Cruel but kind...of bloody funny! 10/10 for out-loud laughter.
...........................................
"I look at my picture and know I am
The beneficiary of too much spam.
They may be those who think it's sinister
The Tories are back and I'm still prime minister
But I've got you Sam...I've got you Sam."
Comment is about I GOT YOU, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks so much for your blisteringly good comments re the Log Man. Fulsome praise from a reliable source!
The primitive pleasure remains the most sublime . I just collected my winter's logpile from the man described. He is worthy of a tribute, surrounded by prepared piles of different woods for the asking. (like a sweet shop in a way). bloody hard work to load and unload but I'm now done and what a great way to relax responding to you.
You couldn't invent a better scenario.
cheers, Laura.
Comment is about Laura Taylor (poet profile)
Original item by Laura Taylor
it was, i was imagining me tripping over the words in a comical fashion when i performed it live.
its a sad memory indeed, even more so as its a genetic illness and is now seeing quite nicely to my mum as well...
Comment is about noddy holder (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Thanks Laura.
Imagination helps!
Comment is about CROSSWORDS IN THE PUB (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
http://smellofbooks.com/
'sigh'
i often feel very detached!
Comment is about one of my turns (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
I like this Andy, the wistfulness of what might have been
Comment is about Jazz Record cut off half note (blog)
Original item by Andy N
Glad you enjoyed it as much as me Greg - fantastic isn't it?! Proper looking forward to the gig with him in November :)
Comment is about Arguments Yard: Attila the Stockbroker, Cherry Red (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Rousing! Love it! God - wouldn't that be great?!
Tiny typo here though?
'That you we will not go without' - should that 'we' be in there?
Comment is about We (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Another acutely-well-observed poem David - sometimes you make my teeth itch, you see things so clearly.
Comment is about CROSSWORDS IN THE PUB (blog)
Original item by David Subacchi
Ooof. As a childhood OCDer (an obsession with symmetry that took over my entire life - managed to get it somewhat under control by the age of 11) I KNOW this one. Interesting backstory, and the theme of quite a lot of poems funnily enough.
Comment is about 6 (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Unusual style this - social commentary in a strangely detached delivery.
And no, it's not just you.
(Is that true about the e-book?!)
Comment is about one of my turns (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
A fine tribute. I looked up Corinthians 2:4 - that's a nice blending of the message therein, and Ben's religion.
Comment is about Corinthians 2.4 (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Just to say - EDITING?! Where will it all end?! In better poems, that's where ;)
Comment is about soft (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Another corker. Awwwr. A bittersweet memory and knowledge of the underside of history.
Repetition of 'crackers' in the first stanza, fourth line - is that deliberate?
Comment is about noddy holder (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Hahahahaaa!!! :D :D Brilliant :D
Comment is about I GOT YOU, BABE (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Oh I love this, it's delicious. Me and my fella love to have fires in our little concrete yard. We go and collect firewood from a little wood near home, and there is nothing finer than sitting in front of the flames, with a well-built fire and a good solid base, staring up at the stars sometimes with a nice glass of red.
This poem sums it all up beautifully. Love it! I can't even pick out favourite lines - it's all fab. Nicely done Ray.
Comment is about THE LOG MAN (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Wed 23rd Sep 2015 11:23
this is really powerful, my favourite line is 'every breath I take is defiance' x
Comment is about math 30 (9/22/2015) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
DeSimone's infamy rests on his depiction by actor Joe Pesci in the 1990 movie Goodfellas (renamed Tommy DeVito in the film), a role for which Pesci won the 1990 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The movie took some artistic liberties: primarily, DeSimone was six years younger than Hill in real life, not the same age (as implied when they first meet). While depicted in the film as a small man with an attitude, DeSimone was a large, burly enforcer, standing at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) and around 225 pounds. Paul Cicero (based on Vario) at one point states that Tommy is a "good kid, but a cowboy with too much to prove."
DeSimone had a hair-trigger temper. One of his sisters claimed "Tommy's teenage years revolved around boxing, lifting weights, smoking cigarettes, and beating a punching bag he kept in a spare room. He had a short fuse, and an animalistic appetite. He would drink almost a gallon of whole milk a day. His only other childhood hobby was collecting different kinds of pocket knives he kept in an old cigar box under his bed."
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
O.K. I'm a schumck, I know nothing , I wasn't there , I didn't see nuthin !
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Tommy deSimone, feared Mafia hitman. He was played by Joe Pesce in Goodfellas.
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Thanks for your comments guys, much appreciated, sometimes its good to be reminded of all that we have and all that others haven't., particularly in a society obsessed with possessions and material gain.
Comment is about We (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
We're all making plans for Nigel ?
Comment is about Guess Who? (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
This very much appeals to me as it has a moving simplicity to it and reaches out in a personal sense, maybe in the same way as someone who by luck has been spared some catastrophe and who feels uncomfortable with the others who have passed away.
Interesting concept!
Comment is about The Clamour Of The Silence (blog)
Original item by Alem Hailu G/Kristos
The list below are supporters of Jeremy Corbyn's economic plan.
They happen to be mainstream ECONOMISTS.
David Blanchflower
Bruce V Rauner professor of economics, Dartmouth and Stirling, ex-member of the MPC
Mariana Mazzucato
Professor, Sussex
Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Emeritus professor, London South Bank University
Malcolm Walker
Emeritus professor, Leeds
Robert Wade
Professor, LSE
Michael Burke
Economist
Steve Keen
Professor, Kingston University London
Victoria Chick
Emeritus professor, UCL
Anna Coote
NEF personal capacity
Ozlem Onaran
Professor, Greenwich
Andrew Cumbers
Professor, Glasgow
Tina Roberts
Economist
Dr Suzanne J Konzelmann
Birkbeck
Tanweer Ali
Lecturer, New York
John Weeks
Professor, SOAS
Marco Veronese Passarella
Lecturer, University of Leeds
Dr Judith Heyer
Emeritus Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford
Dr Jerome De-Henau
Senior lecturer, Open University
Stefano Lucarelli
Professor, University of Bergamo
Paul Hudson
Formerly Universität Wissemburg-Halle
Mario Seccareccia
Professor, Ottawa
Dr Pritam Singh
Professor, Oxford Brookes
Arturo Hermann
Senior research fellow at Istat, Rome
Dr John Roberts
Brunel
Cyrus Bina
Professor, Minnesota
Alan Freeman
Retired former economist
George Irvin
Professor, SOAS
Susan Pashkoff
Economist
Radhika Desai
Professor, University of Manitoba
Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Associate professor, University of Oxford
Guglielmo Forges Davanzati
Associate professor, University of Salento
Jeanette Findlay
Senior lecturer, Glasgow
Raphael Kaplinsky
Emeritus professor, Open University
John Ross
Socialist Economic Bulletin
Steven Hail
Adjunct lecturer, University of Adelaide
Louis-Philippe Rochon
Associate professor, Laurentian
Hilary Wainwright
Editor, Red Pepper
Arturo Hermann
Senior researcher, ISAE, Rome
Joshua Ryan-Collins
NEF personal capacity
James Medway
Lecturer, City University
Alberto Paloni
Professor, Glasgow
Dr Mary Roberton
Leeds
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Tod talked stupidly. Regardless of ones fiscal or social position, poverty, whether relative or absolute, has never been merely a state of mind. Try paying a restaurant bill in that currency.
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
John - I'm open to the idea that disaffected Labour
supporters turned to Ukip. I based my comment on reports
- possibly from "vested interest" sources - that Ukip was
a home for "disaffected Tories".
Tommy - Newberry calling! My understanding of fiscal
obligations may be "laughable" but it does not come
near the ludicrous socialist grasp of economics and its legacy when in occupying the government benches.
The vociferous proponents of the socialist way might
add to their credibility if they are on record as
contributors to both party funds and the immediate
"needy".
In passing, I also recall the words of experience from
the late Mike Todd - best known nowadays for the Todd-AO screen projection system - youngest of 9 kids
from a poor family who was expelled from 6th grade
and dropped out of high school, yet went on to make and lose numerous fortunes through his own endeavours
over an adult lifetime that included the Great
Depression. He observed "I've been broke many times
in my life, but I've never been poor. Being broke is a
temporary condition. Being poor is a state of mind. If
you think in terms of money, think of what you can't do".
On a personal note, I have enquired about the official
definition of the word "poor" - having been the youngest
of 6 children whose mother was widowed in her forties
before the kick-in of state benefits and who carried on
as her generation did - broke but not poor? - but no one seems able to tell me.
You seem most likely to be able to set out the current
definition from what you say.
Cheers.
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Very kind Stu. I was trying for a sort of Ted Hughes atmosphere, a moorland scene. You probably experience more of this kind of thing in Wales than I do; but I have been everywhere man. Robert Frost eh? wow!
Comment is about THE BAROMETER TUMBLES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Hi Mark. About Mobility poem. Thanks and I entirely take your point. There are plenty of glamorous older models around . It just seemed incongruous that whereas the adverts usually appear in the mags and back pages that I imagine are associated with the risks of the older generation the models are out of tune with those readers. It would not be the case in charity fundraising on TV for example where no horror is spared to plumb the emotional depths. By they way , I am sorry that you have the incapacity you mention; I took up motorcycling after a forty year gap, and must admit I just lost my nerve in the end! Especially as my wife was trembling with fear at home.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Hi Mark. About Mobility poem. Thanks and I entirely take your point. There are plenty of glamorous older models around . It just seemed incongruous that whereas the adverts usually appear in the mags and back pages that I imagine are associated with the risks of the older generation the models are out of tune with those readers. It would not be the case in charity fundraising on TV for example where no horror is spared to plumb the emotional depths. By they way , I am sorry that you have the incapacity you mention; I took up motorcycling after a forty year gap, and must admit I just lost my nerve in the end! Especially as my wife was trembling with fear at home.
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
leah
Tue 22nd Sep 2015 13:02
SARA HIRSCH EXPLODES ON STAGE
First of all, we want to give special Thanks to Richard Gordon for letting us have the space at 'Forks Handle Kitchen', for Write Angle, as our usual location, Square Brewery, is under renovation. We cannot thank him, Yasmin, or Georgia - enough! There was food and drink available all through the evening. And now on with the show!
...If anything ever got our steady handed, video man, David Stone, to comment, it was September's guest, Sara Hirsch;- and as I couldn't say it better myself – here goes!
'She didn't just perform on stage. She exploded. In the audience, she didn't look unusual - but when she got up, she took up the whole space. She was exceptional…. (and if that wasn't enough),... 'If you can go from a one string fiddle to a full musical orchestra, She was the full orchestra!' David wasn't alone. Everyone said she was 'brilliant'. She had a freshness and vivacity... '- the best yet'...(okay, so they've said that before..and before...and…) the audience was gobsmacked over her energy and emotive projection! She made you laugh one moment and feel tearful the next.
As Sara said she'd never been billed as a comedian before, she said she'd start with a joke, get it over with, and then do poetry!
'I Don't Want an Easy Life', told of her wanting it complicated.. to have done everything...have it smack the lving daylights out of her. She wants life to mother her; sweep her off her feet. 'If life really does have a meaning, I want to take the time to find it'....a long convoluted joke, full of mistakes; gritty and difficult to swallow. So awkward, when she gets to the end, she hasn't got the energy to do it again. Her life is funny...with men. She has terrible cocktail skills... Sometimes it's hard but she likes it that way...'. What a poem to start the evening! '
'Deaf Poem' , where everyone thinks she's dying. She's 26 and thinks she can't hear.. Lovely and hilariously funny. Her friends say 'Have you finished your 'death' poem yet, and she says, 'death'? No! It's Deaf, not Death'!!! Then a Haiku. (might have been the joke) – 'I don't like goatees, but if I were a man, then they might grow on me'
From the Edinburgh Fringe, her 'favourite place on Earth' – where she just performed her show, 'how to be a teenager', soon to be toured around the UK..came the poem, 'Unmade Bed'.. 'How was it for you', 'We lay like starfish….I tuck the corners in...I can't make that bed and lie in it. We lay like coiled anacondas. I tell him I like the bit between his torso and his hip. One day he tells me there isn't any romance in general. She covers herself to cover her confusion. Today they are together and perfect….But tomorrow...You wondered how long it would take the penny to drop. The penny took so long to reach the ground, it started to collect interest...Then it took so long, it became a pound...
She portrays relationships...and you feel her pain as she speaks.. 'My Best Friend just got engaged...my best friend is finally growing up..and he will make the best husband...and so will he!'. The audience loved it. Then, 'Play Fair', about monopoly - 'It's not for the weak hearted...If you're going to play, play properly...she went through it – If you mortgage your house you have to pay back but don't worry, if you pass go you can collect £200 – a 'play' on real life and the cruelty of having to give things up because life demanded it...
In her newest work. 'National Gallery', she gesticulates, 'I want the background angels to sing for me'. She'd carry Davinci's unfinished work - Nothing changes. Paintings still hang in galleries and people still visit. I am still as unfinished as I was then. I am an idea...a tragedy of art' ...her honesty and confidence come through and we feel we're her friends as she confides...'I write a lot about myself, but don't worry. I think I'm through my self indulgent stage….I think I'm coming out of it'..(I got the impression she would have been loved, whatever stage she was in)
Lastly, 'Heritage', a long, powerful and very sad poem about 'your beautiful only sister...her haunted smile still – just because you couldn't save her, - if somehow they would have been wiped out in a concentration camp – about the guilt of those still alive. 'if I could say anything to you, it would be this. It was worth the risk.' There were many anecdotes. Sara is a powerful performer 'making no money since she started performing', - but we have little doubt she'll be up there amongst the best as time goes by. I would wager there wasn't a single person in the room who didn't relate in some way to her angers, relationship angsts, and life, in general, with its pains and joys. David got it right! She was 'the full musical orchestra'!
Following that, one of our favourite open mikers, the predictably good, unpredictable John Smith did a humerous monologue, 'In the Beginning'… which involved challenging himself to write a poem that included the 30 most famous expressions from novels, or as he put it, 'hitching a ride on the coattails of other people's genius….'when the clocks just struck 13...'I must go down to the sea again…..a thing of beauty is a joy forever...Hope springs eternal… you may forget what you remember or remember what you hope to forget...life is really simple but we insist on making ...do not go gently into the night. Do not go gently into debt. The price of everything and the value of nothing. Good night'. Very clever and witty. Good applause, as ever!
Munnya (Michael Usuwana) then performed 'Secret Admirer'. 'Maybe one day youll see me as a nice guy..we'll get to see the stars... and in the morning... I promise you babe, we'll never be apart. Her name was Myra... desperate to be closer but I can't deal with emotion and commotion….maybe I need a cigarette...or nicorette...am I correct...The poem seemed to show the confusion between wanting, and being afraid of ..relationships – not easy. Munnya, aka 'Word Maker', now has a manager and his first CD's for sale. We hope he'll bring it with him next time. Keep an eye on this guy!
Richard Hawtree read 'Watling Walking' based on a quotation from Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Poetically, The milky way has been called the Watling Street of the sun. Londoners named it 'Noble Street'. Watling Street. ... to Cardigan. The word is a corruption of Vitellina strata, the paved road of Vitellius, called by the Britons Guet'alin. (okay, so I cheated and looked it up). Richard's poetry is lovely but can be oblique and it helps to have 'Google' nearby...just in case.
Chris Sangster, back from a song festival in Estonia, with over 35,000 people in the choir, wrote, 'Estimar' about how it was under Russia, then Germany -finally free 25 years ago, when it entered the European community. Still a young country but gaining confidence through singing, it created a human chain, hand in hand, through Latvia and Lithuania. Chris' song/yukulele told of 'singing with a single breath' , 'Thinking as One'. 'Estimar...land of our fathers'...a very gentle, lovely song. Then, 'Please Think about Me' . Though life was good, it's time to part. Enjoy each day of living. Problems don't matter any more.' (speaks for itself).
Barry Smith created 'Landscape Poem', inspired by a ballet in Covent Garden. And so we travel 'while bush, stone, fragments of light catch the worrying wings of drowsy curtaining lush shuttered primevil domain...we drift with honeysuckles..we feel the pulse of the sea..while the sky turns purpley blue to pewter... awash with waves of wiry heather - bronze age dwellers...reference to tribal struggle we feel the pulse of the sea...a trinity of transendence…A painting was created! Jake Claret then did 'Her Big Black Dress' about falling in love with a woman in a large shapeless black dress and seducing her in his imagination as he pictures what's beneath. 'The object of my fevered gaze touches me in every way'. Her clothes are like a tent. What he cannot see is more appealing...as his imagination takes over and creates the woman he wants to see. Interesting idea!
Audi Maserati then did 'Frieda' and 'Marsha, first one written in 1973, second in 1982. 'I got extradited from Manchester for being 'ironic'. He told how he'd done poetry fast in the past. Now if he does them that way, his eyes pop out. He then put sunglasses on, 'Clearly an affectation!' Everyone laughed as he proceeded to recite them fast. In his inimitable way, Audi created an image of the times..'They move into a corner and tell each other lies...She said she worked the tills at Tesco. When the night was over….he took her home. His intentions were purely carnal... love and being young. 'One thing about being an 'old bloke' is you can write things in real time' - 'Marsha on the motorway'. Hotels motels...Marsha serving food . Both poems about getting his leg over...when guys talked of girls..when times were wild and wily.
Mike Knee, guitarist, sang Love songs, ' In the office of lost property', and she did dig deep and she found the heart of me'..I love you with every chamber of my heart'. Second was.. 'In the arms of my soulmate, in the arms of my lover. G Rimes then did a poem, 'Yesterday I was pulled over by the cops' for speeding , and then said 'Aint you got nothin better to do...out there are burglars, shop lifters and thieves...my heart felt heartfelt road rage The cops said 'they'd arrested the burglars and shoplifters who said 'aint you got nothin better to do. Arrest the drunks, the speeders...etc...so I'm sorry Sir but now you must consider yourself well and truly nicked'. Very funny!
Bruce Parry shared a project he'd been working on for many years, divided in three parts...using the underground to show the different times and uses, back to the war. 'The 5.30 Underground'….scurry of people….they scamper..sitting, standing, swaying...pickpockets...Next day it all starts again. 'Mind the Gap Mind the Doors'. Platform 2 – going home..dark tunnel, posters peeling down...Central Line. Bethnal Green...Platform 1 Circle, Platform 2 District. 'Wartime Christmas Underground'….same underground...a place to lay before the bomb. Nobody knew the bomb was coming. Wardens shouting. Platform 2...at Bethnal Green...to find a Christmas underground. Wonderfully descriptive. Phyllida Carr then got out her trusty harmonica and everyone sang along as she played, 'Bread of Heaven' and 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot'.
Newcomer, Russell Stone played the Shruti Box, and sang some haunting oriental sensual music – in English and 'in the language of love'..'I see a young man killed by war..he has stolen my heart...I see a politican racked by power. She has stolen my heart...then, in his second language, using his voice, a drum and meditative sound, he played his instrument and sang in a ne tonuge. Very calming and rich. He has played at White Eagle Lodge and other spiritual festivals. There was total silence in the room as he projected his powerful and emotive voice…It was a truly good and diverse evening – one of the best yet! First time we had it at 'Fork Handles Kitchen'. Next month, we're back at Square Brewery, hopefully!
The raffle was won by a newcomer who seemed quite surprised and pleased! Two free meals at our local authentical Turkish restaurant, 'Fez' down Bakery Lane behind Waitrose.
Lastly, Leah was invited to perform some poetry at the Chelsea Arts Club, for which she got a free meal. (the most I ever got paid for my poetry!) It's her 3rd year and it was a success. People laughed, and afterward, some asked if she was professional while others said they liked her poems. (she didn't 'fluff' her words, once!)
More to come on Dan Simpson, next month's guest!
Review is about WRITE ANGLE POETRY & MUSIC +OPEN MIC on 15 Sep 2015 (event)
Has someone been telling porkies?
Comment is about oink (a haiku for dave) (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
John thank you for your comment on The Black Men.
I thought it would be you that got it. Time THFC had a haka I think!
Comment is about John Coopey (poet profile)
Original item by John Coopey
this was actually written for a guy i met ten years ago. i invited him onto a live tv program (for uni) to talk about ocd, not knowing how bad he was. i asked him why he did it (i hadnt practised the questions) and he stared right down the camera and said 'because they will fucking kill me'. needless to say i wasnt invited to take part in any further productions...
Comment is about 6 (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
this is lovely and reminds me of my favourite lines in all of poetry.
“take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning”
very evocative and the brevity really enhances the statement.
good stuff.
Comment is about Little thoughts.... (blog)
Original item by Dr Nemo
great last line. the whole thing is clever and well written.
Comment is about math 30 (9/22/2015) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
ah this is lovely. thick lipped breath, booming wind, pewter shoulders. its like a weather forecast read out by robert frost. i love the way you have stretched and beautified what is essentially a brief change in atmospherics. brilliant.
Comment is about THE BAROMETER TUMBLES (blog)
Original item by ray pool
'today could be the day
I walk on the cracks.'
what is it that stops you from quitting your job and stealing the idle cars of life?
Comment is about 6 (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Not sure that all UKIP voters were disenchanted Tories -
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/12/17/ukip-voters-put-themselves-left-tories/
Many UKIP voters are older working class people who are disenchanted with particular aspects of Labour, especially their attitude towards immigration.
Really, UKIP is a broad church for people with a dissatisfaction with 'mainstream' politics in general. I am a fiscal Conservative and lifestyle liberal but admire UKIP's commitment to restoring selective education, for example.
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Newberry individual donations should go to the political party of their choice, not spread amongst to the 'deserving poor'. Your grasp of economic and social issues and the requirements in resolving them is laughable.
. The Department of Work and Pentions and the Institute of Fiscal Studies have declared that 10%-25% are in relative or absolute poverty. That's 6-15 million people and that number is rising.
Individual largesse is both insufficient as well as insulting.
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
To celebrate with chocolate and cream.
Comment is about FOLLOWING ON (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Yes indeed, MC. He looks as though he did have a few enemies.
Comment is about THE LORD'S PRAYER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Hi Ray Glad you liked my Chicago poem!
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Dog-gone it! I'm minded to change W.S. Gilbert's lines...
"As some day it may happen that a victim must be found
I've got a little lust...I've got a little lust"!
:-)
Comment is about Nodding Bitch (blog)
I found the sheer length of this post somewhat difficult
to embrace. Indeed, the first two verses set well enough
with me to form a complete and pleasingly evocative
poem on their own.
Comment is about On the Nature of Inspiration II (blog)
Original item by John Lowndes
The individual in the photo strikes me as someone who maybe be lying at rest against his will, when previously
he would have been lying at will when arrested! :-)
Comment is about THE LORD'S PRAYER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
M.C. Newberry
Wed 23rd Sep 2015 15:42
I will wait with much interest to note how the new Labour
leader's economic ideas show signs of working. As my
late mother was fond of observing: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
As for Todd's philosophy - born of a life full of trying and
failing, for richer and poorer - he deserves more that the
dismissive "Tod (sic) talked stupidly". His life's experiences
were born out of the knowledge of working towards goals
and whether failing or succeeding, keeping the mind open
and ready to carry on regardless of success or failure.
I continue my quest for an official definition of "poor" - a
word so readily adopted these days across the social
spectrum here in the UK.
Comment is about COR - LABOUR'S FOR THE BYN! (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry