“PHONETICALLY SPEAKING” To reflect the fast pace of world news, my blog is probably best served as a stream-of-consciousness text. Fast and unadulterated. With this approach, and on first encounter, text might not seem to scan. This is because I am dyslexic. Instead of keeping the proof-readers busy, I would rather let my blog updates of my visual work stand as a record of my experience of dyslexia, which I am keen that you now get to enjoy too. Unlike some news outlets, I hereby excuse myself the need for a ‘corrections’ section! The excitement of a new language is something I’m quite familiar with, and it is with this ‘joie de vivre’ that I am delighted to guide you through my thought and work processes, more phonetically (than fanatically) speaking.
New Benn
One Apple which did land miles away from the tree, Hilary Benn gave an outstanding speech in the House of Commons justifying attacking Syria, an enemy sovereign nation in the name of protecting them from Isis. Ignoring the Western backed funding of Isis when it suits them.
One of the greatest British socialists and anti-war campaigner Tony Benn who happened to be the father of Hilary Benn wouldn’t be clapping and cheering this war chant, along with the whole Conservative party when Hilary finished chanting as shadow Foreign Minister for Labour.
However, Hilary’s record for voting for war is 100%, since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and defends the invasion of Iraq still, where one of the most wanted war criminal Tony Blair has wavered on that question.
We can’t let politicians break international law with romantic moral justifications. It always goes very dark very fast and when you let it slide it’s hard to stop.
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