UNDERSTANDING RECENT HISTORY - WHY JEREMY CORBYN WAS DIFFERENT AND SEEN AS A THREAT

 SKWAWKBOX, in the capable hands of Steve Walker, has a firm grasp of history and politics. I recommend the website. What follows below is a sound analysis of recent history:

SKWAWKBOX (SW) posted: " Activist analyses the discredited myth - or scam - that the media and pro-Israel activists still roll out and links it to the right's austerity scam In 2008, the Labour government bailed-out the British banking system with tens of billions of poun" SKWAWKBOX There was no ‘antisemitism crisis’ when Corbyn was Labour leader – he just intended real change SKWAWKBOX (SW) Sep 21 Activist analyses the discredited myth - or scam - that the media and pro-Israel activists still roll out and links it to the right's austerity scam In 2008, the Labour government bailed-out the British banking system with tens of billions of pounds of public money. In 2010, the newly-elected Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government distorted the concept of solidarity - the ludicrous ‘We are all in this together’ - to convince the British public that massive cuts to welfare and public services, referred to as ‘austerity’, were necessary to save the country from economic collapse even though they would be damaging: 'And it’s not possible to make those cuts without cutting some things that are important. […] that is the situation we are in as a country.' Then-Tory PM David Cameron's austerity scam Similarly, the concept of antisemitism was distorted to convince the British public that the removal of lifelong anti-racist Jeremy Corbyn from his position as Leader of the Opposition, was necessary to save the country from a social collapse. As Scottish-American Professor Mark Blyth has pointed out, austerity was sold as the ‘pain after the party’ but it is in fact ‘class

LOUISE DONOVAN - HER TEXTILE ART EXHIBITION AT THE MARAZION QUAKERS' MEETING HOUSE IN SEPTEMBER 2023

I admire Louise's talents as a textile artist. It is a joy to find that so many other people find her work stimulates thought and feeling.

We are very grateful that Marazion Quakers suggested that Louise consider mounting an exhibition in the Meeting House when they learned that the Crypt Gallery was no longer available for the planned exhibition in November this year. Louise and I had been Quaker attenders by Zoom since January 2022, moving to attendance in person in January of this year. We have our Quaker identity and the Quaker community is so welcoming. 

Louise - April 2021 - our back-garden

The sixteen pieces of textile art for the show were chosen in the Spring of this year. Five of the pieces had been exhibited before: 'Guantanamo' (NEC, Birmingham (2014 Judges' Award winner), and St Ives (2018 and 2021); 'When I am an Old Woman' (NEC, Birmingham (2019); 'Pyramids on Purple' (St Ives, 2021); 'Light Through a Mondrian Prism' (St Ives, 2021); and 'From Darkness into Light' (St Ives, 2018).

The remaining eleven pieces had all been completed between the ending of the 2021 Crypt Gallery, St Ives exhibition and the summer of this year - in around nineteen months. Together, the sixteen pieces created 'COLOUR ME PURPLE', the November 2023 Marazion exhibition. 

You can see 'Pyramids on Purple' - and the Meeting House in the foreground - and St Michael's Mount in the bay - on this cover

The catalogue that Louise and I created for this Marazion show is still available - each piece has its own page of Quaker-shaped commentary - please send an email with a donation to help us offset our printing

BYE-BYE META/FACEBOOK - AND WELCOME TO A NEW BLOGPOST

This post is by way of explanation why you will never see any more of my blogposts on Facebook aka Meta (and I will touch on other matters too, including my life as a runner which is the excuse for these two pictures and captions below).

Finishing a Broome (Suffolk) 10K in 2012 as a Bungay Black Dog - 61 minutes and 19 seconds - the