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Today, Christmas Day, I picked up the book – Sapiens: A Brief History Of Mankind – that I have been reading for most of the year. The Ericle is indeed not the swiftest of readers but, even by my standards, I have spent a great deal of time with this […]
This is the first time The Ericle has re-published a piece from another source. It comes from THE SLOG, a brilliant example of what a blogging should be, written by John Ward with whom I worked in AdLand in the first half of the 1980s. John expresses, in his own inimitable style, many of the […]
It’s strange how the mind works at times.
The Ericle & The Prodigal One are currently sitting in seats 13B & 13C of an Airbus A320 en route for Israel. Yes, they are exit row seats with added legroom which in easyJet terms must be all of 3 inches; however in this case size […]
“If we are to reach real peace in this world… we shall have to begin with children.” Mahatma Gandhi
The Ericle is in Marseille this week. Currently France is exercised by the Presidential launch of the National Front’s Marine Le Pen presidential campaign; aided & abetted by a political scandal involving Francois Fillon, […]
21.12.16. Dear Eric, welcome to the Liberal Democrats! I want to thank you for giving your support to the Party. The Liberal Democrats are fighting for an open, optimistic, liberal, diverse, and tolerant Britain…….Tim Gordon, Chief Executive of the Liberal Democrats.
Jo Grimond, Leader of The Liberal Party 1956-1967.
If the LibDems […]
[The Ericle recently posted a piece (see here) on this subject. This week, the leader in The Spectator was exactly on this theme. I am re-publishing it here for my reader, who may not be a subscriber.]
Vote Leave was outward-looking, pro-trade and globally minded; Trump’s campaign was the opposite
Donald Trump […]
ɪˈvɛnt/ event. Noun. A thing that happens or takes place, especially one of importance.
This has been an eventful seven days by any standards. As I, like many others, try to make some sense of what has occurred in the U.S.A. these words of Harold Macmillan come to mind. From one day to the next, […]
Even before last night’s ghastly denouement, Trump’s Presidential and the UK’s Brexit campaigns had become coupled within the tidal wave of public rhetoric. I’m not suggesting that there are not some similarities, but that does not mean that they are even vaguely ‘the same thing’ and certainly not in terms of what was ultimately at […]
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