The Rosstrum
Random and disjointed ponderings on faith, life, culture and professional issues (occasionally).
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Perpetually aggrieved
Saturday, March 09, 2024
Get your facts right
In response to the vandalism at Cambridge University of a portrait of Lord Balfour by a pro-Palestinian protestor, Alex Ryvchin, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, posted the following statement on X, formerly known as Twitter. Balfour served as Foreign Secretary in the government of former British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, when in 1917, a declaration was made supporting the establishment of a Jewish homeland in what was then Palestine.
Contrary to contemporary propaganda, the Balfour Declaration didn’t give Palestine to the Jews. It didn’t give anything to anyone. It favoured the idea of a liberated Ottoman colony which had been held by various foreign empires for 2,000 years, becoming an independent Jewish… https://t.co/6RxylsltpB
— Alex Ryvchin (@AlexRyvchin) March 8, 2024
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-68515368
Thursday, March 07, 2024
Airball
In basketball, an airball is the term for a badly missed shot that fails to hit the rim or the backboard of the basketball ring. Here we have an example of a typographical airball. A prestigious newspaper masthead is now publishing copy of the quality you would typically encounter in a social media post.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Hands on learning
Tinkering with Gemini, Google's new AI tool. One needs to keep up with these technologies. I asked it to create a brief history of antisemitism, which unfortunately, has had a resurgence in recent times.
https://g.co/gemini/share/29c62d98efc6
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Feel the tension in the air
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Dysfunctionality writ large
Some thirty years after Labor in Power, a documentary series about the Hawke-Keating government, that held power in Australia from 1983 to 1996, comes Nemesis, featuring interviews with many of the key protagonists. This should dominate the political news cycle for at least the next couple of weeks.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/nemesis-tells-the-story-of-the-coalition-years-in-its-own-words-some-of-it-will-leave-you-stunned/