Enough Already! Riots in London August 2011

Hello Good People who read this blog…. ( this was written between around 10pm and 2 a.m.on the night of the London-wide riots) If you are like me, living in London, what a night! I am in a relatively peaceful area but there’s been a strong smell of smoke coming into my living room since [...]

A tragic day for youth…

Hello Good People who read this blog… It’s not all the media coverage of corrupt politicians, police, and dodgy journalism that inspires me to write as so many others were already deluging us with commentaries on this. It’s the tragic events in Norway, the bomb blast in Oslo but in particular so many young people [...]

Media coverage of strike…

Hello Good People who read this blog…. I just want to write a little thing,because I am so furious and shocked about the media coverage on the imminent strike in the UK for people working in  public services. I just saw that great educationalist, role model for good behaviour and well-known feminist, James Whale ( [...]

Psychic Unrest: Forces Defending Human Rights and Forces of Destruction.

I saw a woman around my age who was standing on her own behind me, she was holding up a notepad on which she had simply written in biro :” Parents Against Student Debt”.

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 [...]

Guilfest 2009 delayed review of a mishmash festival

Entering into the main festival site was always a bit like going into a strange concentration camp with no human rights or freedoms but with lots of good music and where you could still smoke at a live gig.

The Police harasses some terribly nice middle-class white English people in possession of terrorist crayons.

Hello Good People who read this blog ( this is a revised version of earlier entries. I do this sometimes when I think of extra things…sorry if it is irritating) To begin some more meditative music to generate peace in the world I forgot how completely amazing this piece of music was until  I just [...]

You Can’t Kill The Spirit (but we have!)

It’s hard to find anyone under forty in London who is not totally apathetic about fighting the system to make this world a free place where individuals can do something positive and feel they have some basic control over their lives.