And so: The Royal Family transitions. From unifying wartime influence, through hugely expensive, if mildly amusing irrelevance, to hugely expensive,nnoying soap-opera of irrelevance.
Howard Hollingsbee
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Ancient Mariner Aged heavy helicopter pilot Long ago company director Avid Europhile Centre left politics Philosophy and Hispanic studies. Despairing of the world’s most powerful country and person.
The glorious Natalie Haynes. Intellectually brilliant; very, very funny. Stands up for the Classics. Love it.
Those Gaza ?killings. FFS. How can Netanyahu be given yet more leave to slaughter on a whim….?
Well into the brave and articulate Lindsey Hilsum’s “I Brought The War with Me”. Wonderful. Pertinent essays and her anthology of relevant poetry.
I really hated “ Total Eclipse of the Sun’” Sorry. Still sad that she’s gone.
I’m going to think that the needs of the person or persons who just stripped our apple crop, are greater than ours……
End of the Day The old world turns in its rusty socket; a ragged sky burns; the sea slops in the moon’s bucket; the sun’s penny drops Anthony Watts.
Bit quiet on the usually (white-) noisy Trump-petty front atm, innit?
I haven’t quite felt able to vote Green, although I agree with many (but not all) of their policies. Much respect for Caroline Lucas. However, am I alone in sensing something deeply phoney about the loquacious Zack Polanski?
Just put Pink Floyd “the Delicate Sound of Thunder” on, to watch the solar non-event of the decade…..meh….
The Orange, by his ignorance and inability to think strategically, is doing a great country and people a disservice. The humiliation by Iran, following his rash and irrational actions, and its adverse effect on the rest of us has diminished America in the eyes of the world. Tragic.
Fatso and Air Force 1,2,3,4 ….ad nauseam…. in Turkey. Objectives achieved 1. Orange is in the News. 2. (Contrived?)justification for the next move against Iran.
The revolution against the autocrats has to start somewhere………
The duty Teform Idiot on Any Questions. Straight from the T-Rump playbook. Shout a lie loudly and move on. “There are plenty of places to house offenders”. “China is the worst polluter”. (Actually, replacing with renewables faster than any other country)
Unwelcome fact I learned today. Joaquin Rodrigo’s Aranjuez concerto that I have always loved, was adopted knowingly or unknowingly, as part of the fascist Franco’s nationalist agenda. Shame.
Senior Beeb reporter Jeremy Bowen - one of the, mostly mealy-mouthed reporters who doesn’t hold back on Trump idiocy. On the failure to achieve anyof the (eventually) stated Iran attack objectives. And the closure of the previously open Hormuz Straits Trump’s rash and irrational attack…..”. Yep.
The greediest, rambling, not-very-clever president berates the oil companies for making huge but temporary profits thanks to the war he started in Iran and can’t stop. Seen Alice on this side of the Looking Glass…?
The Fat Orange is playing fast and loose with the very fine Costitution. It’s in Congress’ power to put an end to the huge damage he’s doing. Surely, even dull Republicans can see that….? For the sake of a once fine country and people, Congress - Do Something!
Pedro Sanchez should be the leader of the free world. Intelligence, empathy, compassion and longterm focus. I guess that rules him out……
‘Pearl, held in black fingers…. bird inside the ribcage is beating to be free…. Use me while you can…..’ Bruce Cockburn. So powerful.
That cringe-makingly desperate-sounding BBC advert that the excellent Romesh seems to have been conned into making……. Counter-productive, surely?
If the fawning slimeball Infantino we capable of normal feelings, he would be curling up into a terminally embarrassed foetal position.
I look forward to seeing Andy Burnham in Truro. Not holding my breath.
Trump, Hegseth, Vance et al: read and understand the wise and wonderful words of E E Cummings. This day. 1914. You bastards.
Ah, the naïveté of tariffs. In a free global market, suppliers can choose not to sell into USA while buyers have a wide choice throughout the world. The tech sector is tricky but I and many others avoid buying American where we can. The automobile sector is easy. American cars mostly crap.