[ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Michael White’s Guardian piece yesterday … do give it a read and tell me if and when, in any newspaper alleged to be ‘quality’, you ever saw anything so crass and childish. White contrasts the “tough” north – … Read More »
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]This is a film review. Dylan Avery made four versions of Loose Change, setting out the ‘Truther’ case for 9/11 as an inside job to legitimate Bush-Cheney’s middle east capers. I saw the first cut twice, thought it tripe … Read More »
This from Twitter yesterday …
In today’s Guardian, political editor Toby Helm anticipates the replacement of Hilary Benn and Maria Eagle in an imminent reshuffle by Jeremy Corbyn. Such a reshuffle, Helm tells us, would be “high risk”; one likely outcome being the resignation of … Read More »
[ezcol_1half]Because they hang onto my every word, so know every detail of my passion for photography, down to the mid focal length gap in my lens collection, and because they love and admire me so, Rhianna (18) and Charis (15) … Read More »
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]I saw this, originating in the New Yorker, on FB just this morning. An Escher admirer for forty years and more, how could I resist? We don’t need this information to appreciate the New Yorker humour but as it … Read More »
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Remember Martin Shrkeli? He launched Retrophin, a company that acquired rights to drugs for rare diseases, then ramped up their prices. One example was Thiola, used to treat a disease causing kidney stones. After it came into the Retrophin … Read More »
Saw Grandma tonight and have to say I was underwhelmed. As vehicle for uncovering the high principles, low cunning and wrinkled foibles of septuagenarian feminist and hippie, academic and poet, lesbian and life-loving misanthrope, a picaresque day in the life … Read More »
I’ve known a couple of guys beat up their women. Probably more; they’re just the ones I’m sure about. Never went in for it myself, though I once returned with reciprocal force the single slap an ex gave me. But … Read More »
Yup, Syria again. Hate to be a bore but there are worse things. Like conducting air strikes, in my name and yours, on yet another Muslim country based on a narrative so far-fetched in its fairy tale reductionism that those … Read More »