SOME German football fans still argue about that goal in the 1966 final. Was it over the line? Was the lino bent? Had England nobbled the ref? They’re really sad. The game’s done. History books written.
So it is with Brexit. Done. Dusted. Finished. As Kenneth Wolstenholme would surely have said on February 1, 2020…”they think it’s all over – it is now!”
But, just as the footballing world isn’t stuck in July 1966, so the political one isn’t stuck in June 2016.
Customs simplification makes trade easier to achieve, helping Rachel’s growth plan.
Easing international moves for younger folk opens new horizons and new challenges.
Yet the response of the government has been akin to that of the wallflower at the school disco.
“I’d best not go on the dance floor – that nasty boy might grab me.”
But we’re a strong nation, not a bunch of wimps. If that boy suggests something unspeakable behind the bike sheds, we can tell him to go away. On the other hand, it could be the start of a beautiful friendship. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say.
Who shall we be, Keir? Geoff Hurst, John Travolta or Billy no-mates?
David Lewis,
Church End,
Cawood
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Chagos deal looks ‘dubious’
THE Chagos Island deal negotiated by Starmer is looking more dubious by the day – he now claims national security is a major factor.
What the public are entitled to know is, why, if we don’t pay billions of pounds to an ally of China to take ownership of an island which is already ours on which a strategic airbase is situated, shared with the USA, it could have a serious impact on OUR national security.
Peter Rickaby,
West Park,
Selby
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Barbican black hole?
WAITING in a queue of traffic adjacent to land that once was home to the Barbican swimming pool, I mused that it must 25 years since its closure.
The growth of vegetation is barely contained by the wooden boards surrounding it, doubtlessly home to all sorts of wildlife.
Perhaps a black hole is lurking there as well ?
Charles Clarke,
Lime Avenue,
York
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York’s early bishops
I ENJOYED David Wilson’s article about the archbishops of York (The Press, February 5).
But I wonder if he realises that York had bishops before the year 627, when Paulinus became bishop of York? There were bishops here in Roman times.
In the year 314 a man called Eborius attended the Council of Arles in southern France. It is thought that Eborius was not his personal name, but an honorific title derived from the word Eboracum, the Roman name for York. In the Middle Ages it was thought that Eboracum had a kind of proto-cathedral on what later became the site of the church of St. Mary the Less, just to the East of Micklegate.
When the Romans left Britain in 410, Christianity collapsed, along with other aspects of Roman rule. By the time that Paulinus became bishop, about 200 years later, it seems likely that all memory of the Roman diocese had faded away. That memory was only rediscovered by later scholars.
David Martin,
Rosedale Ave,
Acomb, York
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