Amal is still trapped under the rubble and Israel reportedly deployed stun grenades to stop the Red Cross from reaching her.
This is terrifying and should outrage everyone everywhere.
Confederate Heritage Month: or as the rest of the world knows it Racist Losers Still Crying About It Month.
The small crisis I have every time I realise that the McGann movie is 30 years ago is mildly upsetting. I was 25. It seems like ten years ago.
I actually really, really want to see this. Which surprised me.
Give it a year then introduce flu onto an American aircraft carrier. Or into a foreign base.
It's interesting how we've become a society of cameras - our own and the state's - and social media so that, effectively, we've become our own Stasi. Sometimes it is a good thing. Sometimes not so good. I'm so glad I grew up before both those things were omnipresent. I just don't like the vibe.
I always wanted a secret headquarters for which I blame The Three Investigators series and Jupiter Jones in particular.
So glad Brentford have got rid of that shitty betting company sponsorship. I know they had to and I know that our owner made his money through betting but still we didn't have to have the most pathetic sounding betting company as a sponsor.
Fuck me that's going to end well.
Don't fly in the US.
I keep re-remembering that Andy Woodman, whose taken Bromley up again is an ex-Brentford keeper. Played 60+ games for us 1999-2001 when I was starting to go more regularly home and away.
As the news cycle speeds up we're forgetting things faster? But I suspect most people's versions of the past are built on what film/TV series/historical fiction books tell them. So, if a subject/person isn't interesting enough for those things it might as well be as if they never existed culturally.
Yeah, because allowing a disease to spread amongst large groups of people in the armed forces has never had a bad consequence in the history of the world has it?
Oh, hello Spanish flu. How the devil are you?
I've only ever read 'Testament of Youth'. I've never read any of Brittain's novels.
Apropos of something I'm listening to the end of that sense of 'we can change the world/we have changed to world' that was out there in the mid-late 60s upsets me more now than it has ever done.
Any MP calling someone a 'liar' in the House of Commons knows exactly what they're doing. I understand why the rule is there, I don't like the rule but an MP using it is looking for attention.
This whole Starmer situation is another in the list of many reasons I wouldn't become an MP. Just how much dignity are you willing to sacrifice to stay in power? At what point do you admit to yourself that you can't do the job? (And I think very few people can genuinely.)
I've had that on my potential TBR for years - via Vera Brittain - and I've never got around to it.
Rogue Trooper was one of my favourite parts of 2000 AD so I'm looking forward to this. Great cast.
I'll definitely be reading this. Does it have a UK publisher/release date?
In 1964, Groucho went to East Berlin with a group that included his radio show director Robert Dwan and his 16-year-old daughter Judith Dwan Hallet. They visited the village of Dornum, where his mother Minnie had been born. and discovered that all the Jewish graves there had been obliterated by the Nazis. Groucho hired a car with a chauffeur, and told the driver to take the group to the bunker where Adolf Hitler was said to have committed suicide. Wearing his trademark beret he climbed the debris and then launched himself, unsmiling, into a frenetic Charleston dance routine. The dance on Hitler's supposed grave lasted a couple of minutes. "Nobody applauded," Hallet recalled. "Nobody laughed."
Hey, it's Hitler's birthday.
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Finished reading this today. Excellent read. Karnow was reporting from Vietnam during the 50s + 60s and returned in 1981 and interviewed some North Vietnamese. It's really good on the complications of decision making but fundamentally it just made me think that Vietnam is why US is where it is now.
This is a reach and a half.
Now there might be an argument for the effects of terminal nostalgia on the rise of populism. But fundamental it is decades of the rich getting richer with less and less concern about who suffers in their wake. Just look at that Palantir 'manifesto'.
Glad to see it is finally here. Did Greggs ever get in touch?
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Roger Limb, Glynis Jones, Mark Ayres, and I were at the Music Producers Guild Awards last week, where we picked up the Pioneer award for the Radiophonic Workshop, past and present, alongside rolling credits of over eighty people connected with the workshop, headed by Delia Derbyshire and John Baker.
The two main political parties being unable to break out of the same 'managed decline' because one of them truly believes in right-wing madness and the other is frightened to upset the apple cart is the reason scumbags like Farage get a sniff of power.
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
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The way people who are being oppressed are supposed to not be angry about it is astonishing. White men rage against Star Trek being woke but women aren't supposed to be angry about the cult of sexual assault and violence that is a daily occurrence. We should all be fucking furious.
strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news