HOW IS YOUR SPANISH?

Mine isn’t great (or doesn’t exist!) but I had a request today for this writer and I couldn’t find anything with subtitles so here goes… Gabriel Garcia Marquez “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” “The only difference today between Liberals [...]

VERY BUSY

Unfortunately, I am very busy with other things for most of this week and I don’t think I will have time to do much writing. Therefore, I shall be posting some excellent short clips and pieces from various writers. Yesterday was Bertolt Brecht, today is Samuel Beckett. This short play is about 15 minutes altogether [...]

BERTOLT BRECHT

Some quotes… “It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.“ “No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.” “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” “ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has [...]

WANT TO BUY A TANK?

It is astonishingly easy to buy and sell tools for torture and other assorted weaponry. Please watch this amazing documentary in which some schoolkids become international arms dealers… THE AFTER SCHOOL ARMS CLUB

YOUR ANCESTORS WERE SHEEP

Mine were apes. Here is a little film (1 minute) I made on the subject. There is a major attack on science at the moment. Nonsense like ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’[1] is being passed off as a serious piece of work. Some people are eager to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon and believe it [...]

ORWELL’S POEMS

Not a lot of people have read the poems Orwell wrote. Here are two, and they are both good. GEORGE ORWELL – Ironic poem about prostitution When I was young and had no sense In far-off Mandalay I lost my heart to a Burmese girl As lovely as the day Her skin was gold, her [...]

APPROPRIATE?

Thanks to Mike at Born At the Crest of the Empire for this. Just a picture, does anyone else find something scarily appropriate about it?

SPIN

First published over at www.spinwatch.org Spin – Behind the Scenes Manipulation of Mainstream News Documentary by Brian Springer Review by Michael Greenwell I don’t often buy into all the hype at election time. The difference between the main political parties has narrowed so much that in the US in particular and in the UK to [...]

ADDITIONAL

In the Salmond is first minister post (2 below) I should have included this quote from Jack Straw that lets you see how they think… “historically England called the shots to achieve a union because the union was seen as a way, among other things, of amplifying England’s power worldwide. A broken-up United Kingdom would [...]

COMPETITION TIME

Another small post about our departing first minister. I was going to offer a thousand pounds for this but just in case I am wrong I will offer the change in my pocket. Can anyone tell me a single time in his years as first minister that he OUTSPOKENLY disagreed with bLIAR on a major [...]