where there is no informed voter. The beginning and end of all freedom is knowledge. Knowledge of what makes you free, knowledge of what makes you a servant. And all knowledge begins with questions. If you do not know, do not trust someone else to inform you they will have an agenda. Find out for…
Category: Quotidial
Reason
It is hard for us today to go back to the 18th century and feel and sense the important impact of populations being informed that reason was better than emotion in politics and in wider society. Even harder to realise it was France that produced some of the finest thinkers like Voltaire whose cross-pollination with…
The Sun is Also Shining
There are so many wars going on takes one dizzy. The web of lies on the Internet, the cultural war the Republicans in America are waging on art – I am sure book burnings have been happening at private parties – the new trade war between America and the the rest of the world, the…
Burning Down the Reichhouse
The Nazis burnt down the Reichstag to allow Adolf to take supreme power in Germany. Trump, among the many dangerous decisions he has made, has fired the NSA director and his deputy, and allowed Musk to hollow out government agency after government agency. It is a fire of another kind but the import of the…
Tariffs
I read on linkedIn that Russia has no tariffs and this is proof that Donald Trump is in their pocket. But economists actually point out countries that have sanctions against them which makes for any meaningful trade with them irrelevant, Russia, Cube, North Korea, had no tariffs levied. I mean he might be in the…
Genders
Twenty odd years ago I read medical scientists telling us that male and female was no longer adequate as choices on legal forms. XXX YY XYX all exist in the community and ignoring that limits our own intelligence. Gender dysphoria may not always align with these chromosomal differences and this is the place for discussion…
In Youth We Trust
Just attended a reunion of friends from 1979-1982. It was interesting to see what they had done with their working lives as they wind down. Those I spoke too were still the same, just more experienced though I did have trouble recognising some faces, others had barely changed. I am looking forward to the PhD…
Why do good things have to end?
In March 2002 on the lane outside my then home, I found a dog wandering. At first I was just going to call the charity but I could see she was cold and scared. So chocolate biscuit in hand and with my collie by my side we stood close to her and spoke softly. She…
The Jew haters
of the world, of which there are many, are living a thousand years in the past. They still think they can carry out pogroms with impunity, that they can kill at a whim, that they can spew hate and teach hate for no other reason then the Jewish people worship differently and there is no…
A New Saying
In a world of lies the quiet person is king, the honest person is crucified. I have been shocked by the immature attempts and the sophisticated attempts, to pervert honesty. The default to lying to get your way, or lying to obscure the truth, is so prevalent today it is difficult to come to conclusions…