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A week in the Lakes planned long ago, for both of us to write, walk and read, after a far too busy time in Suffolk. Michael found a cottage and booked it, or as it once was in common parlance, Thomas Cooked it, which will soon have no meaning - it has just gone bust … Continue reading Lakes to write for a week

"At a deep level, the language of climate denialism is tied up with a form of masculine identity predicated on modern industrial capitalism – specifically, the Promethean idea of the conquest of nature by man, in a world especially made for men. By attacking industrial capitalism, and its ethos of politics as usual, Thunberg is… Continue reading Geeta Thumberg

What a day in politics. With Lady Hale as the spokesman (spider broach very evident), the unanimous decision of the 11 supreme court judges was that the Prorogue was unlawful: “This court has … concluded that the prime minister’s advice to Her Majesty [ to suspend parliament] was unlawful, void and of no effect. This… Continue reading Prorogue unlawful, Supreme court judges, Spiders, and Impeachment

Wissett - in search of the Woodwose Rupert's Church Bike Ride begins Uggershall Church   Church No 2?   Westhall?

I am out of kilter with my tribe.Dare I say it -  They are wrong!At least a different viewNot  kind enough to includeOne who suffers. So excludeHer from our tribe of book readersIn Halesworth library.Furious I write my view.Unpick, form argument, stand on high horseFairly I interpret their pointsCounter all. Draw out with simile.Use metaphors… Continue reading With Dean and Michael

Ten Reasons Why We Must Leave the EU Adam Handy. When I recently told a colleague that I want the UK to leave the EU, she expressed considerable dismay that someone of my background - mixed-race, working class, comprehensive education - was lining up with far-right racists. Such a misguided view of the people who… Continue reading 10 Reaons to Leave

Here 98 reasons why we should remain from https://smallbusinessprices.co.uk/remain-eu/ Membership of the world’s largest trading bloc with over 500 million consumers, representing 23% of global GDP The UK has greater global influence as a member of the EU The EU provides a counterweight to the global power of the US, Russia and China With Trump… Continue reading 98 Reasons to Remain

Inspired by Greta Thunberg, on Friday, the nations of the world rose up and demonstrated in the streets, the importance of climate change and why we must act now. The newspaers in Patricks Newsagent in Haleswoth had this on their front covers Daily Mail - Broadcaster John Humphrys savages bias at the BBC as he… Continue reading The importance of Climate Change measured

'Why exactly are we going to Flixton today? Michael asked. The whole venture of Heligoland 39 is a bit of a mystery to me, and this is no exception. Why we are remembering a infamous disastrous phoney war battle of ww2, in which far too many died. Although at the first gathering at Ely cathedral,… Continue reading Richard Kellett at Flixton