Patrick Cockburn says it all
The UK will be increasingly be bound to the US
And to Trump.
July 27, 2019
July 25, 2019
Trump and Turbines
Leaving Aberdeen for the Shetlands
Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire estate is in the distance beyond the turbines.
Why does he complain?
Turbines off the Trump Estate
July 24, 2019
Boris Johnson – Prime MInister – What Shall We Do
The Prime Minister
with apologies to Roger McGough
I wanna be the Prime Minister
I wanna be the Prime Minister
Can I be the Prime Minister?
Can I? I can?
Promise? Promise?
Yippee I’m the Prime Minister
I’m the Prime Minister
OK what shall we do?
June 12, 2019
June 6, 2019
Macron and Trump
Macron or Trump – World Leaders
On looks: I know who I would turn to
Macron and Trump at Colleville-sur-Mer
June 1, 2019
McCain v Trump
Scathing but Correct – The Scotsman Editorial Saturday 1st June 2019
‘During this time, Trump avoided conscription several times because he was a student and once because of a “bone spur” in his foot. However, in 2015, Trump had the temerity to say McCain was “not a war hero” because he was captured, saying “I like people who weren’t captured”. …In contrast, at a 2008 presidential election rally, McCain defended Barack Obama after one of his own supporters claimed the Democrat was untrustworthy and an “Arab”. “No ma’am … he’s a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as President,” McCain said as the crowd voiced their surprise.’
‘In a parallel universe, The Scotsman would have been pleased to welcome President John McCain and it is his ethos, not Trump’s, that our politicians should embrace’
March 21, 2019
Two Prime Ministers: well one and one a spoiled brat
Jacinda Arden addressing the New Zealand Parliament: Thoughtful, Inspiring, Compassionate
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrC3O.XXpNce0gA8TQPxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw–?p=Jacinda+Arden+addressing+New+Zealand+Parliament&fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt#id=2&vid=9f43eeaae82eb40d6ffa95528fb0e59d&action=view
Theresa May: Testy, Preaching, throwing her toys out of the pram as a spoiled child.
New Zealand has welcomed all; the UK used to, but under May immigrants are anathema.
March 2, 2019
Make America Great. Dvorak was there long before Trump, when the US was Great.
The RSNO, last night, under conductor Gilbert Varga, gave a magnificent rendering of Dvorak’s New Word Symphony No 6 at the Usher Hall.
Paul Philbert on drums and the signature tune with Amy McKean on cor anglaise.
I wonder if Trump has ever spent time to listen to the symphony. Dvorak’s music conveys an entirely different vison of the US, than Trump would understand.
For a little more see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)
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