in the region of summer stars

horsemouth thinks it was the point where the european commission had blocked vaccine exports to northern ireland from the south (citing their emergency rights under article 16 of the brexit deal clause) in violation of the the notion that the north and south south should be treated the same (and allowing arlene foster to pose as a stout-hearted defender of the good friday agreement) that he finally cracked up and started laughing. 

no he thinks it was the point where it came out they hadn't consulted the irish government first before doing this, or even told them about it. the European Commission covered themselves in glory (once again), not in the least bit high-handed. 

as a stone remainer it's a bad day for horsemouth. 

but, to take a malcolm X analogy 

“if you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” 

why shouldn't the EC get the vaccines made in its territory? why shouldn't the UK get the vaccines made in its territory? why shouldn't the EC get the vaccines it has ordered? why shouldn't the UK get the vaccines it has ordered? both sides deploy notions of property rights and sovereignty and our people first. 

but similarly shouldn't the poor cunts in moldova get some vaccine (or brazil, or south africa)? 

the point is everyone has to be vaccinated, we have to drastically reduce the prevalence of the virus in humanity or new variants will be popping out like adding water to gremlins. that's the real task,  drastically scaling up production and getting the juggernaut of world vaccination moving. 

horsemouth watched an online gig by the enid a prog rock band from back in the day. horsemouth saw them at various gigs when he was a student in london. he saw them at the reading festival 1983. they were distinctly on the pseudo-classical end of prog. at reading they announced they were gay from the stage (which horsemouth thought was fucking brave considering how unreconstructed rock audiences were in those days) er. that and still playing prog after punk. horsemouth had a few albums I bought mail order.  he saw the 3  piece (plus backing tapes) line up. the earliest reported sighting by horsemouth's friends was 1976.  

it was a good show. standards of musicianship were high. 

horsemouth's friend robert lawson has been busy. he's released a new extended zither plus effects piece which horsemouth will be reviewing shortly.