By and large, the corporate media in the U.S. is no longer free, and will not accurately report donald/elon/JD's flouting of the rules. Democracy is cooked without a free press. Independent media is the way forward. Happily, many folks here are launching independent media endeavors here on Substack, YouTube, Bluesky, and elsewhere, and it's vital to support them.
Discworld's game of ‘foot the ball’, the subject of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel ‘Unseen Academicals’ sounds remarkably similar. But then Sir Terry often used folklore and the more eccentric British customs and traditions in his Discworld novels.
By and large, the corporate media in the U.S. is no longer free, and will not accurately report donald/elon/JD's flouting of the rules. Democracy is cooked without a free press. Independent media is the way forward. Happily, many folks here are launching independent media endeavors here on Substack, YouTube, Bluesky, and elsewhere, and it's vital to support them.
(Lovely piece, btw. Thanks for it.)
Welcome to Substack Billy. Missed your posts since quitting the Meta platforms
Do I need to buy tickets Billy? I’d love to see that game
Discworld's game of ‘foot the ball’, the subject of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel ‘Unseen Academicals’ sounds remarkably similar. But then Sir Terry often used folklore and the more eccentric British customs and traditions in his Discworld novels.
They still play uppies and downies in Workington. I was always told it was a Viking tradition.
I will leave an extra pint