by Andy Dodd | May 7, 2017 | On My Mind, Politics
In the UK last weekend for my partner’s birthday and it struck us that through the whole day of our arrival, from airport snack bar to evening restaurant, not one person out of all those who served us food, coffee or snacks was British. Cue the Brexit Tinkerbells on...
by Andy Dodd | Mar 7, 2017 | On My Mind, Politics
Prompted by a recent and quite surreal debate with a friend of a friend on Facebook, I wanted to revisit the reasons why conservatives might be so obsessed with denying climate change is happening and that mankind is responsible. The best thing about the Earth is if...
by Andy Dodd | Feb 28, 2017 | Extemplo
I love how the right pounced on John Major’s thoughtful intervention into the Brexit debate. “Yesterday’s man!” they scoffed, ignoring the fact that leading luminaries of the Leave campaign included Lord Lawson, Lord Lamont and the re-animated husk of malevolence...
by Andy Dodd | Feb 25, 2017 | On My Mind, Politics
Should people be so hasty to leap to conclusions about the Copeland by-election result? Perhaps. Reaction to the results of this week’s political events in the United Kingdom prove that the left can do denial, and trade in alternative facts, just as easily as the...
by Andy Dodd | Feb 6, 2017 | Reviews
Thanks to my beloved, we were fortunate to be able to see Queen’s “Hungarian Rhapsody” concert yesterday evening: a restored HD and surround sound version of a concert the band gave in Budapest during their ‘Kind of Magic’ tour in 1986. I don’t know if...
