Mr. Brown tried to lean on the bar in a manner he hoped indicated that this was something he did often and was entirely comfortable with. He had arrived early, far too early, and now in his nervousness had almost drunk the pint of bitter he had ordered. Just as he was wondering whether he could cope with a second, fortune smiled on him (sort of). Cyril Mason sauntered in through the doors and made a beeline.
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It just keeps getting more and more bizarre (and dangerous) this geopolitical stuff .
Don’t accept uncritically what we are being told about events unfolding in Iran.
Space used to be such an exciting place, full of promise and wonder, where the baddies were largely confined to science fiction. Now it’s become the location of dread and destruction with a narrative of ‘defence’ – no aggression to be seen here of course – that’s all down to the baddies.
BBC Radio Four 09.09.25.
It’s not really my cup of tea, not being religious and all that, but ….
What was all that about?
You would think that after 10 days or so this would be old news. Old news in the sense that we would have a reasonable understanding of what happened, what was agreed and what its significance was. But not a bit of it – it’s all confusion and opaqueness. Subsequently Trump has made some suggestions about what might have been agreed only for The Kremlin to respond by putting the record straight and reiterating for the umpteenth time Russia’s Special Military Operation objectives: Ukraine not to join NATO, Ukraine to be de-nazified, Crimea and the Donetsk Oblasts to recognised as Russian and for meaningful negotiations with NATO about the overall security architecture in Europe.
So what was the summit all about?
I normally don’t really know what to make of high end art – pictures or sculptures. Seems a bit beyond my intellectual pay grade and all that – unless I get an ‘in’, a clue to what it’s all about and about something that is of interest to me.
