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If we are not to end up like President Trump, just inventing what we please. It's not accurate, but it does tend to give a general map of the past.

Somebody's record of what it suits him to believe happened. There are great chunks of which we know nothing and others (post-Roman Britain, for instance) where archaeology and common-sense contradict what we think we do know. It is necessary for us to have some notion of how the world got...

Anyone who wanted to be a good speaker would, as did the ghastly Mrs Thatcher, get some training. He sounds like an expiring vacuum cleaner.

I like Mahler songs too. I think I've heard Myfanwy and Cwm Rhondda too often to have an opinion. My favourites are Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn, and that lullaby that begins 'Huna blentyn'.

It was exactly the same. as far as I can see.

Power people don't give a twopenny whatsit for the people they kill, and more sensible one's just send out an impressive-looking bit of paper or cardboard, full of the right, meaningless noises. People grieve for people - bosses just use them.

It's a bit like learning a language, I think. I can make nothing of Indian music, the classical sort anyway, but that's because I never listen to any, and I'm baffled by modern pop because it's so bloody loud it gives me earache. I was brought up on Welsh folksong (oh, and hymns. I...

The rich steal all our money. Who else should pay taxes?

Well, he's a dreadful man, supported by dreadful people, so what did we expect, decency?

Left the door wide open for McCarthy, that notion.

A civilized society is one where no penalty can be imposed on a citizen without a properly-formulated legal judgement of his peers based on the proper consideration of the evidence. Anything else is barbarism.

He only got fired when he stopped making money for the rest of his gang. I think the essence of lynching is mob action based on prejudice to deny law.

The point is that you kill and lie about people all the time. What makes America America is the denial of justice by mob law, as you know. If this particularly successful American was guilty before he stopped making money, when did you charge him?

But no trial. I take that to be the key element in any American denial of justice, as under McCarthy.

Yes - all the bullyboys always forget the greatest Russian General, General Winter, and the effects of the Scorched Earth.

I'm sure that Weinstein is a very nasty bit of work indeed, but this is getting too close to a lynching for my tsste.

In an extremely racist society it is very difficult for any of the pretend 'races' not to join the game, obviously.

According to common belief, the casting couch is a standard part of the road to Hollywood stardom, and I suppose this notion must have come from somewhere more specific than one's general picture of capitalism as a brothel for ambitious prostitutes.

Get into the figures. It works everywhere. American lack of guts and reliance on the bang-bangs means you murder something like 29 times more people with guns than civilized countries.

For those who like Americans, nothing can be more depressing than this obsession with playing cowboys with bang-bangs to save themselves from George 111 - or something, because trained troops would wipe out the nutters in no time flat. Are these people unutterably thick or just possessed by...