Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

Social history versus art might well be the title of Tate Modern’s Tracy Emin A Second Life retrospective.  30 years ago her installation “My Bed” shot her to a tabloid fame and then gradually to national treasure though retaining her reputation as a “swearing, sexually aggressive provocateur.”   Her initial foray into conceptual art was … Read more

  With the Saturn Neptune conjunction omnipresent in the celestial sphere and bringing to prominence individuals who have it writ large in their charts it seemed worthwhile looking across the spectrum of ways it can be lived out. It has been given a litany of meanings from social reformer to artist, to neurotic, to a … Read more

A three-way wild card byelection between Reform, the Greens and Labour in south-east Manchester today will add to Keir Starmer’s woes with the pressure continuing to mount towards the more significant May 7 local byelections.   A delightful cartoon this morning has a voter asking whether she could vote “off menu” which largely sums up … Read more

The UK ruling classes, political and Royal, have been holed below the waterline, in a moment that must be history changing with the King’s brother and the Labour Party/present government’s high mandarin both hauled in by the police. The left can’t call foul on the monarchy since they are equally in the frame.   Reading … Read more

Mexico is under siege as members of the Jalisco Cartel, one of the most powerful and feared criminal organisations in the country, have unleashed a wave of violence across 20 Mexican states in retaliation to the killing of their leader “El Mencho”. He died in custody shortly after being captured by Mexican special forces. As … Read more

Panchi Kun, a Macaque baby monkey abandoned by his mother was given an orangutan stuffed-toy by zoo staff as a comforter and became a viral hit on the net. Zoo visits shot up and tearful Instagram fans across the globe cheered him on as he eventually became socialized and accepted into the Macaque tribe.  He … Read more

American figure skater Alysa Liu won the Olympic gold in both women’s singles and in the team event in show-stopping style.  After missing out on medals in the previous Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 she retired from the sport citing burnout but returned in better form than ever last year. She was a prodigy who … Read more

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  The worst Royal crisis since the abdication of King Edward in late 1936 is probably an exaggeration since Andrew is 8th in line to the throne (at present). But there were significant and relatively similar though stronger influences then – both tr Pluto and Solar Arc Pluto were bearing down on the 10th house … Read more

Actor Eric Dane, best known for Gray’s Anatomy and recently Euphoria has died aged at 53 from ALS. He was was initially only contracted to appear in one episode of the medical series but starred in a further 138, revolutionising the show along the way. A struggle with prescription drug addiction led to his plane … Read more