David Cameron, in move that would have inspired a Larkin poem, has cut 11,000 jobs in the military, at the moment that Britain may go to war against Libya. Certainly, we are maybe hours or days away from a no-fly zone, and perhaps ground support should the Colonel use WMDs on his own people. Eyewear believes it is justified to support the Libyan protesters, and stop this insane (and oddly giggling) regime from any more genocidal behaviour - even if that means boots on the ground. Cameron could erase the folly of Iraq, with a just war, now.
THAT HANDSOME MAN A PERSONAL BRIEF REVIEW BY TODD SWIFT I could lie and claim Larkin, Yeats , or Dylan Thomas most excited me as a young poet, or even Pound or FT Prince - but the truth be told, it was Thom Gunn I first and most loved when I was young. Precisely, I fell in love with his first two collections, written under a formalist, Elizabethan ( Fulke Greville mainly), Yvor Winters triad of influences - uniquely fused with an interest in homerotica, pop culture ( Brando, Elvis , motorcycles). His best poem 'On The Move' is oddly presented here without the quote that began it usually - Man, you gotta go - which I loved. Gunn was - and remains - so thrilling, to me at least, because so odd. His elegance, poise, and intelligence is all about display, about surface - but the surface of a panther, who ripples with strength beneath the skin. With Gunn, you dressed to have sex. Or so I thought. Because I was queer (I maintain the right to lay claim to that
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It's distractive opportunism and blatant hypocrisy.
This is, and will remain, one of my favourite blogs. But I expected more from such a well informed and informative outpost.
Simplicity of a fist.