#Cambridge Heath

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'Cambridge Heath Road', Michael Johnson, 2024

Currently on display at the Nunnery Gallery, Bow Road, until 22 December.

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Cambridge Heath Overground Station in Technicolor 28/09/2023

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Looking for the best Nose Piercing in Cambridge Heath? then visit Metal Morphosis. East London store. Piercing experts since 1991.

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Plant of the Day

Wednesday 19 April 2023

In the cool glasshouse at Cambridge Botanic Garden the Erica canaliculata (channelled heath, hairy grey heather) was covered in flowers. This species is native to the East and West Capes of South Africa and naturalised in South Australia.

Jill Raggett

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Sir John Nott

Defence secretary in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet during the Falklands war

The reputation of John Nott, who has died aged 92, will for ever be linked with the Falklands war of 1982. Nott was the defence secretary in Margaret Thatcher’s first administration and was extremely fortunate politically to survive one of Britain’s gravest postwar crises – yet it effectively ended his ministerial career.

Although the British taskforce retook the islands from Argentina after just 10 weeks’ occupation, Nott could not escape responsibility for his part in the government’s earlier decisions to reduce the islands’ protection, which had convinced the generals in Buenos Aires that they could launch their attack with impunity. Nor did he ever live down his ill-disguised pessimism about the taskforce’s chances of success. From being one of the Tories’ rising rightwing hopes and a prospective future chancellor, he left parliament for good a year after the war, with a knighthood; he was never awarded a peerage.

Nott was a somewhat forbidding figure with the air of a disapproving bank manager, a waspish tongue and a self-righteous and partisan manner – none of them attributes likely to inspire either the nation or its armed forces in time of national emergency. He had in fact calculated on an intermittent political career, sandwiching stints as an MP and minister between spells making money in business. Instead, his political career was over by the time he was 51 and he retired to the City, becoming chairman and chief executive of the merchant bank Lazard Brothers.

In that sense, his most memorable television appearance, a live interview with Robin Day in 1982 when he flounced out in an undignified huff on being referred to as a “here today, gone tomorrow” politician, was apposite. Indeed, 20 years later he entitled his autobiography Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (2002).

Born in Bromley. south-east London, John was the son of Phyllis (nee Francis) and Richard Nott, a rice broker from a West Country military family. On leaving Bradfield college, Berkshire, he served as a subaltern with the Gurkha Rifles during the Malayan emergency and was for a period the ADC to the commander-in-chief of British far east forces, before going to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study law and economics. He became president of the Cambridge Union and, on graduation, was called to the Bar, although he never practised as a lawyer. Instead he joined SG Warburg, the merchant bank, and remained there for eight years.

At Cambridge he met Miloska Sekol, a Slovenian refugee, who was studying English. The story went that Nott told her at their first meeting, in 1959, that he intended to marry her – a remarkable gesture from such an apparently staid and undashing figure, and an approach that appears to have taken her by surprise. She wrote in her diary that night: “What a cheek, how preposterous!” They married the same year.

Nott entered the Commons at the 1966 general election as MP for St Ives in Cornwall. He spent the rest of his life living in the county and promoting what he saw as its interests, calling for improved rail links west of Plymouth, and opposing incursions by French fishermen and the Anglo-French Concorde project. But it was as a bone-dry, rightwing economist, suspicious of the EU and pro-Commonwealth, that he made his mark: serving as an opposition economics spokesman and, after the Conservatives returned to power in 1970, becoming a junior Treasury minister, focusing on matters such as tax reform.

After Edward Heath’s 1974 defeat, however, he refused to become an opposition spokesman. He returned to the City as a consultant and to his Cornish estate, where he grew flowers commercially. Thatcher’s leadership was more to his liking and the rising Tory tide in favour of monetarism more ideologically congenial. “The party has almost found its soul again,” he told readers of the Daily Telegraph. He returned to the opposition frontbench, harrying the chancellor Denis Healey with a sharp wit.

Thatcher saw him as a kindred spirit, identified him as a rising star and, when the Tories returned to power in 1979, rewarded him by making him trade secretary. He naturally enthusiastically supported cuts in public spending, but also supported the expansion of London’s airports: a fourth terminal at Heathrow, a second runway at Gatwick and expansion at Stansted formed his most tangible legacy.

Then, in 1981, as the prime minister turned against the wets, Nott was moved to defence, to shake up the department and cut without squeamishness. He quickly decided that the priority was defence against the Soviet Union, not the promotion of worldwide, post-imperial pretensions, which was unfortunate in the light of what was to happen the following year in the South Atlantic. “Our first priority had to be credible deterrence from Soviet aggression on mainland Europe, decidedly not equipping ourselves for another Suez or post-colonial war,” he wrote later, and he proceeded to strengthen the army at the expense of the Royal Navy, targeting the service’s last aircraft carrier for closure.

Among the lesser cuts was a plan to scrap the gunboat Endurance, which guarded the Falklands. That, and the ruminations of his fellow rightwinger and Thatcherite rising star Nicholas Ridley that the islands were dispensable, sent a clear message to the junta. Had the Argentinian generals been a little more patient, Nott might single-handedly have made the taskforce that was subsequently launched impossible. As it was, he lost the navy minister to resignation and earned the lasting hostility of the first sea lord, Sir Henry Leach, who later wrote that he despised Nott’s performance.

Accordingly, when some Argentinian scrap metal merchants landed on South Georgia Island, sparking conflict, the government was taken by surprise. Nott later confessed that he had to look up where the Falkland Islands were on the globe in his office and he was immediately pessimistic of the chances of recovering them: it was Leach who seized the initiative to prove the navy’s worth and urged the prime minister, against her defence secretary’s advice and instincts, to mobilise an immediate taskforce to retake the islands. Nott’s insistence to MPs during that weekend’s emergency Commons debate that “no other country could have reacted so fast and the preparations have been in progress for several weeks. We were not unprepared” was therefore at best being economical with the truth.

When, 10 weeks later, the islands were retaken, albeit at considerable human cost, Nott received little of the credit and none of the glory within the party – that all went to Thatcher – or in the country, which was more inclined to credit the bravery and resilience of the troops than the triumphalism of politicians. His pretensions to succeed Howe as chancellor, or indeed any ambitions he might have harboured one day to follow Thatcher as prime minister, a possibility that had been occasionally mooted by some of the party’s zealouts, were at an end.

Before Thatcher’s post-Falklands general election landslide victory the following year, Nott chose to stand down as an MP. He could see the way the wind was blowing: the naval cuts were reversed. “The admirals have got their fucking gin palaces back,” he told friends. There was a certain degree of bitterness, too, even towards the prime minister herself. “The full cabinet was never more than a rubber stamp,” he said in a later BBC interview, accusing Thatcher of fostering a cult of personality: “Like all ambitious women, she thinks all men are feeble and that gentlemen are even more feeble.”

Back in the City, he accumulated directorships and money: chairman of Lazard, director of Royal Insurance, chairman of the food company Hillsdown Holdings, and of the clothing retailer Etam, and an adviser to the law firm Freshfields. He only occasionally intervened in politics: vociferously opposing the euro from an early stage and calling for early intervention in the 1990s Balkans crisis.

And he continued his battle with the pretensions of the navy: “Today’s defence policy has not been assisted by the Falklands experience,” he wrote in the Daily Telegraph in 2012. “It is still designed to prepare the Royal Navy for another Falklands … when technology, particularly air power, has moved into a new era … The Royal Navy’s future lies in a substantial number of well-armed modern frigates and destroyers, not two carriers, which are far too expensive to build, service and protect.”

He is survived by his wife and their children, Julian, William and Sasha.

🔔 John William Frederic Nott, politician, born 1 February 1932; died 6 November 2024

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Date: 27th October, 2023

Time: 5:00pm

Where: Tower Hamlets Labour Party Office, Cambridge Heath Road, E2

Who: Queers for Palestine

Link to source

Want some advice about protests?

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19 April 2016 | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge is greeted by Chewbacca as British actor John Boyega watches during a tour of the Star Wars sets at Pinewood studios in Iver Heath, England. Prince William and Prince Harry are touring Pinewood studios to visit the production workshops and meet the creative teams working behind the scenes on the Star Wars films. (c) Adrian Dennis-WPA Pool/Getty Images

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Neil Chris Required Readings, from professor euroboy from the department of [rolls head back and screams] at psb university

Pet Shop Boys, Literally, Chris Heath

hate manifesto, adjunct lecturer Neil Tennant

“queer sensibility”, fantastic man feature, Olivia Laing

“it certainly wasnt the basis on which we became friends” The Observer, 1997

coffee and cake tumblr post (fieldwork. go look for the post yourself)

Sunday, 14 April 1991, Pet Shop Boys Versus America, Chris Heath

“ok some spouses may not either”, Lecture, Professor Chris Lowe

Will-o-the-wisp & You are the one, Tennant/Lowe

Diaries Volume One, 1939-1960, Christopher Isherwood

A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood

Smile If You Dare: Politics And Pointy Hats With The Pet Shop Boys, Ramzy Alwakeel

Visual Codes of the Pet Shop Boys, My Beloved Oomf, Cambridge University Press

The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society, Bodie A. Ashton (2024 release)

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On July 1st, 1963, the BBC reported that Harold ‘Kim’ Philby had been finally identified as ‘the third man’ of the Cambridge Spy Ring, which also included Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Philby had been working for the Soviets during his entire time with the British Foreign Office, which included an assignment at the British Embassy in Washington, liaising with the CIA. Ironically, in the late 1940s, Philby had worked as Britain’s head of Anti-Communist Counterespionage.

Lord Privy Seal, Edward Heath, told the Commons that while working for MI6 in Washington (around 1950-51), Philby had used his inside knowledge to warn Burgess and Mclean that they had been rumbled, allowing them time to escape to the Soviet Union. At that time Philby’s involvement was suspected, although not proven, but he was ousted from the Foreign Office on the orders of then Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, and the investigation remained open.

According to BBC reporting in July 1963;

"…British authorities had always suspected there was a "third man"…Mr Philby, often known as Kim, had been working as a journalist in Beirut when he disappeared four months ago…"

Philby subsequently turned up in Moscow, from where he denied that he had tipped off Burgess and Mclean, and said that Maclean had actually been alerted to the fact that the security services were onto him when the M15 agents tailing him got a little carried away and accidently bumped into his car.

Philby became a Russian citizen, a KGB General, and was awarded the Order of Lenin. He died in 1988 and was buried with Soviet military honours.

The Cambridge Spy Ring consisted of a group of 1930s university students who were recruited by Soviet agents. The motivation, according to the BBC, was ideological rather than financial, prompted by the belief that capitalism was corrupt and life beyond the Iron Curtain offered a ‘better model for society’.

“…The Cambridge spy ring was informally led by Harold 'Kim' Philby. He and his friends later moved into jobs in British Intelligence and the Foreign Office where they had access to top secret information. They spent their working lives passing valuable information to the Soviet Union…”

The identities of the fourth and fifth Cambridge Spies were not revealed until much later. Anthony Blunt was named in 1979, and John Cairncross in 1990. Cairncross had tipped off the Soviets in time for them to change their codes before Bletchley Park had cracked them, and it was believed the information he passed on about British and US atomic weapons programmes laid the foundations for the Soviets' nuclear capabilities.

There’s a little more on the Cambridge Spies in this 1999 BBC Report ( a classic piece of vintage internet);

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5 March 2023 The Duke of Gloucester attended the Stairway to Heaven Memorial Trust’s Service at St John on Bethnal Green Church, 200 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London E2, to commemorate the Eightieth Anniversary of the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster and was received by Mr Leslie Morgan (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

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King Henry VIII and Emperor Charles V both ruled for almost forty years at a time when momentous changes in society, politics and religion were taking place in England and across Europe. Richard Heath takes a fresh look at these two individuals and the importance of their relationship in determining both their immediate policies and the future of their lands. Although always rivals for status, Henry and Charles, despite their very different temperaments, had much in common. Both had been brought up as devout Christians and in the chivalric tradition. Ties between their lands (by 1520 Charles was Holy Roman Emperor as well as ruling Spain, the Low Countries and much of Italy) were close. There were alliances against a common enemy, France, valuable trading links and a personal connection - Henry was married to Charles' aunt, Catherine of Aragon. The book provides a clear account of their complex and ever-changing relationship, both personal and political. It reveals the goodwill that existed between them, particularly during Emperor Charles' lengthy state visit to England in 1522. It also shows how this proved impossible to maintain once Henry decided to end his marriage to Catherine and his subsequent rejection of papal authority. On the occasions when they planned military action together their alliance collapsed in mutual recriminations. Yet they were officially at war for only a few months and their armies never faced each other. The duplicitous world of international diplomacy, with dynastic marriages, fine words and broken promises, provides the backdrop to this fascinating story. In their search for honour and dynastic security, so important to both monarchs, the decisions of one could rarely be ignored by the other.

Richard Heath is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and enjoyed teaching history for thirty-five years. His life-long interest in the sixteenth century and the Renaissance was ignited by exploring many historic buildings in Britain and visiting Florence in his youth. He has since read extensively and travelled widely in Europe, often following in the footsteps of Emperor Charles V. His study of the life and times of the emperor, Charles V: Duty and Dynasty, was published in 2018 and he curates www.emperorcharlesv.com.

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Ağrı Kesici- İntihar hakkında bir senaryo

Gerçekten ciddi bir felsefi sorun var, o da intihar. Hayatın yaşamaya değer olup olmadığına karar vermek, felsefenin temel sorusuna cevap vermekle aynı anlama gelir. – Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus (1942). Bu, hayal edilebilecek en korkunç şey. Zira, herhangi bir zamanda, kendi yaşamı üzerinde efendi olacak kadar ileri giden biri, aynı zamanda başka birinin yaşamı üzerinde de efendidir; Onun için kapı her suça açıktır ve yakalanmadan önce kendini dünyanın dışına atmaya hazırdır. – Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, çev. Peter Heath, Cambridge University Press, 1997, Kısım II. Karakterler Mehmet: Orta yaşlarda depresif bir yazar. Hiç satmayan ütopik eserleri var.

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John HEATH | Obituary | Cambridge Times

Cambridge Times

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nsfw

Rupert Sheldrake (UK, Newark-on-Trent, June 28, 1942)

The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry 392 pages, Hardcover. Published January 1, 2012 by Coronet UK

In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake shows that science is being constricted by dogmatic assumptions:

Nature is mechanical

Matter is unconscious

The laws of nature are fixed

The total amount of matter & energy is always the same

Nature is purposeless

Biological hereditary is material

Memories are stored inside your brain as material traces

Your mind is inside your head

Psychic phenomena like telepathy are impossible

Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that works

"It was exactly like a papal excommunication. From that moment on, I became a very dangerous person to know for scientists"

One morning in 1981, a couple of months after the publication of his first book, A New Science of Life, Sheldrake woke up to read an editorial in Nature journal, which announced to all right-thinking men and women that his was a "book for burning" and that Sheldrake was to be "condemned in exactly the language that the pope used to condemn Galileo, and for the same reason. It is heresy".

Rupert Sheldrake has worn the heretic mantle, pretty cheerfully, for 30 years now [2012 article]. Sitting in his book-lined London study, overlooking Hampstead Heath, he appears a highly unlikely candidate for apostasy; he seems more like the Cambridge biochemistry don he once was, one of the brightest Darwinians of his generation, winner of the university botany prize, researcher at the Royal Society, Harvard scholar and fellow of Clare College.

Article and interview by Tim Adams for The Guardian, Feb 4, 2012

Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma

After Skool animation w highlights from 2013 notorious TEDx talk:

Rupert gave a talk entitled The Science Delusion at TEDx Whitechapel, Jan 12, 2013. The theme for the night was Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world).

In response to protests from two materialists in the US, the talk was taken out of circulation by TED, relegated to a corner of their website and stamped with a warning label.

To Learn more about Rupert Sheldrake and his research, please visit https://www.sheldrake.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/05/rupert-sheldrake-interview-science-delusion

https://www.sheldrake.org/videos