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Our infrastructure is declining, poverty is increasing, and all the Parliamentary Front Benches want to talk about is their own expenses, the next election, and the inadequacy of the people on the opposite bench, which sums up the state of things today. I don’t think it is only I who finds a high proportion of… Continue reading Sliding into oblivion

In parts one and two, I pointed out that civil servants, because of the fact that they are incepted straight from university or school, and trained in the ways of the civil service, they have no experience outside the civil service, and yet they are the ones who are carrying out the wishes of the… Continue reading Yet more Better Britain plans, Part 3

Whether you accept what I wrote yesterday or not, you must accept that while changing the function of any one Department of our system is going to cause an upheaval and confusion due to the change, for the professionals working in it, the general public who will be using the Department, and also initially, with… Continue reading Yet more Better Britian plans, Part 2

I want to make a complaint, but before I do that, I should give the basis of my expertise. At school I played from the Also-rans, and when I was evacuated in 1939/40 I played for a village team on the village green. I could bat a bit, bowled off breaks with some success, but… Continue reading Cricket

If you choose to read on, you will probably find that this is not what you expected. I spent two years of my childhood in Northern Rhodesia in the 20s, when the white man ruled and the indigenous population were virtual slaves. But the mindset of the whites had nothing to do with racism, they… Continue reading A New View on Racism

With a level gaze, and a firm voice, all our leaders in the House of Commons informed us that they were going to bring us into the 20th century if not the 21st by reforming the way in which the House of Commons was run. But I noticed that with this election of the new… Continue reading They are still at it

The Blair legacy Right up until the premiership of Anthony Eden, there was very little public criticism of the behaviour of prime ministers as a general rule, other than Neville Chamberlain. Because access to information by the general public only became easy with the advent of television, the average citizen was generally politically lethargic. At… Continue reading The Blair Legacy

I don’t know whether I’m kidding myself, but I have always thought that my generation, in the long past, was fair with the government and the government was fair with us. So over the last few years it has become a culture shock to discover that the government doesn’t give damn about me, or mine,… Continue reading Another Government dip into my pocket

This statement inevitably applies to today. In Belfast on St Patrick’s night in the University district, a proportion of drunken students, had pitched battles, as part of a night out. When constantly complaining about youth behaving either badly or criminally, it is generally considered that it is in the poorer districts, where parental control is… Continue reading Violence as a product of pleasure

I have been writing for weeks now, almost every day, about the number of facets of government action, proposals, and legislation that to my mind, are not only counterproductive, but seem more to be a reflex action to stem the tide of criticism. There is no shadow of doubt, that the way in which the… Continue reading An overvsight Committee on Government