Reading Time: 5 minutes I don’t know whether it was a compliment or an insult but someone in the blue wastelands of Facebook called one of my posts, “a leftist rant.” Now then, I’ve been labelled for life and I must find out why and what it means. A “leftie,” moi? I admit that when I was at the tender […]
Month: October 2019
Film Review: “Skybound” – Such A Shame They Weren’t Grounded
Reading Time: 3 minutes Skybound (2017) Director: Alex Tavakoli There are few airplanes that I wish to be indefinitely grounded, but the private jet appearing in the blockbuster movie Skybound is certainly one of them. If only ground control had checked the acting skills of the pilots and the security settings of the script, the movie would never […]
Greta Thunberg And The Climate Change Debate
Reading Time: 4 minutes On October 10 an interesting podcast was published on UncommonGroundMedia, analysing, “the validity of the criticisms by people who acknowledge climate change as a problem, and environmental activism as desirable, but are nevertheless vehemently critical of Greta on various grounds, including her youth, her white identity, and the perception of her as a puppet.” On […]
In America We Trust – Trump’s Irresponsible Foreign Policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The American author Ethel Watts Mumford is quoted as saying, “God gives us our relatives. Thank God we can choose our friends.” I suppose the same can be said about presidents. We have the good fortune to be able to democratically elect our leaders and get rid of them if need be. It can be […]
Lord Lilley’s Remarkable Comment – France Would Reject A Corsica Backstop
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lord Peter Lilley’s comments, on the BBC’s Newsnight programme, cast serious doubts as to whether politicians supporting Brexit really understand what is going on, especially concerning Northern Ireland. On the subject of the Irish backstop, he suggested that if France were to leave the EU, the beautiful island of Corsica would not tolerate a border […]
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The Day Theresa May Insulted My Identity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Never underestimate the power of words because their psychological impact can be quite disturbing. The day after the EU referendum I felt, like many, that my whole world had changed. Having been born in the UK where I obtained my professional qualification, moved to France in 1984 and living in the Netherlands since 1999, my […]
ROYAUME-UNI: Les Revenants – La Politique Sombre de Boris Johnson
Reading Time: 3 minutes Le conseil de Boris Johnson au parlement britannique sur la meilleure façon de rendre hommage Jo Cox est tout simplement honteux. Jo Cox, députée du Labour, a été brutalement assassinée lors de la campagne référendaire de 2016, par un fasciste dérangé qui cria “La Grande-Bretagne d’abord” lors de l’attaque. Pour un homme aussi puissant, Boris […]
Populism In Manchester
Reading Time: 3 minutes Boris Johnson was simply being himself at the Conservative party conference in Manchester. Full of energy and wild metaphors, he captured an already captive audience, sent Jeremy Corbyn into orbit and got Brexit done. All this, and more, with a panache that Cyrano de Bergerac would have been proud of and a sense of optimism […]
The Vision (I) – The Violet Light
Reading Time: 6 minutes Mesmerised by a violet vision, I stopped to gaze at the patch of sky whose power I could feel from the roadside. I clutched at my heart but felt no beat, and wondered what enchanted forces had brought me here, what mellow sounds had enticed me. But there were no sounds, not even whispers, and […]