After the Falklands incident a man came home who had been badly burned and his face and body needed many grafts. He was on TV saying how hard he found it to find any work having left the army/navy. I was working on a building site at the time and one of the supervisors had…
Trump
There are a lot of people in mourning in the US, some leaving the country they see as becoming alien to their values, others getting angry. In point of fact every contest is won and lost in equal measure and the Democrats did not play a good hand. They knew they were trying to get…
There Is No Doubt
the world is shifting to illiberal stances that defy the general movement of thinking to more liberal policies. We see India coming up and walking the tightrope with the Muslim world, we see the Muslim world fractured between western leaning and traditional mindsets, we hear leaders taking a pro or anti stance to Russia and…
Little Trump
Long ago a politician said a successful leader is the one who takes the people where they want to go but makes them think they got there because of him/her. There is a lot of talk today about how Americans have been suckered into voting for Trump but his form of fascism in what the…
Waiting
Sitting on the motorway coming home at 3 am in the morning with a police car flashing everything in front of us and displaying a continuous ‘STAY BACK’ and all three lanes coming to a slow stop for half an hour, was a new experience. <y Canadian friend said he had never seen a police…
The Ascent of Dissent
Most of my education and certainly my university days were spent discussing, even arguing with people and very often being shown the errors in my thinking. It is interesting to find yourself on opposite sides with people who meet daily and have classes with, or debate with, and how familiar they become and how you…
This is the Mystery
Self-awareness. What is the ‘I’ when we use it? Whatever this idea of self is it has given rise in tandem with ego and vanity to absurd religious concepts that we are the centre of the universe and were made by a divinity. It also transfers itself to a belief that ‘we are right’ when…
The Right Key Combinations
I recently – yesterday o be exact – was typing too fast as usual and managed to override the one key tap to load certain programmes like the browser and open office and instead had to press the function key first and then the right key. It annoyed me to have to press two keys…
Repeating
There is a desire in social media to get your meme out to as many people as you can. This includes advertising but if you are selling your work what I am going to write does not include you. Putting up a statement and having people share it is all well-and-good if the statement has…
Trickle Down
Much like monetarism suddenly becoming liberal democracy when it proved it didn’t work ‘trickle down’ is not something people say much anymore. They still say it is the entrepreneur who makes the wealth of a country though I recall Thatcher’s brutality was made possible by the Scottish oil fields while the Scots got very little…