Yesterday Craig Murray – whistle blower, Scots nationalist, former rector of Dundee University, former UK Ambassador and much besides – was sentenced to eight months for contempt of court in his blog coverage of the collapsed trial of former SNP … Read More »
… in fact only a small proportion are but, as I argued six years ago in one of my increasingly rare non political posts – and little knowing how much extra weight this truth would be called on to shoulder … Read More »
Meet Laurel, who has opened up a canyon in the world of identity politics. Says wiki: [As a man] Hubbard set New Zealand junior records … later surpassed by David Liti. In 2012 Hubbard was appointed Executive Officer for Olympic … Read More »
Suppose there actually is a Supreme Creator. A family business, say – J. Christ & O. God Ltd – or piscine deity – There is no Cod but Allah! Wouldn’t it be asking us, ‘hey, what’s with all the dreariness?’ What … Read More »
Tebay, steel city house’s resident lakeland terrier, in relaxed mode.
Despite its being (a) preposterous, (b) amoral and (c) reactionary in more ways than I’ve time to spell out, I’m a huge fan of Peaky Blinders. Larger than life characterisations by actors at the top of their game, edge-of-seat melodrama, … Read More »
Spotted on Facebook and reproduced here in abridged form, these seem existential insights but I have to ask: which form of society has taken one side of our dual nature, as individuated yet social animals, further than any other? Inability … Read More »
From Rostov-on-Don … And quiet purred the Don …
By middle of March a pair of magpies were nest building in a cherry tree at foot of our garden, two metres from a three-storey house whose east facing end wall overlooks the back of ours. That wall shelters the … Read More »