Te late Milan Kundera said that the struggle of man against power was the struggle of memory against forgetting. And the powerful want us to forget - induced amnesia is just one of the many weapons they have. So, I do a website called "All Our Yesterdays", mostly about climate change. I just bashed this... Continue Reading →
I found some old scribbled notes - see photo. I can't place the when or where (possibly Adelaide during a 'Festival' of Ideas) , but it doesn't matter, because the pathology is there in Australia or the UK or - my hunch - any other "advanced" Western "democracy." People get together for what could be... Continue Reading →
We are in what Leonard Cohen once sang of as "the Blizzard" - information, misinformation, disinformation coming at us at impossible velocity and size. To have any hope of making sense of any bit of it, we need speicalists who can communicate - "public intellectuals." This being a public intellectual is harder than it looks,... Continue Reading →
Dew does two things - well, more than that, but for me, today a) cold feet (shoes are a good invention b) makes club handles more slippery - but now manageable, thanks to a few weeks of experience and confidence. And Kylie? Well, spinning around... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1DWBKk5xHQ&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD I can now do short sequences of double spins... Continue Reading →
Heard this one on the Why Theory podcast. A MAGA-hat wearing guy goes into a bookshop. He says to the bookseller "I'm looking for a copy of the new book by Donald Trump about his immigration policy." The bookseller leans forward, looks him in the eye and says "Get the fuck out of here and... Continue Reading →
Today I got a tattoo. Mrs Hudson (not her real name, or title, in fact) has plenty - crows, beetles, angels of the apocalypse etc. Me? When my turn came, I went for a Keeling Curve. The lovely and steady-handed tattooist I went to (Deviant Ink, in Stone, Staffordshire) knew exactly what it was, and... Continue Reading →
Always with the stunt-headlining. Oi vey. So, this morning the Grauniad ran a piece based on some academic research about how climate action is more popular than most people think, with everyone underestimating other people's "support" for climate action. The scare quotes are there because, you know, if people gave that much of a damn,... Continue Reading →
The patch of green I juggle on is at the top of a t-junction on a relatively narrow and busy street. So, I am seen. It may be me being a narcissist (but an actual narcissist - as opposed to someone struggling with neurotic self-obsession - would not like to be seen failing so often:... Continue Reading →
This, from chapter 3 (on the 2019 election in the UK) of "Johnson at 10" by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, leapt out at me Brooks, like Levido, was an alumnus of [Lynton] Crosby’s consultancy and had worked with him on the 2019 Australian campaign. Attempting to replicate their antipodean successes too would be left-field... Continue Reading →
A few years ago, in a quarantine hotel in Adelaide, I "mastered" the basics of three ball juggling. It took me longer than it might have, if I had thought things through, been more methodical (story of my life) and had a tutor. Ho hum. At various points since I've gone through bursts of enthusiasm... Continue Reading →
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