Yey! The Students Are Revolting Again.

Hello Good people who might come across this blog or have read it in the past… ( this post is still being edited!) Back in the seventies a common “joke” usually made by tittering Times readers was ” the students are revolting” as a comment on both their frequent protests and the state of their [...]

From the Sixties to the End of the Noughties..did it match up to expectations?

Hello Good People who read this blog I am listening to music over the headphones while I write this, to keep me focussed and calm,so I might as well start by sharing what I am listening to. Some English sixties folk, Sandy Denny with an acoustic home recorded demo version of Who Knows Where the [...]

Behind the Mask or Perfectionism leads to Carnage (+Satan Cowell)

Hello Good People who read this blog This is another personal rant written during a phase of insomnia due to my own troubled waters and smog over London city both keeping me awake. This is not about hippie counterculture but being one of the last surviving hippies living close to the roots of London’s alternative [...]

“Political Intelligence” versus sitting around to watch the world end.

Hello Good People who read this blog I make no apologies for this entry being political.  This is THE most important time to think about politics. I went on the Put People First G20 March on Saturday. I had such a great time. I joined the Oxfam group rather than march alone. I have done [...]

A (relatively peaceful) Revolution!

Hello Good people who read this blog. I am still here, excuse my absence due to hard work, change and constant illness. Today is both Maggie Thatcher’s birthday ( don’t ask me how I know this) and the death of Thatcher’s vision. I am not sure of what state of mind or coherence she is [...]