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I was introduced to that old yew tree back in 97. The lady who did the introduction for us advised a certain caution with that personage. I guess so.

(And I have briefly tacked over to David Benjamin.)

"... A safe place to sleep? Tens of thousands of people are being systematically killed and starved, ignored by your government, who now deem questions on this matter to be ‘violence’.

Thank you for that.

Yes ... and not for the first time. Now we witness the retun of 'total war'. I remember, I am old enough, when the world got badly frightened. The two atom bombs had ended a war with yet more ghastly totals.

What to do? I turned up at a hastily prepared vigil on a beach a fortnight or so ago after the holiday people had gone home for tea, and watched the waves wash onto the childrens' sandcastles. We were on a 'heritage coast' littered with fortifications old and new. A mixed bunch of heritages among us it turned out, and the rain just beginning off the sea.

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