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Prisoners

Posted on 19/09/2025 by Daniel

As we welcome home two people who were imprisoned in Afghanistan we should do well to recall how Russia arrests and detains people, how countries around the world will hold people who break the law and how long it takes for the UK to get them out. We would do well to recall that some…

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Astonishment

Posted on 18/09/2025 by Daniel

On linkedIn a good many people have banded the word genocide around and recently I suggested the person did not know its definition and they should read up on it. The response was ‘if you have something to chare why don’t you?’ to which i politely replied the charter on genocide was adopted in December…

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Real Conspiracies

Posted on 17/09/2025 by Daniel

We know multi national companies are bastards, no argument. They manipulate and defraud for profit. The cigarette industry knew in the late 1930s that cigarettes caused cancer. How many died bringing that to public notice? We know all engines can run on ethanol but the oil barons needed a market to sell their oil into…

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9 Days

Posted on 16/09/2025 by Daniel

Without the internet and I went back to reading – a very interesting book by the American Harold Rosenberg, whose sensitivity to the visual artists in remarkable. I wish I had that depth of aesthetic. In the outage I worried about emails but did not miss them. Strange really. Now it is all repaired and…

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Dawn

Posted on 06/09/2025 by Daniel

Walking the beach at dawn this morning with my friend and the dog I am looking after until Tuesday. It was fresh and obviously the beginning of autumn but at that time in the morning and this later holiday time, the beach had a very few people on it. two ladies went shimming and I…

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Oh Little Taxes

Posted on 05/09/2025 by Daniel

I don’t know why the human mind needed to create money or why our imaginations  are so completely overwhelmed by thoughts of it, but I do know it has led to a state where we are all farmed. Not only is there nowhere to go to live without it because all land is owned. Worse…

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Ghostbusters

Posted on 03/09/2025 by Daniel

I just watched most of the movie Ghostbusters 2 which I haven’t seen for years. I think some of the Ramis shots were used in the last movie where he was supposed to have died (the actor having died in reality). It was overblown but at least the comedy actors were committed to the ludicrous…

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People Always Ask

Posted on 02/09/2025 by Daniel

but one cannot always give. Then they make decisions and ask again expecting you to have the time and space to give despite not being in the decision making time-frame. It is very frustrating to know that people have had conversations with you without you being there. Have drawn some conclusions based on how they…

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Shakespeare’s World

Posted on 01/09/2025 by Daniel

It isn’t always as difficult as people make out to read Shakespeare. His world is very different to ours. If you don’t own a horse you walk everywhere so must have strong shoes as there are no tarmacked roads just dirt and Roman stones. No lighting after daytime but firebrands. there was a lot more…

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Musicals

Posted on 31/08/2025 by Daniel

My mother thought that Carousel was the musical from America with the most heart. I used to know some of the songs of South Pacific because it was about war and war was a fantasy to a nine year old. Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr dancing in the King and I is a glorious scene….

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