Today I came across a piece in The Critic, a rag I hadn’t heard of so I checked it out. Its arrival a year ago was as new entrant to the ‘thinking man’s debunker of left wing twaddle’ market, and … Read More »
An exchange below one of my pieces in OffGuardian a few months ago had me ‘othered’ by a posse of commentariat for “approvingly” quoting writers this armchair clan frowns upon. How did I recognise my BTL detractors as an armchair … Read More »
In part 2 I told of how, in the early to mid nineties: For the first time in my life, I … began to take seriously the notion of enlightenment in its Eastern as distinct from Cartesian sense. But more … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today. The mass media are reporting that the Biden camp has selected former general Lloyd J. Austin III to be the next secretary of defense, assuaging fears among antiwar activists that the position would go to bloodthirsty psychopath Michele Flournoy as commonly predicted. As has … Read More »
See part 1 here. Yoga is a wonderful thing. Please disregard the fact I no longer practise it: that’s just my inertia. Soon I’ll get back to it, even if I have been saying that for 11 years – ever … Read More »
Attenborough today
I hate to put it so rudely, but if you’re not disgusted, terrified and incandescent in broadly equal measure then you’re either in need of a brain transplant or – more likely – one of the millions of sleep walkers … Read More »
Attenborough on the first day of the last month of the first year of the third decade of the third millennium. *
In the winter of 1990/91 I had my midlife crisis. I was in my late thirties. The coinciding of factors known for being challenging – battles with the ex over terms of access to two young children, death of my … Read More »
I’ve alluded before now to this exquisitely discomforting night for some, but never got round to giving it a post of its own. Time to put that right. If I’ve seen the highlights once of Ricky Gervais at the Golden … Read More »