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I am nearly 88 years of age which means that I spend a lot of my time not only looking back, and comparing then with now, but trying to assess what is going to happen in the future if things go on the way they are. Most of my childhood and teenage were spent living… Continue reading A Prodigious Reassment

Not only Commerce, but the government is now enlarging the ranks of the unemployed. Anyone who ever had any dealings with the Civil Service, would have been aware that it was top heavy, due to the Mandarins having great influence, and being bent on empire building, their own empire. The management of a budget, be… Continue reading Things I don’t understand,8. The actual cost of buying from abroad

It said in the press today that the government is fighting to retain the way with which we pay surgeons. As far as I know this is the only country in the EU that has a national health service, so what the EU is making a fuss about is illogical, because, if I’m right, all… Continue reading Things I don’t understand, 6, the EU

This credit crunch is hitting everyone, even large cartels, and from what I read, the average solution appears to be to cut down on staff. Even large companies engaged in professional type commerce, such as the law and architecture are doing it. If you go into any supermarket today you will find it difficult to… Continue reading Things I don’t understand, 4, Supermarkets

I was watching a CD of the second world war, which was concerning people who went to Europe under-cover, and I realized from my reactions to the film, that I would have been useless in that form of warfare. It must take a tremendous amount of guts, and a special type of person to be… Continue reading Fear

In some ways, over the last decades or more, the wishes of the individual have taken precedence over the welfare of the majority, generally due to personal greed and self-aggrandizement of a relatively few. Just for a second let us just take sport. Our regional teams in practically every professional sport are chock-a-block with foreigners.… Continue reading Things I don’t understand, 3

Euthanasia I have written about before, taking into account religious beliefs and the control exerted by the State. In the past, there was some justification for this control, because religion, right up to 1945 was the mainstay of the average home in Britain. But now we have an almost totally godless world, where members of… Continue reading Things I don’t understand 2

My life these days, is rather like a ride on a Big Dipper, I’m fit and well one day, suddenly out of the blue I am trapped in my house, by some monstrous inability. Just over a week ago I went to a hospital for a check-up, and it is a good thing I was… Continue reading An apology and physical contact

If you were to ask my family what I know about sport, and football in particular, they would laugh, and they would be right, because I gave up playing soccer when I was 10 years old. However, that doesn’t stop me from having a view on the way the Germans have been playing. I am… Continue reading A slant on the Cup

Today we are very busy, our lives are so full we tend to accept what people say without question. Very often what they have said is a half-truth or even a downright lie, but we don’t question it. These advertisements that keep reappearing on television are a case in point, in that they make broad… Continue reading Taking for granted