There's a scene early on in the film Midnight Cowboy. Young gorgeous Jon Voight is a hick in the big city (New York), from the middle of nowhere (Texas, iirc). He sees someone (a "bum") lying unconscious on the sidewalk and instinctively strides towards him to see what help he can offer. Then he looks... Continue Reading →
A few more clippings from "Dreams Die Hard" by the late David Harris. There are two lovely pen portrait about Bob Moses, and his thoughts on leadership - I will come to those another time. For now, by way of contrast, here's some various stuff about Allard Lowenstein, who clearly needed to be the "key"... Continue Reading →
I've been fascinated by the 1960s for a very long time. The first real 'kick' on this was, I think, in 1991, when I was into the late period, of 1968 to 1970. I was lucky enough then to do a great course at UC Santa Cruz, which broadened it out to include China and... Continue Reading →
You can read it here. And yes, I screengrabbed this below. Bugger #humblebrag, just straight up #brag
So, on 18 November 1979 the Sunday Times reported that "leaked Cabinet papers record the Government's efforts to 'reduce oversensitivity to environmental consideration'(The Sunday Times, 18 November 1979). " (Lowe and Morrison, 1984: 86) I don't have digital access to the Sunday Times, sadly. But I do have access to the Times. And on October... Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago I was doing some tutoring for The Brilliant Club in a school in Trafford. One of the things the students had to do was compare and contrast some poems. There was a Yeats one about young love in later years "When you are old", followed by Carol Ann Duffy's "Havisham".... Continue Reading →
This book didn't arrive yesterday. This book, that didn't arrive yesterday, was written by Jacky Gillott (more of her books haven't arrived, won't arrive). She was an up-and-coming novelist and essayist. She did the whole "Good Life" thing in the mid-1970s (this book is part of that genre. And I intend to read it alongside... Continue Reading →
How’s THAT for a click-bait headline, (albeit circa 2014)? You’re unlikely to read to the end of this, so I’ll spit out the tl;dr - It’s hubris, or pride, or arrogance, whatever you want to call it. Of COURSE it is also the wildly successful disinformation and delay campaigns run by the oil companies and... Continue Reading →
Quick post, because mad busy. Will talk about the prolier-than-thou exchange (thoroughly dispiriting) on Twitter another time. For now, I came up with this algorithm for whether to read articles that are telling us "there's still time/here's what we need to do blah blah LOOK AT ME I AM AN EXPERT/Celebrity" that appear with spiralling... Continue Reading →
Everyone I know (i.e. the people in my Twitter feed) is staring at colourful graphs about sea ice, or global average temperatures, or else sharing footage of Just Stop Oil protests (a real “ACTUP” vibe, btw, for anyone old enough to remember the late 1980s). Or they are sharing “the cat should wear a bell”... Continue Reading →
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