Badtraum2020

Most mornings I walk through a couple of parks and some woods to get to the sea. The rain in summer comes at you like children's water pistols, non threatening and benign. I pass many dog walkers in the early light of the day. Most have ear buds installed and avoid eye contact. There are no rules. Everyone does what they want. One morning an all white Pomeranian ran at me out of friendliness. I laughed and told the owner that he was like a snowball. On closer inspection I could see light brown shading on his ears like at the edge of Cappuccino foam. A gentle soul, he seemed to be laughing as I stroked his head. I filled my water bottle at the oasis and walked through the gentle spray of the rain. I wondered if he was going to be there on the beach today. This man in his seventies with a beard and red daypack. Was it Richard? I had once lived at the beach on Lanzarote. I had met Richard at the soup kitchen there. He was always looking for new books in English to read. I ...

Do you preach cultural diversity and tolerance from a postcode that is whiter than an episode of Frazier projected onto a Hellman's mayonnaise advert on the side of a Transit van? Maybe you live in an enriched urban melting pot like London and you are afraid to go to the bank machine in the middle of the night in case you are attacked by Neo Nazis!(sniggers behind hand.) Seriously though I read the guardian for twenty odd years before Soros and Bill Gates started telling the journalists what to write. In 2023 I'm starting to wonder if the legendary indignation of certain newspapers in the UK hasn't been lobotomized permanently by that nurse Ratchet of killjoys: The World Economic Forum. Most normal grafters and out of work plotters and thinkers should be smelling a large rat right about now. We cannot openly voice our disapproval at the latest cultural humiliation being implemented on us for fear of getting charged with terrorism and enduring five years in priso...