In the email arrived this crafty piece of temptation:
Category: human rights and animal rights
Snakes in the sky and in cages
Serpens the snake – the only constellation in two separated parts, head on the right or west, tail on the east – wriggles Continue reading “Snakes in the sky and in cages”
Tomorrow a referendum
The Kurds are a nation that has never been allowed to come into existence.
Multiverse rears again its many heads
My first essay in this blog (essay means a “try” Continue reading “Multiverse rears again its many heads”
Chagos
Amnesty International held a British national conference at Nottingham this past weekend; I didn’t go, but Tilly did. Continue reading “Chagos”
OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!
Maligned King Richard
“Shakespeare Explains the 2016 Election” was the title of an Oct. 8 opinion article Continue reading “Maligned King Richard”
Forty-three
Yesterday, forty-three empty chairs faced the Mexican embassy in London, mutely reproaching the government for hiding the truth about forty-three disappeared young men.
Refugees Welcome
That was the simplest and commonest version of the placards held up by the folk marching through London yesterday from Hyde Park to Parliament Square.
Not a Crime but a Misery-Reliever
Prohibition of alcoholic drinks was attempted in the United States from 1920 to 1933 and was abandoned because it not only failed but caused a huge surge in violent crime and human tragedy.
The War on Drugs was started in 1914 (by an obsessive racist named Harry Anslinger),
