I love...

......this tree. It does this every year, beautifully.

Vapour trails

I love what air and water can do.

What the expletive is going on?

Every TV and radio news bulletin, plus the BBC News website, has, as their main story, the news that Prince William and his girlfriend are splitting up.

WHAAAAAAT?

Clearly somebody has redefined the meaning of 'news' while I had my back turned. Sometimes I despair about my country and its culture.

Yes, it has.

Been a while, that is. Not sure why. Secretiveness? Laziness? Wariness? Mm.

Anyway. It struck me that all the news reports I heard (on UK TV/radio) about the bombing inside the Iraqi parliament talked about how the blast had killed 'three MPs and five others'.

Look at that bit in inverted commas.

The implicit assumption is that the people from the political class are more important than anyone else - that their existence is privileged over 'other', more ordinary people.

If ever there was an indictment of the war's privileging of political desire over humanism, those headlines are it.

also

I've got a lovely early morning picture of sky and vapour trails (from my camera phone), but Flickr seems to have become Fuckr, and no longer accepts my MMS submissions. Arsing annoying.

Also also

Saw "Days of Glory" (aka "Indigenes") last night: very impressive and thought provoking. Glib review to follow...