I was talking to a friend yesterday and he made a rather cunning point about the Republicans min the USA. Attempting the explain the absurd economic policies they are pursuing he said their entire existence is to fight the socialist ideals they dislike. They do not realise once they have got rid of them, in…
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Myth Making
Over thousands of years people have had questions and few answers – what is lightning? floods? earthquakes? – and the natural sense of powerlessness in the face of such has led people to be susceptible to anyone who claims they have the answers. Those people started the history of human and animal sacrifice, the idea…
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…
President Jo Biden
It seems at times as a foreign observer that the civil war in the US never ended. The pettiness of the partisan machinations against one president or another, but especially from the \republican Party, are deleterious to the smooth running of a democratic state. Because it as all about wielding power over others, not about…
The NHS
It is a curious fact, that no one ever really discusses, with the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom that their philosophy, as espoused succinctly in Monetarism under Margaret Thatcher, and repeated by successive ministers, requires people to pay for the services they receive and if they do not have the money, to go without….
Republicanism in America
When Robert Lee sat down to sign the peace accord after the Civil War he, according to those who were there, referred to the North as the United States, showing that even in defeat he thought of America as two separate countries. It was a painful expression of a political view point still warmly held…