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…
Sudan
Millions are starving and the situation is gearing up to be the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Access to get aid into the war torn regions is impossible at times and there is no end to the warring between the parties. Hundreds are displaced (5.8 million so far) and hundreds of villages have…
The Journalistic Struggle
I have always been something of an admirer of people who go to war just to get the story for the people back home. It has been a very important part of the world realising what soldiers have always known – there is no glory is victory because it is gained over too many dead….
Land Rights
I was talking to a lady today as we drove to get her shopping and she mentioned that farming was all about money and I mentioned the enclosures of the 17th century. She had never heard of it. In brief there were a series of Acts of Parliament which enclosed common land, creating legal private…