Today John Major slated the current Conservative government, for the second time, for its lies and hypocrisy. He is probably correct in what he said but… Have the BBC journalists, and the rest who televised this man’s words, forgotten what
At last! Some objective truth emerges from a USA president’s lips. Biden just said that American troops would no longer fight for a people who would not fight for themselves. The BBC radio news and website omitted those most important
Gaza We have a cease fire but the 70 year old problem remains and we the UK, the French, the Zionist Jews and the USA created it. More than 212 people, including 61 children, have died in Gaza, and just
Words and their changed meaning The process of that change fascinates me. First we need a definition from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Then I will move on to what happened at Batley Grammar School. The OED states that a
The media & our dear Aunty BBC explored Recently, the many difficult issues that the world continues to face have been overwhelmed by the media focussing on trivia spouted by self interested spoiled brats and endless pages on the health
Time to act on China. A page or so down, I link to a Sunday Times article written in July 2020. It traces Covid-19 from 2011 to 2019. An illuminating article which few seem to have read. It is long
.. and what we should do about it in 2021. My sources are all blue, bold, italics and underlined. Clicking on them reveals a good read! What we learned in 2020: China has rapidly become a dangerous tyranny under Xi
I was going to entitle this article “The current BAME*1 game diversion”, but, Greta Thunberg’s words are far more powerful, and, more to the point. Dr Erich Schumacher made strong arguments against economic growth in his 1973 book “Small is
For the last 40 years or so, China’s financial, business, political and cultural effect on our world has been a disaster. A disaster both for the Chinese themselves and for most of us. The corona virus is just the latest
Reading the news, since the 12th December election, has been quite illuminating but equally depressing. I’m not talking about global warming, plastic waste pollution or the ever increasing ability of our politicians to “take responsibility” by just saying the words
Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher (1911–1977)
“It is no longer possible to believe that any political or economic reform, or scientific advance, or technological progress could solve the life and death problems of industrial society. They lie too deep, in the heart and soul of every one of us. It is there that the main work or reform has to be done –secretly, unobtrusively.”