Moorhens eh, donchajustloveem? Well, I do, and do a most-days 90 minute round-trip walk along a canal towpath, throwing them aquatic bird food. This gives me the opportunity to both narrate stuff into a voice-recorder and also listen to podcasts. I will do a proper "these are the podcasts I currently find myself coming back... Continue Reading →
Viz Vocabulation – “scrolletariat”
So, a few things about me: I have had letters published in the London Review of Books, Private Eye, the Financial Times, the Guardian, various lefty publications (New Internationalist, Peace News (RIP) etc). And in Viz. Viz, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure is an "adult" (scatalogical etc rather than pornographic) magazine,... Continue Reading →
Juggling: “whoop, whoop – 3 club doubles!” and future plans
Finally the dam broke, the straw rendered the camel paralysed etc - after weeks of regular (if not focussed enough - see below) practice, I can now throw clubs for double-spins- breakthrough came a couple of days ago. This is a Big Deal because most of the tricks you need for club juggling (three or... Continue Reading →
The real deal – votes, jobs and demopatriarchy
When the Great Barrier Reef of Australia wasn’t obviously dead - 10 to 15 years ago - there were fierce battles between various factions of Queensland (and global) business sectors over what needed to happen. The mining industry, under scrutiny not just for the emissions from all the coal burnt but also the danger posed... Continue Reading →
Juggling: Soooo close
This is taking much longer than I thought it would. Probably longer than it should. Yes, I am more diligent now with warm-ups, and drills, but still... Anyhoo, can now juggle the clubs with lots of double spins from either hand. Still haven't got to ALL of them being double spins without me quickly losing... Continue Reading →
“The systems all flicker” – a limerick
It’s not climate or covid, or “both” But a blast past the limits to growth The systems all flicker The “leaders” just bicker And repeat their grow-tesque kind of oath. On flickering - see this from Monbiot, October 2023.
Limerick about everything “falling apart” (for Pete Hegseth)
Pete Hegseth, the DUI hire, this one's for you. This endless complaint on "declining" Is often no more than mere whining About white men displaced From previously-placed Positions of lazy reclining
False consciousness, left and right (a limerick)
Limericks, quatrains and haiku are coming. For, well, reasons. The Kool-Aid some gladly imbibeAs the price of joining the tribeThey might be left blindedThey're not all that mindedSo deep is their ache for a "vibe" (clean limericks are such a letdown!) Marc Hudson, who has never ever believed something ridiculous because it was conveient or... Continue Reading →
Letters in the FT: On Henry Ford, competitive consumption and our doom
IMO, the only two national UK daily newspapers worthy of your close attention are the Financial Times and the Morning Star. I've yet to have a letter in the Star, but I am now in double figures in the pink'un... Here's the latest. I didn't mention positional goods because of space. History already provides a... Continue Reading →
Of Tony Blair, the struggle against power and doubting Thomas
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 →
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