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March 2022
DISASTER
The Ericle was born in 1949, the son and 1st child of refugees who fled to the UK from Hitler in 1939. As such my life has spanned a period of peace between the end of World War II … Read more...
Posted in International, Politics, The Ericle Has Spoken
Tagged Comment, Society
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February 2022
THE ERICLE (A)MUSE LETTER
In my last blog-entry of 2021, I made a New Year’s Resolution to say less and cycle more. The proverbial road to Hell is paved with good intentions but for the immediate future, unless I … Read more...
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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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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‘The Suit Maketh The Man’
The style of Keir Starmer, the new leader of UK’s Labour Party, is somewhat enigmatic. He is a man of undoubted intellect & scholarship, who when offered the throat of his political nemesis holds back from the easy drawing of … Read more...
God Bless America
What I saw:
This is a picture of Donald Trump returning to The White House after his Tulsa political rally, watched by an underwhelming 6,200 people in a stadium that can hold 18,000, after claiming that over 1,000,000 people … Read more...
Posted in Americana, Opinion, Politics
Tagged International, politics, presidential election, USA
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We get the government that we deserve.
One of the unmissable features of the COVID Pandemic is that the world responded to it not as one, but as nation-based. Perhaps, one day the governance of the world will be the domain of global institutions but it is … Read more...
Posted in For What It's Worth, Opinion, Politics, Society
Tagged Coronavirus, Society, UK Politics
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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...