Puppet on strings
Donald Trump – perhaps a Manchurian Candidate, certainly, and worse, a Murdochian Candidate.
Time’s Up
Life is like an exam in which you struggle to write as much as possible, pack as much into each answer as possible, until the moment when the teacher says “Time’s Up”, and you stop, reluctantly, seeing, on the exam paper, gaps where you could have, should have, said more, places where, gulp, you have
Information Age
You know you have moved from the current generation, through the penultimate generation, to the ultimate generation, when there is no one you can ask about things that happened in your childhood.
Without honour anywhere
Prophets are often profitable but never prophetable.
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End of High School photos, 1961
Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
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Scavengers
Religion and Fascism are constantly being retrieved from the dustbin by people who know they can make good use of them.
Your time starts now…
Life is an exam paper with a series of questions. For some people the questions get easier towards the end, for others harder. You have to mark your own paper, there is no examiner. Pass mark is 50%, and no-one has ever scored 100%. Good luck.
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Consequently
For the anxiety sufferer, a timetable or schedule, the stuff of everyday life in the workplace, therefore become the stuff of nightmares.
Usually both
Anxiety means that every action you need to take during the day is either a concern or a challenge.
Pass mark
I used to enjoy watching the Passing Parade. Now I dread watching the Passing Out and the Passing On.