nobody expects the spanish deportation!

so goes the latest gloating over the damage caused by brexit. (but it did make horsemouth laugh).  

here, recorded 50 years and 2 days ago, we have alice coltrane and strings. 

'I think the music sounded exploratory. I’ve played pieces from ‘universal’ in concert. the reaction wasn’t ‘oh my, we have to become cosmical, we have to go into some mystical experience.’ the people just heard a joyfulness, a light-heartedness about it.' - alice coltrane

yesterday horsemouth discovered that alice played on a laura nyro record, most noticeably on the track map to the treasure. 

horsemouth wishes his friends who have escaped to europe luck. similarly he wishes his european friends who are here luck (and his non-european friends). basically horsemouth is a globalist. he believes in international travel and your right to live anywhere on the globe you chose, with whomever you chose. europe he viewed as a sort of first step to that. it was by no means perfect, as syrian refuges being turned back by german gunboats off the shores of turkey would be the first to admit, as serb, croat, bosnian refugees from the war there would admit, as greek, spanish, portuguese and italian people done down by its economics would admit. 

nonetheless the opportunity to retire to sun, sea and sand was a considerable benefit to horsemouth and he is sad to see it become more complicated. 

similarly he is sad to see brexit kick off another round of instability in the north of ireland, another performance of the carnival of reaction

the economic harm brexit is causing is being hidden by coronavirus (and probably won't come out until after it is over). the european commission is making itself look bad with the dicking around over exports of the jab (but conversely if horsemouth were in the EU it would look to him like the commission was trying to do the right thing by getting the jab for its citizens, maybe). 

in fact horsemouth finds himself calling for isolation in the face of new variants (so he's not really a globalist). the demand has to be to vaccinate the world and to stay home, to pursue a policy of eradication rather than toleration. he thinks living with virus  is a strategy for endless death, endless disability and ultimately doomed to failure and lockdown again as new jab resistant varieties of covid emerge. 

it is however going the other way. the capitalists are keen to reopen for they have not realised they are fighting a living opponent. 

today a grey day out. grey and cold (this looks like april). sten is out the door and off to work. horsemouth has bought a coffee grinder he is looking forward to using it.