Month: March 2026

  • Pithed again..

    Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. David Porter was at all the TF Much Ballrooms, he was at the Sunburys – in fact David was at everything that was going on in this town. I think that was perhaps what distinguished David from some of the other photographers of the era – he was a fan….

  • Dear Rupert

    .. from the ‘New York Post’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’, he runs controls six community newspaper groups. Internationally he controls Dow Jones, ‘Barron’s’ and ‘The Far Eastern Review’ amongst other news organisations and enterprises. But it is the media assets that are the jewels in the Murdoch empire crown, providing cash and increasing influence….

  • Capitalism

    .. been levelled and replaced by a housing estate. We’d played the gig, which was bizarre enough, with our performance being repeatedly interrupted by stinking trucks laden with doomed cattle driving in between us and the workers listening to us stony-faced in their blood-spattered work clothes, when we were asked by a union official if…

  • The truth..

    When I was much younger (which of necessity was a long, long time ago) these values and their importance were drummed into my impressionable skull by a vast array of the minions of the state from parents, grandparents, school, church and children’s literature. This brainwashing was both overt and covert but as an outcome of…

  • Mad Men

    It’s not that the female characters aren’t fleshed out either, but very few of them even attempt to challenge the male dominance that was an accepted part of life in the early sixties. However, they do get their own way by various ways and means, mostly sexually, an arena where the men positively flounder. As…