Opinions on art have always been divided. There are many contemporaries of artists we hold is esteem who were denigrated in their day for any number of reasons. That is why men like William Hazlett are so special because it takes a particular kind of brain to see the worth of modern writers and artists,…
Month: October 2022
A Little Light Relief
Sitting at work today – it was a slow day – I scanned the news sections at around 1pm and there I was delighted to see the resignation of the shortest span of Priministerial leadership in British history. Since when I have heard Conservatives talk about grown-up. mature government and even whispering bring Boris back….
Careless Love
I threw my heart to the wind – Catch it, catch it, I cried – The wind replied, replied – Your heart is mine, is mine – Torrents of rain fell down The skies became deep black; I called to the wind for my heart – Give it back, give it back. And the thunder…
Writing About
… someone you grew up with and was your mother is not easy. Shänne Sands died in 2016 and up to this year I was drawing around the edges, taking snippets here and there from letters and what i know and of course, her poems and diaries. But I couldn’t take too much at one…
Opportunism Ends
Our present first minister, called Liz Truss because foreshortening first names is popular, has fallen foul of the most obvious of all economic truths: moderate speed. Moderate speed takes into account the entirety of the complexities of country wide economy and whatever your aims, and especially when they are major ones, you go step by…
So the Markets
Part of the reason the Markets across the world have treated the UK in this manner over the past week or so is that the UK is no longer in the European Union. It isn’t a reason commented upon to a large extent but we are bow adrift, no unseen and seen support from the…
Birds Singing
As the birds sing outside my door (I am next to a woodland) I cannot but recall how loud their songs were because there were so many more of them in past years. It is a shameful side of humanity that after billions of years of evolution and several mass extinction events we inherited 200,000…
Dash to the Bottom
The markets are treating the UK as she wanted to be treated in 2016 under the Conservative party. A lone country unleashed from the European Union, standing on her own two nineteenth century feet and she has found she cannot hack-it. There is also something else more profound than the financial outcome of Brexit. They…
Do We Corrupt Everything?
Recently I have been receiving emails telling me my email account has new terms of service and I should sign up to them if I want to keep my account – followed by a spurious web address that manages to have the name of the email host included. I remember Tim Bernes-Lee giving the world…
Military Training
There is a Ministry of Defence training area near here which I wandered near today walking a dog. A man was getting his army boots on and I asked him if he was here for the day. ‘For the night, actually’ he replied. ‘I hope it remains training, I said.’ ‘It will’ he said. I…