Royal herring …
25
Apr
… also available in red. https://www.facebook.com/manstuff/videos/1957352467632523/?t=5
Author Archives: steel city scribe
Why the West hates Putin (interim post)
24
Apr
This is not part three of Why the West hates Putin. Parts one and two are already posted, while the third is in the making. Rather, this is a statement from Alexander Shulgin, head of Russia’s delegation to the UN’s … Read More »
Eye witness report from Syria
24
Apr
This from Alison Banville of BSNEWS, a British journalist just back from Damascus: I just watched Ben Griffin’s speech at the Don’t Bomb Syria demo. Last Monday, when I was told there was another demonstration to protest the air strikes, … Read More »
Gallup poll on greatest threat to peace
23
Apr
In an international survey by WIN/Gallup the USA came out tops. And it can’t be laid at Trump’s door. The poll was in 2013, and worth checking out for other of its findings.
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
23
Apr
They say Housman was clinically depressed when he penned the sixty-three poems of his anthology, A Shropshire Lad. But isn’t depression an entry level requirement for poets? Loveliest of trees is the best known poem from those blue remembered hills … Read More »
Cleethorpes yesterday
23
Apr
Known in recent decades by affectionate hellenicisation – “dad got laid off so we’re holidaying in Clethrepos this year” – this beach town a tad south of Grimsby was a choice venue, back in the fifties and sixties, for outings … Read More »
Roger Waters on the White Helmets
21
Apr
this post also appears in offguardian A Pink Floyd fan for half a century, and neutral on the band’s acrimonious eighties divorce, I was thrilled by Roger Waters’ denunciations – an unequivocal exception to the rule that celebs are intimidated … Read More »
Chatsworth yesterday
20
Apr
Walking with my friend Sue. Great conversation, great weather, and the deer posing for us. Couldn’t have been better. Nice pad they got there, those Cavendish-Devonshires. Even the loos are classy. *
Why the West hates Putin: Part 2 of 3
16
Apr
[ezcol_1half]Part 1 ended by attributing widespread and unduly credulous acceptance of mainstream narratives on Russia, middle east and much else to a ‘painfully narrow’ perspective and idealist worldview. Part 2, more abstract and general, sets out what is meant by … Read More »
Why the West hates Putin: Part 1 of 3
16
Apr
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Señor, señor Can you tell me where we’re headin’? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon? Seems like I been down this way before Is there any truth in that, señor?[/ezcol_1half_end] The West is divided, most of its citizens still willing, … Read More »