Category: General

At a time when the trust in government is at low ebb, they bring back Peter Mandelson, whom for some reason they have made a Lord, to once again take up a post of being an adviser, rather than having been voted in as an MP. Whether it is the press or just public opinion,… Continue reading Personal Political Rants

For a start the government is doing its world leader bit. They have built a hospital in St Helens which is alleged to be the best in the world. It was built under a system known as Private Finance Initiative, or PFI, whereby the NHS makes an agreement with the private sector to design, build… Continue reading We are getting into deep water in the NHS

The government is proposing that as a result of the large percentage of children of 16 and under who are becoming pregnant, and the level of sexually transmitted disease, they propose to have sex education of five-year-olds and upwards in the schools. I often use an analogy to discover the snags in a problem. If… Continue reading Sex education for five year olds.

With the governments of the world clearly in a tailspin, it is difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff and this hasn’t been helped with respect to our own economy, when doubts have been cast on the high reputation of the last Chancellor, and few seem to trust our current one. There are some… Continue reading Irrational thinking

Yesterday I received an e-mail from my friend in Holland . Previously I had said that I would like somebody to elucidate. And while I’m not sure that he has done that totally, he has certainly given me yet another slant on the whole sorry business. It is interesting that a quiet and charming, very… Continue reading Cause and Effect, part 3

It started with the ‘Silly Sixties’, when anything was permissible, and coincided with the new age of the computer. Prior to the sixties the average man in the street had pretty parochial horizons and ambitions, because he was not wealthy, but he was sure of his own security of tenure in employment and some if… Continue reading Cause and Effect, part 1.The cause of our current situation

Because I know little about banking, and even less about worldwide financial interchange, I am a putting my thoughts on paper, in the hope that perhaps someone will elucidate. The question all of us are asking, possibly subconsciously, is where the hell has all the money gone? Perhaps like foreign aid to some of the… Continue reading Cause and Effect, part 2. The Fallout

A long time ago, when keyhole surgery started to become a common procedure, I felt that there should have been some form of profit and loss bookkeeping, in the health service, so that when new procedures, inventions, medicines and treatments were introduced that showed a cost saving in parallel areas when compared with the earlier… Continue reading A Letter to All UK Politicians Wherever You Are

I’m not very well up on holidays abroad any more, and so I don’t know if the heinous crime which took place where my daughter, her family and friends were staying, is unusual, or now part of the holiday scene. What I did feel was that I should draw attention to what has happened, as… Continue reading Burglary on Holiday