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Johnny Marr, ex The Smiths, ex The The, ex Electronic, with New Town Velocity . From his 2013 debut solo album The Messenger . Arguab...

If the past three weeks in Ukraine have proven anything it's that the much vaunted Russian War Machine is still prone to the same old er...

Putin is a rogue, but until a few days ago, I considered him a rational being, no Ahmadinejad-like nutcase eagerly anticipating the end of t...

A timely piece, and an absolute must read , brought to my attention via Tijl De Bie , Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Ghent Universi...

Paul Carrack with How Long . Actually a single from English band Ace's debut album Five-A-Side (1974), of which Carrack was a fo...

It's 2022. Another year has come and gone. DowneastBlog wishes all its reades of good will the very best for the coming year! Sup...

Today, on Christmas Day 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope, purported to be a hundred times more powerful than the Hubble Telescope, was l...

To all my readers of good will, a heartfelt Merry Christmas! Adorazioni dei pastori (1485), in the Cappella Sassetti in Florence's B...

Last week the Parker Solar Probe was hurtling though the Sun's corona at speeds sometimes approaching 100 miles per second : NASA...

Well, unveil... Neutron, the successor to Rocket Lab's Electron was announced in March already, but on 2 DEC the company lifted the v...

Via Tim Dodd , the "Everyday Astronaut"! It is but a small booklet, but it is one of the prized possessions in my library: ...

If you are White and happened to grow up in a stable family, in case you didn't know it yet: you're a White Supremacist! MFBB...

Probably nobody but Europe's muslims are more pleased with all the bruhaha surrounding the covid pandemic, since it allows them to inch ...

So after 16 years at the helm of Germany, Angela Merkel has left office, giving the reins to Olaf Scholz of the SPD, the German socialists...

Arthur Williams is a former Royal Marine who lost the use of his legs in an accident, took up flying, and is now a successful TV reporter! T...

I've read a lot of "Never forgets" today. I've barely read "Never forgives". Over here at DowneastBlog we ...

Over at The Spectator, a compelling article by Lionel Shriver : "...In Britain, Migration Watch released two reports this summer wh...

Alfred de Breanski Sr. was a British landscape painter who made a name for himself with exquisite renderings of rural England, Scotland and ...

Realizing we are far less than a speck in an infathomably large universe helps us to put some things in perspective. Good night. M...

I'm very sorry for being AWOL for so long, but it's been a rather rough couple of months lately. Health is status quo though. Cop...