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Almost 50 years ago, I well remember seeing the Ken Russell film, The Witches (1971), in which group madness takes over the inhabitants of a town resulting in the burning on the stake of the central character of the film – a priest, played by Oliver Reed. The film was based on a 1952 […]
If you can’t – or don’t want to – believe the cancer at the heart of Labour Party, please read this pamphlet handed out by the counter-demonstrators (“Labour Against The Witch Hunt”) at yesterday’s protest against anti-semitism within the party. These are the views not of a random rabble but of organised card-carrying members of […]
When Ken Livingstone made a prosaic – but totally insensitive – point that, because Hitler had espoused the concept of German Jews being transported to Palestine he was acting like a Zionist, he was rightly suspended from the Labour party. (Some feel that he should have been expelled.) When the UK’s ‘Joke’ Foreign […]
The Ericle, in both his personal & political personae, is a keen user of social media in general and Facebook in particular. I think it is not unfair to say that I spend at least 30 minutes of every day on Facebook. I do not regard this activity as trivial or a waste of […]
2017 and all that.
On January 1, 2018 · Leave a Comment · In For What It's Worth, International, Politics, Society, The Ericle Has Spoken
The Ericle is by nature a positive thinker and I am not prepared to consign any year, let alone 2017, to the dustbin of history. Moreover, I am continually surprised how some/many/most people view their world in terms of a status quo and then project forward in a straight line, inevitably foreseeing doom […]
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 […]
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A 2nd Brexit Vote is indeed The Only Democratic Option. But….
It seems to me that it would be totally unreasonable – and, in fact, totally undemocratic for there not to be a 2nd ballot. There can surely be no disagreement that though the 1st Brexit referendum called for a vote to leave the EU in principle, it did not validate an exit under any terms.
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