Sylvia Shawcross “Oh you better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout. I’m telling you why—Santa Klaus is coming to town.” John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie 1934 Sometimes I feel like a commoner in an uncommon world. Actually, if I think about it, that is pretty much who I am. I …
No longer can you give a loved one a beautifully displayed array of chocolates from Fortnum & Mason, for the eco-misers have decreed that plastic is out and the sweets must henceforth be hidden beneath boring cardboard.
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One of Britain's biggest catering suppliers has announced it will offer only 'green' 'crackless' crackers to its customers, which include dozens of care homes, hotels, pubs and restaurants across the country.
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This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol What a year. It feels as if government Grinches and […]
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A truce proposed by President Vladimir Putin of Russia, under the suggestion of Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church, is set to be put in place for Russian armed forces starting 12:00 local time and lasting until midnight January 8th. This 36-hour period is intended to facilitate Orthodox Christians attendance of Church services […]
Our first This Week of 2022 was dedicated not to reviewing the past but considering the future, and this year will begin just the same. What will the major narratives of 2023 be? What minor stories will be brought into the limelight while previously major plot lines are shunted backstage? Much of 2022 was spent …
Sylvia Shawcross And so most of us are surviving the festive season which for some is more like the festering season. I am writing this as an apology from a Canadian to this world for our shenanigans over the holiday season. The thing about Canadians is we tend to be painfully appallingly apologetic. We are …
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. MASKS 2: The maskening They’re baaaaccckkk, the absurdly named “tripledemic” has brought out the experts to warn us of three circulating diseases – Covid, …
JR Leach “The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” Alan W. Watts This festive season I thought …
So this is Christmas, And what have we done? We’ve shared lots of meme posts, And had lots of fun. And told lots of people, That the world’s all gone wrong. But it’s all a big joke now, So let’s all laugh along. 1. Zelensky was back in Washington this week, you’ll never guess why. …
