Jock Bytes: Easter

Yes. It is spring

Happy Easter to All

Here for a beautiful Easter and for Cambridge Word Fest.

Mark Logue and Peter Conradi spoke about their book on the life and diaries of Lionel Logue and the film The King’s Speech. Later Mark agreed that, if the book and the film had been released ten years ago, they would not have had the current worldwide acclaim. The reaction to a minor book and a minor film about an interesting but minor incident in the twentieth century has been extraordinary.

Why? What is the reason? My German Dachshund cousins have a word for it, zeitgeist, or the mood of the moment. After the 2008/9 collapse of political, economic, and moral, trust, we all need to believe again, to have faith.

The King’s Speech is history. A man, George VI, returns to us in film and on paper to show again that virtue, courage and honour can prevail.

Katherine Birbalsingh teacher and author of To Miss with Love is at Word Fest also. Wow. She has skills and vision as well as dedication and courage. We agreed that you would not be permitted to treat a puppy the way we treat many of our children.

Ordinary people at Ordinary School, parents, teachers, children, are sick of the failed bureauklatura.

We want an Archbishop who writes wise and loving explanations of God and religion for little girls, who prays, who himself washes the feet of men.

Rowan Williams, you are a good man; you have shown us; yes you can.

We do not want a prelate, wrapped in synod jargon, to tell our elected politicians to enact yet more otiose legislation instructing other people to go and wash feet.

We want a leader who wears with dignity, and listening humility, the office of the Queen’s Prime Minister and First Lord off the Treasury, who guides and controls the Queen’s ministers, who persuades a properly sceptical elected House of Commons.

David Cameron, you are a good man, you have shown us; yes you can.

We do not want a politician who dashes from one PR photo opportunity to the next, putting his foot in his mouth, spouting from briefing notes carelessly prepared by juvenile political wannabes.