jaynorth

Writer Educator Curiosities collector Magician Abiding interest in ethics, politics, poetry and other irreconciliables

[jaynorth @jaynorth1968]

@RochfordSReview A beautiful, poignant tribute to a criminally under-appreciated poet who should be in the nation’s pantheon of great artists. A splendid interview about the poet from Radio National’s Late Night Live with the excellent poet & educator Toby Davidson

https://t.co/e8shEZnco5

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@danavachon And so my search ends for more episodes of Cheese and Chats. Virtuosos insights in episodes each of which never failed to delight and were too short. Remembering a gifted communicator with appreciation as I press episode replay.

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1000 days into a war that Vladmir Putin said would last three days, news that Joe Biden has ok’ed US supplied missile strikes on Russian territory is BIG, a real counterstroke to the battlefield introduction of 1000’s of North Korean soldiers. Will Putin pal Trump ‘re-prohibit’?

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It’s official. Parrot Must Not Leave Perch.
Alan Jones, Australia’s version of far right fulminator Alex Jones & just as toxic, has lost his passport as he is assessed a flight risk as he faces 24 sex offences. His predilections have been Sydney’s worst kept secret for decades.

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Conspiracy loons, Putin apologists, anti-science theocrats & entertainers in charge of US defence. It all makes sense. Trump is at last realizing his life long dream of being the smartest person in the room.

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With apologies to Goya
“Nor is the people’s judgment always true
The most may err as grossly as the few.”
- John Dryden

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Paris I 1952

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W.H Auden on Trumpism
'Reason will be replaced by revelation. Knowledge will degenerate into a riot of subjective visions. Philosophies & rationales will come from feelings in the solar plexus induced by over-eating. Whole cosmologies will be created out of personal resentment.'

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The rolling catastrophe of Trump’s return is now flashing neon. Calculated outrage seems to be behind his choices - he wants to stick it to his foes by nominating the fringe of the fringe & normalizing extremism. His whole project now is to settle the scores of a lifetime.

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Latest pic by Trump - step forward new Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jnr. Mr Tangerine Man had said in the campaign that he’d let Kennedy ‘go wild’ on the health sustem. With more & more foxes being put in charge of chickenhouses, the Illiterati is taking shape.

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@bobjcarr @SenatorWong Impressed. Penny Wong is fast moving to second place as our most astute and informed foreign minister behind Bob Carr. Minister Wong is trustee of our hopes for the region.

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@ReallyAmerican1 You won’t have long to wait for Vance type lines (‘I’m interested in the future’/ ‘Time to move on’)when KM tries to shove this down the memory hole. McCarthy is one of life’s more breathtaking opportunists & shapeshifters, a shameless jackal who pants before the powerful.

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Scotty's Stroll
Photo - Emma Frøya Wright

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Passage de Clichy | 1930-32
Photograph by Brassaï

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Night Watch

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Platforming
Photograph - Israel Castillo

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Hot tip for investors - get into the ‘lock’em up’ market. Trump’s plan for the biggest-ever mass deportation is propelling a stock surge for private-prison companies who help run migrant detention facilities & GPS monitoring of asylum seekers.Geo Group is up 42% & CoreCivic 29%.

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We didn’t have to wait long for a preview. Cost Cutting Chairman - elect Musk shared a 3 way call with Trump & President Zelensky about the future of Ukraine - the day after the presidential election. Next a 3 way call with Jared Kushner & Netanyahu about Gaza real estate.

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@NickBryantNY @raymasseytweets @UKLabour @PrivateEyeNews And a semi-loaded Secretaryof State Dean Rusk gave Denis Healey a spittle flecked blast (‘You could have sent the Black Watch!’) over the Wilson government’s treacherous non commitment.