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2021: My Year of Failure
En route to St Ives
In January, I challenged myself to e-cycle 2021 miles and to raise £2021 in the process. As 2021 disappears in the proverbial rearview mirror, I need to report that I missed my target by … Read more...
PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT. Is it terminal?
My Kind Reader may have noticed a diminution of Ericle output over the last couple of months. I have never wanted to feel that I am a slave to my organ but, even by past standards, the last couple of … Read more...
Posted in Comment, Opinion
Tagged International, Technology
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Even The President of the United States has to stand naked.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand … Read more...
We have the Boris we deserve.
I am indebted to My Kind & Faithful Reader from Palmers Green, who sent me a couple of recent pieces from The Law and Order Blog. Undoubtedly, she did this as a result of my longstanding belief in the … Read more...
Posted in Comment, Politics, Society, UK
Tagged 21st Century, Boris Johnson, Constitutional Change, UK Elections
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My American Pie
“A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music
Used to make me smile.
And I knew, if I had my chance,
That I could make those people dance.
And maybe they’d be happy for a while… Read more...
TRUST. The Biggest Casualty Of Our Times
In my last Ericle post commenting on the US Presidential Election, (here), I suggested that the US & UK Constitutions were ill-matched to the 21st century as they encompassed a sense of ‘reasonable behaviour’ which was in … Read more...
The US Presidential Election: A Battle Won But …..
“Kathy, I’m lost”, I said
Though I knew she was sleeping
“I’m empty and aching and
I don’t know why”.
Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike
They’ve all come
To look for America
All come to look for … Read more...
Posted in Americana, Comment, History, Politics
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Track or Trace? A C-19 Halloween Special.
The Ericle has not written about The Pandemic for a couple of months; which has prompted My Reader recently to enquire: “Is The Pandemic Over?”. Sadly, not.
At the onset of The Pandemic, I like everybody else was trying to … Read more...
May 2022
Long suffering Ericle readers will have noted my occasional references to The Slog, (see: here), a long-running blog written by a former agency colleague of mine. The Slog’s strapline describes its author as being a cognitive dissident; which, … Read more...