IT IS MORE THAN A YEAR SINCE THIS LETTER WAS SENT TO THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA – WE SHOULD ALL SEND IT AGAIN According to dictionaries, propaganda is the sharing of misleading information for a political cause. It all began in 1622 when Pope Gregory XV Propaganda Fide to tell the world about the Catholic …
Rocker asks Putin ‘is your money that good …’ as her band members fights on Europe’s streets of death (see video inside) The lanky musician who has brought an element of punk blues to Dylan’s performances over the past decades has stepped into the spotlight of war. Charlie Sexton, the six feet three inches tall, …
Who remembers these Communist ‘failures’? A quirky museum needed a bit more room for its array of historic cars, trucks and motorcycles. So it tried selling off part of its Slovak and Czech collection. Makes sense… we can all do with some more space can’t we. So, what do we do? We have a garage …
Years ago I was asked to write something about Slovakia’s dream machine … a prototype flying car. I loved it, but I worried I was being a bit of an Icarus about it all, blinded by the light, waxing lyrical. I certainly didn’t want to support a car crash in the sky! Then it …
I’ve protested about Artificial Intelligence ever since our barmy army of boffins came up with this real no-brainer threat to our civilisation. And, as Dylan almost said… Come gather ’round people wherever you moanAnd admit that the robots around you have grownAnd accept it that soon you’ll be turned to a clone – If your time …
I was cruising round the net when I came across this video of Dylan playing a REAL one-man show! Well, actually, Bob had members of his band with him – but, yep, there was only one man in the audience. I know many of us will know this performance well but it is always worth …
A new rocking piece by our resident writer – ERIC LASTICK A knot so quick witted, although a path—-right through the staked heart; and leftest flash of the peace sign…American flag on the back leather, with all aboard & towards that of the flower child rise up— with straight forward of the whole…and that of …
Covering the news is an important job … it’s not an ego trip for wannabes who work down the chip shop BBC political editor Andrew Marr said recently: ‘Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn’t dream of saying in person.” I agree with him, blogging is …
Assange isn’t a journalist – never will be. Yet we real news people need to stand up for him… UPDATE: Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to the US on espionage charges. The judgment was given privately recently at the High Court. WikiLeaks founder Assange, aged 51, launched the appeal last June after then-Home …
Manchester in the liberated Sixties and they play pass the parcel with a young boy … he will grow up and hunt them down A few weeks ago I finally shut down my journallistic career … it had served me for half a century! But I’d just remember that I’d forgotten to finish my memoir …
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