YEARLY ARCHIVE: 2021
Three Score and Ten
The early years When I was born in 1954, fresh from my warm-womb foetal purity The white supremacists still ruled the roost, still lynching with impunity And Senator McCarthy was still at his…
Alphabet Soup
Welcome to the letter A, an ambitious letter that makes new links I think of ‘Apeman’ by the incorrigible Kinks And ‘Abbey Road’, a Beatles classic that rarely shrinks Or ‘Alien 3’, Sigorney dodging…
Kitchen Table Ping
I’ve been carrying out a series of ping lessons via zoom over the latest lockdown. It’s not ideal, but as the old saying goes; ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. Despite the obvious technical limitations…
Compass is pointing in the right direction.
To be honest, I’ve always been rather dismissive of the Compass think tank, a left of centre grouping that I usually dismissed as Blairite. For a start, I didn’t like their indifferent attitude to Corbyn…
Covid in a Sick Nation
It may seem poor timing to polemicise on the causes of Britain’s horrendous death toll at the hands of the coronavirus. But many people in the UK and around the world are starting to debate…
Conspiracy
I’m drowning in a sea of conspiracies QAnon, 5G and much more And while shielding from a deadly old virus A conspiracy has crept in, right through my open back door.