PART 1 Greetings from San Diego, the southernmost city of the newly cannabised Republic of California where I sit on a balcony overlooking a sea which, until yesterday, lurked beneath dirty cottonwool skies, grubby with unshed rain. There is…
What most people know about Dallas; this is where President Kennedy was killed by a sniper firing from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository – this building. GUNS The stereotype: Dallas is the hub of climate-change denying…
Today’s New York is full of pricks, spears, ice pyramids, and the chimneys of crematoria, poking their geometrical penises arrogantly skyward, in defiance of God and challenging him to bloody get on with Armageddon once and for all. In fact,…
Beaten into submission, they wait to board the BA flight 175 to New York and so do I. The hum of talk is soft, the lines are long. I will be amongst the last to board. There is something so…
Candidate Victoria and her glorious banner at Brentford Market The local elections are over. I had one of the lowest votes in history in Cranford (though it was three figures…) which I have to admit surprised me a little. Admittedly, as…
Vince Cable has launched into the Social Networks with tooth and claw and in Vincent’s case, the teeth may be a little rotten and the claws somewhat calcified, but the dear man does have a record of speaking the truth…
It took me a while to be Green. I’ve always been shades of pink you see- starting from the basic theory that all men are born equal, and the Blues (in the UK the Blues are the Tories) would never…
There were something like 54 comments to my blog in the last couple of months which I stored and ignored because I am a paranoid blogger who has heard far too many horror stories. There are the obvious selling spams,…
Winnie as I love to remember her: so beautiful, so serene and yet to experience bitterness and hatred And yet – there is a sense of embattlement in her eyes. It’s as if she has been resisting all her life….
The paragraph below suddenly appeared on my Facebook page. Perhaps I typed it: I seem to have unretired. Back to working in a High School. I had forgotten how many laughs per day teaching can provide! Brain engaged! The Teacher…