The Lord Chamberlain’s Office

Subject: Richard Dearlove’s role
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:20:45 +0000

‘KEEF 2010′ (water-colour by Nick; pic bySylvie) 2nd October 2011 Andrew Marr did a reasonably convincing job of sounding surprised at the appalling cock-ups of the British Army’s 85 delusional Generals in Iraq and Afghanistan. I can’t help liking Marr despite his cretinously contemptuos comments about the unpaid bloggers who have been paving the way for these revelations for many years. Stand-out comment from Marr’s BBC R4 interview slot: ‘My life is is in your hands’, Tony Blair to ex-M16 chief Richard Dearlove. When did this comment happen and what prompted it? Did it occur before or after the delivery of the ’45 minute’ speech to Parliament? Ist October 2011 Fellow Cambridge playwright-director Edward Bond (whose place in Royal Court history was assured when he saw off the Lord Chamberlane’s arcane censorship powers in the 60s) made a distinction between ‘drama’ and ‘theatre’ in interview with John Humphrys in the prime-time 8.10 slot on this morning’s BBC R4 Today Programme. ‘Is all drama political?’ is not he same question as ‘is it possible to talk about drama without talking about politics?’. If ‘theatre’ in the context Bond was using it means the ‘professional’ scene then I am inclined to agree – and I’m thankful for the insight. www.royal.gov.uk/…/TheLordChamberlainsOffice/Overview.aspxCached - Similar You +1′d this publicly. Undo An overview of the work of the Lord Chamberlain’s Office. I wrote to Bond’s agent some years ago seeking permission to direct his seminal Saved and never heard back. I hope it will be his own production at Hampstead. At the time of my request I’d only skimmed the play and looked carefully at the ending, wondering if Mike Alfreds had been right when he speculated that the unspeakbaly brutal bady-stoner is beyond the redemption Bond accords him with the mending of a chair. A baby stoned by a gang of young men in a London park. This is as violent as drama can get; as violent an act as it is possible to imagine, perhaps: and a pram on stage will never be the same again. Bond did for the pram what Picasso did for women. Is it believable? That a group of young men could do such a thing without stopping, appalled as ‘motivation’ is swamped by instinct – ie: it doesn’t take more than one to stone a baby. For a gang  to stone a baby is to tap into sacrifice-mode, and that is aways suspect in the ‘theatre’ (Bond’s sense). Since the Government ‘changed’ Bond tells us he detects an oncoming state in permanent crisis: in which the army are to clear the looters and dispossed armed with guns and less and less cautioned against shooting to kill – not yet. Regarding post-Einstein physics. I see a ‘black donut’ surrounding the light particle. The edge of the black donut gets ‘there’ (out) first. The black donut is without taste and colour – it is nothing but form – a spiral and a wave of nothingness. Are thoughts actions? Is all thinking memory? If so can it travel? If so, by what means and how fast? It would seem they jump time and space interdependently, octagonally, perhaps. On reincarnation. I don’t buy it. I am greatly attracted to the beauty of the re-birth theory nevertheless and the tantric application (Imogen and Iago! Elizabeth 1 and Hitler!) is a dramaturgical tool, no more no less. I don’t buy it, this article of faith to religious Buddhists. Religious Buddhism arrises as a feature of homelessness and is, by nature, politically divisive (as all the faith-religions are). Lao Tzu’s revolutionay Way is a system closer to nature, without non-Indigenous anxiety. Big subject. (for Lawrence Harbottle and the Board of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation) Regarding Blair’s 70 ‘missions’ to the Middle East (from being booted from office to the 11/9/2011 John Humphrys BBC R4 interview) a good outcome for me would be 70 individual statements from Tony Blair detailing the purposes and outcomes of these trips (including documentation from all sides), including travel and sleeping arrangements. All of them. A seventy page document with primary source add-ons, please. Regarding Obama’s avowed new military tactic versus Islamic extremism – obviously taking an ‘evil’ one out dead or alive (?) is preferable to Shock and Awe – and in that sense (we are so far gone justice-wise) is to be taking on the arms traders and their pitiless war-maker bosses, some ‘royal’, some banking-types, owners of banks, ‘operatives’. Paulene Neville-Jones types. (for the Master, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) Re Murdoch the Musical: key background episodes might include Keith Murdoch’s Times war-reporting and Elizabeth’s memories. Time running out for that, of course, she’s well over a hundred but still has most of her marbles according to Barrie Humphries (who I would love to welcome on board). End of 1st October 2011 entry pics  added 18 Oct 2011 (text as was via e-mail to Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge (the wonderful Green Party Leader Caroline Lucas copied in)