After all these years, given the progress we've made understanding the very early stages of dementia, it should now be crystal clear that whilst Harold Wilson was, indeed adept with the media & on top of his game, once; (and probably for most of his career) he nor anyone else could readily have realised that he was experiencing a progression of early-stage dementia.
In my opinion it was this that undermined his effectiveness as a previously erudite & vigilant media-savy politician. So it's a shame that he's too often remembered as an exposed shambles, rather than a revered Shaman.
The world is turning as John Gray says. The global south have had enough of neo colonialism and many people on the street, if not in the government in the West, want the illegal occupation to end. They want international law to mean something and they want UN resolutions to be followed. Last night the General Assembly which demanded the end to the mass slaughter of children in Gaza showed that the moral majority are now the rest of the world and not us.
https://thecritic.co.uk/top-of-the-pops/ "The big problem with rock/pop as art comes with trying to actually pan the gold dust out from the 60 million babbling brook. That tiny proportion of truly great music has fallen victim to a kind of category error, having no unique generic label to differentiate it from the rest. In theory, Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time would be the answer. It is, after all, a composite distillation of the individual “top 50” voted by a kind of rock cognoscenti of industry insiders; artists, music critics etc. But when you remember that this is the aggregated judgement of an industry driven by a default imperative to breathlessly and endlessly enthuse about every new release — the vast majority of which are worthless trash — it doesn’t inspire much confidence."
After all these years, given the progress we've made understanding the very early stages of dementia, it should now be crystal clear that whilst Harold Wilson was, indeed adept with the media & on top of his game, once; (and probably for most of his career) he nor anyone else could readily have realised that he was experiencing a progression of early-stage dementia.
In my opinion it was this that undermined his effectiveness as a previously erudite & vigilant media-savy politician. So it's a shame that he's too often remembered as an exposed shambles, rather than a revered Shaman.
The Italian synthetic meat ban has been withdrawn apparently (the vid linked is six months old)
The world is turning as John Gray says. The global south have had enough of neo colonialism and many people on the street, if not in the government in the West, want the illegal occupation to end. They want international law to mean something and they want UN resolutions to be followed. Last night the General Assembly which demanded the end to the mass slaughter of children in Gaza showed that the moral majority are now the rest of the world and not us.
Rock & Roll is Dead?
https://thecritic.co.uk/top-of-the-pops/ "The big problem with rock/pop as art comes with trying to actually pan the gold dust out from the 60 million babbling brook. That tiny proportion of truly great music has fallen victim to a kind of category error, having no unique generic label to differentiate it from the rest. In theory, Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time would be the answer. It is, after all, a composite distillation of the individual “top 50” voted by a kind of rock cognoscenti of industry insiders; artists, music critics etc. But when you remember that this is the aggregated judgement of an industry driven by a default imperative to breathlessly and endlessly enthuse about every new release — the vast majority of which are worthless trash — it doesn’t inspire much confidence."