If we now have to distinguish between true and fake art, in the same way as fake news, life is really beginning to feel like a lottery. It’s one thing having doubts about the validity of news items appearing on Facebook, but if you cannot trust Sotheby’s, then who can you trust? One thing’s for […]
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Death In The Family – Falling Into The Abyss Of Love, Distress, And Freedom
Following my father’s death, in 2012, I felt no grief because I had thought about his passing away for years, analysing the feelings I would have and coping with them. Was it anticipatory grief, without the symptoms? Was it a sense of detachment from my parents? Was I challenging moral standards, where grieving death is the […]
Read All About It (1)
Read All About It – A light-hearted look at news that is either fake, or futile Theresa May Diagnosed With “Hooping Cough” Having suffered an acute bout of cough, at last year’s Conservative Party Conference, Theresa May was seen to involuntarily dance her way to the podium, at this year’s conference, in […]
Brett Kavanaugh – Carry On… Lying In America
It’s an impossible position for sexually abused women to be in. Either they keep quiet about something that happened years ago because men won’t believe them, or they report the abuse straight away so that men have the opportunity not to believe them, at the time of the attack. Not forgetting the fact that many […]
When Democracy Is Bullied By… Democracy
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Too much democracy can create its own special type of tyranny.[/perfectpullquote] Some time ago I wrote a post entitled, “Democracy menaced by…democracy,” concerning what I believe are the dangers of holding a referendum in a parliamentary democracy. With March 29th 2019 fast approaching, and an EU/UK deal far […]
Brexit Musings (30) – Never Read The Morning Newspaper Before Breakfast
It’s just so tough getting up, in the morning. One thing I never do before, during, or straight after breakfast, is take a glance at newspaper headlines on my tablet. That would really put me in a bad mood. The EU leaders who assembled in the beautiful Austrian town of Salzburg, should have done the same. […]
When Progressive Rock Meets Progressive Politics
As we made our way to the concert hall, not a single one of us under the age of 55, I didn’t really know what to expect from a progressive rock band that I last saw at the Hammersmith Odeon, in 1981. Progressive rock is rather like progressive politics. It’s complicated, sometimes pretentious, and even […]
Brexit Musings (28) – “There’s No Deal Like No-Deal!”
It’s not only the heavens that run out of water, in the summer, the Brexit negotiations also seem to be running dry. At least with the heavens, we can hope for rain. For the Brexit deal, it seems that the best that the Brexiteers will get is two doses of “nothing at all.” Why two […]
Britse Burgers Na Brexit
Gelukkig heb ik ook de Franse nationaliteit en heb vorig jaar een Frans paspoort kunnen krijgen. Maar mijn tandheelkunde diploma is wel uit het VK, en zonder akkoord wat gebeurt ermee? En wat gebeurt met het snel gevonden akkoord van december 2017? Niks waarschijnlijk, maar… De Brexit en de […]
Yes, Prime Minister – Jacob Rees-Mogg: Clown Fish Or Great White Shark?
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s comments on just about everything – from the inevitable Brexit, his hatred of anything remotely gay, to the acceptance of adultery – contain an acrid mix of intellect and populism. In contrast to Donald Trump, whose lack of knowledge concerning so many world matters makes him hard to be taken seriously, Rees-Mogg mixes […]