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Category Archives: Politics and related subjects
Mid Term Blues for Democrats as GOP turns US Red or does it?
Mid-Term for Blues Mid Term elections may mean a great deal. Generally in a two party system they have been taken to indicate the turning of a tide from one party towards the other. This was most certainly the case … Continue reading
Cues form as Miliband speaks….
Off the cuff and from the heart; or just off beat? I have watched most of the Ed Milliband’s major speeches . I watched last year’s to conference and shook my head sagely; I watched the year before and the … Continue reading
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UK General Election – II – Oh we do like to be beside the sea side…
Into the party conference season: The conferences of Trades Unions and Political once used to be the preserve of the English seaside. Blackpool and Brighton; Bournemouth and Scarborough; Eastbourne and Morecambe; Margate and Llandudno all played host. As the summer … Continue reading
Whitsuntide – second day…..
Veni, Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende: qui per diversitatem linguarum cunctarum, gentes in unitatem fidei congregasti, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. The Pentecost Dome of the Basilica of Saint Mark in Venice. Come, Holy … Continue reading
General Hysteria about immigration and the General Election
Immigration matters….. I best start by declaring an interest: I’m an irish immigrant. Although I’ve lived here in the UK since 1957 I’ve never acquired UK citizenship. You will note I do note use the phrase ‘British citizenship’ as, as … Continue reading
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12th Night – a season ends and a New Year begins
Twelfth Night – reflections of meanings lost and found I have found myself here at the end of this Christmas season much sooner than I expected… ….It is, perhaps sadly, one of Time’s neatest tricks that as we age time … Continue reading
JFK: 50th Anniversary, a considered reconsideration
John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917 -1963 O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, whilst bloody treason flourish’d over us. Mark Antony’s oration, Julius Ceasar, Act III, Scene ii … Continue reading
I Have a Little list or Grade II Listing in London Borough of Lambeth
The colours that you find inside Comrade Chyorniy’s mind…. There is nothing more incomprehensible than the mind of a bureaucrat. This is not my judgement but rather a paraphrase of Tolstoy’s famous judgement. In some ways it is refreshing to … Continue reading
World Weary?
The don’t knows don’t deserve a say; the do knows don’t serve Democracy. The cause of welfare reform is noble but like the fallen state of mankind the remedies offered by those who should know better fall somewhat shorter than … Continue reading
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Labour and labouring the point
My Membership of the Labour Party In 1970 as soon as I was able I joined the Labour Party. By then my mum Creena was a member of the party in Maidenhead. In 1972 mum stood for the local council … Continue reading