Stanage Edge today: ten pictures
15
Jan
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Category Archives: politics
On Kipling and cognitive dissonance
10
Jan
In a characteristically witty email today, my pal Mick shared his horror at realising he agreed with something Hitchens had written in the Quail on Sunday. Relax Michael. It’s cognitive dissonance makes us uncomfy when people with views we detest … Read More »
It’s tough up north tha knows
7
Jan
[ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Michael White’s Guardian piece yesterday … do give it a read and tell me if and when, in any newspaper alleged to be ‘quality’, you ever saw anything so crass and childish. White contrasts the “tough” north – … Read More »
Incontrovertible – the “truth” about 9/11
5
Jan
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]This is a film review. Dylan Avery made four versions of Loose Change, setting out the ‘Truther’ case for 9/11 as an inside job to legitimate Bush-Cheney’s middle east capers. I saw the first cut twice, thought it tripe … Read More »
Watch your back, Nigel
3
Jan
This from Twitter yesterday …
Corbyn Reshuffle?
2
Jan
In today’s Guardian, political editor Toby Helm anticipates the replacement of Hilary Benn and Maria Eagle in an imminent reshuffle by Jeremy Corbyn. Such a reshuffle, Helm tells us, would be “high risk”; one likely outcome being the resignation of … Read More »
Reviews: Grandma; Red Rosa
16
Dec
Saw Grandma tonight and have to say I was underwhelmed. As vehicle for uncovering the high principles, low cunning and wrinkled foibles of septuagenarian feminist and hippie, academic and poet, lesbian and life-loving misanthrope, a picaresque day in the life … Read More »
Are they cynical or just stupid?
13
Dec
Yup, Syria again. Hate to be a bore but there are worse things. Like conducting air strikes, in my name and yours, on yet another Muslim country based on a narrative so far-fetched in its fairy tale reductionism that those … Read More »
A walk round Bradfield and Strines
12
Dec
[wds id=”6″] Good day yesterday with Mark, who shares both my love of walking and conviction the world is run by and for the criminally insane. As we walked – on moorland and cliff edge, quiet lane and wooded … Read More »
Climate Change and Fortress Europe
12
Dec
Listening to the news from Paris these past few days I, like so many Britons, think of climate change as a terrible possibility which may or may not materialise: an appalling possibility we learn to live with, like the threat … Read More »