I've not kept up with the mass of floods but this one reached deep lows. On the tragic death of Rob and Michele Reiner, by their son Nick 32, this is what Trump said: (Rob the remarkable film director, Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Stand by me, When Harry met Sally) "Trump took to social media… Continue reading Flood the zone –
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Heritage England The new US national security policy, does it have Russia in its cross hairs but Europe. Does it promote the rise of far right parties in Europe. The US considers European greatness an American problem. Cultivating resistance within Europe promoting far right. Trump wants to destroy European Union. Very worrying. The leader of… Continue reading View
Reith Lectures 2025 -Dutch historian Rutger Bregman
Act 1 - the monsters "The old world is dying the new world is struggling to begin. Now is the time of monsters" (Should I read Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibben? Think I'll stick to Evelyn Waugh) Today leaders of the shameless, the most culpable, the least scrupulous. eg USA -… Continue reading Reith Lectures 2025 -Dutch historian Rutger Bregman
Beginings and endings
I photographed the crib montage I created this weekend: out of the Smith Crisp box now almost disintegrated, out of the pig shed, where it is kept all year round, out of storage where it had been kept for years since packing up 35 Quebec Road, emerged a dozen or so clay figures, each wrapped… Continue reading Beginings and endings
Aldeburgh Doc Fest at 30 – 2025
Both Michael and I are of the vew that all the films are too long. We both sleep through moments and hope they are not the same moments when at the end we try to piece together the red line. We start in Row P, my first time being so far back as I am… Continue reading Aldeburgh Doc Fest at 30 – 2025
Covehithe
So many questions. Layers of time and geology. The recent high tides have dramatically changed the land/sea meeting, not only exposing more of the sandly/shingle cliff but depositing some slippery clay sand mix which it being high tide we were oblidged to walk on. We began our questions early on, as we trod nervously on… Continue reading Covehithe
Flood the Zone – Trump sues the BBC
It does seem unfair, the balance between the flood of untruths that come out of Trump and this singular one. It was a big singular one. It did influence me at the time: How can Trump incite the people to fight, I wondered at the time.
London recruits – activism in another land
Apartide defined: a system which told you who u could not fall in love with. So defined the eloquent life long activist whose activist life began in earnest when he was invited to be a London recruit to an anti apartide event in South Africa. Recruited as a young communist as were most of them… Continue reading London recruits – activism in another land
Kali in Kaliwood
Written by Caroline Way, to match the one she had written a few years ago here (LINK) I once loved a dogOr should I say — this dog loved me(She named the wood me) / We sat by the fireIsn’t it good in Kaliwood Rachel tells me to ‘stay’And says to me —‘I’m glad you’re… Continue reading Kali in Kaliwood
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