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Is the Beeb Biased?
I’ve been trying to think of a way to show that often, when someone attacks the BBC or other broadcasters for not being impartial it’s really because it’s saying something they don’t want to hear and...
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True Lies.
Today I saw an example of a true lie. Every fact in the graphic above is true. The meaning given to those facts is false. This is government misinformation in action. It is deliberate. To begin with...
View ArticleWhat’s right for the Left?
I recommend Dave Middleton’s blog post Towards Peace and Justice about the recent initiative from Jeremy Corbyn to establish The Project For Peace and Justice. Like Dave I welcome this initiative. I...
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Vaccines, Covid and Anti-Vaxxers
I have just started reading Vaxxers. It is a brilliant book that tackles the anxiety that surrounds the rollout of the Covid vaccine programme. How do I know it is brilliant if I have only just...
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Access and Adventure in Lakeland
This is my entry to the Kendal Mountain Festival Open Mountain Competition. It was not selected so I am sharing it here. Background The county of Cumbria is not well served by public transport. The...
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Extreme Views: Cranes
Barrow’s cranes, like the yellow hammerhead crane, are gone. With a little imagination at least one of them could have been retained like the Titan Crane in Glasgow which is now a museum and a...
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The Seven Wonders of Barrow-in-Furness
Since Covid has made Staycations a necessity for most of us, why not visit Barrow-in-Furness. We have a unique cultural, historical, archaeological and ecological heritage. But you don’t want to know...
View ArticleA Birthday Poem
I wrote this poem yesterday. Today I am seventy. It is never too late. The inspiration came from a poetry workshop at Manchester Maggies on Thursday. Our usual leader, Clare Stuart had arranged for...
View ArticleHERB AND JUDY AND I
I catch a crowded train, lucky to get a seat, unlucky to be squashed into the company of two Americans who want to talk. I want to read. She catches the cover of my book, and we connect. She works in...
View ArticleA Sonnet for Gaza
Image by Maitane Azurmendi: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Hibu Abu Nada (1991-2023) was killed along with her son in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike on 20th October 2023. She...
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