https://livesteven.com/2026/05/03/to-catherine-on-her-birthday-on-the-3rd-may-2026/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-05-03T04:51:37+00:00To Catherine on her birthday on the 3rd May 2026https://livesteven.com/2026/05/02/the-question-should-be-why-would-or-should-you-vote-in-political-elections-the-guardian-today-is-predicting-unprecedented-losses-for-the-labour-party-yet-the-current-labour-leader-won-power-in-h/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-05-02T09:33:57+00:00The question should be why would or should you vote in political elections! ‘The Guardian’ today is predicting unprecedented losses for the Labour Party. Yet the current Labour Leader won power in his party by saying no party should promote any policy that would make it ‘unelectable’. It seems now that this ideology has created the least electable party of modern voting history. Is voting in political elections ever a matter of principle in politics?dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1927, news, politics, uk-politics, labour-party, keir-starmer, green-party, voting-intentions, electabilityhttps://livesteven.com/2026/05/01/boustrophedon-one-of-the-loveliest-words-in-the-english-language-if-only-the-aims-of-life-were-not-so-chopped-up-end-stopped-and-linear-we-might-realise-that-in-our-minds-are-on/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-05-01T15:30:10+00:00‘boustrophedon, one of the loveliest words in the English language, …’. If only the aims of life were not so ‘chopped up’, end-stopped and linear, we might realise that ‘in our minds’ are ‘only sinuous furrows of thought’. This blog reflects on Yann Martel’s novel, ‘Son of Nobody’.dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1926, poetry, writing, literature, books, fiction, yann-martel, son-of-nobody, war-and-redemption