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It’s interesting that the irony is lost in this pivot to a genocide in South Africa. The only other country in the world, apart from Israel which was ...

I am reminded of the story which went around the world within a few hours, in outrage, of 40 beheaded babies. I see now, so anyone who doesn’t apologi...

So you condemn the Israeli government then?

Now that the genocide is in full flow and there is an acute crisis in which 14,000 babies could die in the next 48 hours*. Will Donald Trump act, or t...

I was just joking and the other guys are being very silly.

It’s Hanover’s definition of art.

I posted some a few years back. But don’t have an image hosting account at the moment. So those images will be blank now. I’ll look into starting a ne...

Many artists are not interested in making money. They do it because they like to do it. Myself included.

Yes, art devouring itself. But this leaves the definition of what constitutes art meaningless, useless. For example, I have just created a work of art...

Ahh, but I was talking of a corruption of, a hijacking’s of what constitutes art, by an elite. If someone simply forgets that they were corrupted, the...

Then for you it isn’t art anymore. It was only art while you were thinking of it as art.

Yes, art became corrupted by the artist. It was what they deemed it was and no one was allowed to disagree, because they must have failed to understan...

Post modernism in art took the definition beyond that point. Now something is art if someone says it’s art (or states that anything I point at is art ...

Something becomes art the moment someone points to it as art. The only way it can relinquish it’s status as art there after is if someone who doesn’t ...

What? If Trump want’s to stop these two wars all he has to do is freeze military aid to Isreal and threaten Putin with serious action on blocking oil ...

A pint of tea was mainly in the working class areas of West Yorkshire. The mill towns, my grandparents both worked in the mills. A step up for my gran...

No, hot milky tea. It would be Sunday lunch, with a large joint of beef, topside, boiled potatoes and carrots. A can of peas heated on the stove, stil...

I spent an evening in a hotel room in Athens during the Greek financial crisis. While trying to find something to watch on the TV, I found a Channel d...

My grandad on my fathers side would have pint of tea with every meal. As a child I remember being handed a pint mug of tea, as they were passed round ...

It will be interesting to see if Trump is ok with this amount of blood on his hands. I doubt he expected that he would have to play a role in two geno...

Now is the time act, let’s see if Trump will act to prevent a genocide when he has been given full warning. If he fails to act, he will have blood on ...

Now is the time act, let’s see if Trump will act to prevent a genocide when he has been given full warning. If he fails to act, he will have blood on ...

Still we will continue to ask the question, what is real? With good reason and what is real will continue to slap us in the face, or stare back at us ...

You parroting gutter press again. Won’t you ever learn.

I also have some sympathy with this, but I suppose I lend more weight to ideas that the external world is more external than that and has an existence...

You seem to have smuggled in the concept of substance here. Does substance describe a thing, something that has objective existence? Or is substance a...

That’s someone trying to formulate a logical language that explains things about time. The problem with logic is it can be difficult to relate it to t...

Hollywood went to crap 30, or 40 years ago. This is just the icing on the cake.

I said developments. Also there are actions, like the U.S. military ceasing it’s delivery of promised arms to Ukraine as a bargaining chip in negotiat...

Straw man then, as I wasn’t talking about what some politicians said.

And some things change and some things don’t.

I was talking about developments. Developments are more concrete than words from individuals. They are changes in status agreed on by large numbers of...

My conclusion is based on two ruptures of conditions in the status of EU member states. Ruptures which cannot be reversed as the conditions which were...

Also that political instability in the US and the rise of Trump has weakened the NATO alliance and brought into question it’s existence and commitment...

Europe has now been weaned off the U.S. teat. It won’t be going back in this generation. Although the U.S. will play a brotherly role. The Ukraine war...

It’s one step closer to his Nobel Peace prize. Now all he has to do is give Russia “a good deal” and it’s over the line.

And meanwhile, we can see up to 2 million people on our TV, if we are lucky enough to have access to an impartial news channel, starve to death (in Ga...

You don’t reform the constitution while a despotic populist is in power. We learnt that in the U.K. with Boris Johnson. In his attempts to strong arm ...

Europe has no choice, they will get into a shooting war with Russia, unless they can assist Ukraine to defeat Russia in the meantime. I’m wondering wh...

Then they just stop firing and sit where they are. Or is Ukraine the aggressor?

They were historically volatile. Countries like Argentina and Venezuela are what I was thinking of. The thing about stagflation, is it is different in...

That’s worse than stagflation, it’s starting to sound like a South American economy.

Well in a nutshell, all the measures of success in an economy going in the wrong direction. I was reading about stagflation, it’s sort of like having ...

Yes and the only way is down from now on. Until he’s kicked out of office.

Yes, I thought that’s what had happened, but it did focus my mind though, and I came out with a response that surprised myself. And I’m sticking to it...

And a few days later he exempted IT products from the China tariffs. A very stable genius.

I outlined the most direct route to a stable progressive world. I know it’s not realistic, or likely in the near term. But only a few years ago, say 1...

I heard Trump say both those things, it’s over a week ago now. I wouldn’t be able to find the quotes. That he was going to do a great deal with China ...

Trump is going to do a great deal apparently. It was only posturing prior to a negotiation.This is what Trump expects to force China into, while insul...

To return to substantive posts, a nice summary of the folly of this absurd trade war by William Hague. Quoting the Chinese sage Sun Tzu, on how to win...