Brian Eno on 'My World Music'

 

Brian Eno

What a lovely book it is. I am reading it and loving it

My first book, Left Field was published by Unbound,. my second, My World Cafe’ by Riversmeet and My World Music is published by me! It is available in paperback and on Kindle. 

I am grateful to Brian Eno for his praise and would like to add other comments to his. I am not asking for positive appreciations, indeed I welcome the occasional insult. ‘All publicity is good publicity’remains a truism.

If you have read the book please let me have your thoughts to add to Brian’s. Send to david@davidwilson.org.uk 

COMMENTS ON MY WORLD MUSIC

Brian Eno

What a lovely book it is. I am reading it and loving it

Orhan (Oha) Maslo, Director Mostar Rock School

Music saved my sanity and my life in post-war Bosnia. As Bob Marley said. ‘When it hits you, you feel no pain’. This book confirms that

Michael Walling, Border Crossings

Your Book is a total joy

Tarik Dervish

Congratulations again on a wonderful piece of work

Diana and Norman Boyer

Congratulations, a feat of love.  I'm enjoying it, educational, such a reminder of the music I've enjoyed in a transitory way

Edwin Maynard

Wonderful book, David. I look forward to locating and following some of its many musical trails

Clare Thompson

Each chapter is an eye opener. I am – as always – humbled to learn more of your story of activism and bringing people together in your inimitable way. You are also making me listen and pay attention to music in a new way – again, thank you for the gift of listening//

Victoria Brittain

Your book – a great project

Deicola Neves, Camden Guitars

The only truth is music and this book explains why

Elleni Ross

Fascinating. I’s such a great idea to link stories of your life, to music and musicians.

Eva Zimmerman

 

It's so entertainingly written and the musical references very familiar.

My World Music is available on Kindle , as a paperback 

and can be bought at Camden Guitars  

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"David Wilson has lived a life and a half. I was proud to play a minor role in War Child, an organisation in which David was inspirational. The broken world needed people like David then; it still does and it always will." -- Sir Tom Stoppard

"David Wilson is an adventurer and a free-thinker who ... did something truly useful with his life. His stubborn and yet self-effacing commitment to his ideals carried him through many daunting situations, and his sense of humour kept him able to see the funny side."-- Brian Eno

"What a life this man has led" - Dorothy Byrne, former head of Channel 4 TV News

"David Wilson is a national treasure" Mandla Langa, Winner of 2009 Commonwealth Prize

david@davidwilson.org.uk

Hasbara - organising genocide lies

 

Israel's government has a dedicated department set up to shape international public opinion and to counter those who campaign against their genocidal actions. It is known as ‘hasbara’. In 2025 its budget was $150 million. The budget for 2026 is said to be set at over $730 million. It is certainly money spent, but money well spent?

My Facebook blogs usually get no more than a few ‘likes’ and they are genuine likes. My one on the Palestine hunger strikers and posted on 13 January, has had more than a thousand ‘hits’ and over 600 comments and counting.

I am intrigued that I have suddenly acquired so many Facebook ‘friends’ and that so many of them clearly hate me and what I am writing about. I have been checking similar posts to mine and found the same comments posted on their Palestine hunger striker blogs. Indeed with exactly the same words, but many under different names. One of these, and with many more ‘hits’ than mine, is Eamomm McCann’s.

You don’t have to be a 21st century Sherlock Holmes to conclude these ‘comments’ are emerging from one source and paid for from that 2026 $730 million budget. Here are just some of them. Of course I could delete them from my facebook, but their vitriol and crude hatred should be read and shared.

A note to Hasbara: You need to put a little of this year’s budget into logically constructing your lies.

Give them bacon butties - missing every other meal is not a hunger strike – grave situation, it soon will be – Munch! Munch! - FS get her deliveroo – hope she’s a winner of the nunger strike olympics - special treatment for suspected criminal – hurry up and croak – they need to put their big boy/girl pants on. Play stupid games you win stupid prizes. - not heroes but cowards. They broke into military bases – delusional puppets – we don’t care – Awwwww – fuckwits for Palestine - criminals who should be force fed – get on with it - hurry up – win some, lose some - it’s just comical! Yer heart just pumps purple piss! - I have a bacon butty to gift – put them on a plane to Gaza - brainless idiots showing photos of the only fit bird amongst them – fuck the hunger strikers – goodbye – time she pulled the plug and give everybody some rest – slimmer of the year – what’s brave about it. Terrorist supporters – order a coffin with that there pizza - the real tragedy here is that leftists have radicalised her so badly that she's willing to die for a pretend genocide - What are her measurements?? I will start making the coffin -when’s the Wake David - it's like a toddler holding its breath because it's not getting its own way - hurry up and shuffle off so we won't keep having to read about your ‘hunger strike’ – just get on with it - Bye bye – sooner the better

Posted on my facebook on 13 January 2026

Heba Muraisi, a Palestine Action activist and the longest-fasting hunger striker of a group of eight, has told Al Jazeera that she no longer feels hunger, is suffering with pain and knows that her death may be imminent. The 31-year-old responded to questions via a friend who regularly visits her in prison. “Physically, I am deteriorating as the days go by. I no longer feel hunger, I feel pain. I don’t think about my life, I think about how or when I could die, but despite this, mentally I’ve never been stronger, more determined and sure, and most importantly, I feel calm and a great sense of ease. Even though the risks may be lifelong consequences or a devastating end, I think it’s important to fight for justice and for freedom.”

I attended all the London protests in support of these brave people until the day I was pushed over a barrier in Parliament Square by the Met police. As an 80 year old epileptic I could not continue. But if and when Heba and/or the others die I will be on the streets. Maybe David Lammy will rediscover his humanity and this will not happen. If it does, will you join me?

A time of monsters

 

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci

Many believe that Donal Trump’s USA is unique, but not so. He’s symptomatic of a political and economic system that stretches from the US to Netanyahu’s Israel via a UK allowing hunger strikers to die.

This system is one where the world's richest 1% own more wealth than the bottom 95% of the population combined with the wealth of the top 1% reaching a record $52 trillion by late 2025. (Oxfam)

This level of explotation can only be sustained with the consent of the many. When that breaks down it is time for armed thugs to patrol the streets, to kill, maim and strike fear into the subjected.

90 years ago that was the SA (brownshirts) in Germany. Today it is ICE (polo shirts and masks) in the USA.

Yes it is a “time of monsters”, but the new world has started the “struggle to be born”.

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