I saw Oppenheimer yesterday, and it was superb. Believe the hype, and then some. Among many thoughts arising out of it, and I am sure that I shall have many more, someone should make a film about Lewis Strauss, perhaps a Netflix documentary or something like that.
As much as anything else, Strauss was a major figure in the lost world of American Reform anti-Zionism, or at least non-Zionism. Holding that position, he rose to be nominated to President Eisenhower's Cabinet. It is unimaginable now. I seem to have rather lost touch with Jack Ross, but this is one for him.
The Odeon in the Metrocentre is conveniently located in the restaurant quarter, and I was treating myself to bread and water when a perfect stranger came up to me and said, "If Jamie Driscoll's good enough for you, Mr Lindsay, he's good enough for me," before shaking my hand. I never think of myself as known on Tyneside, but of course south of the river is historic County Durham.
Those who suspect Jamie of too much Greenery, identity politics and affection for EU, should consider that he has been endorsed by the RMT, which seems to have become the lodestar that the NUM used to be, but without the inconvenience of affiliation to the Labour Party.
If Jamie Driscoll's good enough for you, Mr Lindsay, he's good enough for me.
ReplyDeleteI seem to be getting that a lot.
DeleteNo one wants the migrant barges? Maybe not the Far Left, but 60% of the British public think they’re perfectly fine.
ReplyDeletehttps://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/08/08/45727/1
Europe has been using them for ages,
and Bibby Stockholm was used by the Dutch government to house asylum seekers.
They don't live there. You saw the two rival, but apparently mostly cordial, demonstrations, one against treating asylum seekers like that, and the other against letting them in at all, but both against the barge.
DeleteAnd David Lindsay is good enough for Jamie Driscoll. You would make a superb chief of staff alongside being MP.
ReplyDeleteI just spat out my tea.
DeleteDon’t make the mistake of thinking a few loudmouth protestors represent public opinion. Polls show most British people perfectly reasonably think taxpayers should only be funding only basic accommodation for illegal migrants-just as most British people support deporting illegal migrants to Rwanda and increasing charges for all migrants to use the NHS.
ReplyDeleteThese things are only controversial on the fringes of the Far Left.
They clearly aren't.
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