Today sunshine and a small feeling of an early spring in the warmth though the air does not yet have that brisance of spring proper. The lawnmower is serviced and will probably only last this season, still for a modern 2 stroke that would be six years service which is par for the course. It…
Month: January 2025
Same Old
I used to watch David Attenborough films and remember one where they followed a group of Amazonian men hunting through the forest. In one sections, as the men were sitting on the ground, in the round, he said he would translate what they were talking about. When you see such people you have a strange…
The One Thing
that it would have been good to see burn to ash in the fires in California is that ugly Hollywood sign that scars a hillside and sits on huge, ugly concrete blocks. I know it is ‘iconic’ but that is only because its been shown in hundreds of movies. If there is one thing in…
This Is Strength?
I have seen several posts about Colombian immigrants (sometimes called criminals and always called illegal) being sent home and refused permission to land and the US slapping tariffs and bans on Colombia as a result. The true mark of a human being is how they treat those over whom they have power. Washington today will…
What Is The Cost?
All over the world conflicts are being fought that cost money – fuelled, literally, by oil sales and other trade. But the cost to the human psyche, to individual soldiers suffering trauma, to brainwashed children with no other aim than to murder, to raped women, to destroyed communities, to broken alliances, the millions of hours…
The Facts Behind the Act
The up-and-down nature of politics and economics can lead one to theorise that the engagement of the citizen in the nonsense is a waste of time: people work all their lives and pay their taxes and cannot leave their children much because of death taxes; they save for a pension and inflation and mismanagement rips…
It Is So Obvious
When he was the 45th president I suggested the fascists in America had learned how to win and the next time they would not choose a fool. It is blindly obvious that Musk is putting himself in poll position to be his replacement in the Republican Party. Trying to be unpredictable and say dumb things,…
Death In Leamington
She died in the upstairs bedroom By the light of the ev’ning star That shone through the plate glass window From over Leamington Spa Beside her the lonely crochet Lay patiently and unstirred, But the fingers that would have work’d it Were dead as the spoken word. And Nurse came in with the tea-things Breast…
Political Theory
There is a theory that democratic governments tend towards a liberalism that produces a kick-back into a more authoritarian regime, which it turn tends towards such extreme totalitarianism that a rebellion produces a more democratic government. This natural political barometer has been seen in part in Syria helped in large measure by outside factors, and…
Poor America
The lining of the pockets will continue apace and everything he said he will do that the people want – getting rid of immigrants, saving companies money on climate change legislation, forcing Ukraine to accept a truce – will be done but the true meaning of the fascist entrenchment in the Whitehouse will not become…