Folk Music

Well, semi-acoustic music for the mind and body — there’s a real audio link direct for those of you who get the Country Joe reference and just want to hear it.

Makes a nice contrast to Matthew Parris, who has the only good argument for Bush’s re-election in the Times today. The short version is simply this: Bush’s grand design will fail utterly, but it must fail utterly and publicly if the dream is to lose its power. If he loses the election this year, there will always be a suspicion that it might have worked; only by giving him another term can the dream of Empire be as completely discredited as Labour was before 1979. Much as I admire Matthew, in this instance I would rather be prematurely right. It’s good, though, to find someone who is even more pessimistic about human nature than I am. He always makes me feel irredeemably liberal and progressive.