How much time do we take running the world and forget how it runs us. The spring is round the corner but how many of us would take delight in seeing the flowers growing in the fields, hear the birds getting busy having babies, see foxes playing as cubs and have no desire to disturb…
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How Do We Remember?
This is a question that is the corollary of ‘what do we choose to remember’. As nations we decided this long ago with the way in which we teach history to children; the overriding aim of which is the past was nationalistic and today seeks to arouse deep patriotism as a default position. How we…
The New Grammar
The page was down yesterday. I had uploaded a new plug in to try out a tag cloud and it interfered with the wordpress architecture. Once before when this happened it was the php version that needed upgrading but this time ftp didn’t show the files and I had to go to php-admin to search…
Sino-American Relations
So a Republican thinks the odds of warring with China are ‘very high’. Michael McCaul of Texas argues that the US will protect Taiwan and China will invade it. Taiwan was fought over by the Europeans, invaded and traded with by China (after a lot of the populations had died of diseases) and annexed in…
Resignation
Our government here in the UK – with an unelected Prime Minister and a self-destructive crookedness that only comes with regimes not governments, started today with tax avoidance and a dismissal. But that is not why I am resigned. Political theory weighs heavily upon experience and past practice and with Russia losing the first round…
Playing Games With Nature
Countries don’t care. Leaders just wish to keep their populations happy with their leadership. Even here in theory a Prim Minister could in theory stay in power for life if the people voted for then every election. In the US at least there are limits. Now we see how these leaders strip the plant in…
A magician, a parrot and a ship
A third rate magician is doing magic shows on a second rate cruise ship. The pay is good, the accommodation is comfortable, the food is excellent, and the two show a day workload is easy. All in all, it’s started out as a great gig except for one glaring issue. The captain has a talking…
People Are On The Move
Over 25,000 years ago people were on the move, crossing into the Middle East and into what was to become Europe and stretching our into Asia over hundreds of years. There were few existing people to stop them and why they moved – to find food or safety from climatic conditions – we don’t know…
Human Rights
The odd thing about rights is that they don’t exist until we enshrine them in law – until, in other words, they are given. The history of the world, if there is such a thing, may be described as struggle for rights over the past ten thousand years. A struggle that continues to this day…
Handling the Rich
Someone asked me why rich people go into politics. My answer, that power makes one even more wealthy and is an aphrodisiac for vanity, doesn’t seem quite enough. The financial system we have devised over millenniums does not limit wealth but it punishes penury. This is obviously unfair in the extreme. It seems to me…