While Public Services rush towards the vortex of contracts, profits, bonuses & dividends - who stands to win? Not me Gov!
Ann’s tragic testimony
Ann spent some thirty years helping the homeless ...getting them medical and psychiatric help, helping with food runs, collecting furniture for them, fighting the local council or the courts on their behalf. We failed her, and now she's dead. My brother knew Ann because her house was opposite the place where a group of school … Continue reading Ann’s tragic testimony
1984?
I've just seen a review of a book about George Orwell and how he wrote 1984. My own take on it has changed over the years. I used to think it was great but now I think it is absolute rubbish! How could he have got the year so badly wrong?
Lycra Louts
* Well, we’ve had a few days of bright weather in this neck of the woods and, just like the crocuses, the daffodils and the bluebells, the season’s crop of gaily coloured cyclists have been pushing their way out onto our roadsides. I've done my share As a kid I was cycle mad and I'm … Continue reading Lycra Louts
I don’t want to live in Austeria!
**** I don’t want the UK to fragment, not because of any great love of its badly-frayed institutions, but because I’m afraid of becoming an isolated outpost of “The Free World” as envisaged by great global corporations and the states that spawned them. Donald Trump may imagine that he is “The Leader of The Free … Continue reading I don’t want to live in Austeria!
The Journey begins
I’m a Londoner by birth but a Northerner by inclination and I like to think that the last seventeen years or so spent in Yorkshire has put a bit of millstone grit into my softish southern ways. I’ve been around for over 70 years and I’ve seen a lot of change. Much of it has … Continue reading The Journey begins
Conveyancing – the profession of no discernible movement
I read Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins a few years ago and it had a truly odd cast that included a talking and walking spoon, a dirty sock, a can of beans, and most significantly for me, a mysterious performance artist known as Turn Around Norman. His art was to rotate so slowly … Continue reading Conveyancing – the profession of no discernible movement