Oh, Happy Days!
April 2024 is not a happy time in the world Gaza and its people are being bombed and starved out of existence1, the money pit of AUKUS is consuming our children’s wealth before they even earnt it2, the wealth gap between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of us has been turbo-charged 3 and here […]
A Scandal to the Whole Human Family
This year marks the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima (6 August) and Nagasaki (9 August). A quarter of a million people instantly killed. Rather than those events leading us to reflect and give up our obsession with weapons and war, we have, since then, accelerated our search for means to kill […]
On a back street in Old Town Linz, the day after visiting Dachau
23 June 2026 I – Linz During a European heatwave, early morning is a good time to be out on the streets, before the sun is too high in the sky. This morning, that was my plan; to explore the backstreets of Linz and the Castle, before it was just too hot to be out […]
My Ever Changing Moods
I 1984 was a big year for me. I turned 20. I was seriously in love for the first time in my life (at least with someone who loved me back – incidentally, 1984 was the year Billy Bragg released “Brewing Up with Billy Bragg” which had the great song “The Saturday Boy” and the […]
Negotiating Peace in the Middle East
The Middle East has been plagued with war, strife and chaos for millennia. On a simplistic level, there have been 3 main causes: Think of recent comments (May, 2026) by “Atara”, a Texan US/Israeli “settler” (aka self-entitled, genocidal nutbar) walking through occupied East Jerusalem with her assembled, flag waving cohort, chanting “Leave or we will […]
Agreement to Mediate
AGREEMENT TO MEDIATE BETWEEN **** AND **** (hereafter referred to collectively as “the parties”) The mediator The Mediation Process and, further, the parties understand and agree that they will obtain legal advice solely from their legal representatives retained for the purpose of the mediation and, to that end, shall have such opportunity as they desire […]
Free Nelson Mandela
In 1984 The Special A.K.A released “Free Nelson Mandela”. Jerry Dammers had written the song as an anti-apartheid protest. The single followed the anti-racist message of the single, “Racist Friend”, released a year earlier, (a song I have quoted in previous posts and especially by reference to its lyric “If you have a racist friend, […]
Who are the deranged scumbags killing innocent people all over the world?
On 13 March 2026, the Satsuma Baby declared that “These deranged scumbags have been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years”. He then added “I am killing them. What a great honour it is to kill them”. Well, of course, the Satsuma Baby isn’t killing anyone himself. No, the bone spurs that […]
Remember the General Belgrano?
In a different worldin 1982the empire of the Britishwas defendedby sinking the General Belgranoin International waters8,000 miles away from England320 dead Fast forward to 2026a different world againthe brutality of the Americansis demonstratedby sinking the Iris Denain International waters8,000 miles away from Washington140 dead Both sunk by nuclear submarinesa long way from their homeson the […]
The existential threat of children
“Bombs will be dropping everywhere”declares the satsuma baby.Violence is necessary to “address an existential threat”declares butcher Bibi.While both are safe aboard their planes,where they cannot be harmed,others willingly doing their dirty work ofkilling on demand. The existential threat is children,or at least so you would think,as Israel and America bomb the Sharjareh Tayyebeh Girls Elementary […]
G.A.R.I and Crustifarianism
Thank god for AI! Now that’s something you don’t hear people say very often. To be honest, it’s probably not something you’ll hear me say again. Each day brings a new caution of the existential threat of AI. And some of them are so real. The ability to not only manipulate words, images and videos […]