Cartoonist Steve Bell surpasses even his usual standards in the Guardian this morning. For the terminally inattentive Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary at the time of the Iraq invasion, has informed the Chilcot Inquiry that he could have stopped British participation in the invasion by resigning.
He didn't though.
On a cheerier topic than Straw and allied dunderheads, photographs of snowflakes taken more than a hundred years ago by American farmer Wilson A. Bentley on primitive equipment are for sale. I somehow suspect they are out of my price range. Here is one. Isn't it lovely?
On a cheerier topic than Straw and allied dunderheads, photographs of snowflakes taken more than a hundred years ago by American farmer Wilson A. Bentley on primitive equipment are for sale. I somehow suspect they are out of my price range. Here is one. Isn't it lovely?
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What a fine, fine film that is.
I love that snowflake photo!
steve bell was perhaps the only thing (maybe along with the great vegan stew you got from the braziers manned by the quakers at molesworth) that kept me sane in the 80s. i was given a collection of 'if' by nick brown (before he was an mp) having met him when we gave up our theatre the week before a performance so that neil kinnock could speak shortly before he became party leader. and god could he speak! for about 3 hours as i recall - we all crept in the back of the 900 seat theatre after the director broke rehearsal early so we could catch a bit of it. no mic in a hugely difficult acoustic and then he took questions unprepared from the floor answering them with wit, understanding and humour. i didn't agree with him as leader all the time (when would that ever happen?!?) and i was angry with what i believed to be his desertion of (an admittedly suicidal) support of the miners during the strike, but by god the man could hold an audience and made sense without the benefit of a pager to keep him on message.
i had a chat with them both afterwards and tried to sell neil a ticket to our show (the eerily appropriate 'close the coalhouse door'). he didn't come, but nick and a friend did. a good bloke.
Would have. Could have. Should have. Didn't. Politicians and government workers who become moral and righteous after they've left their dirty jobs make me sick. The US is full of them.
Wilson Bentley is the subject of some discussion in the wonderful independent Canadian film "Snow Cake".
A 100 year old snowflake....A.K.A. Jack Straw!Spot-The-Difference?!I have been AWOL most of this week but i noticed your football team did it again!
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