Picture left: the results of the US Elections have come through...“Freedom!” is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the basest inkling of what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell, ‘Cloud Atlas’
Isn't it funny that the colours red, white and blue represent freedom. Until they are flashing on a car behind you...
In memory of our fallen, on Remembrance Day 2020:
Each has won a glorious grave - not that sepulchre of earth wherein they lie, but the living tomb of everlasting remembrance wherein their glory is enshrined. For the whole earth is the sepulchre of heroes. Monuments may rise and tablets be set up to them in their own land, but on far-off shores there is an abiding memorial that no pen or chisel has traced; it is graven not on stone or brass, but on the living hearts of humanity. Take these men for your example. Like them, remember that prosperity can be only for the free, that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. Pericles, Greek Statesman and General 495 BC - 429 BC