twenty something years ago when everyone was talking about cheap, clean energy solar panels were subsidised in the belief that it would help everyone get free electricity. Then someone in the treasury departments of the world looked up and said ‘ you do know the billions we get from taxing energy will vanish if everyone…
Guiding Principles
Well before Hammurabi we probably generated laws to govern society. All religions represent a similar attempt to give rules by which to live. Various constitutions have been written which do the same for states today although the UK prefers to make it up as they go along. In the main the underlying aim has been…
Fascism
Because the Second World War was such a defining moment in European history when people learn about it they assume fascism started in the twentieth century. They are wrong. Fascism is best defined for its one party tyranny, but it also includes secret police, deep financial corruption of the higher echelons of power, a sinister…
Dangerous Waters
There were constituencies that voted out Labour candidates because Labour support Israel’s right to attack Hamas in Gaza. This is Muslims voting for Muslims thousands of miles away and what is worrying about this is that it is sectarian. If you have a right to vote in the UK it is because you are a…
2024
So Labour wins on 36% of the vote a massive majority. Thatcher never received 50% of the vote yet stayed in power for 11 years. It is pintless to vote Green in large numbers because they cannot win and now we know the places in the UK which are most racist with 4 Reform MPs….
Frederico Garcia Lorca
Green, how I want you, green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship on the sea and the horse on the mountain. With the shadow at her waist, she dreams on her balcony, green flesh, green hair, with eyes of cold silver. Green, how I want you, green. Under the gypsy moon, things are watching her…
Imagination
I was delighted tom spent an evening with a friend I have not seen in forty years. We were at school together. I was interested in our conversation about religion in which he said he had never thought there was a difference between the stories religions tell and Robin Hood. It was all about good…
U-Boats
I never wondered before because sometimes I have watched documentaries on the Second World War and just gone with whatever the commentator is saying, but on D Day and days after no U-Boats attacked the huge fleet. Commodore Johnnie Walker is a folk hero in Liverpool. He had been interested in submarines since World War…
Past War
Can you imagine the reporting that could have been made on Genghis Khan? Or the empire building wars of France, Spain, Islam and England? Could we not have been horrified by deliberate acts of violence and murder, the drug wars, the butchery and all for what? money and land. The journalists would have had a…
The Fact of the Matter
there has to be some agreement on what meets the requirements to be a fact. A lie, for example, is a ‘thing’, it exists as a lie but we cannot accept it as fact because it is not t be believed. But not all facts are verifiable by every human being. Sometimes we have to…