Category Archives: misery for the many, freedom for the few

terror and comfort

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

Today I went to the Terror House in Budapest. This is a museum set up in the house which was the headquarters, first, of Hungary’s Nazis, who ruled brutally for a few months in 1944-45; and then of the Hungarian … Continue reading →

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Innsbruck

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

Innsbruck is a small city in the mountains, built around the Inn river, which flows swiftly through the town. Although it’s beautiful, you wouldn’t want to fall in, or you would probably get swept away pretty quickly and drown… Innsbruck … Continue reading →

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more bad news to ignore

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

Stories yesterday in the Guardian and the Independent about how carbon emissions are rising quickly again after the Great Recession, and how they will flip us into feedback loops in the Arctic within 20 years. These stories hunt in packs, … Continue reading →

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everybody’s doing it

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

Talking about the death of Osama bin Laden, that is. There have been so many opinions flying around that it’s not a case of saying anything new, just picking what to agree with. Which, for me is: if you live … Continue reading →

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the lights are going out (but not here, yet)

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

A story by Tom Whipple in Energy Bulletin yesterday, about how South Asia is running out of power (I noticed this in Nepal when I was there in January, in Bhaktapur – the power was off for at least half … Continue reading →

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Mr. Osborne starts to bite

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Mark Rossiter

Last week a colleague at work introduced me to a site called Teachers TV, and specifically to a video of someone called Phil Beadle teaching a class of inner city yoof a poem by Grace Nichols called Island Man.It was … Continue reading →

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the man who should have been pope

Posted on May 29, 2005 by Mark Rossiter

Today I ran across this quote from David Attenborough, maker of some of the greatest television series of the twentieth century, but also a man with sufficient all-round skills that he could have been Director-General of the BBC (he quit … Continue reading →

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what the president really meant to say…

Posted on May 29, 2005 by Mark Rossiter

Today’s calendar sees  George Bush’s irrepressible socio-political id  thoroughly give the game away: "The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."

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free nations don’t do what???

Posted on May 16, 2005 by Mark Rossiter

On the side in our kitchen we have a calendar of George W. Bushisms, given to us by my mother-in-law: peel off a daily howler from the mouth of the not-so-great man. Often they’re a bit fussy, hanging on his … Continue reading →

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pope soap dope

Posted on April 10, 2005 by Mark Rossiter

That religion is still the opium of the people is proven by the razzle-dazzle surrounding the funeral of one of its longest-standing cult bosses, John Paul II. Everybody who’s anybody had to be seen there, and it gave them all … Continue reading →

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