Alan Kluckow

George Orwell, b otd 1903 - uncomfortable truths: The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Wow - trains worse than planes! A guard on this @LumoTravel train spotted my (safely stowed) cello, and ordered me to go and stand with it in the corridor (for 3 ½ hours). Musical instruments aren’t allowed - if I’d seen you on the platform I wouldn’t have let you on.’ Charmed…

Muhammad Ali b otd 1942! "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." "The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Alas, Bishop Desmond Tutu d otd 2021 - so wise, so right: "If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." "There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in."

Heinrich Heine b otd 1797 - such a prophet: "Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." "You cannot feed the hungry on statistics." "When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on." "There are more fools in the world than there are people."