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However, the government obviously doesn’t seem to, because it does nothing about it. Before I tell you what it is, I want to explain how Maggie Thatcher and her broken arm triggered the thoughts. In another few weeks Sophie will be 89, and I’m not that far behind her, but it annoys me a little,… Continue reading I think it is obvious

My regular readers will know that I am very poor at surfing the Internet, but I suspect that I am not alone in that. One of my grandchildren has taken his whole family on holiday to Spain. I’m not a person to panic, I weigh up the odds and then make a decision. On television… Continue reading A simple explanation would help

A heading on the on the web, on the 13th of June, stated that Alistair Darling in a report to the financial Times, was warning that the fluctuating price of oil could seriously affect the financial recovery of the Western nations, as a result of the Arab states finding their economy to have been suffering… Continue reading The fluctuating price of oil

This essay was generated by my introduction to the amusing punishment of the Naughty-step, and the way it seems to have been accepted by my great-grandchildren, to the extent that in play they send one another there, or a miscreant teddy bear. This caused me to look back at my own childhood in the 20s… Continue reading A question of degree

Yesterday I said that I thought it would be unlikely that all these changes that were proposed will be put into effect. In other words all the rhetoric, the heart baring and admissions were all window dressing. It seems I was right. I also said on a previous day that Brown would retain his position… Continue reading Political protocols

On May the second this year, on this blog, I predicted that the proposed changes in the Unionist party, inaugurated by David Cameron, would lead to the Unionists having minimal representation. It didn’t take a brain surgeon to work that out, but it is a fact that it has happened. I don’t blame the electorate,… Continue reading The Ulster Unionist is sacrificed on the alter of self-agrandisement

There’s a hackneyed phrase from the Bible that says ‘Forgive them for they know not what they do.’ I think this applies in the current government crisis, where everybody is shrieking for change, not only in Westminster, but in the EU and Local Government, yet they have not got an idea of the cost in… Continue reading Ignorance is no excuse

They are not all political, but unfortunately the greatest of them is a person in the government. I take strong exception to Lord Mandelson being part of the government. Firstly because he is unelected, secondly because he has had to resign on two occasions for the sort of thing the current fuss is about. Thirdly… Continue reading Perhaps my objections ring a bell with you.

There were great changes made to our political system in the 70s that have been continued on a sort of broad-brush principle ever since. In particular it was the way in which things that were really serious and affected us most, were centralised. The reason I feel is that those in charge have not had… Continue reading We do not use our imediate history as a tool

Lateral thinking concerning Parliamentary elections, prompted this, and the way government, local government and advertising’ promulgate their information, on the assumption that everybody is on the Internet. It creates a two-tier system where some are disadvantaged. We have all seen it. The cleansing department no longer posts its arrangements through the letterbox, but relies on… Continue reading A hairbrained idea that might just work.