Lies, damn lies - from Disraeli to Trump … More Lies, Damn Lies and Specifics

https://peterleewright.com/2020/06/09/lies-damn-lies-and-specifics/

Time for a new Enlightenment … More Enlightenment

https://peterleewright.com/2020/05/20/enlightenment/

This is to my mind the best cartoon of the coronavirus saga so far. Martin Rowson’s sharp satirical pen catches the fatuous disjunct between the Tories’ tiresome invocation of military metaph...

https://peterleewright.com/2020/05/11/gunge-ho/

Collage, from the French coller ‘to stick’, although an ancient practice is normally associated with the modernist movement of the 1900s, particularly with Braque and Picasso.  As such, it a...

https://peterleewright.com/2020/04/28/sticking-it-to-the-man/

Just over 2000 years ago, in 18AD one of Rome's greatest writers, Ovid, died in exile in Romania. This is the last year the UK will be able to rely on Romanian workers to work in our fields, as w...

https://peterleewright.com/2020/04/27/ovid-18/

Rome has always been my central reference point for triangulating where we now stand, or fall, in history. With the ghastly misadventure in Iraq in 2003, George Bush obviously thought of himself ...

https://peterleewright.com/2020/04/17/the-eagle-has-crash-landed/

I have been silent for months as the Brexit tragedy has unfolded, the whole fiasco being driven by self-seeking  cynics who have a very contemporary aversion to the truth, which rendered intelli...

https://peterleewright.com/2020/03/27/olympic-hurdles/

On 1st September 1939, war was declared. On 1st September 1949 my parents married. On 1st September 2019, I reflected on our demonstration the day before and the linkage.  If my father was alive...

https://peterleewright.com/2019/09/03/sleepwalking-to-armageddon/

  As the callow chumps in Westminster duck and dive, working out how best to game the system in their own selfish interest, the public knows whatever outcome will be bad for the majority. That d...

https://peterleewright.com/2019/03/27/guy-fawkes-where-are-you-now-we-need-you-so/

    No-one should be surprised at the sending of pipe bombs to the Clintons and Obama. This is precisely the kind of activity encouraged by a rogue president who supported the lethal fascists o...

https://peterleewright.com/2018/10/25/bombs-away/