The US is lost. Not just for four years. For the foreseeable. Even if sanity is restored, a return of trust will take a generation or more. The fifth column within now has total power, taking orders from the fascist paymaster in the East. The fight for Europe will soon begin. The first battles that … Continue reading Vichy America
I’m having a look at the way the world is turning, and I’d love to think that the good guys are doing something to stand up to the bad guys. For a start, a single independent nuclear weapons program shared between the UK, Germany, Poland, France and the Baltics seems an obvious smart move. An … Continue reading If At All, Too Late…
I thought it was obvious in 2018 that we were in a state of war with Russia. Undeclared, unofficial yet undeniable. But we - like the rest of Europe - did very little about it. We failed even to really acknowledge it. For as long as tanks weren’t crossing borders, fingers in ears and ‘la … Continue reading Plausibly Plausible
I went to the Lightroom in Kings Cross last week to take my seat for the Moonwalkers experience. It was fabulous. Worth the entrance fee? Well, £27 seems a bit steep to me, but I got in half price with my student card so I was happy. It’s an all consuming experience, blasting away at the … Continue reading The Abyss
Back in 2015 and into 2016, some folk were inclined to start using one particular word to describe some other folk. The ‘F’ word. Because these other folk subscribed to politics of the populist variety. Their language? A little bit 1930s. Bigotry? It was unmistakable. The whiff of ‘F’ permeated the following four years, especially … Continue reading The F Word
The UK has an absolute stack of massive problems. Social, economic and political. Some of them are shared problems affecting most other countries. Some of them are unique to the UK. All of them are either due to or made worse by an event in June 2016. The UK Prime Minister back then, David Cameron, … Continue reading Defining Society
That’s a map of every place I’ve visited. Plus two, which I’ve coloured in in advance of my visit to them next month. If you’d like to guess which those two are, put your answers on a postcard. I’ve got another potential trip the following month, if finances allow, that will colour in another three … Continue reading The Travel List
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