Category: Opinion

• By Force of Arms

  I’m a geriatic.  I know the meaning of the word.  So when I see a neo-octogenarian being sworn in as the ‘Leader of the Free World’ you’ll forgive me for feeling a little concerned, especially when the process requires the protection of an entire army. In many less ‘free’ countries that would be considered a […]

  frederick anderson

  January 20, 2021

  Opinion, Social Comment

  age, belief, democracy, Elections, Inauguration, Politics

• New Year, and a Life in Captivity

  

  So the New Year is striking off on a down-beat note.   Differences from the celebrations of other years could not be more marked, at least if we obeyed the conventional wisdom and kept our seasonal conviviality strictly to ourselves. The which we did, self and memsahib, bingeing on Netflix and scarcely bothering to note […]

  frederick anderson

  January 4, 2021

  Opinion, Social Comment

  Armageddon, Cliff edge, Direction, Distancing, free speech, future, Lockdown, New Year, Noughties, Woke

• Bathyscaphe

  

  Here it is once again – the most ungodly week on the calendar!  I must confess I greet this festival each time with increasing wonder – like by whose permission am I still here?  This is a special one, though: it’ll surely be the smallest, and for the first time I go into it with […]

  frederick anderson

  December 22, 2020

  Homelife, Opinion, Social Comment

  age, celebration, Christmas, COVID-19, Festive, Gathering, media, nostalgia, stories, Xmas, Yuletide