by sustainablesociety | Jan 23, 2019 | Politics
This part 1 of a 5 part series. How do you feel…? When Nigel Farage talks about ‘picking up a rifle’ if Brexit is not delivered, do you cheer along with his audience? When the Queen is on the telly, do you feel a surge of emotion, of patriotic pride? When you see...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 15, 2019 | Politics
On wavers of flags and shrouds. (Photo by Matt Briney on Unsplash) It feels as if this ‘blessed plot, this realm’, this encrusted blood soaked earth, is being shaken from beneath my feet. Those who are doing the undermining, appear to me as wide eyed frothing mouthed...
by sustainablesociety | Nov 10, 2018 | Politics
Tomorrow I will be wearing these medals given to my Grandfather, Thomas Goodman. They only came to light a few years ago. I wear them for his memory, but not to support the Imperial folly that was the 1914-18 murder. The memory invoked by the black and white imagery...