Note: I pitched this a couple of weeks to a news outlet, was told yes/no/maybe and then waited.. and waited. Further correspondence unanswered, so am posting it here, if only for posterity.... Let’s play a game of pretend. Let’s pretend that the deal wounded Prime Minister Theresa May has stitched with the Northern Ireland... Continue Reading →
#GrenfellTower – “never again” they say. But WHO ensures that? How? #socialmovements
Glued to the newsfeeds. Thinking in horror of the lives cut short, women throwing babies from the ninth floor. The courage of the firefighters, the desperation, the professionalism of the emergency staff, the NHS. Thinking of how burning down a city for fun and profit is nothing new. There's a book we should all read,... Continue Reading →
Citizens Gathering – we need new institutions
Last night I went to a “meeting” of, oh, let’s call it “Citizens Gathering”. After 90 minutes I came away with a very small amount of new information (nothing that I couldn’t have learnt by reading a three minute blog post) and a lot of suspicions confirmed. I have put the word meeting in scare... Continue Reading →
Film Review: The Mummy
"The horror, the horror" said Kurtz. He may have been talking about this film, which as a horror movie is a horror. Tom Cruise is some sort of US army Indiana Jones (I'd love to see his job description) who stumbles on a tomb in Iraq of an Egyptian naughty daddy-killing and inevitably not-quite-dead princess,... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on ‘what next’? #2ndGE2017
Interested in any good articles people have read on what happens in the next six months. My thinking, fwiw is this - May cannot expect to cling on for more than a few months. The DUP deal is inherently unstable, and there are any number of domestic landmines. The thing that is saving her at... Continue Reading →
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