"The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chillies, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert. Right, and there should also be two or three newpapers, all mail and messages, a telephone, a notebook for planning the next twenty-four hours and at least one source of good music. All of which should be dealt with outside, in the warmth of a hot sun, and preferably stone naked."

Hunter S. Thompson on breakfast

Diary 2020

Dark days of Brexit

This pretty much sums it up: posted by a contributor on CIX

>>I did "vote with my heart"

Me too - and there was plenty of positive stuff to vote for, as well as voting against the succession of variously appalling and disgusting people who stood up to lie about the EU.

Like the idea that one is stronger as a member of a community than as an outsider. Like the commitment to peace in Europe and elsewhere. Like the commitment to help refugees rather than just raise the barriers. Like the determination to improve things for future generations. Like the determination to remove barriers (not just borders) to movement, progress, cooperation, friendship, and petty much anything else you can think of within Europe. The idea of looking outward rather than inward. The idea that a community stands up for all its members, including the weaker ones. The idea of cooperation rather than competition to reach wider goals.

Whatever the problems and failings of the EU, it is ultimately about a series of positive goals, many of which it is well on its way to fulfilling. Brexit - despite the protestations of its wilder proponents - was always an essentially negative project denying half a century of real and steadyvprogress in favour of a complete leap in the dark.

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