Lost in Spades

Listen. Listen closely. It’s in between the news and aside from all the headlines. Listen to it carefully. It’s subtle but distinct. It’s covert but it's profound. It’s the drums of war. The unofficial headlong march to a third world war has begun, but mum’s the word. The Americans are complaining about Syria and the Russians about America; while the Israeli’s complain about the Iranians as the Iranian’s accuse Israel. There’s nothing new in that. Perhaps not… but the body language is tense. The leaders hide behind their vainglorious masks of deceit and diplomacy as much as possible. Yet little tell-tale signs do escape that political vacuum. And the drum beat rolls. And all the rhetoric in the world cannot hide the fact that the Middle-East is utterly imploding. Add to that a financially unstable world economy headed by persistent dire circumstances in the Eurozone and impending economic collapse in the United States; not to mention the rank poverty in other...

Financial Times - Global Insight, By John Reed - September 2, 2013 Their worry is not that Israel is being left alone to cope with Syria, whose war Israel’s government and most of its people want no direct part in. The fear – and it is a big one – is about the message America’s perceived wavering on Syria sends to its bigger and much more powerful ally: Iran.

The Independent - Joe Murphy , St Petersburg - Friday 06 September 2013 Few signs of unity of purpose between leaders at first day of summit, but hostility remains veiled – more or less .

Why did no one mention the existence of pre-war colour film until recently? This colour footage of 1920s London was shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William – a cinematographer – was experimenting with.