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And now, the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show.

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand, on the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin radio show, where I, your rabbi, reveal how the world really works.

And I don't know if any of you have visited London or if you plan on visiting London.

I lived there for many years and at the time I was a devoted anglophile.

I was completely taken up with the idea that this tiny little island off the northwestern coast of Europe has a language which is spoken by a significant

proportion of the world's population. And it's a, it developed a language that has become the

official language of air transport, control tower communication, air traffic control.

It's a country in which, in the middle of the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution launched.

And I'm no longer an anglophile because of the terrible decay that has set in.

Just recently, the Prime Minister of England, Boris Johnson, who wrote a marvelous biography of Winston Churchill, made the most

asinine comments about how bad it was that the steam engine was invented. And that, of course,

was part of the launch of the Industrial Revolution in about 1750 as a convenient date.

Hard to pinpoint to the moment.

But, yeah, but I was intrigued.

I remember being very aware that I was walking the streets in London of a place, and this was the capital,

that really dominated the world for more than 100 years, well over 100 years. I thought it was just so

interesting. And one of the places I used to walk was Trafalgar Square.

Now Trafalgar Square is a very beautiful, large open square in the heart of London and the traffic

goes around it. But you can go over to the middle and there's a nice pond and there's statues of lions and there's a huge column

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