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Posted in Government, Internet, Politics, Technology, Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2008
Several years ago (at my age, I now find that precise historical details are a bit vague) I was fairly active politically. I was a signed up party member, I stood for election to the local council (failed to get elected), and beat the streets delivering leaflets and knocking on doors. During one [...]
Posted in Faith, Politics, Religion, Society on Dec 21st, 2007
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the differences between men and women are bigger than their variations in biological plumbing, and that the differences between Britain and America are more substantial than the lack of harmony between their common languages. I was reminded of this latter point this week on hearing a statement about god from the newly elected [...]
Posted in Law, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Terrorism on Nov 4th, 2007
The UK press has been excited in the last couple of days by the fact that the Metropolitan Police have been found guilty of endangering the lives of the public. The police broke the health and safety laws (such irony) in the shooting of the innocent terror suspect, Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes. After the trial [...]
Posted in Humanity, Politics, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Oct 17th, 2007
I meet many people who are convinced that they are responsible for the whole world and everything in it. They are quite common - there really is a lot of it about.
You know, they are the kind of people who say: “I can’t do that because so-and-so wouldn’t like it …”, or, “I can’t do that [...]
Posted in Faith, Other Blogs, Politics, Religion, Society on Oct 15th, 2007
I am grateful to Libby Purves at Faith Central who brought this to my attention.
Libby writes:
“There is a basic law of media which says that if you are a beautiful woman with fantastic legs and very good hair, you will be given airtime to vent even the most naively offensive views. Step forward Ann Coulter, [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Language, Politics on Oct 12th, 2007
A case under article 301 of Turkish law against journalist Hrant Dink was recently dropped. The reason it was dropped is that Hrant was shot dead in January.
The case against Hrant was that he had allegedly insulted Turkish identity by calling the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 a genocide.
Posted in Human Rights, Politics, Terrorism on Sep 25th, 2007
Somebody tried to tell the emperor (well, the president to be more accurate) that he was wearing no clothes. He just smiled, said that he was, and that the thousands of people watching him just could not see properly.
Personally, I think that it was right to give Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a platform to speak [...]
Posted in Government, Health, Humor, Humour, Politics, Relationships, Society, Terrorism on Sep 13th, 2007
Its now official. You dont need the store cupboard anymore. You can have time off work to have sex. Well, at least you can if you live in Russia.
The governor of the central Russian province has urged couples to skip work on Wednesday to make love in order to boost Russias low birth-rate. The population [...]
Posted in Government, Isolation, Politics, Society on Sep 11th, 2007
It appears that there will be no end to my confusion. It has been around for the last thirty years at least. I was hoping that as I approached my dotage something radical would change. But recent news has confirmed my worst fears. The EU will now notcompel me to use ‘foreign’ units, and therefore, [...]
Posted in Faith, Government, Human Rights, Politics, Religion on Sep 10th, 2007
Politicians who claim that their religious faith is a personal matter are either bad faith practitioners, or less than accurate in the honesty department. Perhaps their claim to privacy is just a way of saying, “I don’t really believe much of this stuff but am just using it to get votes,” or, “I do really [...]
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