Nobody told me there'd be days like these

How can posting a photograph of some cute little pigs be interpreted as a political act? It's a puzzle. These guys were at the Michigan State Fair last August. Wonder if my photos of the cows will come in handy at some later date?

George Galloway is speaking at the LSE at 12:30 on Monday 24th October and at Sheffield University at 12:30 on Monday 7th November. The LSE is just twenty minutes away, Sheffield takes a lot longer to get to but I'd love to go up and see how "S" is doing.

"S" is the 18 year old daughter of a friend of mine. We walked around Dublin for hours one night last month while she asked questions about Irish history and challenged everything I said. It was stupendously refreshing and made me work harder at explaining why I'm fascinated by what was going on there 85 years ago.

If I go up to see her I can get her take on what Galloway has to say. She sees things so differently to me, will she be even more scathing? Plus she always teaches me a few words of German - ich habe dich lieb - I can't read her writing but I think that's what it says.