled in the filing cabinet, is more damaging to a child than a happy unconventional one. People are, I think, less inclined to put up with misery in a rel Innr Israel subjecting Palestinian children to spiral of injustice
The Ministry of Defence has been accused of withholding evidence of truly shocking treatment of civilians in an incident involving the most serious allegations made so far against British forces in Iraq.Interrogations by British military personnel involved young men of 18, 19, and 20, some seriously injured with gunshot wounds, being stripped naked, forced to stand, not given appropriate medical treatment, and threatened with violence whilst still under the shock of capture in the mid stanley cup dle of the night , said Patrick Connor QC, counsel for the Iraqi detainees.He was addressing a hearing relating to the public inquiry into allegations that British soldiers murdered a number of Iraqis and abused others in May 2004 after the soldiers had been involved in a fierce gun battle. The battle became known as the Battle of Danny Boy, a British military checkpoint near Majar al-Kabir, north of Basra.The inquiry, known as the al-Sweady inquiry after one of the alleged victims, was forced on the MoD in 2009 after high court judges accused it of lamentable behaviour and serious breaches of its d stanley cup uty of candour over the failure to disclose crucial information about allegations of murder a stanley cup nd ill-treatment by British troops. Not a single witness statement from any of the interrogators had been given to the inquiry, O Connor told Thursday s hearing. He also referred to emails relating to the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC a |
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