Anthem for Doomed Youth

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds.

Wilfred Owen

It is as well to remember when kings and politicians glorify war that they are not the ones who pay the price.

Socialist Rally

Socialist Rally

https://www.youtube.com/live/XijH5oxKCwI

The rally will be live-streamed which is great for people who are old or ill or just plain hard-up. You too can take part. As can I.

Kamala

Kamala Harris has struggled to escape the trap of Bidenism. Asking Israel very politely to stop killing women and children while arming the murderers to the teeth is hypocrisy. 

Flash Fiction

Grandad, what are you doing with the laptop?
Making a Book

Won't your fingers get tired?
I'm going to use a mouse.

How can his tiny paws press those huge keys?

This is an audiobook of short stories (flash fiction) for your entertainment.
Postage is free in the UK.

It also makes an excellent gift.

Buy one of these and you are giving money to Alzheimer's research.

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Slavery

"We must learn the lessons of the past" according to unelected inbred imbecile King Charles the Last.

The main lesson is that the royal family benefited from the slave trade more than anyone else in this country. If anyone should be forced to pay compensation it is certainly them and one in five of the rich bastards in the UK who also owe their fortunes to slavery.

The Bank of England made capital available for slave voyages and the City of London became the financial centre of the slave trade.

Politicians talk smugly about the abolition of the slave trade. They forget that British capitalism had to have a slave trade, and a massively profitable one, in order for it to be abolished. The profits of slavery were falling before abolition was considered.

The Kings School in Hampshire

The Kings School in Hampshire is appealing against the imposition of VAT, claiming that it is a school for Christians. It is not. It is a school for people with £8000 to spare. And such people will not enter the kingdom of heaven until they can push a camel through the eye of a needle!

Truth is stranger than fiction

We attended a Shoreham Wordfest crime-writer get-together yesterday. It was great fun. One writer who is also a lawyer was asked if something happened in real life which nobody would believe in a book.

Apparently, she said to a witness who had just told a remarkable and untrue story. "I put it to you that what you have said is a pack of lies." The witness's response left her speechless. The witness said "Yeah."

MPs assisted suicide bill.

Politicians will vote for assisted suicide because they will not spend the money on palliative end-of-life care. What a shower.

This is not an abstract debate. It is a direct threat to people who are old or ill. Call them worthless. Make them believe they are a burden. Then offer them assisted suicide.

I have received a reply from Becky Cooper MP which is available on this blog.

https://derekmcmillan1951a.blogspot.com/2024/10/becky-coopers-reply.html

Why not write to your MP? It could be your own life you are saving!

Netanyahu

Surely Netanyahu will not end the war ever. Without the war, he has no purpose. 

He clings on to power by virtue of the war. As long as he kills women and children in Gaza, the far-right fanatics will continue to support him.