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Category Archives: Politics
Why you should consider joining the National Secular Society
On Saturday, for the first time, I attended the AGM of the National Secular society. It isn’t easy for me to get down to London, where they ‘re normally held, but this year, because of the pandemic, it was held … Continue reading
Pandemic of Lunacy – Why we could be getting it wrong on Covid-19
The average UK citizen has approximately a 1 in 3,300 chance of dying of Covid-19 this year (assuming there are 20,000 deaths). For cancer, it’s around 1 in 400. Which disease would you prefer the government to concentrate its efforts … Continue reading
Queen’s speech an insult to most Britains
It seems a strange choice for the queen to use the few minutes she gets to speak to ‘her people’ each year to promote a minority religion. I wonder what the people thought today, when they tuned in to hear … Continue reading
First Sunrise
This New Year’s Day started wet and grey, and it seemed like a bad omen – a sign that 2017 was going to continue in the same vein as 2016. But then the rain cleared. This morning I woke up and watched the … Continue reading
Book Review – The Establishment…
…And how they get away with it. By Owen Jones. This was not an easy book to read; not calming or uplifting. Jones sets out a tale of how, over … Continue reading
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Europe is in Jeremy Corbyn’s hands
It’s Labour dogma that will lose us our place in Europe.
The Equality of Ignorance
I went to see the film ‘Suffragette’ at the weekend. It was definitely worth seeing, but a bit grim. And why did they have to film so much of it with a hand-held camera? Some of the scenes were so … Continue reading
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Election Burnout
If you’re anything like me, you will have had about as much as you can take of the interminable and vacuous spiral of lies, misinformation, accusation, counter-accusation, image-projection, banality, ageism, ignorance and, above all, overwhelming stupidity that is the 2015 … Continue reading