Rutger Bregam talking to Trevor Noah on The Daily Show.

Rutger exemplifies the thinking that The Correspondent will be delivering to the US market from September 30th of this year.


🎵 Damn it … if it’s going to get worm its way into my ear … then it can worm its way into yours.

Beware … Earworm


When i saw this protest outside of Downing Street … I was reminded of this quote …

”The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”

John D. Rockefeller


If you have a spare 21 minutes and 26 seconds …. spend it here … now .. I don’t know how John Oliver can make something so funny and depressing at the same time - but he does … in spades.

You’ll also learn more about Brexit than you ever expected and it is all spot on.


Well … it looks like Typewriters have ‘gone mainstream’ … in an underground sort of way

Enjoy


Omnifocus, Things, ToDoist, Wunderlist even possibly Bullet Journal users … seems like we might have been thinking about this all wrong.


🎵Jon Lord plays Dave Brubeck - and nothing wrong with that!

I came across it accidentally when I was seeking out Dave’s original - which I have written about - and will be publishing to People First shortly.


Extraordinary: 🔗📼 In a Nutshell

#vimeo



Thinking Aloud

Sometimes it puts it all into perspective. But if we all did it all the time … well, then where would we be?

I know right!


It’s probably just me - but every time I hear this Apple ad …I am reminded of this Rowan Atkinson TV show.


Eleven, Eleven, Eleven, Eleven

The First World War officially ended 100 years ago today … November 11, 1918. More than 16 million people were killed, 8 million of them ‘civilians’.

And then just 21 years later … WW2 broke out. But that is a different story.

100 years ago today is a fascinating site that gives you a day by day summary of The Great War.

Meanwhile, Yo Yo Ma performing at WWI Armistice Ceremonies:

and The Guardian writing about ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’

WW2 broke out just 21 years after the end of WW1. That’s like a major war ending in 1997 and a second one starting this year.

Here’s hoping (though we probably need to do more than ‘hope’) that WW3 is not just around the corner - because sometimes I wonder. And I think senior world leaders also ask …

“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism,” the French president said, according to a translation of his remarks. “Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying our interests first, who cares about the others, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values.”

President Emmanuel Macron

Trump continues to be a global disgrace, and increasingly a major threat to world peace and stability.

Read more on Vox here


Here’s an idea - don’t vote … be isolated and uninvolved in what is happening around you … and then at least you too can say - without any doubt:

“I am a microcosm of America.”

WATCH

#swingleft #vote #choose


Pity The Nation … Lawrence Ferlinghetti … one of the locals … 100 years old next year.



Call it a public service. Links to the first 8 of the BBC TV Series Grumpy Old Men that started in 2003.

1 of Series 1

2 of Series 1

3 of Series 1

4 of Series 1

1 of Series 2

2 of Series 2

3 of Series 2

4 of Series 2


Just had a great conversation that was about how we might get seemingly disparate organizations focussed on working together, to broaden the common message, rather than working separately.

During the conversation I was reminded of The People’s Front of Judea


Good Grief

… and sadly so common it barely scrapes into the news cycle.



Oh My - Floyd from the archives. All standing around playing their electric guitars and not a cable to be seen …


This from the Daily Show

Now, I write not as ‘An Englishman in New York - but certainly ‘in America’ and tend to agree with the French Ambassador. Not Noah.

Is that the ‘European' in me?