"And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die."
~ Robert Fisk
David's Current Maxim: 'No mother and child should be in the least harmed anywhere in our still beautiful world.'
A Selection of Poetry
Blockade - By Dan Marlin
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The people of Gaza want libraries.
Every day they read
clouds of questions
in their children’s eyes.
They want pencils
to write down grandmother’s words
before her voice
fades into silence.
The people of Gaza
want tubes for incubators
and dialysis machines,
truckloads of spiral notebooks,
aspirin and macaroni.
They want travel
to cancer wards in Tel Aviv,
to visit a dying sister in Beirut,
to study on scholarship in London.
The people of Gaza want distances,
having grown
weary of watchtowers
at the horizon.
They want thread and sequins,
fabric for wedding dresses
smuggled under the desert.
Ask the people of Gaza
if they want roses
though water runs out
before everyone can drink.
The people of Gaza love
the stars of winter
but want roofs between
sky and their infants’ sleep.
(Previously published in Isaiah at the Wall, Palestine Poems)
In his report to the Conservative Party’s Economic Reconstruction Group in 1977, Nicholas Ridley wrote that:
"...denationalisation should not be attempted by frontal attack but by preparation for return to the private sector by stealth. We should first pass legislation to destroy the public sector monopolies. We might also need to take power to sell assets. Secondly, we should fragment the industries as far as possible and set up the units as separate profit centres."
"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
