I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
In the first half of the 19th Century, many Americans were gripped with a sense of Manifest Destiny, an idea that they were destined to control the entire North American continent. This led them in the 1840s to provoke a war with Mexico as a pretense to conquer large and valuable tracts of land, including …
Continue reading “Trump On Greenland: The Return Of Manifest Destiny (or is it Manifest Insanity?)”
I have written about former local state upper house MP Bernie Finn on various occasions in the past, particularly when I suggested he get given a knighthood (I was being facetious, if you don’t quite know how to read my tone!). I will be honest and concede that his first coming as an MP in …
Where the hell does one start when talking about Trump winning a non-consecutive second term as US President anyway?!? I guess I will start by saying that as a recently retired ‘Gentleman’, I have joined a couple of the private members’ Clubs in Town. One, as you would know, is the Kelvin Club, which I …
Continue reading “Thoughts On The Resurrection Of The Trump Monster….”
The American Dream is a phrase which was first articulated in that form in 1931, at the heart of the Great Depression. I suppose that there are some parallels between that time and now. James Truslow Adams, the populariser of the phrase, defined the American Dream as ‘a land in which life should be better …
Continue reading “The Great American Nightmare? The Ongoing Relevance of Sinclair Lewis”
Lost For Words!