Wollaton Park today
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Dec
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Sunset today
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Dec
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London Bridge attack
30
Nov
The Guardian today. Snapshots from June 2017 … * Frequently deployed – cynically, stupidly and lazily – to dismiss an argument without the effort of addressing its particulars, the conspiracy theorist epithet refers to an assumed pathological condition. It’s … Read More »
Kissinger: “US Exceptionalism is over”
30
Nov
Can the most terrifying rogue state – bar none – the world has ever known be brought to heel? Two days ago ninety-six year old Henry Kissinger – Indochina Bomber, right hand man to Nixon and backer of death squads … Read More »
Circular walk from Cromford Wharf
29
Nov
The 09:25 has me at Cromford for 10:20 – a snip at £36.20 when thirty of that is to renew my senior rail card. Outside the tiny station I look down a steep curving lane to see Sue in bobble … Read More »
Peter Hitchens on Douma
28
Nov
Writing two days ago in the Spectator USA, Peter Hitchens begins: I suspect the Third World War will begin with a claimed atrocity — probably the use of poison gas by a ‘regime’ against ‘its own people’. Such things are … Read More »
Morgan to Morgan: 50,000 new nurses
28
Nov
Nicky Morgan, BoJo’s Culture Secretary, and her fifty thousand ‘new’ nurses: Biggest Car Crash Interview Ever! A Conservative MP tries to redefine what 'more' means. Truly horrifying. Posted by Momentum on Monday, 25 November 2019
Attenborough today
28
Nov
My neoprene lined Le Chameau wellies. Snip at £150 the pair.
The Pink Hand Gang
28
Nov
Distinguished by that trade mark numero uno hairdo – and by insistence on pink marigolds as washing up accessories – a member of the feared Pink Hands is caught in a reflective moment.
Cook on Corbyn and “antisemitism”
27
Nov
Today in the View From Nazareth, award winning journalist Jonathan Cook writes: Corbyn’s democratic socialism is the first serious attempt by Labour since the Thatcher years to try to reverse the enormous and relentless economic gains made by Britain’s corporate … Read More »