Any Questions, a radio 4 programme that had four panellists answer questions from the public. They toured the UK coming from a different place each week and had as well as politicians, local personalities on the panels. Then Jonathan Dimbleby took over as the chair and started by speaking for ten minutes and taking away…
Category: Quotidial
70,000
is the estimated number of Nazi party members who were not arrested, hanged or imprisoned after WW2. The clever ones were taken to the USA to work on rocket science among other things because they were virulently anti-Russian. The less clever ones went to Egypt and other Middle East countries to advise on how to…
for over 100 years
in the Middle East two wars have brewed and broken out. They are so enmeshed that people do not immediately see the distinction. There is the war we all see about Arabs wanting to go home and being denied and being kept in the permanent state of ‘refugees, even when they have passports from other…
Throwing it up in the air
The reason international politics doesn’t like things to be thrown around and ideas to come out of the blue is because politicians are afraid of being called upon to make decisions without care and attention and long deliberation. It is unnerving but also dangerous – they get enough wrong after thinking about it how bad…
Systems that are broken
There are many. Among them I would place the fact that tariffs in the US raise a lot of money for the tax office but that money seems to be in the gift of the President. He does not have to go to Congress to ask permission to spend it. I have no idea how…
Gossip
I used this word because I was told three lies (small maybe but lies) about a person and the reactions of others to him and about another colleague and what she said about another woman. I call the person out who lied to me and she shared my email to her with others. The result…
Words Betray
Donald Trump openly said that when they leave so Gaza can be rebuilt they won’t want to go back – why would they? He then says we will make it a seaside destination. He wants the US to have a series of his hotels where so much blood has been spilled in the past decades…
Cars and Charges
I am amazed at how difficult parking is in Cornwall. The locals all used to know all the places to park that were free so they could shop/have something to eat / meet up and over the years more and more such places have been converted to charging. The latest I know about is Siblyback…
John Wilmot
Love and Life: A Song All my past life is mine no more, The flying hours are gone, Like transitory dreams given o’er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. What ever is to come is not, How can it then be mine? The present moment’s all my lot, And that as…
Vanity
I was placed in the middle of two angry and arguing colleagues this weekend and one demanded I remove the other from the team. I asked them both for the history of their emails. Bot baulked at the prospect and neither sent them to me. One has now suggested she terminates her work with us,…