Five years ago I watched the Richie Mehta drama, Delhi Crime, and this week binged on it again at Netflix, devouring the dozen episodes of series 1 (with series 2 just as good) three or four at a time. I’ve … Read More »
Clickbait trivia, fake news and faux outrage: every day until we demand truth: In The Country of the Blind, HG Wells showed that the proverbial one-eyed man, far from being crowned king, is likely to be deemed insane. Westerners who … Read More »
Some of us lost friends over our “extremist” opposition to the dirty war on Syria. I stand by my post of eight years ago: Monbiot, Syria and Universalism. Any of us can get it wrong. I’ve been spectacularly so at times … Read More »
My six month old grandson, Louis, yesterday morning … … moments before he settled down … … to the Hey Bear Sensory Disco Fruit Party, which enthrals him. Maybe we should all of us give politics a swerve, chill out … Read More »
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Believe me, I get how frustrating the selective stupidity of brainwashed humanity can be for we who see that we are ruled by criminals, lied to by our media on stuff that matters, and led down the garden path by … Read More »
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Looking due north from my canoe on Windermere Thursday: 23:04. I pull into the small triangular car park at Ambleside Pier, next to the Youth Hostel. It’s free but only at this hour can I be sure of a space. … Read More »