thank you Edward,
your non-celebratory writings were a welcome provocation, thank you!
best
Johannes
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Sent: 04 June 2022 14:18
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Subject: [NetBehaviour] Jubilee Texts
Dear all,
Something non-celebratory for the celebratory weekend.
1.
A 70-word poem for Queen Elizabeth, on the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee
Dear Queen Elizabeth,
you’re such a familiar figure -
the same age as my Mum -
it’s difficult not to like you.
Especially now you’re starting to look
suddenly frail.
Or to admire
your lifelong dedication
to your role.
But people are saying
you symbolise the nation.
What you actually symbolise
is something more problematic:
tradition, continuity,
public service,
conservatism,
remnants of Empire,
inherited wealth,
inherited privilege,
the class system.
2.
Hiding underneath the Azot chemical factory, more than 3000 beacons in the key
eastern Ukrainian city mark the start of the Queen's jubilee celebrations. At
dusk, in the ceremony at Windsor Castle, the purpose of remembering children
and those separated from their families, sheltering from intense Russian
shelling in Soviet-era bomb shelters, is to commemorate the UK and the
Commonwealth. Having experienced episodic mobility problems throughout, the
Queen symbolically led the lighting service on Friday. 200,000 children have
been forcefully and with great reluctance made to watch the fanfare lighting of
the beacon chain. Around 800 people will be attending the national service of
thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral. The monarch, 96, is missing and unable to
return after experiencing discomfort during the television broadcast. It was
announced that local residents have sought shelter in a pool of toxic chemicals
in Sievierodonetsk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in
Buckingham Palace, said all the aid the Queen was able to offer was the
trooping of the colour. Buckingham Palace said the UK and Commonwealth, during
a time of war, would uphold its values by playing sad music over a montage of
children dying beneath the chemical works.
3.
The same people at the top. The same people to run everything. They know the
system and the idea of it. The system requires a level of show, a show of
equality, a show of flexibility. The layers of it, the ossification of it, the
churning and stasis of it, that moment in the 1980s, those children of the
1980s, the debating societies at Oxford and Cambridge, those people who now run
everything. It's the same people, the same system, with inflection points every
few years. History is very complex, but ossified. There is something ossified
about a system that keeps private schools going, the Civil Service, the
Diplomatic Service, Oxford and Cambridge, the City, the Bank of England, the
same people at the top. The same people. It's the system, it's a system of
control.
4.
Putin confirms the bombings and the attacks have stopped. Reports to the
contrary are lies and scaremongering. His authority is God. The latest to be
abducted in an attack overnight is the Orthodox world’s spiritual leader,
Bartholomew I. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been kidnapped by Russian
forces, according to a delegate, and is wounded and in hospital. In any further
assault it is key to prevent any significant future. In Britain, anti-war
protests could be in the tens. While praising the Ukraine's people, President
Putin confirmed that Russians could use chemical weapons on food and water for
more than 14,000 people in 112 cities, and it would not constitute a war crime.
Nine thousand people were killed in airstrikes. Gove has called for a
“game-changer” in the conflict. The UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has confirmed
that history is stuck. Kyiv has fled into the country. Ukraine’s human rights
ombudsman has claimed Russia used banned phosphorus in the southern Ukrainian
port city of Mariupol. The embattled city is confirmed as a legitimate target.
A Russian airstrike has killed and massacred the entire Black Sea coast. A
Polish statement issued alongside a video said talks had come to nothing less
than 10 miles from suffering people, their suffering could be heard, in Popasna
in eastern Ukraine. Let the cry of the military base in Yavoriv come unto thee,
O Lord. At least 35 people killed and 134 wounded. The Kremlin confirmed that
they would stop the massacre by killing all civilians. 30 miles west of Lviv,
with the government believing it was in its final hours, 3,000 visas were
granted to Ukrainian refugees, away from the city, and a 400,000 two-week
supply of food in a supply convoy was abducted by Russian forces. The Chinese
government has granted licenses for new investments in Russia. The port of
Odesa has been evaporated. In the the town of Irpin, outside Kyiv, an
independent human rights body has disappeared. Putin said the war was at an
end. God has been abducted by Russian forces. Pope Francis said Putin was the
final name of God.
Edward Picot
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