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Monthly Archives: September 2014
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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The stamp of authority – Elizabeth I – a succession of questions
Myths and history are often so interwoven we are not even aware there is a distinction between the two…… Elizabeth I is associated with two adjectives – golden and virgin. Hers was a Golden Age; its argos perhaps the Golden … 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
Autumn’s Centennial Anniversaries 1914 – 2014
The Fall Back position: In this September 1914 all is very far from quiet on the Western Front. Indeed there’s yet no Western front to properly speak of. Instead the entire French army has fallen back and the British expeditionary … Continue reading
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Our Serial Neglect about Serial Systemic Abuse in Society.
The half-truth weighed in the scales of abuse is always found wanting…… Were the events of the last week to have appeared in a Dicken’s novel there would have been a greater chance of a more meaningful public response. Dickens … Continue reading
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Great War and Greater arguments
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis….. The Requiem Mass is said for the dead. It takes its name from the opening lines of the first prayer of this Mass – the Introit. The Requiem had long been … Continue reading
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