I was invited to be on the Murnaghan programme on Sky News this morning – which I always find a great deal more intelligent than the Andrew Marr alternative on the BBC. I declined because I did not want to get up and get a 7.30am train from Ramsgate on a Sunday morning. I had a meeting until 11.30pm last night planning a conference on human rights in Balochistan [I still tend to say Baluchistan], and I have a newly crowned tooth that seems not to want to settle down. But I am still worried by my own lack of energy, which is uncharacteristic. Is this old age?
I also have some serious work to do on my Burnes book, and next week I shall be staying in London to be in the British Library reading room for every second of its opening hours. So there may be a bit of a posting hiatus. I have in mind a short post on an important subject on which I suspect that 99% of my readership – including the regular dissident commenters – will strongly disagree with me.
This is a peculiarly introspective post, perhaps because my tooth is hurting, but I seem to have this curmudgeonly spirit which wishes to react to the huge popularity of this blog by posting something genuinely held but unpopular; a genuine view but one I don’t normally trumpet. The base thought seems to be “You wouldn’t like me if you really knew me”.
Similarly when I wrote Murder in Samarkand I was being hailed as a hero by quite a lot of people for my refusal to go along with the whole neo-con disaster of illegal wars, extraordinary rendition and severe attacks on civil liberties, sacrificing my fast track diplomatic career as a result. My reaction to putative hero worship was to publish in Murder in Samarkand not just the political facts, but an exposure of my own worst and most unpleasant behaviour in my private life.
I am in a very poor position to judge, but I believe the result rather by accident turned out artistically compelling, if you don’t want to read the book you can get a good idea of that by clicking on David Tennant in the top right of this blog and listening to him playing me in David Hare’s radio adaptation.
Anyway, that’s enough musing. You won’t like my next post, whenever it comes. Promise.
I like that Mary: “..both Marr and Murnaghan have been caught on camera snogging..” goes well with Suhayl’s oil.
Prepare yourself Craig for a different world…
Saw ‘the Special Relationship’ last night about Clinton & Blair: There’s a bit at the end, as Clinton is being ousted, where Blair’s musing about wanting to be at the centre of important events, and sneering at the fact that his party wants him to concentrate on domestic policy. He also reflects that he’d be the elder statesman in the Bush relationship, having effectively started as Clinton’s younger brother. Clinton asks him whether he’s going to ‘hug power close and go for glory’, or stay at home and do the right thing, and the next thing you see is the real Blair next to the real Bush at their first press conference, displaying the most remarkable grimaces and body language and being patronised by Bush to pieces.
“I like that Mary: “..both Marr and Murnaghan have been caught on camera snogging..” goes well with Suhayl’s oil.
Prepare yourself Craig for a different world…”
Fifty Shades of Craig !?
If I had your excess of energy, Craig, I’d be seeking medical advice. Can adults be hyperactive?
Craig,
If your lack of energy is uncharacteristic, don’t just put it down to age without thought. I suggest a check-up. Might just be the tooth (they’re a bitch) but I had a “lack of energy”, put it down to age (I’m about the same age as you) and ended up in real trouble that could have been prevented. Sorry to sound like a misery but I would quite like to read the next chapter!
detox.
activated charcol powder.
reverse osmosis water filter
make your body more alkaline by putting a half teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda in water 3 times a day.
oil pulling
only use organic oils.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag1DhYx0Npg&feature=related
Attack on Iran possible tonight? New Moon. Everything seems to be in place. Or not yet?
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/08/16/50-shades-of-grey-pedophilia-hiding-in-plain-sight-letter-from-a-reader/
Link to the irish Blog paper.
“If I had your excess of energy, Craig, I’d be seeking medical advice. Can adults be hyperactive?”
Yes, it’s called Alcohol Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. The sufferer has to take half a bottle of Vodka or Scotch each morning before work.
NO! Tony Roma – Bicarbonate of soda killed my friend – excessive sodium salts keep the circulatory volume higher through osmosis than it should be, exerting excess fluid pressure on blood vessel walls causing them to thicken and narrow. The heart muscles work harder to pump blood.
My friends heart weighed 600grms at post mortem.
Please keep your sodium intake low.
I think Blair just saw money and power and how he could best access it. Simple as that.
Sixteen millions to be more accurate.
Although it was rumoured that there were provisions in place in case the news of the forbidden proclivities of one of the prominent cabinet members leaked out into public domain.
I keep musing as to what Craig has in store for us. I hope it’s not that he is joining the Labour party and standing at Corby. If so, I shall cancel my subscription to this blog forthwith! 🙂
What do others think our estimable leader is up to?
PS Just saw this. Water Chariots (Limp Ics water ferries to Stratford) aka Old Ford Lock River Services Ltd have gone bust with losses of £2.5m. They were given a send off by P Charles and Croc wife. Some of the froth of the Limp Ic ‘legacy’ collapses like a soufflé.
It turns out that things are not so clear as the creditors first thought.
http://www.narrowboatworld.com/index.php/news-flash/4831-now-its-three-chariots
BBC story – {http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19615815}
Olympics canal boat firm goes into administration
Water Chariots promised to luxury ride up to the Olympic Park
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A firm which offered canal boat transfers to the Olympic Park is to go into administration after £2.5m losses, the company has said.
Water Chariots began by charging £95 for adults and £50 for children for the journey to the park from either Tottenham Hale or Limehouse Marina.
“What do others think our estimable leader is up to?”
I don’t know but after the build up it’d better be jolly outrageous and offensive.
Something to try for toothache: Get some ‘temporary filling’ paste from chemist. Brush your teeth very well, rinse to sterilize, and then jam it on – it has worked perfectly for me in the past for over a month till a dentist could be got to.
The greatest rubbing of hose-hip seeds Craig has made thus far to his blogs readership, was about the riots last year, in which Craig showed a very surprising flash of authoritarianism. My guess is that the next post is related to that.
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Well, either that or he’s going to restate his weak (sorry) view of 911, something which also saw quite a few commentators being forced to have a hard scratch.
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Anyway, Craig, it’s good to piss off your readers some times. Too often it seems that after you say something, almost everyone agrees, as if the Boys from Brazil was based on a true story. It’s healthy not to have a bunch of people drooling at every single word – even though your spiel is very moreish.
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I shall stop there.
Craig had an offer going back into the diplomatic service and it doesn’t feel right, but he’s going back to do it anyway? Is that it?
Not that I want to piss him off….
Nevermind,
Maybe been offered the post of Ambassador to Iran? I’d suggest not taking up the post right now.
Craig, they say an hour of sleep before midnight is worth two after. Sticking to the full library hours will also help induce sleep. Sleep deficits accumulate! Sounds like a good opportunity to balance that out.
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Tony Roma/Mark Golding
Take a look at Ayurveda if you’re interested in the subject of detox/balancing the body out, if you haven’t already. It is the next big thing waiting to happen after yoga, although in many ways more important and deeper.
Tony Roma – top comments. Chemtrails and toxicity were my irst thoughts too.
Take chlorella and drink volvic (not the flavoured crap) as it is c. 30% silica which removes Al and Pb.
Tried zeolite, Tony?
Zeolite? It’s the major ingredient in old fashioned “big box” washing powder, which creates all the grey slime that gums up washing machines.
Frank Zappa “snorting detergent and plooking each other”…
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“If I had your excess of energy, Craig, I’d be seeking medical advice. Can adults be hyperactive?”
Yes, it’s called Alcohol Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. The sufferer has to take half a bottle of Vodka or Scotch each morning before work.
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Hmmm. All the broadcasting is telling us how not to die but has nothing to say about how to live. If you believe the BBC (which as a sensible person you must) it’s quite clear that if you just get everything right, you will live forever. Location, location, location. Sort of.
I bet a lot of people posting here couldn’t be arsed with living forever. We’d like to live and die usefully and pleasurably.
And much as Wine has play’d the Infidel,
And robb’d me of my Robe of Honour — well,
I often wonder what the Vintners buy
One half so precious as the Goods they sell.
Cheers.
The other thing about loss of energy is the constant stream of ‘thought’ via the brain. When thought ceases (and please not through some stupid lotus-position ‘meditation’), attention/awareness arises. In attention and awareness there is energy. All analysis is thought (time, the past), and while that is required for one’s work technically, it gets in the way of daily life, relationships and wastes energy.
As it is the content of human consciousness is a very messy one. The world is an utter mess and we are that world. All seven billion of us idiots, dancing in the dark on a pinhead in the Universe. What are we truly ‘creating’ with all our collective energy in this World including after raping the planet. Are we content with all our mischief? Are we content at all?
The word individual derives from indivisible. Are we whole? Do we live sanely, holistically? We are but fragmented human beings with characteristically fragmented energies.
Mary 16 Sep, 2012 – 4:15 pm
“What do others think our estimable leader is up to?”
Ok, my go:
Who needs the Arctic ice anyway?
“Who needs the Arctic ice anyway?” 😉
Given the angle of incidence of the sun’s “rays” at those latitudes, whether it’s ice or water makes no difference – it’s reflected antway.
Bloody hell Billy he hasn’t even written it yet!
preemptive strike, Phil 😉
In the spirit of Billy’s stroke of genius I would like to say that I too think it disastrous that Craig is running for labour at Corby.
I bet I’ll like the post anyway. And I which you all power end energy Craig. Try some colloidal silver. Of course Ayurveda is good and cloves.
I’ll listen to Joe’s Garage in the virtual company of Clark in the mean time.
I pasted the link to General Gen. Michael Haydens speech at the Uni of Michigan some posts back, here it is again for those that missed it, a very worthwhile watch. http://www.c-span.org/Events/C-SPAN-Event/10737433945/
And MJ I’m with you.
Clove oil, in particular, for toothaches. Available at Boots the last time i checked.
A quarter teaspoon of turmeric powder mixed with a little honey effective for mild infections, though not for stomach infections.
Chamomile tea, a banana, good for inducing sleep.