Fed swans, ducks and, obvs, moorhens, including juvies. Listened to three podcasts. Notes on a Native Son (different writers on a Baldwin passage - excellent series). This one was Hisham Matar, choosing not a bit from a novel or essay but Baldwin on a talk show in May 1969. A must must listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_jufwQBSM The... Continue Reading →
Private Eye as essential resource: of opposition snark, KPMG and “the creatures outside….”
If you want to have a tolerably accurate picture of what is going on in the UK, well, it's a big job but I would start with a) Private Eye (fortnightly investigative journalism/satire/snark) b) the Financial Times (business newspaper, but not knuckle-dragging ideologues - try Times or Telegraph or the Hate Mail for that) and... Continue Reading →
Dead rats, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Trump – #canalyomp
I said to myself I'd at least blog every long yomp, if not all the podcasts I listened to. You would think I'd know myself better by now. But how else ya gonna get outa bed if you aren't riddled with self-delusion? Yesterday I left the house at about 0940. I was wearing a weighted... Continue Reading →
Podcast recommendations given and sought. Climate, energy, psychoanalysis, film noir etc
Have gotten back into the habit of long (3 to 4 hour plus) walks along the canal, feeding moorhens, ducks, swans and now even geese. There's only so much talking to himself a man can do (into a dictaphone), so podcasts have become the Way Forward. Below are some recommendations from me, but also I... Continue Reading →
Another Private Eye letter! Whoop, whoop!!
Validation!
Learning from Private Eye #001: incumbency privilege of planning over 10 years, FT greenwash
Private Eye is a UK publication that doesn't really have, to my knowledge, any exact replica elsewhere, at least in the English-speaking world (in France there's La Canard Enchaine, and to a lesser extent Charlie Hebdo). I didn't buy it in 1988 - I wouldn't have "got" it. By 1995 I was though, and have... Continue Reading →
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