I watched this for several years on youtube, so obviously never saw an entire programme from beginning to end. It was (and is) an enjoyable diversion of movement and music, often to moments of perfection given by young people most of whom are Americans. Humanity has always loved to dance but these movements have changed…
Author: Daniel
Discipline
Today’s suggestion that the ills of youth will be overcome through national conscription for 18 year olds – or social volunteering – are a nonsense. There are, of course, people of all ages who think what they think and do what they do because of the influence of the local community they never leave. But…
St George
I have just written my piece about St George and the dragon and a few things occurred to me. The first and obvious is that these myths often include the saving of a princess. The woman who would marry the next king and give birth to heirs, so in effect the saving of the princess…
The War of Words
The conservative party calls them migrants, not refugees because refugees have an international legal status. The UK would be bound by treaty to take them in and look after them. The fact is though, those running from war and dictators are not migrants. The UK doesn’t care. The judges call Gaza a genocide because there…
Safeguarding
I thought that this was all to do with the DBS check to make sure you ere not on any registers for criminality or other offences but I was wrong. It is an estimation of who you are based on everything you have done in your life, who you have been answerable to, what responsibilities…
Infected Blood
The HIV infected blood plasma given to haemophiliacs is one of the more perfect examples of why the American capitalist system is not one to be followed without rectification. Here you had a company supplying a medical need and to cut corners or just to increase profit they sourced the blood they needed from prisoners and…
Everybody Has a Story
In the complexities of society every individual has their own trajectory into and out of adversity of one sort or another. We can argue that worrying all night about a billion pound deal and worrying if your child is going to survive the night carry the same weight of stress but it is stress and…
I Don’t Do Boxing
I have very little time for the sport, the results or the men involved (apart from the sharp minded Ali) but watching the news I saw the results of this match in Saudi Arabia. Fury looked hugely unfit and when I learned he had been paid £100,000,000 for the night I realised why. He didn’t…
I am Not …
much of a man for flower gardens. Pretty bushes and perfumed flowers are pleasant enough but they don’t actually mean much to me. I have always preferred trees and conservation woodlands and in them, the sweet woodland flowers like bluebells and wood anemones are far more lovely to my eyes than any bed of flowering…
Tax
There has never been a sensible conversation with the public here in the UK about how tax is spent. There is such a lot of wastage in public finances that people actually dislike paying taxes because they never think the money is going to be spent well. The whole issue revolves around what kind of…