John Sharman

If America comes out on top watch Trump rig future elections, run for a 3rd term, destroy the international rules of law & order, destroy democracy in the world.

an Oscar. Mainly for aficionados of Hemingway's novel and the story of an incident in the Spanish Civil War. It is sentimental & Bergman had just come off filming Casablanca( remember that one?). It maybe overlong : but worth it. Hemingway liked his 2 main leads. won over critics & public alike.

Watched a good Hollywood colour film For whom the bell tolls with Gary Cooper as rebel for the Republicans Roberto Jordan, and as Spanish girl Ingrid Bergman. It was extravagantly filmed , dramatically shot, and well acted, with the characters who played Pilar and Pablo stealing the film: 1 gets

& believers: which reign will 1st collapse and which is most likely to survive: supreme stupidity or deep anchored belief? Trump has all the ability to inspire terror as the Ayatollahs and to create havoc & chaos in the Middle East: they don't know what he will do next. With US greater force.

In the realm of inferior/superior reality, what is there to choose between the resistance of an Islamic fundamentalist mind-set, and the reign of ignorant fundamentalism & crass stupidity of the present US under the reign of a malignant narcissist seen as the 2nd coming by his supine followers

If Starmer is to have any credibility, he has to stay firm
in international law, make a decision that doesn't embroil us in needless breaking of rules or endless wars. Not shoulder to shoulder: he may not be Winston Churchill, but at least he's not a criminal psychopath.

If Starmer is to have any credibility, he has to stay firm
in international law, make a decision that doesn't embroil us in needless breaking of rules or endless wars. Not shoulder to shoulder: he may not be Winston Churchill, but at least he's not a criminal psychopath.

Oh, now they're (US) using doublespeak learned from Putin: it's a special military operation only.

f there was ever a misnomer, it was the name 'Cleverley': ask this man anything and you come out none the wiser: meaty, beefy, big & trounce-he.

Trump: " We had to hit them before they hit us, because they're crazy." Pot, kettle. He's not standing up for the Iranian people. He'll bomb Iran to smithereens like Israel bombed Gaza. His smugness, arrogance and threats are a sight to behold.

Of course although NATO allies were not informed of this action beforehand, it seems Trump was disappointed in NATO ally countries' response, which is to be primarily defensive and arrange for the safe return of their countrymen from the Middle East. The illegality of the war. Nothing to do withNATO

have to be resignation.

Starmer is now picking up his desiccated reputation as world leader. He's having to tread carefully around his 'defence' policy, to separate himself from going into action vs. Iran. He's become very legalistic: choosing the 'defence' option of UK response. If he'd have joined Trump-Israel it would

Starmer is only now realizing what a liability Trump as an 'ally' is: he's like the Cosa Nostra who charge you for protection and impose omerta on anybody who doesn't express fealty to them: Trump, like Israel , is part of a modern death cult. Trump would rather destroy world than tell the truth

Terence Stamp in what must have been his 1st role plays a miscreant schoolboy with a wicked expression out to show up the teacher and his favourite pupil Sarah Miles. His got the northern accent of a young Albert Finney: he threatens Sarah Miles for being soft on the teacher. Then he seduces her.

but because of infatuation,and urge the girl to follow the line which will lead to charge, arrest & trial. The whole takes place in the grim north with a trip to Paris, where they are in a hotel together. This film is like the missing link, part of that whole new wave of British film:a wonder tosee.

Signoret as the long suffering wife of a not well paid teacher, who cannot have a child; Olivier loves his wife, but his kindness is misinterpreted by the girl. who he wants to help get on with xtra studies. He is taken in for questioning after her family judge him to be in the wrong when girlcries

Term of Trial an old film in black & white was such a welcome discovery. Hard to get as a DVD, but obtainable to view online: Laurence Olivier gives a masterclass in playing a school teacher with great empathy; Sarah Miles who has a crush on him as a schoolgirl; and both Terence Stamp & Simone

Not a just war, no end game, no plan, too many excuses. No previous President would have gone along with this. Iran was making more concessions than they did under Obama. To assassinate their President while negotiating shows a lack of international ethics. Trumpcannotkeeptreading across
boundaries.

beneath all his many distractive actions. This is the guide to US involvement and the fact that the Iranians are at their weakest, and they both thought to strike while the iron was hot. No one will 'win': it will increase world prices, the markets will be chaos, 100s of thousands will be killed.

The Iran war which came from Israeli-led US aggression, should never have happened. The Israelis have been seeking this war for 40 years, but with US participation; Netanyahu tried to prolong it last year, but Trump then put a stop to it. Trump got involved because Epstein lay like Kryptonite

join UK in the WW2, but had to wait 2 years before America joined. Trump is unlike any other US president, and his reasons for the US-Israeli attack on Iran are multiplying in the absence of a true reason of emergency, when negotiations were going on.

This might be Starmer's 'finest hour' citing Tony Blair's mistake in going into the Iraq war following America. Starmer's acute legal sense may rescue him from his noted lack of charisma.
He stands to make gains with the public & media, as he did in the case of Greenland. Churchill also wanted US to

Roger Penrose on understanding, consciousness, and whether computers/LLM have intelligence, understanding is fascinating to listen to. He's 90 and has more sense than people a third his age. He doesn't think computers or Chat GBT have understanding or intelligence. Computers are computational.

" Clutching their pearls" so says Hesgeth re allies like Starmer: no, it's called adhering to international law. So, Trump said of Starmer: " he ain't no Winston Churchill"; yes and America didn't enter the WW2 until 2 years later. You don't have to be sweptup in Trump derangement syndrome. Upyours

These 2 women have something to do with the poison
substance found on the 2 dead bodies which killed them. I couldn't follow every link but is was weird as an episode, bringing up a subject about Chinese infiltrating our culture to steal our secrets.

her computer by hacking, while she is still on the floor,
at the mercy of these 2 strangers, who have their own interests at heart; Her lab meanwhile gets info on where she went to see a woman in Oxford and motor to the scene getting there just in time to arrest the 2 women.

scared for Nicki, when she was out drinking with a strange woman, who put some potion into her drink to knock her out. Nicki falls in & out of consciousness: she lays on a strangers floor, and struggles vs loss of consciousness; this stranger & a Chinese woman try to get into

Silent Witness : it was Nicki's turn to take the centre stage and make the philosophical soliloquy while doing her forensic pathology over a body: this was the spookiest episode I've seen; the aloof Chinese who are involved with murder, death, surveillance; I genuinely felt

Yes we're going to keep on going for however long it takes: Trump's words are like drapes in a certain ballroom, stretching, yes, forever and ever. He's like a big brush artist who forgot how to use the smaller brushes.