W/C 16th January 2022

There is a (welcome) return to rantiness this week, and it probably doesn't take a genius to work out what has got my dander up.

I happened to listen to the The Counterweight this week, which is a really great Thea Gilmore album from 2017. The War is the final track of the album proper and begins as a lyric in response to the senseless killing of Labour MP Jo Cox, a few miles down the road from where I am sat.

It talks to culture war, and social media and the preoccupation we have to sow division in the quest for power. And do you know what I fall for it every time, because as I rant away and scream into the void I am doing exactly what they want.

I need to look up, and be better. We all do.

'in a time of hate, throw down the counterweight

tear up that flag and say, you're worthy of more'

Stay safe.

The War - Thea Gilmore

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