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Thanks for drawing the attention JR. A new Adam Curtis TV documentary, tracing with his usual comprehensiveness the inbuilt mainstream character of latter day global food production and its aetiology is surely way overdue?Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostReview of book that foretold Covid-19:
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Seems to be a ban on mail generally - haven’t had anything by post for over a week.Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
I’d be interested to know if others’ post is getting through..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Received my replacement bankers cards this morning - each one had ben posted separately. Also I seem to be getting huge amounts of scary correspondence from my share portfolio manager and his firm almost every other day right now - which I'd much rather not be having to receive.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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Nothing since Friday - but we've got The Letter from UNOHOO to look forward to....Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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All well down here AFAIK - we had one item of post delivered today.Originally posted by Caliban View PostI keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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It wasn't one of last year's Christmas cards, was it?Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View PostComment
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Thanks, oddoneout. She did have several underlying health problems but the shock remains:Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
Her last Sound Out programme, broadcast live on the 10th of this month, is, along with many other, available here:
Resonance FM also broadcast a selection of ten of her programmes in a 7 hour stretch on Sunday 22nd in tribute:
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostThanks, oddoneout. She did have several underlying health problems but the shock remains:
Her last Sound Out programme, broadcast live on the 10th of this month, is, along with many other, available here:
Resonance FM also broadcast a selection of ten of her programmes in a 7 hour stretch on Sunday 22nd in tribute:
https://www.resonancefm.com/programm...000b1efd000003
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Glad I don’t live in Hungary. The govt there has just declared a state of emergency, and given Orban apparently unlimited powers, including:
- State of emergency w/o time limit
- Parliament suspended and replaced by rule by decree
- No elections
- Spreading fake news + rumors: up to 5 yrs in prison
- Leaving quarantine: up to 8 yrs in prison"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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Excellent! Many thanks. A sober and pretty authoritative piece, I would gauge. A good repost to the Mail's, Trumps and U.K.miniters' racist jibes at China's handling of the outbreak, too. Whatever the negative aspects China's rulers' activities in other areas of policy, they appear to have acted quickly and effectively in approaching this outbreak, individual rumour-mongering by some of their 'diplomats' notwithstanding, and are now doing what they can to assist countries throughout the world.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostComment
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All post as normal here, though the Radio Times was a day late. Not the end of the world. Yet.Comment
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