Modern medical science has told us that there are probably some 20+ genders to deal with and the forms which litter our lives which ask if we are male or female are inadequate. Science itself tells us never to simply accept what we see with our own eyes, natural systems are far more complex. I…
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Jeanne d’Arc
St. Joan Everything about you shone – First your eyes with fire – As voices spoke through your brain – Your blesséd saints shone around you Such a glory – Your sword gleamed and glinted – Your horse’s skin was like a shining mirror; Where all France could see The Maid of Domremy Riding…
President Jo Biden
It seems at times as a foreign observer that the civil war in the US never ended. The pettiness of the partisan machinations against one president or another, but especially from the \republican Party, are deleterious to the smooth running of a democratic state. Because it as all about wielding power over others, not about…
The Space Age
Getting into space is never easy and the launch of the rocket from the undercarriage of a plane from Newquay in Cornwall ended in a failure. Which is a shame for the 9 satellites that ere onboard and never got into orbit. Back in the 1960s this would be expected as we were all learning…
Too Much Talk
There is a huge amount of media attention given to Prince Harry in the UK. He is not alone in having a family that treats him badly. Probably because he is not, in all likelihood, the son of Charles. But he is alone in being in such a privileged position that he can make millions…
Malware
Don’t you just loathe the way people ruin everything. The internet was created by scientists to be a repository of knowledge open to everyone. It has become a cesspool of broken promises, criminal activity and kids ruining your website just for fun. We have actually allowed a large portion of society and a few entrepreneurs…
Artificial Intelligence
Despite the dystopian fantasies we have yet to create an artificial intelligence. This would mean we had a lump of metal that could intuit the world for itself, not regurgitate what we input or infer from trawling the internet based on a given programme. What we have so far is purely artificial. But then so…
May I Strike Please
Withdrawing one’s labour in order to gain better pay and conditions is a basic tool in the armoury of the wage earner. Making sure they cannot is the basic tool of governance. It is essential if you are going to require some people not toe strike, or some people not to have the ability to…
Who We Are
I have my own version of finding role models. When I was 10 years old going to CofE schools in the UK I told my mum a joke from the playground which, it turned out, was anti-Semitic. I was told by her that ‘we don’t say jokes like that Daniel, because we are Jews’. Of…
Dark Morning
It was raining heavily this morning here in Cornwall. I can imagine what it must be like to be without a home, to be always cold and hungry and now I hear Conservatives are beginning to mutter about getting Johnson back in Number 10. The desire to wield power and be in charge has blinded…