![]() In some cases, ads may be show to the users. Basically, a product is offered Free to Play (Freemium) and the user can decide if he wants to pay the money (Premium) for additional features, services, virtual or physical goods that expand the functionality of the game. This license is commonly used for video games and it allows users to download and play the game for free. ![]() There are many different open source licenses but they all must comply with the Open Source Definition - in brief: the software can be freely used, modified and shared. Programs released under this license can be used at no cost for both personal and commercial purposes. Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance. Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). Note: Insomnia functions will only work on MacBook (Pro/Air) devices running Mac OS X 10.9 or earlier.įreeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations. This small utility is what you will want, this small utility acts as a wrapper to the Insomnia kernel extension. The best looking server ever, especially at about one inch height. Who does not want to use it as a big juke-box or go warwalking. It always has been a missing feature: disabling the sleep mode on an Apple Laptop. InsomniaX disables either lid and/or idle sleep on your MacBook - any MacBook - allowing you to play music through speakers even while it's closed! or simply just to quickly stop the system from going to sleep on idle. ![]() If you are looking for alternatives, we recommend you to download NoSleep, Caffeine or Parallels Toolbox. ⚠ Note: This product is not developed anymore and might not function properly. With InsomniaX for Mac desktop app, you can easy and quick disable the sleep mode on your Mac! InsomniaX for macOS is a small utility that acts as a wrapper to the Insomnia kernel extension.
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![]() This next-gen protocol offers high-performance screen sharing without compromising on speed or response time. The whole thing is as simple as hitting Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse.Įnable Fluid Remote Desktop in Settings > Advanced > Fluid Remote Desktop when high performance is really important, such as if you’re working on something like a graphic design project. ![]() Jump Desktop lets you remap your mouse and keyboard, including conversions and shortcuts, however, you see fit so there’s no need to alter your habits. Overcome the muscle memory associated with keyboard layouts and other gestures when jumping between Mac and PC, or perhaps American and English computers, by using keyboard remapping. Remap your keyboard to use between Mac and PC ![]() Speaking of playing nice, enable collaborative screen sharing just by sending a link. That’s not the only way the app is integrated though, as you’ll also find that it has minimal impact on battery life because of its ability to play nice with macOS. With Jump Desktop, hopping between Mac and PC is easier than it’s ever been before. It’s possible to create a network that includes laptops, desktops, iPhones, and smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy. There’s no need to add yet another username to your ever-growing list of login details, as you can use an existing email address or your Google account to get access to Jump Desktop.Įnjoy cross-device remote access compatibilityĪccess all of your devices from anywhere with Jump Desktop’s Mac, iOS, and Android apps. Take advantage of an automatic setup process that makes your first steps with remote networking incredibly easy or, if you have a little more experience and need to tweak a few things, set up an RDP/VNC connection by entering details manually. With Jump Desktop’s smart remote desktop client you can access all of your files, no matter which computer they’re stored on, and use your computer as a VNC (Virtual Network Computing) client to manage remote access to all of your computers. Access your computer from anywhere with Jump Desktop Unless that document is backed up in the cloud, which you may want to avoid for various reasons, there’s no way to get it. We’ve all been there: there’s a particular file you need to grab from our office computer, or maybe you left your laptop at a friend or family member’s house. ![]() Sip, swirl and savor award-winning wines beneath a warm sun, sometimes just one mile from the ocean. Beer Gardens, Craft Breweries & Taverns of Highway 1Įmerging as a top-tier wine region on the world stage, California’s Central Coast boasts rolling vineyards and views like those of Tuscany.Best Restaurants & Dining in Avila Beach.Best Restaurants in San Simeon and Ragged Point.Best Restaurants in Arroyo Grande and Edna Valley.Best Restaurants in Los Osos – Baywood Park.41 or Įsther Mobley is The San Francisco Chronicle's senior wine critic. Open for wine tastings by reservation 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. “I believe in San Francisco, in the future,” he continued, “and I’m looking forward to being a part of the change happening in these wonderful neighborhoods - Chinatown, North Beach, Jackson Square.”Įco Terreno. The private tasting room on the upstairs level of Eco Terreno. Lyon is hoping that the unusual combination of functions at Eco Terreno will “blow San Franciscans out of the water,” he said. On some evenings, when there’s a higher-profile headliner, there will be scheduled dinner seatings to coincide with the performer’s sets. The nightly entertainment might be jazz, four-piece bands, cabaret singers or other genres. ![]() Initially, Lyon & Swan will be reservation only. Find spots near you, create a dining wishlist, and more. The dinner menu at Lyon & Swan includes dishes like fennel-crusted kampachi crudo with yuzu kosho, pork belly pastrami with pickled mustard seed, ricotta gnudi in brown butter bisque and sea scallops with green farro risotto. The wine list at Lyon & Swan will feature organic, biodynamic and other sustainable wine producers in addition to Eco Terreno’s own wines. His 100 acres of grapes are interplanted with fruits, vegetables, olive trees and insectary gardens, with about 15% of the land set aside as riparian habitat. Lyon wants the whole Eco Terreno universe to be an educational ambassador for responsible farming practices like biodynamics, which he practices at his two Alexander Valley estates, the Lyon and Cisne vineyards. So he has installed a small wine tank up there, where he’s aging Saint-Macaire, an obscure French red grape variety. The liquor license in the upstairs private tasting room requires him to make some wine onsite. Lyon also discovered he would have to get three different liquor licenses, one for each floor. He gutted the building for the renovation, which saw major delays due to the pandemic. But hospitality director Dawn Agnew encouraged him to considered the possibilities of taking over the whole building for Eco Terreno - and reviving the nightclub. Courtesy Frank FrancesĪt first, Lyon planned to use only the ground level (which had been a barber shop), and rent out the upstairs (which had been an accordion maker’s studio) and the historic downstairs club. Comics like Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce and Phyllis Diller performed there, as did musicians like Andy Williams and the Kingston Trio.Įco Terreno makes wine from two biodynamic vineyards in Sonoma County's Alexander Valley area. (Lyon believes it was the first lesbian bar on the West Coast.) From the 1950s until 2012, it was the Purple Onion, a hub for the Beat crowd. Jazz luminaries like Jelly Roll Morton played the Jupiter, and in the 1930s, it housed Mona’s, often credited as the first lesbian bar in the city. He discovered that it had an amazing history, playing an important role in each of the neighborhood’s chapters, from the Barbary Coast days to the Beatnik era.įrom 1918 to 1922, the downstairs level was known as the Jupiter, a so-called “black and tan” club where Black and white patrons mingled. Lyon, who started Eco Terreno after retiring as the longtime winemaker at Sebastiani Vineyards, bought the building in 2018. And he found that Eco Terreno’s sustainability-focused mission wasn’t finding a receptive audience with Wine Country visitors. He opted not to open a tasting room in Sonoma County, he said, because Wine Country was already saturated with them. The 10-year-old winery, which produces wines like Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc from two vineyards in Sonoma County’s Alexander Valley region, hopes that this San Francisco outpost will give it a competitive edge, said owner Mark Lyon. Eco Terreno opens Thursday in Jackson Square in a three-story, multi-use building that includes not only a tasting room, but also a high-end restaurant with nightly live entertainment called Lyon & Swan. ![]() Courtesy Frank Frances Show More Show LessĪ biodynamic Sonoma County winery is opening an elaborate and unconventional tasting space in San Francisco. Courtesy Frank Frances Show More Show Less 3 of3Ĭocktails at Lyon & Swan. Courtesy Frank Frances Show More Show Less 2 of3įennel-crusted kampachi crudo, a dish at Lyon & Swan. The ground floor tasting bar at Eco Terreno. ![]() Indeed, from first to last this is a well nigh perfect story–a little sententious at the start, but the rest is simple and beautiful and shining with humor. It is about Negroes, and a good deal of it is written in dialect, but really it is about everyone, or least everyone who isn’t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory … The story of Janie’s life down on the muck of Florida Glades, bean picking, hunting and the men shooting dice in the evening and how the hurricane came up and drove the animals and the Indians and finally the black people and the white people before it, and how Tea Cake, in Janie’s eyes the ‘son of Evening Son,’ and incidentally the best crap shooter in the place, made Janie sing and glitter all over at last, is a little epic all by itself. “This is Zora Hurston’s third novel, again about her own people–and it is beautiful. –Richard Wright, The New Masses, October 5, 1937 She exploits that phase of Negro life which is ‘quaint,’ the phase which evokes a piteous smile on the lips of the ‘superior’ race.” In the main, her novel is not addressed to the Negro, but to a white audience whose chauvinistic tastes she knows how to satisfy. Her characters eat and laugh and cry and work and kill they swing like a pendulum eternally in that safe and narrow orbit in which America likes to see the Negro live: between laughter and tears … The sensory sweep of her novel carries no theme, no message, no thought. Her dialogue manages to catch the psychological movements of the Negro folk-mind in their pure simplicity, but that’s as far as it goes. Miss Hurston voluntarily continues in her novel the tradition which was forced upon the Negro in the theatre, that is, the minstrel technique that makes the ‘white folks’ laugh. “Miss Hurston seems to have no desire whatever to move in the direction of serious fiction … Miss Hurston can write, but her prose is cloaked in that facile sensuality that has dogged Negro expression since the days of Phillis Wheatley. ![]() –George Stevens, The Saturday Review of Literature, September 18, 1937 No one has ever reported the speech of Negroes with a more accurate ear for its raciness, its rich invention, and its music.” Otherwise the narration is exactly right, because most of it is in dialogue, and the dialogue gives us a constant sense of character in action. The title carries a suggestion of The Green Pastures, but it is to this extent misleading no religious element dominates this story of human relationships … The only weak spots in the novel are technical it begins awkwardly with a confusing and unnecessary preview of the end and the dramatic action, as in the story of the hurricane, is sometimes hurriedly and clumsily handled. The few white characters in the book appear momentarily and incidentally. The town of Eatonville is as real in these pages as Jacksonville is in the pages of Rand McNally and the lives of its people are rich, racy, and authentic. “Whether or not there was ever a town in Florida inhabited and governed entirely by Negroes, you will have no difficulty believing in the Negro community which Zora Neale Hurston has either reconstructed or imagined in this novel. Today, 83 years on from its publication, we take look back at some of the original reviews of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Walker’s 1975 essay, ‘ Looking for Zora,’ in which she chronicled her search for Hurston’s unmarked grave, was a particularly significant part of this effort. This, coupled with a growing black feminist movement, spearheaded by activist writers like Audre Lorde and Alice Walker, helped create a space in which Hurston’s work could be rediscovered. Du Bois’ Uplift agenda. A decades-long wilderness period in which both the novel and its author fell into obscurity ended with the establishment of several Black Studies programs in universities across America in the 1970s and 1980s. Now considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God had to travel a rocky road to immortality. Initial reviews ranged from positive to condescending to downright hostile, as many in the African American literary community bristled at Hurston’s rejection of the Harlem Renaissance and W.E.B. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands. It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. ![]() On a computer with four cores it took slightly more than 2 seconds to finishįour computations, each lasting two seconds. The number of cores is determined with the In the example, we create a pool of processes and apply values on the Then the number returned by os.cpu_count is used.įrom timeit import default_timer as timerįrom multiprocessing import Pool, cpu_count It is a value with which we can experiment. The Pool can take the number of processes as a parameter. The map blocks the main execution until all computations finish. Map is a parallel equivalent of the built-in map method. ![]() The pool's map method chops the given iterable into a number ofĬhunks which it submits to the process pool as separate tasks. It controls a pool of worker processes to which jobs can be submitted. The management of the worker processes can be simplified with the Pool Advertisements Python multiprocessing Pool In the run method, we write the worker's code. We create a Worker class which inherits from the Process. The following is a simple program that uses multiprocessing. Way the processes are created on Windows. The Python multiprocessing style guide recommends to place the multiprocessingĬode inside the _name_ = '_main_' idiom. The terminate method terminates the process. The is_alive method returns a boolean value indicationg whether the Timeout option is provided, it blocks at most timeout seconds. Process whose join method is called terminates. The target argument of the constructor is the callable The ProcessĬonstructor should always be called with keyword arguments. The multiprocessing.Process class has equivalents The Process object represents an activity that is run in a Table summarizes the differences between a process and a thread: Process Thread processes run in separate memory (process isolation) threads share memory uses more memory uses less memory children can become zombies no zombies possible more overhead less overhead slower to create and destroy faster to create and destroy easier to code and debug can become harder to code and debug Advertisements Process vs threadīoth processes and threads are independent sequences of execution. 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Parallelism means that two or more calculations happen at the same Advertisements Concurrency and parallelismĬoncurrency means that two or more calculations happen within the same timeįrame. Note that both Jython and IronPython do not have the GIL. Also, the GIL released before potentionally blocking I/O The C extensions, such as numpy, can manually release the GIL to speed upĬomputations. Synchronize the execution of threads so that only one native thread can executeĪt a time, even if run on a multi-core processor. Python GILĪ global interpreter lock (GIL) is a mechanism used in Python interpreter to There is no guarantee that theįirst process to be created will be the first to complete. The multiprocessed code does notĮxecute in the same order as serial code. (GIL) by using subprocesses instead of threads. The multiprocesing module avoids the limitations of the Global Interpreter Lock Leverage multiple processors on a given machine. The multiprocessing module allows the programmer to fully Python multiprocessing tutorial is an introductory tutorial to process-based ![]() ![]() Select Server Settings in the left-hand tab.Under Options click on Account Settings.Click on the email account that experiences issues.If your password is correct or you set a new one and problems persist, go to Thunderbird and launch the Server Settings. You can reset your password by clicking the “Forgot email?” message.If you’ve input an older password, Google will prompt you to reset it.Type your email address and then your password.For example, if you have a Gmail account: Check Passwordįirst, check if you’re using the correct password by logging into your account via the webmail interface. You can quickly fix the problem as follows. While setting up the email account, some users may face operational issues like Thunderbird not connecting to the server. Let’s take six common Thunderbird email problems and their solutions into consideration. Thunderbird Troubleshooting: Common Thunderbird Email Problemsĭespite the simple and highly efficient nature of Thunderbird, users may occasionally face a few performance issues and errors. Some common problems and their solutions have been listed for user convenience below. But other common issues on the client side are relatively easy to fix. Note that app-wide errors need developers for a proper solution. The instability has led to various problems in the application usage and error fixes. With all the uncertainty coupled with performance issues, the app’s development has been unstable. Although the share increased from 0.1 percent in the second quarter of 2018, Thunderbird fell behind Apple Mail (7.9 percent) and Outlook (9.2 percent). But Mozilla brought back support for Thunderbird in 2017.Īs per the Litmus Email Analytics data, the email client only captured 0.5 percent of the opened email across various devices for the first quarter of 2019. With uncertain times since 2012, Mozilla dropped the email app and uncoupled it from its Firefox service back in 2015. Multiple resources are still being hosted by Mozilla.Īlthough Thunderbird acquired its subsidiary in 2020, the application has had shaky prospects for many years. Since its inception, Thunderbird has been managed by Mozilla Messaging and the Mozilla Corporation. Thunderbird is an easy-to-use and local email application available in-browser and on Mac, Windows, and Linux systems. ![]() They can simply click play and listen to your speech. The best part is that you can share your speech in audio format to your friends, relatives, or peers to review it. In addition a custom speech option should also be given. Instead there should be the most common speech times like 4-6 mins, 5-7 mins and 6-8 minutes. The app lists all speeches in CC manual but this means the user should know the timing of each speech. To get to that perfect word count to fit with the speech length time, you’ll have to keep editing between words per minute (WPM) and number of words. The speech time is not straightforward to set. You can also increase or decrease the speaking rate to gauge how fast or slow you should speak in order to get to a specific time with the number of words you have in your speech. If you are aiming for a specific timeframe for your speech, click edit to either increase or decrease the number of words to see how long it would take to speak them. ![]() You can listen to your speech in various accents or languages. Once you paste your speech, click “Play” and Speechify will analyze your speech by the number of words and generate a time to speak it at the default rate. The average reading speed and speech rate is 200 words per minute and is the default setting above. To begin, delete the sample text and either type in your speech or copy and paste it into the editor. Portuguese (Brazil) (Português (Brasil)).How to Win Friends and Influence People.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio Collection.How to get celebrity voices with text to speech.Everything you need to know about text to speech on TikTok.Accelerometer support use your device as a timer flag. Keeps a history of speech timings for multiple days. Pre-defined and configurable speech timings. You can easily define a start, middle and end using the Green, Amber, and Red colors. It might look as a minor role on first sight, but being in time is very important for a Toastmaster evening. Prepare and practise a mini speech Highten your sense of timing, and. Presentation Timers and Speech Timers These timers use a classic traffic light design. Alternatives to Google Cloud Text to Speech Speech Timer excels for timing speaking sessions than the stopwatch built-in to your iOS devices touch thanks to the following functionalities: Large colored time indicators. What can you expect from this role You can get three things out of being the timer.Text to speech tools to address ADHD challenges.How text to speech helps an Individualized Education Program.Text to speech for Disabled Students Allowance. ![]() You can combine bold and italics by combining the tags, as in.Note, however, that if you use curled apostrophes within an italic phrase, you should replace them with straight apostrophes. Use the HTML and tags around words that should be in italics.Use the HTML and tags around words that should be in bold.The TextView ignores all HTML tags except the following:.See the " Formatting and Styling" section of String Resources for more details. You must also escape any other non-ASCII characters. If you have a double-quote in your text, you must also escape it ( \"). If you have an apostrophe (') in your text, you must escape it by preceding it with a backslash ( \').To properly display in a text view, text must be formatted following these rules: In either case, the text may contain embedded HTML tags or other text formatting codes. You can also create text as a single long string in the strings.xml resource. In an app that accesses magazine or newspaper articles, the articles that appear would probably come from an online source or might be saved in advance in a database on the device. all: Match all patterns (equivalent to web|email|phone|map).įor example, to set the attribute to match web URLs, use this: android:autoLink="web".Use sp (scaled-pixel) or dp (device-independent pixel) sizes, or set the attribute to a predefined resource or theme.Īndroid:autoLink: Controls whether links such as URLs and email addresses are automatically found and converted to clickable (touchable) links. android:lineSpacingExtra: Set extra spacing between lines of text.Android:typeface: Set the text typeface (if not already set by android:textAppearance).Use normal, bold, italic, or bold| italic. android:textStyle: Set the text style (if not already set by android:textAppearance).Use sp (scaled-pixel) sizes such as 20sp or 14.5sp, or set the attribute to a predefined resource or theme. ![]() android:textSize: Set the text size (if not already set by android:textAppearance).You set this attribute to a predefined style resource or theme that already defines these values. android:textAppearance: The appearance of the text, including its color, typeface, style, and size.Color resources and themes are described in other chapters. You can set the attribute to a color value, a predefined resource, or a theme. android:textColor: Set the color of the text.After extracting the string, use the string resource name with to specify the text: most often used attributes with TextView are the following: You can extract the text string into a string resource (perhaps called hello_world) that's easier to maintain for multiple-language versions of the app, or if you need to change the string in the future. To set the initial text value of the view, use the android:text attribute: android:text="Hello World!" What the text looks like within the view, such as the initial text and its style, size, and colorįor example, to set the width, height, and position within a LinearLayout:.How the view itself appears, such as with a background color.Where the TextView is positioned in a layout (like any other view).You learn all about EditText in another chapter. If you want to allow users to edit the text, use EditText, a subclass of TextView that allows text input and editing. You can refer to a TextView view in your Java code by using its resource id, and update the text from your code. You can add a resource id to the TextView, and control how the text appears using attributes in the XML layout file. You can use TextView for a view of any size, from a single character or word to a full screen of text. One view you may use often is the TextView class, which is a subclass of the View class that displays text on the screen. This chapter also shows how you can create a scrolling view of text and other elements. A TextView can be used to show a message, a response from a database, or even entire magazine-style articles that users can scroll. This chapter describes one of the most often used views in apps: the TextView, which shows textual content on the screen. This course is now deprecated and this content will be The new course is available atĪndroid Developer Fundamentals course (Version 2), or go directly to Lesson 13: Permissions, Performance and Securityġ3.1: Permissions, Performance and SecurityĪ new version of this course is now available, updated to reflectīest practices for more recent versions of the Android framework andĪndroid Studio. Lesson 11: Sharing data with content providersġ1.1: Share Data Through Content Providers Lesson 8: Triggering, scheduling and optimizing background tasks Lesson 3: Testing, debugging, and using support librariesĥ.3: Providing Resources for Adaptive Layouts 2.1: Understanding Activities and IntentsĢ.2: The Activity Lifecycle and Managing State Your objective in the story is to build a successful relationship with Sakura in the time that you two lovebirds have. All you need to do is push the right buttons (if you know what I mean)! This is going to be pretty hard to screw up, even for those of you out there who are shy, awkward, or just downright unlucky. The idea of the game is to build a mutually satisfying relationship with Sakura. Get a glimpse of what to expect from the gameplay below.ĥ CRAZY Augmented Reality Apps for ANY Android Phone | Best AR Apps Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: VR Kanojo Gameplay Full Game (English Subs No Commentary) () It is in this very room that you are invited to interact with your virtual girlfriend in different ways. The majority of the game takes place in a bedroom (and let’s be honest, why would you want to be anywhere else?). That’s right! You get to decide what she wears and how she looks! What’s more is that you make this character appear any way you choose. You, the player, get to hang out with your sweet and welcoming neighbor, Sakura Yuuhi. VR Kanojo takes place in a modern-day setting. Get a Quest 2 headset and be a part of the future of entertainment! VR Kanojo Gameplay Walkthrough What happens in it? Is it the game for you? What’s the next best thing? Read on to have all the answers!ĭid you hear? Facebook (Meta) is going all-in on virtual reality and the metaverse. ![]() In this article I will be happily telling you everything you need to know about VR Kanojo. Look no further than VR Kanojo, the hit title game by developer Illusion! The answer to everyone though, is “YES!” Virtual reality can and is getting you your very own girlfriend. Some voiced this out loud, others silently hoped. As the idea of virtual reality started becoming actuality, there was a simple question on most minds: “Can it give me a girlfriend?” ![]() This article was amended on 6 January 2022. It is there that the nation can best express its appreciation of their work. We can stick to orders of merit.Īs for prime ministers, their reward is best kept in heaven, or at least confined to the lucrative lecture circuit and memoir catalogue. We can eliminate archaic references to empires, saints, baths, garters and chivalry. Parliament, politics and Downing Street should have nothing to do with it. In a climate of sleaze and corruption, the case is overwhelming for a commission to clean up and modernise the hierarchy of national awards. If it is to serve as the nation’s comment on the performance of public figures, a system of honours should convey meaning, not time-serving. ![]() It is not good enough to say it does not matter much. I can think of no other democracy where membership of its parliament is so brazenly up for sale. The cynicism of Boris Johnson’s (and Cameron’s) purchased honours has brought the House of Lords to a new low. ![]() Honours are divided between people who get them through their job, people who merit them and people who buy them. Britain has inherited an honours system that, like its Church of England and parliament itself, is shrouded in past fashion and fancy language that it seems incapable of reforming. More evidence, if it were needed, that our entire “honours” system and its associated nomenclature is an outdated mess. In other words, the delay in the award to Blair could indeed be a royal comment on his botched job – at which point we should best treat it as matter closed. Were some courtiers muttering, “Must we really, what with Iraq and all that?” Were others saying, “It’s over, just get on with it”? As for numbers, they might hope that with a bit of luck, next-in-line Gordon Brown will refuse, and David Cameron can be dumped in the Lords, where his recent misdeeds will vanish in its mire of sleaze. But, in that case, someone should have said so and done it.Īs it is, the delay over Blair looks like a deliberate judgment somewhere in Buckingham Palace. To this extent, Blair would be entitled to his reward. Like permanent secretaries, senior judges and (most) Commons Speakers, they deserve a farewell pat on the back, and a knighthood comes cheap. The Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has suggested that all ex-prime ministers should be knighted on leaving office, simply for having done “one of the toughest jobs in the world”. Plenty of people did not think much of Thatcher, who also went to war, but no howl greeted her garter. Hundreds of Britons and hundreds of thousands of foreigners died – and are still dying – as a result of Britain’s participation in those wars. But the charge against him, as confirmed by the Chilcot report, is that he woefully misled parliament and the public in stating his case. The two wars into which he led his nation, in Afghanistan and Iraq, were heavily supported by some at the time. In winning three general elections he might even be rated a success. ![]() In the light of history, Blair was not a peculiarly bad prime minister. That does not explain the delay in Blair’s case. |
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