My birthday is just two-days after that of my late father. The allegation in the above text could well be true. Fight everything, question everything, and accept nothing. It is a good start. I remember as a kid working it out for myself that the supposedly left-wing comic – Alexi Sayle – was in fact a traitor to the cause when he decided to endorse capitalist advertisement! Later, I further realised that if you do not conform somewhere, then the system you oppose will permanently exclude you. The net permitted a certain re-balancing – but just look at how the capitalists have colonised it and turned everything into mindless adverts and paywalls. Keep you powder dry and tinder in good order. It is all about timing – and getting away with it. This is a small envelop of opportunity – so use it well. Meanwhile, my deceased father is lying in state – and what an awful state of Care Home, NHS, and Social Services neglect it is. Untreated ailments, sores, injuries – and so on. The list is disturbing and caused by the direct neglect of NHS staff in Torbay Hospital (Simpson Ward) and A&E. Of course, the root cause of my father’s demise is the current “New” Labour government which does not have much time on this earth. Starmer’s dismantling and privatisation of the care system and the NHS is hurting and killing millions of eldering in the UK. As Marx advises – “Question everything!”

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Richard Burton reads Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

One of my father’s favourite renditions. The welfare hall,,,