The times we live in.

I have probably lived a long time.

I can remember the cuban missile crisis - just.

Kennedy shot dead.

I can remember the cold war, the permanant background concern that at very little notice the world might explode in flames.

Then suddenly the order was all over.

The cold war was gone, the eastern block collapsed.

The triumph of capital we were told.

Mandela walking to freedom and the man who was an image on a T shirt showed himself as an iconic statesman.

The dream of freedom for my own small nation edging closer, a vibrant democratic senedd that is fit for purpose, with even Tories prepared to walk through it's doors.

But now we are back in the dark, looking more and more like the 20's every day.

Capital really has triumphed though.

The head of RBS ran the company into the floor trousered 20 mil and then got to walk away and leave the mess for others.

What a beacon of self interest - the very stuff of capitalism.

Today, the unthinkable, a black president for our colonial cousins.

Elected by the peoples 20 dollars not the corporations millions.

The buffoon out of the white house, the one whose grand parents would have said the current incumbant was closer to baboons than them.

The initial speach was so far removed from the narrow rhetoric of the right.

One almost begins to feel times are a changing again.

I wonder if we havn't all been here before though.


R