Shore – Christmas, Monty Python and Shore
Most will be aware of the iconic film Monty Python’s Life of Brian, set in the Middle East some two thousand years ago when much of it was under the rule of the Roman Empire. The revolutionary band who want to evict the occupying Romans are hostile to their rule. The leader asserts “but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” Indeed, the Romans brought many of the benefits of civilization as it then was.
