Worth having a look at the Blair Cottrell case decided in Melbourne yesterday if you have a moment and care about free speech.It does not matter that it occurred on the other side of the world. It does not matter that he was protesting about the building of a mosque in Bendigo. It does not… Continue reading First they came for Blair Cottrell, but I was not Blair Cottrell
Category: Not history
Looking for a new hobby?
There’s a Brit named Tom Jackson who buys picture postcards — mostly from the sixties and seventies — from garage sales, thrift shops and car boot events. He then puts the picture postcards into the ether via Facebook with just one line of the message included. He now has 40,000 followers, an exhibition at Gatwick… Continue reading Looking for a new hobby?
Operation Restore Arugula
What better than a salad lunch on a warm Spring day? As I prepared mine just now I was gratified to learn that the packet that contained the rocket salad proudly carried the logo telling me that the contents had been “honestly grown”. In this modern day, with the FBI, Interpol, European arrest warrants and the like,… Continue reading Operation Restore Arugula
The lunatic who stole Trump’s stationery
I am probably the last person on the planet to begin to binge watch the TV series about the New York agency industry, Mad Men, which is altogether strange as I met many of those who were prototypes for the series, from David Ogilvy on down. So I Googled some… and found this from Steve… Continue reading The lunatic who stole Trump’s stationery
Don’t remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with an axe
I bet that there were myriads that thought George Washington was a bad thing, that Lincoln was probably not American, that FDR sucked up to the Commies, or that Hillary wasn’t fitted to be President, but the “look at me, no, over here, look at me” crowd is, let’s face it, amorphously self-possessed in a… Continue reading Don’t remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with an axe
You’re not the boss of me, or are you?
Has not the British Constitution changed so much since the Act of Parliament allowing admittance into the European Common Market in 1972 that some old rules cease to have application — and the myth of Parliamentary sovereignty is one? EU sovereignty trumping the country’s own sovereignties has been in place in law long enough to… Continue reading You’re not the boss of me, or are you?
Even the bad times are good
An irony of the lust for content to fill up hours of broadcast, megabytes of digital and pages of newsprint, is that one bad thing ‘done good’ for a Presidential candidate, while a good thing ‘done bad’ for the other. The bad thing? Thoughts of an assassination. Nothing makes you look more Presidential — like Ronald Reagan resurrected… Continue reading Even the bad times are good
Mia constitutional crisis e sua constitutional crisis
We are spectators as some settled precepts of democracy come unglued. It is happening in the two countries where you’d bet the farm it would not have happened. Might it be that old, comforting representative democracy is just town crier in a Twitter age? There is not much to add about the US where the FBI —… Continue reading Mia constitutional crisis e sua constitutional crisis