We know that the Arabs believe that Israel exists because of the holocaust and European guilt. Perversely ever since 1948 they have attempted to dress is the clothes of Jewish suffering claiming Israelis are racist, apartheid loving nazis. Most recently they claim genocide – a wartime crime codified because of the plans of the nazis….
The Unexpected
I spent the day at the printers and was expecting to do some finishing work and I did get some blocking done but then the staple/fold and cut machine broke. So from about 10.30am to 3pm we were taking sections apart, fitting canalised parts to it, refitting and testing. Importantly I handed Jukes the relevant…
Other Wars
The media war has always been with us. In the UK we all see at school the cartoon of Napoleon in George 3rd’s hand which has given rise to 200 years of Napoleon being small. Or of Hitler being a vegetarian despite his own cook saying he was a finick but never refused the meat…
What Books Tell Us
I was reading Paul Valéry the French thinker and critic, and who said the historian and the prophet are in the same boat – there is so much information needed to explain why things happened and why things will happen – that no one can imbibe it all. Modern life is not made so much by inventions…
Foretelling
There is a very interesting theory that the further you look back in history the further forward you can see. It is based on two thing: the first is we have had the same size brains for 200,00 years so the pool of new ways of doing things to create nations and societies is not…
Intersex Exists
Male and Female are no longer enough choices on official forms and haven’t been for twenty years when I first read that the cells in the embryo which make gonads are the same cells that make ovaries. That the determinants of gender – chromosomes, hormones glands etc do not all make the same admixture in…
This Morning
On my walk with Rusty before I take him home to his owner, I stopped to chat to a fellow walker I had said hallo to a few days before. We both admired the weather and I told him of the field he could walk in when the one we were in had sheep in…
Executor
Have been made an executor for a friend who died a year ago. The fact of the US and UK having some difficulties communicating aside the UK tax office makes things harder. Firstly they start charging penalty interest after 6 months and when you are beholden to other institutions (in my case Court of Protection…
Doing Deals
The art of doing financial deals all depends upon whom you are dealing with, what they want and what you want. Non one seems why of having the ability to force someone to negotiate and the idea that both sides do what is ethical seems to take third place to the contract to be signed….
What drives
a man to rape a woman? People suggest it may be hormones they cannot control. I chatted to a woman many years ago who was raped in her own home and afterwards the man had smashed out her teeth saying ‘ now no other man will look at you’. There is definitely much that is…