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Thursday, 2 April 2026

EXPLORING THE MOON

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In the light of the present journey around the moon and back, here is a little vignette from 13 years ago with Bill Nye the Science Guy and ...
Sunday, 29 March 2026

TEXT AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTION

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Some 12 years ago I was contemplating doing a research degree having completed an MA in performance writing under the tutelage of Jerome Fle...
Friday, 27 March 2026

MEMORIES AND REFLECTIONS

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There is far too much going on at present to have any grasp on sanity. The continuing Trump generated world wide catastrophe is almost impos...
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Wednesday, 18 March 2026

WHAT PRICE DEMOCRACY ?

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Where do we go from here?  I post a paragraph I found on the net: “Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a stark warning to the Unit...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

THE ART OF THE DIARY

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The situation in the Middle East and round the world moves on apace. Many commentators and pundits have given their views, and various netwo...
Sunday, 8 March 2026

LEGALITY MATERS AS DO LIVES

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The criticisms of the Prime Minister, Mr Starmer, over his current dealings with the United States are wholly unwarranted. It is all very we...
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Saturday, 7 March 2026

CAN YOU CONCEIVE THE INSANITY?

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The current situation has revealed a number of rather disturbing views being expressed as well as some rather unfortunate decisions. This is...
Thursday, 5 March 2026

ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY DISTORTED

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On this day, the 5th of March 1770 five Americans were fatally shot by British Troops in an event which became known as the Boston Massacre....
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Tuesday, 3 March 2026

CALLING CRIMINALS TO ACCOUNT

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We are at war. Indeed we have been at war for a considerable period of time. Not one decade has gone by without some sort of lethal cata...
Wednesday, 25 February 2026

THE MARCOS TRUMP PLAYBOOK

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I started writing this blog 15 years ago. At the time I wrote about things that occurred on a particular day, usually the day on which I pos...
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Sunday, 22 February 2026

WHAT'S IN A HEADLINE

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Listening to a Radio 4 discussion (I can’t now remember which or who said what) I heard the phrase “Families are like countries”. It is inde...
Monday, 9 February 2026

SHE KNOWS WHEREOF SHE SPEAKS

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There is a piece in the Guardian from Sunday 8 th February 2026 by journalist Janine di Giovanni which is well worth a read, so I am posti...
Friday, 6 February 2026

BACK IN 1964

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In 1964, or thereabouts, Harold Wilson said “A week is a long time in politics.” In October of that year Harold Wilson lead the Labour Party...
Friday, 30 January 2026

SOMEWHERE THERE IS HOPE

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This is not an AI blog. No form of software, other than ‘pages’ or ‘word’ has been used to create the text. The errors that have escaped ‘gr...
Monday, 19 January 2026

JUST SAY STOP

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I am sorry but I have no good news. Today, whilst listening to the Today program and The World at One on the BBC, I am, as usual, left baffl...
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Wednesday, 14 January 2026

SING IF YOU CAN

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We are two weeks into the new year. The insanity has begun with such ferocity across the globe that it is imposible to make comment. The pho...
Thursday, 8 January 2026

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT SO FAR?

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We are once again in the realm of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.The outrageous action of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s agent...
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