2021 Lockdown — Day 9 In the 1930s there was an epidemic raging throughout America and Europe killing and devastating hundreds of thousands. Western nations…
2021 Lockdown – Day 7
Fixing Stuff Last week I upgraded to fibre broadband. That gives me something like a 7 times improvement in speed and it costs me £1…
2021 Lockdown — Day 5
The Theatre of Crisis It’s generally acknowledged that 536 AD was the worst year in history and was a prelude to a thoroughly miserable decade.…
A Story of a Story
On Lockdown day 3 This is the 3rd day in my 2021 lockdown diary. Something shocking has happened. Not the storming of the Capitol Building…
Late Stages of Labour
A view from the inside I’m not a political analyst. In fact I’m not an expert of any kind. I’m not well read in political…
Biden - Old Problem - Old Solution
Old wine in old wineskins Please note: the religious references here are to illustrate the issue, not promote religion. Jesus’ parable of the wineskins is…
We Will Rise
From shallow graves We are sojourners in this foreign stateOne broken by mistrust, selfishness and greedAnd hateWe are the soldiers never trained for warMarshaled to…
