Thanks. I've followed her.
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In the UK there's a very popular program called Gogglebox (which is slang for television). The format is that a group of families from around the UK are filmed as they watch television. It's remarkably compelling, watching people watching TV. Anyway, I think the best measure of how people feel abou...
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The best way around the app is to carry your phone in a Faraday bag and switch of Bluetooth when you make a call. The flour thing is a problem in the UK too. Apparently, domestic flour is a tiny proportion of the market. Most flour is sold in huge commercial sacks and millers aren't easily able to ...
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My government still mistakes marketing for governance. They have no real interest in problems or solutions, only in maintaining a facade of success while avoiding either oversight or accountability. We still don't have enough PPE or ventilators. UK manufacturers are exporting both because the gover...
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I'm at the tail end of the boomers ( I was born in 1957) and I think of myself as one of Attlee's children. Clem Attlee was UK Prime Minister from 1945 - 1951. He gave us the NHS, Sick Pay, Unemployment Benefit, Pensions, free access to education, full employment in a mixed economy, a massive inve...
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I was raised with the saying: *The world is never changed by reasonable men". The world is often changed by indomitable women. If the arc of history bends towards justice it is because of all the people who refuse to be reasonable and accept things as they are and all the people with the imaginat...
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I said the other day that all Englands are fictional. I believe all Americas are fictional too. Let me give you the unflattering versions. My country, the UK, built its disproportionate wealth off trading slaves and taking resources from other countries by force. We went to war with China when they...
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Gaslighting seems to have become normal in the US and is being heavily pushed in the UK, so I'm sure the article is right about the push to go back to normal and to re-write history. But 'Americanism' is only normal for Americans and even then, I think it's only normal for people in the big cities...
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It's been raining for the past two days, which makes Lockdown feel more oppressive. Apart from escaping into books (Snake & Ladders and Buddy Reads are keeping me sane) I've been relearning dishes I used to cook back when I wasn't spending three to four nights a week in a hotel room. Yesterday, I m...
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