Who is Shane Leslie

Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet (Irish: Sir Seaghán Leslaigh; 24 September 1885 – 14 August 1971), commonly known as Sir Shane Leslie, was an Irish-born diplomat and writer. He was a first cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1908, Leslie became a Roman Catholic and supported Irish Home Rule.

Childhood and education

Leslie was born in Glaslough, County Monaghan, into a wealthy Anglo-Irish landowning family (49,968 acres). His father was Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet, and his mother, Leonie Jerome, was the sister of Winston Churchill's mother, Jennie. Both were daughters of Leonard W. Jerome. His ancestor, the Right Reverend John Leslie, Bishop of the Isles, moved from Scotland to Ireland in 1633 when he was made Bishop of Raphoe in County Donegal and was su...
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Shane Leslie Poems

• Muckish Mountain (the Pig's Back)
  Like a sleeping swine upon the skyline,
  Muckish, thou art shadowed out,
  Grubbing up the rubble of the ages
  With your broken, granite snout....

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Shane Leslie Quotes

• The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

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Comments about Shane Leslie

• Shmuelcshapira: american assoc . physicians and surgeons call for moratorium on mrna injections
• Dowdedward: most of the public is not aware of the fact that the fda & pfizer wanted to hide the clinical trial data for 75 years. some of our analysis & estimates of human damage is based on the clinical trial data. now you can guess why they wanted this hidden.
• Drjbhattacharya: in march 2020, the uk scientific body advising the government came up with 25 ways to make the public treat others like biohazards. among the tactics considered included: -- making people think they are at more risk than they actually were 1/5
• Drjbhattacharya: -- "emotional messaging" -- weaponized empathy ("responsibility to others") -- confident assertions that npis will protect hospitals ("positive messaging around actions") -- coercive legislation -- shaming ("social disapproval") 2/5
• Drjbhattacharya: here's the matrix of "options" they considered. 3/5

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