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Category Archives: general
Mini Gems good – Midget Gems baad!
14
Jan
Yesterday in the Metro (also in Daily Mail, Independent, Times, Sun and – ta-da! – Wakefield Express) … Marks and Spencer has become the first high street retailer to relabel Midget Gems over complaints the name is outdated. A disability campaigner … Read More »
Planting flowers for 2022
9
Jan
The other day I liked – both in the FB and literal sense – the post of a friend who’d offered this image. But isn’t it incompatible with the image I posted a few days ago? Only if we have … Read More »
Assange? China? It’s not rocket science!
20
Dec
In her blog post six days ago, Caitlin Johnstone wrote: The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and … Read More »
Priti’s Police Bill – why now?
3
Dec
“Kill the Bill” protest in Nottingham, 28/3/21 I take issue with George Monbiot on one or two vital matters, and agree with Jonathan Cook’s unflattering assessment of the man’s role – Cook doesn’t do ad-hominem – as given in my … Read More »
Are we sleepwalking to Armageddon?
29
Nov
The River Soar yesterday. What follows is less pretty. I’m promoting three reads here, starting with Caitlin Johnstone’s post today: Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born Things are fucked. That’s our current situation in a nutshell. In a slightly … Read More »
Margaret Mead and that femur …
28
Nov
Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked what she deemed the first sign of civilization in a culture. Fish hooks? Pottery? Flint spear heads? No. Mead replied that the earliest discovered sign of civilization was a femur which had been broken … Read More »
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
20
Nov
Thanks again to Dave Hansell for this. Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton named the effect after his friend, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Crichton describes it thus: You open a newspaper to an article on a subject you … Read More »
Julian’s mother speaks
19
Nov
Posted two days ago on Facebook by the Free Assange Committee (Germany). Das Schicksal meines Sohnes wird die ZUKUNFT aller FREIEN Menschen sein, die ihre Stimme gegen die Tyrannei und Korruption der REGIERUNGEN erheben A day later, yesterday, Christine’s words … Read More »
Syria’s My Lai is why Julian matters!
15
Nov
This is what’s at stake in the Assange case. Our right to know what the most deadly elements of the most powerful governments on our planet are doing. That they think it legitimate to imprison anyone who tries to show … Read More »