The Cenotaph is being used as part of a US January 6th Capitol Building type psyop. It's important not to be baited into this. It's a clear trap. Let's not be naïve about this or anything else right now.

A brief biographical note:

I was born in Rome, and after attending a nursery school run by Catholic nuns, I was moved at the age of 7 to a fully English school in Rome with an English-British curriculum.

The school was so English that if I was caught speaking Italian in class I had to write 100 lines on the blackboard "I must not speak Italian in class". I absolutely loved the school, the international students who had British, Italians, and all other nationalities and religions and ethnicities, and surprisingly many of the teachers, who were for the vast majority British and were also having a blast living in Rome. It was one big happy family.

Italian neighbourhood boys I played football with often referred to me as "The English" (boy) as my school had very different times and philosophy to theirs.

When I completed school I chose to continue the British system at University, I didn't have to, but chose to move to England, and lived first in Bath and then in London

In the early 2000s I tried living in Italy again, in Milan, but failed miserably twice, and within 6 months I was back living in London.

I have a British wife and two British children.

I support AS Roma football team since I held a season ticket in the Ultras zone of the "Curva Sud" in the 1980s and started supporting Chelsea when Zola, Vialli and Di Matteo were playing there.

I lived in Rome during the period of the "Years of Lead", the "Strategy of Tension", "GLADIO", the terrorism of the "Red Brigades" "far left" and neofascist "far right", which did the same things for the same reasons and were most probably run or infiltrated by the same NATO aligned operatives.

Everything that is happening now feels very familiar to me: I grew up with it, feels like home to me.

I moved to England in the Thatcherite period, and apart from those 6 months in Milan I lived here ever since.

The music of John Tavener I heard in a film by my now colleague and The Book of Vision executive producer US director Terrence Malick led me back to Orthodox Christianity and I now identify more as an Orthodox Christian, largely for musical now but even earlier for acquired family reasons.

I no longer believe in political "right" or "left" but think I am still learning from all political positions and theories.

My father was a (disillusioned and awake) corporate media journalist and film script writer. My scientific mentor was a bio-molecular physicist who had participated in the armed Resistance to German (Nazi) occupation. What he always said is that they were always a LOT more active than what is/was portrayed in films..

That's it for now!

Thanks for reading.

Robin

A clip from Terry's film The Tree of Life which was deeply inspirational for me. It draws on the theology of St Athanasius, St Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Way of nature vs grace
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z28Mi6mUyKo&feature=shared

I don't fully agree with Bishop Barron on what God is but I think it's a great explainer for The Tree of Life:

The Tree of Life - Explained - Analysis by Bishop Fr. Robert Barron (SPO...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w4Y4YcRbSDQ&feature=shared

The Universe Is Watching Us – Our Unimaginable Fate…… #StevieWonder

https://twitter.com/EricClapton/status/1720848421131608516

If you are looking for the mainly musical channel I share with Eric "Slowhand" Clapton on Telegram, this link below is the one. Some material is shared across both this and that channel but not all. Robin

t.me/LOVEnotfearmankind

Politicians have failed world leaders have failed and now the people all over the world have risen to show not just them but all of us - because we have failed to stop them many times before! Now let’s keep rising! Let us not sit back down!

Freedom Plaza, Washington DC

#CeasefireNOW

CEASEFIRE NOW
by JOSEPH ARTHUR

How many children have to die
Cease fire now
There are no sides when their mothers cry
And no real way to justify
Their death that rains down from an evil sky

Ceasefire now
Ceasefire now
Ceasefire now
In Gaza somehow

Damage like a nuclear bomb
Dresden In a kill box people can’t escape
They told them to leave
But where can they go
A genocide some say is Biblical fate

<chorus>

Cause this might be the last time
To raise a hand about who we are
What’s this say about who we are?

Digital images
Digital lies
Cut out their heart
Along with their supplies
The propaganda
Leads to dehumanize
Our fellow humans and
silence
their cries

<chorus>

Without equality
There will always be war
We have all of history to see
How it’s happened before
Travel as equals
Equality now!
Or else mankind
will surely fall

<chorus>

Cause this might be the last time
To raise a hand about who we are
What’s this say about who we are?

Living In A World Thats Gone Insane
By Joseph Arthur

Take care of your brother
No matter what religion they claim
No matter what their race is
Underneath the skin
We’re all the same

After all we’re just human beings
Living in a world that’s gone insane

Try to lead with compassion
Losing a child is a universal pain
And without his love
Everything is dust in a flame

After all we’re just human beings
Living in a world that’s gone insane

Hallelujah lead with love
Surrender in his holy blood
Redemption for the price of his pain

Trade the bombs in for the dove
A peace that comes from up above
Salvation in his name

Take care of your brother
No matter what religion they claim
No matter what their race is
Underneath the skin
We’re all the same

<chorus>

Trade the bombs in for the dove
A peace that comes from up above
Salvation in his holy name
Salvation in his name

Ken Loach at Bath's Peace March for Palestine today

Protests in Israel tonight getting bigger against Netanyahu with demands for him to resign.

Why is GB News etc not reporting the anger of everyday Israelis?

Reuters:

'"Jail now!", a crowd in the hundreds pushed through police barriers around Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem.

The protest, which coincided with a poll showing more than three quarters of Israelis believe Netanyahu should resign, underlined the growing public fury at their political and security leaders.'

This isn't a moment, it's a movement