20190926

Not feeling terribly well today.
Not sure what it is, a bit of anger and just general annoyance.
Anyway, I am sure tomorrow will be a better day.


I shared, very early in the morning, a YouTube video to the edmodo group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgsn7_hKg7A

It is a lovely song by Tim Minchin. The video quality is rather bad, but it is what it is.

Love the bit when he sings towards the end about his brain: "I am not sure I've worked out how to work it ... It's not perfect, but it's mine ..."

I remember seeing him in Glasgow at the Armadillo, a lovely venue by the river ... whatever river goes through Glasgow, I don't know, let me check it ... the River Clyde of course!
It was a lovely show.
The next day we went to see Peter Kay next door at the SEC Centre, a much bigger arena.


Brexit and Trump in the news. I think that might be what is annoying me.


Later in the day Manuel uploaded a couple of things to the edmodo group.

A couple of documents that we discussed in the last class and an Andrew Neil interview of Jeremy Corbyn from a couple of years ago.
Always enjoyed Andrew's style of interviewing, very BBC but with added confrontation ...
Jeremy Paxman used to interview like that too, miss him on the Newsnight program.

Both Andrew and Jeremy have an appetite for blood ... as soon as they notice a small chink in the armor, they pounce on it and won't let go. Riveting television.


In the interview Manuel shared, Andrew is making hay of the fact that Jeremy Corbyn is well known for decades for his anti-nuclear weapons view, but now he has just been elected as leader of the Labour Party and in their annual conference the party approved a policy document that included a renewal of the UK's Trident nuclear system.
A very interesting contradiction, since he personally opposed it for years, but his party's policy is to renew it. And he has to follow party policy.
Almost funny.


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