The markets are treating the UK as she wanted to be treated in 2016 under the Conservative party. A lone country unleashed from the European Union, standing on her own two nineteenth century feet and she has found she cannot hack-it. There is also something else more profound than the financial outcome of Brexit. They…
Category: Quotidial
Do We Corrupt Everything?
Recently I have been receiving emails telling me my email account has new terms of service and I should sign up to them if I want to keep my account – followed by a spurious web address that manages to have the name of the email host included. I remember Tim Bernes-Lee giving the world…
Military Training
There is a Ministry of Defence training area near here which I wandered near today walking a dog. A man was getting his army boots on and I asked him if he was here for the day. ‘For the night, actually’ he replied. ‘I hope it remains training, I said.’ ‘It will’ he said. I…
The Horizon
It amazes me – and many other people – that leaders around the world are still worrying about economies and how to get growth into their balance sheets. I understand those who are fascists and religious nuts we have always had them. But the greatest threat to civil society and entire countries is the climate…
A Universe to Understand
I used to hope we could crack the Grand Universal Theory in my lifetime so I could at least ‘know’. But now it seems it may not even be one universe, and there are an infinite number of me’s (some people would find that horrendous) many of whom are tying at this moment. I hope…
Monarchy
I do find monarchies difficult to understand. I think it is because I have no empathy with worshipping images and devotion to monarchy is all about image. In history they have been sallow, intelligent but brutal, selfish, and to body politic dangerous. Today in England they have a retinue if immense privilege but have been…
Damn Phones
Mislaid my Samsung android. Not in the house. Not on the floor. Not in the car. I have one more place to look and if it isn’t there I must have dropped it somewhere outdoors but I don’t know how. I had it with me when I actually arrived home yesterday. In the meantime if…
Patience Has A Way or Burning
You can wait. It isn’t a bad thing to do though the years can roll by. But better by far than those who think they have to experience and become rich by forty because they are hell to be around. Like Bolsinaro in Brazil busy killing trees and animals and plants the exotic compounds in…
My Country is Broken
Most are but in 2016 every racist in the UK voted to leave the European Union. Enough people joined with them to give them a slim majority of those who voted. They assisted in the country doing what every racist in its borders wanted it to do. In the lead up to this hideous fact…
Re-Coinage
The new government here in the UK has just created the worst first week in office in living memory. The man and woman in charge of this huge upset to people’s lives are both educated to degree and PhD level so it isn’t lack of intelligence. The Chancellor’s economic qualification was a thesis on the…