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[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 […]
The subject of my blog piece today will not be ‘news’ to my younger reader; though, the fact that I’ve become an avid fan of This American Life may be. This American Life is an hour-long radio show, originating out of the Public Radio station WBEZ in Chicago. Its content is documentary in nature […]
My Reader kindly commented on my most recent post – Tempus Fugit. Again. (here) – with the famous quote: “Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to repeat it”. You may recall that my post, referring to my electronic daily scrapbook on Pinterest (here), considered how the major news stories […]
The song ‘Overs’, from Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Waters LP, contains the following lyrics
No good times, no bad times
There’s no times at all
Just the New York Times
Well, from where I am sitting now, make that The Bay of Plenty Times.
The Bay of Plenty […]
I was very sad to learn of the recent death of David Abbott.
I was very fortunate to work within British advertising during its heyday when in 1979 I joined CDP/Aspect, a subsidiary of Collett Dickinson & Pearce. As I had joined the industry at quite a mature age, (30!), the agency […]
The term ‘National Treasure’ is much (over)used these days but in the case of the BBC this term is not a platitude, rather an expression of its unique qualities – in every sense of the word ‘quality’. The Ericle is very concerned about the prospect of the recent government proposal to […]
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The Interview
(Managed to catch an early viewing of The Interview thanks to the efforts of Kim Jong-Sam.)
Besides being a very silly and a very funny movie, The Interview is very much a film of its time and, as such, The Ericle attaches a surprising (to himself at least) degree of importance to […]