Beaucoup d’entre vous, comme moi, sont coupables. Nous sommes coupables d’avoir visité une ville malade mais belle. Nous avons été au chevet d’une patiente mourante et n’avons rien fait pour la guérir de sa maladie. Elle s’éloigne lentement, sans bruit, acceptant que son destin soit scellé. Elle répond au nom de Venise et reste, malgré […]
Society
Dutch “Zwarte Piet” – An Insult To Global Warming
Having reaped the success of my last two posts on this more than delicate subject, this could be the final instalment of a rather tedious trilogy. Why tedious, I hear you scream. The answer is quite simple – to coin a famous phrase, it’s much ado about nothing. But the news is that this time […]
Why Supermarkets Are Getting Into Your Heads
There are two things missing in supermarkets – a giant clock that tells how much time we have wasted and an escape route. It must be old age creeping in before it’s due, but I’m finding more and more reasons to moan about things. And I’m not just referring to all the […]
Vins Au Féminin – Que Les Hommes Aillent Se Faire Boire!
Ne vous méprenez pas. J’aime et respecte les femmes et il ne pourrait en être autrement, ma propre mère est une femme. Mais je dois admettre que mon épouse a un penchant pour les vins blancs doux ou les rosés, et cela m’agace. Cela aurait pu être bien pire pour Colombelle, notre petit […]
Sexism And Wine – When Colombelle Meets Adam
It could have been much worse for Colombelle, our sweet little white wine tasting of exotic fruit and wild flowers. Instead of meeting up with Adam, a respectable red, she could have suffered the displeasure of having to pass the best part of the evening with an Arrogant Frog. Discrimination starts in the vineyards, […]
Le Sac À Main De Sa Gracieuse Majesté
Cet article va être sexiste et … court. Ayant vu une photo de la reine d’Angleterre dans un journal Londonien haut de gamme, je me pose la question existentielle suivante: que contient son sac à main? J’avoue que j’avais l’habitude de me promener dans la rue avec mon propre sac à main – un sac […]
Silly Old Bag!!
This post is going to be sexist and…short. Having seen a picture of The Queen in an upmarket newspaper, I ask myself the following existential question – what the hell does she carry in her handbag? I admit that I used to walk around the street with my own personal handbag – a doggy bag […]
Archimedes’ Principle, The Floating Border And Brexit
It is said that Greek legend Archimedes of Syracuse stepped into a bath and discovered a principle – the buoyant force on an object submerged in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by that object. More than 2000 years later, the DUP leader Arlene Foster has just discovered […]
Is It Alt-Right To Be A Leftie? – Polarisation In Politics
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 […]
Greta Thunberg And The Climate Change Debate
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 […]