'Started with a mega-history of the world from the perspective of the oceans, and it was nice to read more about the Polynesian exploration and settlement of the Pacific and the trade and navigation of the Indian Ocean before getting on to familiar territory as the europeans explode out from the Med and Atlantic. 'A Fairytale of New York' was on my reading list purely because of the name, and it was a bit of a let-down. couldn't really get into it, wasn't at all funny as I had been led to believe. The latest Magnus Mills has been published through amazon and was like reading a printout, but was the usual Magnus Mills enclosed world or pubs, meetings, routing and surrealism with an anonymous narrator. Read in a day, a real treat. Finally, Laurie Lee's memoir of his travels in Spain. I thought it was about his wartime experience, but it ends as he ships out of Spain just before the war starts. In the real world, I'm becoming increasingly disillusions with the Labour Party. The Leadership's scorched earth policy to destroy the left of the party is seeing many good people suspended or expelled, and their timid policies and abstentions are thoroughly dispiriting. The awful shadow minister for schools, Wes Streeting, is supporting the government's policy of keeping schools open above all else when it is obvious that it is leading to an increase in cases. How can it possibly be that 2 people cannot meet in a house or pub or garden but 2000 kids and staff can spend six hours a day in the same building? They seem to have reverted to the 'Tory lite' approach of 2010-2015. I'm not sure who they think they will attract, but they are losing committed Labour members like me. I stuck with it before Corbyn, but having seen how the right sabotaged and undermined the left, I'm in no mood to bite my tongue any longer. i think I'll stay in the party so I can use my vote, but nothing else.
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