IN THE recent Russian elections Vladimir Putin got 87 per cent of the vote on a 77.44 per cent per cent turnout (UK general elections since 2001 have averaged 64 per cent). The main opposition in Russia to Putin are the communists, who got 4.31 per cent of the vote – about the same level […]
FORMER Health Secretary Matt Hancock could regret his tweet suggesting that fellow MP Andrew Bridgen was anti-Semitic, a comment so wounding it prompted Mr Bridgen to issue libel proceedings. Mr Hancock has attempted to avoid explaining himself, and inevitably his part in overseeing the dangerous covid vaccination rollout, by applying to have the case cancelled. […]
The writer is in the US. ‘MOMMY, can I be a covid lab rat?’ That is a request most parents will never hear and that very few parents would ever want to hear. But, unlike the more typical ‘Can I have a pony?’ request, letting your child be a covid shot test subject is a […]
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Alrighty. We are a full day removed from the God-awful tragedy of the container vessel Dali striking a pylon on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending the entire superstructure of the bridge into the mouth of the harbor, and the horrific loss of the construction workers who were still on the bridge when […]
Former President Donald Trump published some thoughts about former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel’s hiring and firing at NBC News. He used Truth Social, the social media company he founded when he was shut out of Twitter in the pre-Elon Musk days. Soon that company will make Trump a billionaire. There has been much written about […]
I have always understood and sympathized with the argument for assisted suicide for people facing terminal disease near the end of life. I think hospice care is the appropriate path, but most people can at least understand the impulse to ease the path for a suffering loved one. But I have also feared that the […]
I went with Peter to make the arrangements for the Passover supper. When we arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus had told us to look for a man carrying a pitcher of water. We were to follow him into the house he entered, ask to speak to the owner, and say: “The master asks you where is […]
I thought that Cadbury creme eggs were one of the great miracles of manufacturing. How did they manage that luscious, luxurious combination of thick chocolate egg holding the yummiest, runniest creme complete with yellow “yolk” in the center? Ambrosial. Miraculous. But then I grew up and have developed a serious addiction to their mini eggs […]
So many gospel themes find their focus on Maundy Thursday, so many threads of connection flowing to and from this deep source of love and vision, in the foot washing, and in the last supper. The meditation in this sonnet, is centred on the ancient idea of the four elements of earth, air, water and […]
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