Good evening or, indeed, morning,

The news continues to be dominated by the right wing dominated) media’s attempt to follow the (name of certain people deleted) desire to promote the possibility of a war with the poor, innocent people of Cambodia. Nonsense professing to be news can be found here, here, here and – stuff it, the papers are full of this lying nonsense. What kind of regime would promote a wholly unjust war to deflect attention from its onw lack of legitimacy? Yes, [delete inflammatory name] obviously, Thatcher of course, Reagan’s deeply shameful invasion of Grenada, oh what’s the point – the blood of the poor is willingly expended now as always by those certain people I am not allowed to name or even allude to the gender of the leader of this certain group of people.

In wholly unrelated news., the traitor Sonthi Boonyaratkalin who led the illegal and wholly disastrous 2006 military coup, apparently is being presented as a figure who will ‘unite’ the country and the people. Curious how ‘uniting’ the country always, always, always means the poor have to put aside their interests and obey what the rich and powerful tell them to do. I don’t in principle support the death penalty but for a vile traitor like [deletes name] I would hang the bastard from the Democracy Monument myself.

At times like this, where all seems grim, I am heartened by the appearance in Pathum Thani of the Asian Openbill, which is I suppose my first stork. Do remind me to tell you the story of ‘my first yak’ sometime.

Two new articles have been published at Bookstove, which are (again following the secret, Dan Brownesque theme) Poetry of Shakespeare: A Lover’s Complaint and Critics of Shakespeare: T.S. Eliot. I will move on to the Sonnets shortly (I plan a series of four to six articles), together with two more disputed ownership plays and some more critics (of whom there are many, of course). Today I started reading the Kermode book on the life and times of Will Shakeschaft and that will help in providing some more background articles. Various new themes (probably for the New Year) already present themselves.

Back later today, tomorrow or indeed Monday, which is in two, three or four days.

Blackpool? Smackpool! Despite the relentless series of tedious defeats and the occasional draw, we will certainly win this one by at least five goals. Nothing can possibly etc and so on.