Review of the Year 2023 It’s that time again…Time for the Review of the Year!   It has been a harrowing year around the world, and for some personally, but I hope that you had some personal highlights.  Selections from the blogs, as usual, for those of you who like to review the year… January 22nd: […]

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Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 – 2023) “…We can all be refugees Sometimes it only takes a day, Sometimes it only takes a handshake Or a paper that is signed. We all came from refugees Nobody simply just appeared, Nobody’s here without a struggle, Andy why should we live in fer Of the weather or the troubles? […]

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Henry Kissinger (1923 – 2023) “America has lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices on foreign affairs with the passing of Henry Kissinger. I have long admired the man who fled the Nazis as a young boy from a Jewish family, then fought them in the United States Army”. ~ George W. Bush […]

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Sir Bobby Charlton (1937 – 2023) “There has never been a more popular footballer.  As near perfection as man and player as it is possible to be.” ~ Sir Matt Busby The legendary footballer Sir Bobby Charlton, one of the greatest footballers of all time, died yesterday morning, at the age of 86.  He was […]

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Pat Arrowsmith (1930 – 2023) The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament War and Peace “In plain words: now that Britain has told the world she has the H-bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject, in all circumstances, nuclear warfare.” ~ J.B. Priestley, 1957 Peace […]

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Michael Parkinson (1935 – 2023) Michael Parkinson, whose chat show was a Saturday night staple across three decades, died peacefully this week aged 88, after a brief illness.  He had interviewed 2000 celebrities in his career, and is regarded as the most successful chat show host. Birth Chart His Sun was in Aries, with the […]

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George Alagiah (1955 – 2023) “My parents moved us first to Africa and then to Britain, always in search of something better for their children.” ~ George Alagiah The much loved, admired and respected foreign correspondent and newsreader George Alagiah died this week aged 67.  His love of travel, humanity, the world and in turn […]

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Sinead O’Connor (1966 – 2023) “I think God saves everybody whether they want to be saved or not. So when we die, we’re all going home … I don’t think God judges anybody. He loves everybody equally.” ~  Sinead O’Connor Singer, songwriter and activist Sinead O’Connor departed this world last week.  As a rebel, she […]

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Glenda Jackson (1936 – 2023) “Any prize was a benign irrelevance for her.  People often say they don’t care about awards: Jackson really did not.  Neither gushing nor contemptuous…” ~ Susannah Clapp, Theatre critic for the Observer Actor and Politician in equally effective measure, Glenda Jackson died this week, after a short illness, at the […]

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Tina Turner (1939 – 2023) “There’s always been an emotion in my voice because it reached back to the life I was living. Where there were tears in stage, it wasn’t Hollywood, it was real” ~ Tina Turner No prizes for guessing the subject of today’s blog (nor to guessing which stories I swerved this […]

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