'Why?”, a German friend asked me, as she looked in horror at pictures of the Bucha massacre. “Why are they doing it?”' If you want to know more, read this article which should be available if you...
Mark Purslow killed in Isle of Man TT crash aged 29. Isle of Man TT is one of motorsport's most dangerous meetings with more than 250 fatalities since 1907. Brave (yes) Foolish (?) I've met people who...
What does a sudden black & white warning light depicting a symbol of a steering wheel signify ? It happened to me today 4 times on a 50 mile journey accompanied by a microsecond's feeling of lightness...
Barry is now 88 and still performing with a UK tour this year & continuing to work hard for the dissemination of Australian culture. This is vintage stuff ( not for the 'woke')...
A pair spotted this morning standing in the shallows of the river (Neckar) before they took flight along the water, unmistakeable by their beige colour & white & black wings. I have see a pair before...
I'm looking some pads to stick onto the frame's bridge of sunglasses which have none fitted, to make them a better fit & to ride a little higher. I have just received some via Amazon which though part...
We've just started watching it. The subject matter is a bit dated (or is it?) & it appears to be an extreme portrayal, but who knows? I just went onto the IMDB website, really to find out who made it...
Men have lower life expectancy than women, and significantly higher suicide rates. They are more likely to be the victims of violence and are falling behind educationally. Certain "male" behaviours...
In Iryna Tsilyk's documentary about life in the Donbas region after the Russian incursion of 2014, the camera moves from the wastes of bombed residential streets to the interior of a Ukrainian...
Just announced he died in the ambush. Could any army be so unlucky to lose 42 in so so short a space of time? surely the Ukrainians are getting some pretty advanced intel. (from the US?)...
In one sense I find the whole Partygate thing a bore, but after Labours continual attacks against number 10, & calls for Boris' resignation, I relish seeing the hypocrisy of the man exposed, & he must...
Talk of nuclear war & even threats of it are becoming commonplace of late, largely due to the Kremlin's resident maniac. But how many of us really understand what even a 'small' nuclear war would...
William Browder paints an astonishing and chilling first-hand picture of the man. This Ted talk is well worth a quarter of an hour of your time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT254smRufA...
Not musical though;
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1606325/russian-ship-sunk-ukraine-neptune-missile-odessa-black-sea-Admiral-Makarov-vladimir-putin...