Day 258
Another fragmentary. This year’s blog now has over 266k words. Quite remarkable. I really didn’t think it would accumulate words so quickly and massively. Just goes to show how many… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Politics
Day 256
funereal procedures protocols rituals protests placards arrests public grief private secrets practiced masks peaceful objections criminalised orders servants uniforms divine proclamation tyranny subservience assumed required rising against rites worship imposed… Continue Reading
Day 255
freedom an illusion we are free free to think to speak to do to go where we want to travel without hindrance to use words in any combination to make… Continue Reading
Day 253
the golden thread history is not written by the vanquished nor the suppressed nor the poor a web woven around a single thread of passing time measured obscurely when did… Continue Reading
Day 252
A perspective. On average, about 2,000 people die in the UK every day. Yesterday, the Queen was one of them. Of course, when someone who has been at the centre… Continue Reading
Day 249
So, politics for a change. Johnson is live on TV right now, and has just said that he hadn’t realised the Premiership was a relay race and that the rules… Continue Reading
Day 245
I occasionally break the rule about all of this blog having to be new writing, but as we move towards the end of what has been a glorious summer in… Continue Reading
Day 219
When some of us, even in the early days of the now 12-year Tory rule, said that the Tory cultural war was not just aimed at left-wing culture but at… Continue Reading
Day 217
There must be a saying, and if there isn’t, I’m going to coin it now – “Economists are disgraced mathematicians or failed politicians. And politicians are disgraced economists.” A devil’s… Continue Reading
Day 208
After two nights of not sleeping very well at all, partly caused by my despair at seeing summer pass so quickly, I slept almost too well last night. Probably because… Continue Reading