John Meed

Magog Down sunset

10.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s essential to keep up the pressure. This bill remains a major threat to biodiversity

23.07.2025 07:17 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A real pleasure to join Martin Simpson on the 'Folk on Foot' podcast , walking through the woods near my home in the New Forest . Goshawks , poodles and my favourite tree . . . listen now at chrispackh.am/folkonfoot

22.07.2025 13:15 — 👍 203    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 3

“I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change.” Which planet does Trump inhabit? It’s the Palestinians’ home (has been for millennia) and a beautiful land until Israeli settlers built illegally on it.

26.01.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I loved the Stax/Atlantic soul - talented songwriters, great musicians and arrangements and above all fabulous singers. While Aretha and Otis were my favourites, there were many others and the last survivor from that generation, Sam Moore, died this week. Here he is with Dave.

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24.01.2025 08:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting times indeed:

‘Yesterday, Facebook carried out a brazen political attack on anti-racists. With no evidence of wrongdoing, they banned the Stand Up To Racism Facebook page.

‘The ban occurred after a post urging people to join the to Stop The Far Right, on Saturday 1st of February.’

23.01.2025 12:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's 15 years since inspirational students occupied their campuses against the government's ludicrous fees for higher education. We visited the students in Brighton and I wrote this song immediately afterwards, and played it to the Cambridge Senate House occupiers.
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28.11.2024 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The sower by Vincent Van Gogh from the National Gallery exhibition

23.11.2024 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A lovely comment about my study of the fields around Nine Wells in this week's Cambridge Independent:

22.11.2024 10:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kafka’s sister | John Meed 2024 has marked the centenary of Franz Kafka's early death from tuberculosis. In August we visited an exhibition in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, which holds the majority of Franz Kafka's archive. T...

Hello everyone! Here's my latest blog entry, about Franz Kafka's favourite - and remarkable - sister. johnmeed.net/kafkas-sister/

22.11.2024 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0