Its been a strange old year! Of scandals, inquiries, conflicts, of unexpected turbulence, global wars, right wing populism. Bob Dylan wrote once – “I still say that some of the biggest criminals are those that turn their heads away when they see wrong and know it’s wrong.”We must speak up. Every voice matters – if one voice becomes a thousand ripples, like the little pebbles thrown into the murky waters.
Its been a tough year physically for me, while I continue with my many projects. Then the day after news of an operation I’d require, I had my Facebook profile hacked and I’ve been unable to contact Facebook. Its been tough trying to reset up a new FB page – my previous online page had around 800 followers and 12 years of around 50 photo albums. Ah well… here’s to new beginnings! For 2024
“Those who see wrong, and know it is wrong, but say nothing…”
“I still say that some of the biggest criminals are those that turn their heads away when they see wrong and know it’s wrong. “ DYLAN, I’m only 21 years old and I know that there’s been too many wars… You people over 21 should know better. The first way to answer these questions in the song is by asking them. But lots of people have to first find the wind.
*MUSIC 2023
Lana Del Rey –
Christine and the Queens –
Duncan Chisholm – Black Cullins
Bach Goldberg variations piano Vikingur
*YEAR in Scottish politics
Has been very strange with many conflicting forces: I’m not sure how much I believe of the nonsense put out by the media and press coming out of London. London sucks in so much – in London they spend £75 per person on the arts, in the rest of the UK merely £10 per person:
And Gaza?
If a terrorist group from Ireland took UK citizens hostages – I would expect the British army to do something to retrieve the hostages ……… BUT I would not expect them to bomb children indiscriminately! Over 16,000 Palestinians have been murdered, half of these “people’ are children.
I’d be wondering too why this group felt so angry they felt the need to behave in such a barbaric way.
Nicola Sturgeon? She was by miles the most popular politician in the UK.
Humza Yousaf - The First Muslin leader in the western world.
*I agree with Gerry Hassan’s critical article on Labour’s failures to address any sort of vision for the British state. What I don’t understand about these British/ English political parties is - what is there vision, or what country are they trying to emulate – America? In Scotland with our aging population we desperately need young workers to come and live here. How can they wend people back to France, when France and Germany are taking in far more refugees that the UK does.
(Timothy Calumet will play the young Bob Dylan in a new film)
