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It’s up to you to decide. The reason that the credit crunch is worldwide is that those responsible for our way of life across the globe, were so busy making their personal fortunes on the stock exchange, with their inside information, that they hadn’t time to read what we, the blog writers or the press… Continue reading This could thought idiocy, or basic common sense

It concerned the stimulation of people hospitalised, severely handicapped, and I equated their lives to that of a man working on a freighter, except that they had no choice, while he had chosen that occupation. I’m not suggesting that nothing is being done, because I have a relative whose full-time job is stimulating those poor… Continue reading Answering a question I posed yesterday.

For some time I have been curious as to whom and why had someone given the expenses information of Parliament to the Telegraph and why they published it piecemeal over weeks instead of at one go, apart from the financial element. In this form it is clearly disrupting the work of the parliament. Anyone who… Continue reading Not only is it cynical, but a dangerous political ploy

For those who might not be interested in Northern Ireland politics, that is what this is about. On the second of May I wrote that I was even more confused because I found that the Northern Ireland Unionist party was proposing to become affiliated with the Conservative party at Westminster. The reason offered, is that… Continue reading Now Iam not so much confused as suspicious

Most of you know that I am very old, and therefore my standards are old as well, and my background is far more simple than those of today. So it is unsurprising that I was more than staggered when I heard, on the BBC Politics Show, yesterday, Sunday, that the army was considering women should… Continue reading I assume there are no psychologists in the army

Basically, I am asking questions that I believe need urgent answers. I have had the theory for a long time that the reason we were able to go to the moon, design computers, and achieve so much in the 20th century, was because each successive generation since the dawn of time has passed on skills… Continue reading I am shouting down a well to hear only my own voice

I have previously remarked on two things resulting from the credit crunch. One is the increase in advertising on television, and its increase in quality, the other is that advertising now seems to depend more than ever on fear, or psychological instability that is a form of fear. In advertising one needs more than just… Continue reading Fear and instability, and another new industry

Let us take banking, I’m sure most people have had the same experience I have, where you have sent a cheque to pay your credit card charge, in what you consider is reasonable time only to discover that you forgot that Monday was a bank holiday and in consequence you have been charged £12, at… Continue reading Whether the sentence fits the crime seems selective

If I were an MP who had played by the rules, and I’m sure that would apply to those who had only recently joined the Parliamentary system, I would be a little bit peeved that the PM’s broad brush had tarred me with the same epithets that applied to the wrongdoers. Just for amusement, let… Continue reading That broad brush again, and FOOD

I don’t know if I have become more critical, or the whole world is changing so rapidly. I can remember when I didn’t have anything to moan about for days on end, and yet these days it’s a daily occurrence. I always thought that conduct in such august institutions as the White House, Parliament, and… Continue reading Respect and dignity seem to be no more