coasts, rivers, contours
move over millennia
paper-thin borders
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CLP 15/06/2022
Tag Archives: Politics
on Ukraine xxvi
there is only so long left of this public examination all is organised to this end our youth bent double drowning in academic gas interpreting Dulce et Decorum est while the RAF shake the building practising manoeuvres, virtue signalling overhead
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CLP 08/06/2022
The Worm and the Louse
Worm said that Louse had behaved in a way that Worm considered to be ‘mad and totally unethical’ and warned that Worm was prepared to give evidence under oath to an inquiry.
“It is sad to see the Louse and his office fall so far below the standards of competence and integrity that this ship of fools deserves.” Worm wrote.
Such a damning intervention by the Worm who was Louse’s key ally and source of ideological inspiration will deeply alarm the Louse and his lice. Worm is due to give his evidence to the Gammons next month.
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n.b. Adapted from the top story in The Guardian newspaper of Saturday, 24th April, 2021; “Mad and totally unethical” Cummings hits out at Boris Johnson.”
NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Twenty Four prompt; word change animals featured in news article, or words to that effect.
It was supposed to be a fun prompt, but there is absolutely nothing amusing about having The Great Clown running anything more complicated than a train set – if that.
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CLP 24/04/2021
On Numbers (10)
Pull on the Number 10
Who do you pretend to be
Hurst, Pele, Maradona?
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n.b. I still pretend to be Geoff Hurst as I was six when he scored his World Cup Final hat-trick. Seeing that on telly left quite an impression, but wow! to even think that one might dare to dream to pretend to imagine to be Pele, or Diego Maradona takes a certain precocious level of self-belief.
I saw Maradona once play in an exhibition match at Wembley in 1987. The crowd chanted insults at him following his “A little bit with his head and a little with the hand of God” goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final against England. It showed something of his character just to turn up. I don’t remember much about seeing him play that day though.
His importance to his home country cannot be over-stated. Sadly, he and the success of the Argentine team was the military junta’s bread and circuses of those days. That nation’s recent history is still being unpicked. The death of this little guy from Buenos Aires will lead to more unpicking. This article from The Guardian outlines some views about Maradona from Argentine people.
There are probably few athletes who have ever been so important to a nation, or to people worldwide. In his second home, Napoli and in Argentina he is a god.
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n.n.b. See Charlie Monaghan’s tribute on instagram @charliemon10 Diego Maradona meant a lot to the Scots too.
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CLP 26/11/2020
On Numbers (pp269)
Enough to take me
back to childhood news stories
of divided Ireland.
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n.b. Iain Cobain’s book, Anatomy of a Killing (Life and Death on a Divided Island) is an important book that helps explain why the Good Friday Agreement is important. One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter explained to a large extent, but also a balanced attempt to outline the complexity of that place. An important book of history, that is sadly relevant to the C21st too.
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CLP 18/11/2020
On Numbers 28
This time popular
vote is mirrored in colleges.
Countdown has started.
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n.b. First, first time loser for 28 years. That’s the first time in 7 USA elections when a President has been binned after 4 years in the job. Some football managers last longer in their posts than that.
Let’s be frank about this, he’s had a go, grew his vote, but grew the opposition vote by more. He’s been fired.
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CLP 10/11/2020
In the (U)K
Parliament meets
Queues to vote about voting
Anti-democratic
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CLP 04/06/2020
Hands Free
We hold hands with Venus de Milo
Slip gold rings from her fingers
While Alexander takes to his bed
He lies there, a new Nelson of Trafalgar travelling pickled in rum
An obese Lazarus praying he’ll yet be spared walking
“tolle lectum tuum”
We empty-handed jugglers of nonsense
Smell encroachment of rats
Who scratch our bound feet, nibble our ears
Stones, happy at the prospect of action, line our pockets
We’ll return hopeful of new life in the glass house
As spirited goldfinches spread distrust in their songs
A bumble-bee heavy with pollen passes
Bundles home against the warm easterly wind
“Keep yew a troshin’, mush”
Light pours both ways through a closed window
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n.b. GloPoWriMo / NaPoWriMo day 5 challenge, (with too complicated instructions to recount here).
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Alexander: First name of the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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“tolle lectum tuum”: Latin for “Take up your bed”
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Keep yew a troshin’: Broad Norfolk for “Keep going with the threshing” but used as a way to bid farewell, “Go safely”.
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CLP 05/04/2020
Masque Ball
With smoke and mirrors
Dressed up mutton; false hopes, dreams
Dancers with Truth
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n.b. Could the BBC send a science correspondent to the daily press briefing from Downing Street? This is not about politics.
CLP 05/04/2020
On the Table
Joker at the wheel
Chips are down, ball now running
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n.b. The Gambler very obvious, Boris Johnson, esq.
CLP 15/03/2020
Voyage des Mots 