Friday, September 30, 2022

FRIDAY MUSIC: Shigeru Umebayashi, by JD

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Shigeru Umebayashi (born February 19, 1951 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka) is a Japanese composer. He is best known for his film scores. https://en....
Thursday, September 29, 2022

UKROMANIA: The Texican War of 2072

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From my Substack column - why not join for FREE updates? This is set in a parallel universe; you can draw some parallels… Seen in retrospec...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

WEEKENDER: Hits the Ground Running? by Wiggia

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                                                             This is the new Health Secretary, I have never cared about what someone looks l...
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Friday, September 23, 2022

FRIDAY MUSIC: Fauré's Requiem

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 Well it has been a strange couple of weeks and the funeral and interment were spectacular, if a little 'over the top': I thought Mo...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Only disaster can save us !

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President Biden’s melodramatic speech in Philadelphia was an amped-up reprise of Hillary Clinton’s in Reno back in 2016: a combination of ...
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Monday, September 19, 2022

Remembering the Queen

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  Pietro Annigoni painted this in 1955, when the Queen was in her late twenties. I remember seeing it on the wall of the Sergeants’ Mess whe...
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Sunday, September 18, 2022

COLOUR SUPPLEMENT: Pacific sunset, by JD

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Sunset over the southern Pacific: t hree views across the bay of Valparaiso, Chile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Valpara%C3%ADso#History