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…
From a friend
missing her mother: Epitaph by Merrit Malloy When I die Give what’s left of me away To children And old men that wait to die. And if you need to cry, Cry for your brother Walking the street beside you. And when you need me, Put your arms Around anyone And give them…
The Horizon
It amazes me – and many other people – that leaders around the world are still worrying about economies and how to get growth into their balance sheets. I understand those who are fascists and religious nuts we have always had them. But the greatest threat to civil society and entire countries is the climate…
A Universe to Understand
I used to hope we could crack the Grand Universal Theory in my lifetime so I could at least ‘know’. But now it seems it may not even be one universe, and there are an infinite number of me’s (some people would find that horrendous) many of whom are tying at this moment. I hope…
Monarchy
I do find monarchies difficult to understand. I think it is because I have no empathy with worshipping images and devotion to monarchy is all about image. In history they have been sallow, intelligent but brutal, selfish, and to body politic dangerous. Today in England they have a retinue if immense privilege but have been…
Damn Phones
Mislaid my Samsung android. Not in the house. Not on the floor. Not in the car. I have one more place to look and if it isn’t there I must have dropped it somewhere outdoors but I don’t know how. I had it with me when I actually arrived home yesterday. In the meantime if…