# bad times (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bad times.

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## [My Mother And La Bohème](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/my-mother-and-la-boheme)

_2026-08-19 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

Navigating class distinctions on two continents

## [If I Had Known What I Was Getting Into...](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/if-i-had-known-what-i-was-getting)

_2026-08-12 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

would I still have adopted Truffle?

## [The Virtues of Truffle](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/the-virtues-of-truffle)

_2026-08-05 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

Or, it could have been worse

## [How to Educate](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/how-to-educate)

_2026-08-03 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Education can be a hot potato in politics, and temperatures are rising yet again with indications that Andy Burnham wishes to put practical and academic education on an equal footing, focusing on relevance to today’s world and its exigencies.

## [Clarity and the Constitution](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/clarity-and-the-constitution)

_2026-08-02 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Among the spate of initiatives announced by Andy Burnham in his first week as the UK’s Prime Minister is his proposal for greater devolution of powers to the regions and the idea of codifying the constitution.

## [From Heel Drills to Sniff Walks](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/from-heel-drills-to-sniff-walks)

_2026-07-29 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

Looking out for Truffle's mental health

## [Morals and Laws](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/morals-and-laws)

_2026-07-26 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

In the palmy year of 1874 the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement (WCTM), which had been founded in Cleveland, Ohio, presented a petition to Congress in Washington calling for the ‘making, selling, importation and exportation of intoxicating liquors’ to be banned.

## [Why I Am Suddenly Wearing a Tiny Cross](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/why-i-am-suddenly-wearing-a-tiny)

_2026-07-22 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

even though I am a liberal

## [Word Clusters](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/word-clusters)

_2026-07-21 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Though my political sympathies lie within the spectrum of the cluster ‘left, liberal, progressive’ (not a coterminous set of terms) I find myself agreeing with an important point made by R.

## [Dred Scott and Today](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/dred-scott-and-today)

_2026-07-18 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

In everything that Trump and MAGA do in the way of pushing back against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and asserting White Supremacist values (‘values’) there sound the echoes of the worst-ever Supreme Court decision in US history, the Dred Scott case.

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## [Red Alert](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/red-alert)

_2026-07-17 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Trump’s primetime television speech on Thursday 16 July was about ‘election vulnerabilities’, focusing on outside influence primarily from China, and the fallibility of voting machines and processes.

## [Good Food in Bad Times, continued](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/good-food-in-bad-times-continued)

_2026-07-15 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

Fishwives and fashion

## [Straitened by Hormuz](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/straitened-by-hormuz)

_2026-07-15 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Dr Johnson, the Great Panjandrum of literature, said that ‘quotation is the parole of the literary man’.

## [Ra-Ra](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/ra-ra)

_2026-07-13 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Ancient Egyptians literally saw their god, and felt its power on their backs, on a daily basis.

## [Cortrumption](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/cortrumption)

_2026-07-11 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Democracy is about voters picking their politicians, not politicians picking their voters.

## [Good Food in Bad Times](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/good-food-in-bad-times)

_2026-07-08 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

Snails, capons, and other delights

## [One and All](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/one-and-all)

_2026-07-05 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Here is a personal note.

## [Cherries and Golf Balls](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/cherries-and-golf-balls)

_2026-07-02 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Washington DC is famous among other things for its springtime cherry blossoms.

## [Truffle Troubles](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/truffle-troubles)

_2026-07-01 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

I think he thinks he owns me

## [My Mother and the Shrunken Head](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/my-mother-and-the-shrunken-head)

_2026-06-27 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

The head-shrinking (or tsantsa) tradition of the Jivaro tribes of the Amazon was alive and well when my parents and I arrived in Ecuador in the 1950s.

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## [The Summer of ‘76](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-76)

_2026-06-25 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Few will now remember the Labour politician Denis Howell, later Lord Howell of Aston Manor, who in the famously long hot summer of 1976 was appointed Minister for Drought.

## [Veni, vidi, vinci](https://eulaliabenejamcobb.substack.com/p/veni-vidi-vinci)

_2026-06-24 · Eulalia Benejam Cobb · Eulalia Benejam Cobb_

my journey to Substack

## [Footprints in Water](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/footprints-in-water)

_2026-06-24 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

I met the late and much lamented Arjen Hoekstra, ‘Mr Water Footprint’, in the Antarctic in 2015.

## [Perpetual Peace](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/perpetual-peace)

_2026-06-23 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

For weather like this a Jon Snow – a King of the North – seems to be the order of the day, Mancunian levels of precipitation and temperature looking most desirable at present.

## [Ultimate Things](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/ultimate-things)

_2026-06-21 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

That great philosopher Oscar Wilde said, ‘Most people are other people.

## [Rejoin March 20 June 2026 London](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/rejoin-march-20-june-2026-london)

_2026-06-17 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Join us at the National Rejoin March this Saturday, 20 June 2026

## [Bad Times](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/bad-times)

_2026-06-17 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Bad times are times of opportunity.

## [Only Connect](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/only-connect)

_2026-06-11 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

As someone perennially allergic to conspiracy theories I once found it hard to accept quite everything said about a Far-Right campaign to sew discord by promoting violent racist outbursts such as those over the Henry Nowak murder and the Belfast stabbing in recent days.

## [Another Thing](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/another-thing)

_2026-05-03 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Another thing, among many, that Trump does not understand is the nature of legacy.

## [Truth, Whole, and Nothing But](https://acgrayling.substack.com/p/truth-whole-and-nothing-but)

_2026-04-21 · A C Grayling · A C Grayling_

Chapeau big time to French Senator Claude Malhuret.

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## [Bounce the Baby](https://www.kevinlaurence.net/2026/03/29/bounce-the-baby/)

_2026-03-29 · Kevin · This Is Just To Say_

Even the prospect of early annihilation should not keep us from making the most of our days on this unhappy planet. In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those Continue reading Bounce the Baby