By Kevin Fahey
ATHLETICS
Merrett brothers, Adam, Owen and Ciaran. Big brother Owen is set to lead Wiltshire at the English Schools Championships TWO-times medallist Owen Merrett heads a strong Wiltshire squad for the English Schools’ Championships this weekend, writes Kevin Fahey. The Sheldon School athlete won a bronze medal in the inter boys’ hammer when this event was last held in 2019; last year’s championships were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Merrett was also a bronze medal winner as a junior boy in 2018 and on present form, which sees him third on the UK Rankings for under 20 men, he stands a good chance of making the podium again at his first attempt in the senior boys’ age group.
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The greatest poet of European colonialism was of course Rudyard Kipling. One of his best efforts, first published in 1899, was addressed to the people of the U.S.A., exhorting us to colonize the Philippines, which we had acquired in the Spanish-American War. The title of that poem was The White Man s Burden.
A listener begged to differ.
Mr. Derbyshire: Kipling s The White Man s Burden enumerates all the problems the U.S. would face if it took the Philippines. It is
against the U.S. becoming an empire. Several verses were read in the Senate as arguments against the ratification of the Treaty of Paris. The lefties at Wikipedia agree with you however.