Life is not an easy matter. We cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless we have before us a great idea to raise us above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. … Read More »
We needn’t believe in a supreme deity to appreciate what stupendous feats human beings can achieve when our eyes are on something bigger than ourselves. Trotsky was right: Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without … Read More »
1970s advert The evolution of the electric kettle is instructive. Invented in the eighteen nineties, its initial forms had drawbacks. Like taking an age to do the biz, heating water by making it live – quite serious, that – and … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone not only has a flair for articulating counterintuitive truths simply and vividly – where counterintuitive = contrary to mainstream power-serving fairy tales. She also has a way of voicing nuances of thought and mood that echo my own. … Read More »
This used to be a two hour hike from my door at Hunters Bar, Sheffield: the walk itself a delight known as the Porter Valley. Now it’s seventy minutes up the M1. Worth it though. This morning I was on … Read More »
Spied on FB a few minutes ago. Thanks Jem. Read the titles from top left, then go thou and do likewise.
Taken last week, in and around Wells-next-the-Sea.
I had an email from a friend this morning; on the face of it apropos of nothing. What does getting sentimental about the deplorables achieve? Nothing good, I replied. Why do you ask? one of your posts seemed to me … Read More »
In the opening sentence of a post last month I spoke of Team BoJo as: … a spectacularly inept and – even by tory standards – venal party led by a serial liar … Perhaps that was a tad harsh. … Read More »