Our Beloved NHS is Sixty

Oh, where to start.
The NHS isn’t perfect and it never promised to be but I’m sure there aren’t many who would disagree that it’s founding principles of free health care for all, regardless of background and circumstance, are principles worth holding on to.
All the main political parties, at each and every election, can be depended [...]

Read Full Post »

On By-elections and Reptilian Humanoids

Interesting to hear that the Green party is to run against civil liberties martyr David Davis in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election campaign.  Green party candidate Shan Oakes will stand against him and this is very good thing indeedy.  She has a blog and her tag-line is . . . The real civil liberties candidate.
Yes, odd as it may [...]

Read Full Post »

Renewable Energy: the power of the human body

The End of Cheap Oil and the Rise of the Scythe

Originally posted on You Tube by Kaivido
Quaintly out-dated?  A bit antiquated?  Well, we might think we can look back fondly on those days of heavy labour and hard graft from the techno-safety of our retrospective armchairs but it’s not so far-fetched to believe that in this age of rising oil [...]

Read Full Post »

Excuse Me! Are we invisible?

So asketh the Church according to St. England. 
I’ve been catching up with the news and was amused to see that the Church of England is sulking because it thinks the government is favouring Islam.  Ah bless.  My kids do this too.  They carry out all kinds of attention-seeking antics when they feel that I’m paying more attention to one of their siblings.  Well [...]

Read Full Post »

My Role as the Weapons Inspector

My son’s school had a charity day yesterday to raise funds for the people of Burma and the kids got to go to school dressed as their hero.  Although the school didn’t specify, I presumed (wrongly as it turned out) that these heroes had to be of the real life, actual flesh and blood variety which meant that Bart Simpson, Sponge Bob Square Pants and [...]

Read Full Post »

Garden Pond-erings and Reflections

We took advantage of the weather this weekend and worked on our garden and patio area and as I laboured away, many a random observation and idea popped into my empty head and you’ll be thrilled to know that I’m going to share them all with you so here goes:
Ponder number 1:  To build or not to build [...]

Read Full Post »

Threshold of Viability

The sensitive issue of abortion has come up again.  MP’s are seeking to get the upper limit of 24 weeks lowered to 20 weeks.  
Most people have very strong and definite views on abortion.  And there are those who aren’t against abortion but feel that the upper limit of 24 weeks should be lowered to 20 weeks.  Presumably, their belief [...]

Read Full Post »

Revisiting the four minute warnings and the utterly pointless survival advice

I can remember being at high school when the nuclear war issue was hot and the cold-war paranoia was buzzing.  There was much talk of four-minute warnings and fall-out and nuclear shelters that only the rich and the powerful could afford.  Margaret Thatcher said that all local councils should build one and my father, who hated her, would fume at [...]

Read Full Post »

Election Autopsy

Well for me the worst result has to be London. 
He combed his hair.  That’s what did it.  I saw him on Question Time the other week and he’d swept out his branded dishevelled look in an effort to look more normal but the blubbering moron was still within.  The people of London just couldn’t see it it.
Seriously though, why on earth the [...]

Read Full Post »

Halima and Me

I bumped into an old friend today.  A lovely, bubbly Muslim girl with a radiant smile so engaging that it once got her nominated for Britain’s Brightest Smile competition.  
We bump into each other every now and then along the years and our chance reunions are always the same . . . both of us gasping, flinging our arms around each other [...]

Read Full Post »

Our Kids

This weeks Time magazine has a very long article entitled “Britain’s Mean Streets”.  The international version has the title “Unhappy, Unloved and Out of Control”.  It’s a pretty damning report that claims that our kids are . . . yes, out of control - that Britons are frightened of their own young.  In short, British [...]

Read Full Post »

Where’s the Outrage?

First of all, I apologise for the negative, melancholic even, tone of this blog lately (well it is Good Friday, isn’t it).  Anyway, if I have any readers left at all, all I can say is sorry, I think the Sophie Lancaster case and the Iraq anniversary have really got to me.  Normal service will be [...]

Read Full Post »

S.O.P.H.I.E

SOPHIE 
Stamp Out Prejudice, Hate & Intolerance Everywhere 
Sophie Lancaster was a 20 year old lady who was kicked to death last August by a gang of despicable teenage thugs.  Her boyfriend was set upon first and as he lay unconcious, she cradled his head and begged them to stop.  Then they started on her and she never recovered.  [...]

Read Full Post »

Updated Seven Deadly Sins

Lust, greed, pride, sloth, gluttony, envy, wrath are the original deadly sins.  The Vatican has imposed a new set of sins that, to paraphrase Bishop Gianfranco Girotti,  have appeared on the horizon of humanity as the unstoppable process of globalistation. 
Environmental pollution
Genetic manipulation
Accumulating excessive wealth
Inflicting poverty
Drug trafficking and consumption
Morally debatable experiments
Bishop Girrotti said that we have lost [...]

Read Full Post »

Cosmetic Politics

When my little boy asked me who I wanted to win the elections and become the next Prime Minister of New York I thought to myself, ah, he’s on my level.
And it occurred to me that I’m really not sure who I’d like to see become the next American President.  I was originally rooting for Anybody But Bush.  [...]

Read Full Post »