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Posted on 22/06/2025 by Daniel

I have listened to a number of journalists and political commentators, all of whom come up with the question, what will Iran do now? and all of them look at the obvious. Iran will not look at the obvious, If it cannot win, it will hurt so its primary outlet will be huge support for…

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Vasily Gross man Life & fate chapter 31

Posted on 21/06/2025 by Daniel

Anti-Semitism can take many forms – from a mocking, contemptuous ill-will to murderous pogroms. Anti-Semitism can be met with in the market and in the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences, in the soul of an old man and in the games children play in the yard. Anti-Semitism has been as strong in the age…

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Grants Application

Posted on 20/06/2025 by Daniel

I want to sing praises – even before any decision has been taken. In the past I have been involved making Arts Council grants and ticking all their boxes for equality, age range, audience growth and being advised the way to make a successful application is to use all the buzz words they use in…

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Understanding

Posted on 19/06/2025 by Daniel

People have become so disconnected from religiosity that they cannot put themselves into the minds of the religious at all. I have heard everyone on international news outlets discussing the Mullahs in term of diplomacy even suggesting their fulminations are a part of the way they do business. All of them are dead wrong. To…

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Old Or Young

Posted on 18/06/202518/06/2025 by Daniel

I listened to a commentator on France 24 stating that the two antagonists in the Iran/Israel conflict were 70 and 80 years old and obviously stubborn and bellicose and neither will back down. I found that to be the converse to what we were always shown in history that the older men get the less…

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We know

Posted on 17/06/2025 by Daniel

that people have agendas and outright lie but it is more complex when you  listen to people who have the same facts before them yet come to different conclusions about them. In international news it seems to me the main focus always seems to be to paint one side as wrong  no matter what and…

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I Didn’t Know

Posted on 16/06/2025 by Daniel

In legalese putting in an ‘appearance’ doesn’t mean going to court yourself, it just means at the least sending in a signed document. It’s quite amusing to read through court papers for the probate I am in charge of and the criminal way in which certain people act and the machinations they go through to…

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The Runes of War

Posted on 15/06/2025 by Daniel

I remember when Russia invaded Ukraine I said to a military friend ‘we’re all going to be tested now’. Hamas’ pogrom in Israel was more of a shock that hatred could till be so visceral and barbaric and that is after watching the bombing of Iraq. But as I listen to everyone talking ang moaning…

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Is There No End

Posted on 13/06/2025 by Daniel

We know that the Arab tribes in the time of Mohammed had a tough life, and blood feuds were age old, tribal and inherited from father to son. We know that he unified these tribes using the only social cement at hand – religion – which was used extensively before and after him. If he…

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Not sure I like this

Posted on 12/06/2025 by Daniel

I am actually excited about going food shopping tomorrow. I mean isn’t that a bit ridiculous? I know I am on a diet of one meal a day but I eat well I just don’t visit the shops more than once every two weeks and it feels like an adventure. I also have to admit…

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