First they came for the Spaghetti
11
Sep
Category Archives: life
Effecting change – or blowing off steam?
27
Aug
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 »
Idiocracy! Our profit-driven infantilisation
27
Aug
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Nessun Starmer
26
Aug
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Four nights in Lakeland
19
Aug
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 »
Britain is broke?!? That’s absurd …
13
Aug
Introducing the Richard Murphy piece replicated below, Naked Capitalism’s Conor Gallagher says this: According to the Kiel Institute, the UK has shovelled 19.266 billion euros into the corrupt hole of death that is Ukraine, which is always worth remembering when elites … Read More »
Ursula – “in Russia you’d be arrested!”
11
Aug
Like a stopped clock right twice a day, even a Guardian much criticised on this site – here and here for instance – managed a decent cartoon by Ella Barton on the mass arrests at London’s Parliament Square on Saturday … Read More »
Roger Waters meets Chris Hedges
2
Aug
As noted seven years ago in the fab four: a personal view, my childhood was milestoned and made bearable by the Beatles. Not far behind, however, was the arrival in early adolescence of a Cambridge outfit which first caught my … Read More »
Will ‘Your Party’ fall to IdPol? Ask Mr Pye!
31
Jul
“In just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while saying racist things, to expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while condemning racism” – Caitlin Johnstone I opened a … Read More »
A nuclear war in Europe?
16
Jul
When I entered this world the USA had been a nuclear power for seven years, the Soviet Union for three. Britain would explode its first device the following month, France and China a few years later. Putting me fair and square … Read More »