From a podcast episode called Philosophy and Religion in Classical Greece I heard Dr Isabelle Pafford read the 7th Century BCE elegaic poet, Mimnermus. For a fragment two and a half millenia old it was suprisingly accessible.
Kennedy wasn’t so good at transparency either. And, if anything, he was more reckless in foreign policy than his rich-kid, daddy’s boy successor, George W. Bush
Andrew Sullivan, JFK to GWB?
It’s Walpurgisnacht - Walpurgis Night - traditionally a night when witches romp about and it puts me in mind of a horror story I read when really quite young. The tale covered the usual stuff - Harz Mountains, new stepmother arrives, creeps out at night to chew at corpses, etc
I’d like a republic and a written constitution, please.
It’s just infantile, this obsequious fawning. I heard today the ex-King Constantine (Greece) describe the Queen as ’serene’. That’s a rare outing for the word. The BBC (them again) reporters can hardly pick themselves off the ground they’re grovelling on.
And a written constitution when we’re about it. It worked in the States, again, to disallow teaching creationism. In the UK we have faith schools stuffing absolute nonsense into kids. Let’s end it.
Helen picked up a book called The Story Of The World In Pictures
for £4.99 in a local charity shop. It doesn’t seem to have a publication date but there is a small copyright notice dating it to 1934.
worldstory/cinema
Queueing Up For The Cinema In Malaya
The caption reads:
