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Wednesday, 12 March, 2025

The War will finish, and so will the Reasoning of War.

By Terence Bunch, Wednesday, 12 March, 2025. Literature

"In formally articulating a casus belli, a government typically lays out its reasons for going to war, its intended means of prosecuting the war, and the steps that others might take to dissuade it from going to war."

Yeah...

Our judgement on this particular issue is that "western" media haven't the capacity or intellectual philosophy to even perceive the reality of what they are seeing, let alone reason with it.

The "western" media live in a business model of political division, because it is profitable for their companies to operate in and within.

Our message to "western" media is make the most of your platforms, hire extra reporters, make documentaries, dedicate extra resources to producing compelling content, rather than filling your space up with 10 minute tripe that no-one cares about, travel and integrate with your surroundings, do hour long pieces that go into enormous and enriching detail, educate, inform, enliven your audiences.

In other words, spend, spend, spend.

Oh, no you can't can you, your editor doesn't think it's a good idea.

I'm sure Mr Lavrov will say something interesting, and will at least make some effort to set it out in terms that others will find useful.

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Sunday, 3 November, 2024

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub

By Terence Bunch, Sunday, 3 November, 2024. Literature

“To be, or not to be” - William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)

Thursday, 17 October, 2024

The Next Story is in Chinese, of course.

By Terence Bunch, Thursday, 17 October, 2024. Literature

National UK circulation figures for September 2024 continue to show falling circulations among the corporate private sector, allied with underperforming digital rights management approaches to alternative strategies.

These figures are part of long term circulation losses seen throughout most of the "western" world after 2001.

The trend is toward falling public confidence and disbelief in the "message" that private sector media corporations are trying to establish.

Presumably your editors know better, or perhaps you just think they do!

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Tuesday, 3 September, 2024

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

By Terence Bunch, Tuesday, 3 September, 2024. Literature

Get Behind Thee...

Sunday, 12 May, 2024

Rendition, to render

By Terence Bunch, Sunday, 12 May, 2024. Literature

"Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?" - Brad Renfro

Saturday, 30 March, 2024

Literature, the People, and the Words.

By Terence Bunch, Saturday, 30 March, 2024. Literature

I will say I am the sum of my books. - V.S. Naipaul

Sunday, 12 November, 2023

Everyday Onwards.

By Terence Bunch, Sunday, 12 November, 2023. Literature

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.” - M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains  […]

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Thursday, 26 October, 2023

The Ocean, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By Terence Bunch, Thursday, 26 October, 2023. Literature

The Ocean
By Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ocean has its silent caves,
Deep, quiet, and alone;
Though there be fury on the waves,
Beneath them there is none.

The awful spirits of the deep
Hold their communion there;
And there are those for whom we weep,
The young, the bright, the fair.

Calmly the wearied seamen rest
Beneath their own blue sea.
The ocean solitudes are blest,
For there is purity.

The earth has guilt, the earth has care,
Unquiet are its graves;
But peaceful sleep is ever there,
Beneath the dark blue waves.

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Monday, 9 October, 2023

"What is special is that he touches on the deepest feelings that you have." Literature prize 2023.

By Terence Bunch, Monday, 9 October, 2023. Literature