Issue 105

..election campaign characterised by profound shallowness and intellectual mediocrity by both political parties and the media, I wrote …..“Many years ago I recollect seeing in scratchy black and white an interview between Walter Cronkite and an aging Dean Acheson who had been the Secretary of State in the Truman Administration. He had played a central…

.. 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…

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Dick’s Toolbox cont. .. been blind-sided by A V Jennings. I realise that we are rather recently evolved creatures of imperfect knowledge, but I think that we should be able to do better in our beliefs than be extended versions of the followers of Joanna Southcott. This worthy lady passed away in 1814 after announcing…

.. environment. I suppose that means they’ve dated. Beatles’ songs not only define an era, (‘60s and early ‘70s), but they are in turn defined by that era, as well as by their geographical and cultural location. As a schoolboy I can remember practising Beatles’ songs at Compton Tothill’s place and Compton’s father querying why…

..whip like appendages slaying the peaceful denizens as they listen to the passing traffic in the early morn. They only thing that I am sure of is that they will be flowers. In fact there are a lot of surprises at the moment as one forgets where one has planted bulbs and tubers and, at…