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 »
I say, I say: why did the magpie help the hedgehog across the road? No, it’s not a joke. It happened for real, was caught on a dashcam and the footage uploaded to YouTube. So why did the magpie peck … Read More »
Demand for a follow up to my sloe gin post of five months ago is now approaching denial of service attack levels. My public, insistent on a progress report, must be appeased. Just after nineteen hundred on the evening of … Read More »
For International Women’s Day, here’s a plug for a wonderful graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg. Reviewing it in late 2015, I wrote: if we’re talking womanhood celebrated, here’s a rare treat for feminist and socialist alike. Red Rosa by Kate … Read More »
With my interlocutor’s express permission, I’m replicating his exchanges with me below the line of my February reads post. It concerns the extent to which media corruption is systemic, and that to which it is driven by the rottenness of … Read More »