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New MI6 head Blaise Metreweli could not be made up
x Blaise Florence Metreweli CMG (born 30 July 1977) is a British civil servant, currently Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), following the retirement of Sir Richard Moore. She is the first female chief of MI6. Metreweli’s father, Constantine … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, war, Whistleblower Lit
Tagged Blaise Metreweli, MI6, Nazi legacy, Ukraine
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Christmas Gloom
x MOBILITY * Unable to decide quite where to be, I’m based in the car this Christmas, Travelling from relation to relation. Think of me As an eighty horse-power snail Whose shell goes wherever it’s expected. In between, I make … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, art, Politics
Tagged Books for Christmas, homelessness, poetry, Politics, Zelensky starmer macron merz
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The Oligarch
x The deep artist stumbles backwards, backwards into a past That can’t be seen. Because that artist faces the other way, Anticipating horrors that progress would inflict upon us all, As evidenced by the tractors that have come to block … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics, The Runiad
Tagged Anthony Howell, art, poetry, the oligarch, The Runiad
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Take the Case of Mrs C.
Story worthy of the wife of Bath: What do women want? Well, take the case of Mrs C. She and Bill come to mind, for me. If that was your own White House, this is my own war. I can … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Politics, war
Tagged Hillary Clinton, poetry and politics, Politics
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Starmer’s Sinister Rise to Power
Ash Sarker interviews Paul Holden Tremendous new book by Paul Holden. The Fraud is a meticulously researched account of the political machinations at the heart of the Labour Party currently ruling Britain. And Colonel Doug Macgregor brilliantly analyses just where … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Whistleblower Lit
Tagged Ash Sarker, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Paul Holden, The Fraud
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Dunera Exhibition in the Library of New South Wales
Hugely impressed with the Library of New South Wales catalogue to the exhibition about the internment camp in Hay, Australia where my father and other jews were interned as “enemy aliens” for the first years of WW2. My father kept … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorised
Tagged Dunera, Eli Howell, enemy aliens, internment camp, Library of New South Wales, my father
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Terror in the Sudan
Mass murder has been going on in the Sudan for years. It just got worse.
The Great Cheese Riot
x THE GREAT CHEESE RIOT x Boston had its Tea Party. What of the Great Cheese Riot? Was it something to keep quiet about, happening as it did In 1766 at Nottingham’s annual Goose Fair Where you were free to … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics
Tagged Anthony Howell, civil unrest, Great Cheese Riot, Nottingham, poetry
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The Warrior
x I am not suffering, me, from post-traumatic stress disorder. There is a reason for what we do. Their wives have weaponised Their wombs. Our problem is our democracy. We call it mowing the lawn, think of it as a … Continue reading