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Well, no surprises there. This is why politicians who are trying to excuse these riots are a disgrace. We spend so much time & money running General Elections. Do we now have to allow mobs to dictate the direction the country takes? If you have an issue, vote for a government that sides with you.Continue reading “Head of UK police said that 70% of people who have been arrested by police have previous criminal convictions and urged people not to be swayed by far-right ideology.”

The UK has been thoroughly humiliated by the ongoing rioting that began last week. Yes, does need a bit of perspective. UK population is around 69.9million people. The rioters number roughly 20,000 of which about 10% have been involved in criminality and violence. There may well be another couple of millions who agree and encourageContinue reading “UK riots: shames us all.”

The politicians and so-called influencers who come out with lines such as: “I find it appalling, but we need to talk about the root cause” or “people are just fed up and frustrated”… Well, we all face frustrations of a variety each and every day. None should lead to us going out and hurling bricksContinue reading “Appearing to empathise with or show understanding of some spurious reasons behind rioting and acts of public disorder is playing with fire!!!”

The incessant labelling: far right etc. is pointless! Not everyone showing up at these silly gatherings is a member of a far-right group. These are largely misinformed people going with the flow and ending up supporting what they do not understand. The government (largely the last Tory government should have) must get a lot betterContinue reading “UK riots – we are wasting time on semantics! Anyone hurling bricks at defenceless police & injuring them, is a criminal! Period.”

It seems people just can’t help themselves these days.. Donald Trump attended what they billed as a Black Journalists of America event in Chicago this week and much as I can understand the eagerness to quiz him on issues such as some of his acolytes saying Kamala Harris is a DEI hire, it all couldContinue reading “Moral high ground is now a mirage..”

It has been a most awful week in the UK, with the unthinkably cruel, lunatic killing of 3 young girls is Southport by a teenager who must surely have lost the use of his senses, as it is unimaginable how anyone young or old, can take a knife to children! It really doesn’t matter whatContinue reading “Well done Sir Kier Starmer!”

There’s been videos circulating in the past week, if an incident at Manchester Airport, where a policeman was seen kicking a prone mane in the head and also appearing to stamp on his head. An action that has been roundly condemned, regardless of the circumstances, members of the public are the taxpayers funding the police;Continue reading “Fault it or not, UK’s policing remains the best in the world”

If you have a leader whose followers believe they must do truly horrible things in order to please that leader, you know it’s a hopeless situation. Each and every time you read about Trump’s followers, it’s never about them offering support to the homeless or work to the jobless. It’s always about doing awful stuffContinue reading “Human beings are truly despicable!”

Guy in his late 70s put himself through hell just to give us four years of normalcy, ending 4 years of non-stop twitter rants and name-calling. The Democratic Party have decided to implode and we are now about to face 4 years of twitter rants and craziness! A right shame. Ageism has always been andContinue reading “The entire world owes Joe Biden a huge debt of gratitude!”

She very expertly broke down the situation with the George Clooneys of America, who now think they are King-makers! Whilst George Clooney May mean well, he knows he can afford to jet off to the UK or elsewhere if Trump returns as President, thanks to Clooney & a fey other ill-advised idiots questioning Biden’s suitability.Continue reading “’Joy Reid’, now, that’s a genius!”

Americans say their president is the most powerful person in the world. Yet, they also want him to be a performing seal! He has to give the ‘performance’ of his life at the NATO summit this week, to quell demands for him to step as the presidential candidate. The poor 81 year old will nowContinue reading “The irony of it all…”

When you look at the 400+ Labour MPs, I can’t see any one of them who would call any section of public “Tofu-eating Wokerati”. I am sure some of then will err. I am sue Labour will make many mistakes, BUT I am equally sure they will retain and maintain decency. They will try toContinue reading “Labour mean well. Can they deliver? We hope so…”

The man is 81!!! How many 81 year olds out there can make a fully coherent speech?? Leave the guy alone!!! As long as he surrounds himself with sane, normal folk, he can get through 4 more years. However, what on earth was the Democratic Party thinking??? They should have nominated someone else in 2021!!Continue reading “The incessant hounding of Biden for his speech issues is bullying!”

For the very first time in our history, we have entered the uncharted territory of having individuals who are solely intent on ripping everything up, entering parliament as MPs. This is no longer about some rogue MPs using awful, unbecoming choice of language in Parliament or indeed in public – with MPs taking second jobsContinue reading “Will DEMOCRACY stand up for itself in the UK or get torn up from the inside??”

Apparently for Biden to pass the test, he just has to avoid a senior’s moment! Seriously!?? The guy is 81 years old! Most of us will be overjoyed if we can still stand on our feet at 81! Being president should be about surrounding yourself with the right choice of people and doing the rightContinue reading “American Presidential Debate: oh golly!”

…. as it takes the spotlight off the simple fact that he is not presidential material. He can’t take briefings, won’t read important documents, appoints only those who worship him, can’t make up his mind about anything and has to be constantly reminded that he isn’t on The Apprentice. Having Trump as a protest candidateContinue reading “The continued fixation on Trump’s inadequacy as a human being helps him…”

If the country is supposedly split 50:50, then one would expect the jury in Trump’s hush money trial to at least have a couple of his sympathisers? Yet, when confronted with the facts, the judgement was unanimous… Personally, I still cannot see any logic in prosecuting Trump. Why? Because he was enabled. He is theContinue reading “On one hand Trump & his supporters claim at least half of Americans are MAGA, but on the other hand, they say a jury of 12 Americans got his conviction wrong & that the justice system is corrupt….”

Unquantifiable debt of gratitude to those who gave their lives. Unbelievable that 80 years on, we still allow wars to occur! We must find ways to abolish wars!!!

I have never understood it and perhaps never will. Today I had a chance exchange with a colleague who was in his prime when I started working and thought he was immortal. He turned 75 yesterday, long retired, long forgotten. None of the other 4 graduates on our team back then, can remember his surname.Continue reading “Human obsession with age remains intriguing”

It is widely assumed that the Labour Party will be back in power for the first time in 14 years after the upcoming July 4 general election. However, for a party to make any real change, it requires a minimum of 2 terms in office (i.e. at least 8 years). To do so, you needContinue reading “Labour’s plan to force private schools to pay VAT is a mistake that underlines Labour’s poor understanding of how to stay in government”

… must be a General Election round the corner! 😝

It seems that ship has sailed, never to return… When you have a senior politician who is paid by the people, to keep the country safe, waking up in the morning heading off to parliament to condemn “tofu-eating wokerati” as she said (this was our former Home Secretary i.e. the minister in-charge of the police,Continue reading “Any chance of the return of serious politicians??”

Said it before, saying it again! The result of London’s Mayoral Election says it all! We won’t give up on London! Never!! Yes, London isn’t as I remember it from the 80s or what we all want it to be. But that is life! Things change. The daily knife crimes and littering, reverse of integrationContinue reading “London, greatest city on earth!”

I just watched footage on the BBC of police men & women approach a sword wielding guy in North East London who had earlier seriously injured two other police officers who had tried to stop him. It must be brave, knowing what he had just done to their colleagues and still have to do theContinue reading “The police may not be perfect, but without them we will all be is serious danger on a daily basis!”

I came to this conclusion and realisation several years ago, well before the particular incident that I have used to illustrate this realisation, but an incident that do indeed aptly portray the reality of what we must accept, whether or not we like to. The incident: it was a few years ago that I wasContinue reading “Is it not time the world realise there are not ‘hard lines’ to draw?”

This week’s calls for the Met Police Commissioner to resign should be worrying to all of us. What exactly is that going to achieve?I am always the first to speak of the need for consequences, but for goodness sake! the incident in question was a very clear & deliberate provocation. Most of us agree 100%Continue reading “UK police are largely very, very good! The public isn’t helping policing these days”

Kari Lake has discovered this stroke of genius! 😄 When you are trying to win any election, be it class President at high school or a seat in the senate and you find yourself in a situation where you have ample support but simply not enough support to win. If there are 20 pupils inContinue reading “It is so much easier to go around saying an election was stolen from you, than to actually go and work hard to figure out how to win an election!”

…. unfortunately, we are in a world that rejects live & let live! no interest in co-existence, it seems one ideology has to dominate the other…

If the could steal the election in 2020 when they were not the party in power, why would they not be able to rig it in 2024? So, why is Mr D J Trump running for President again? It is a valid question right? I do not believe the Biden government have made any election-stealContinue reading “If the US Presidential election in 2020 was so easily rigged by the Democrats, why is Trump running again??”

The UK’s version of MAGA. So melodramatic! When exactly did we lose our country? and to whom? The circa 5% of the population who are not direct descendants of Henry the VIII? Whenever you get to speak to anyone who would make statements such as “we want our country back”, you know you are speakingContinue reading “”We want our country back”!”

America can do it! Americans can do it! They can come together and agree to disagree on their differences: abortion, immigration etc. These challenges will never disappear, so, COMPROMISE is the only way forward. The everyday American should sit up and say no to those talking about another civil way (madness!) or creating a hermitContinue reading “It is time for Americans to come together & rid themselves of the crazy folk! The world is watching…”

Yes, the wheels of the justice system are as they are, and it has taken from 2020 to now, for these cases to get to trial, and much of the delay was orchestrated by Trump’s legal team, to ensure these trials only got to court in 2024. It makes Trump look like the persecuted, likeContinue reading “Biden should have used his executive powers to mandate that none of the US government v Donald Trump trials occur in 2024, the election year!”

Here we are in the UK, a country some ill-advised folk continue to moan about, where Julian Assange was able to hide away in an embassy for years. Would we ever consider storming another country’s embassy in the UK? hell no! An embassy is effectively the territory of the country it belongs to. The responseContinue reading “If reports of Ecuador busting into the Marxian embassy in Quito are correct, then we are indeed in barbaric times!!!”

We lose the battle when our politicians are allowed to use demeaning language, while clearly lacking ideas to tackle the problem. Trump building a wall (when even the Great Wall of China got breached without anyone having to scale it) was a nonsense and the awful words he continues to use in describing these unfortunateContinue reading “Small boats across the English Channel or human caravans from South America into the US – tests the rule of law”

It has become increasingly embarrassing when you read the incessant “this person was slammed or blasted…” and you click on the news, the source will be two comments on twitter now called ‘X’. What a joke! Everything is so juvenile these days! We have allowed dimwits to takeover. In our quest to promote tolerance, weContinue reading “We are firmly in a prepubescent world!”

When I look at rich folk, it is hard not to wonder just how much wealth do individuals feel they must acquire? It is however never necessary to attempt to drag the rich down as it rarely benefits the poor. In fact, it never benefits the poor. You see politicians vowing to address poverty andContinue reading “Few would choose poverty as a way of life. Even fewer in the developed world have faced levels of poverty experienced in undeveloped countries..”

Whichever way you look at it, there are only 9 months remaining in 2024, so, whether the PM decided to wait till Dec 30 to call a general election held the next morning, there must be an election held this year and as such, who really cares when he decides to call an election??? TheContinue reading “UK general election: the suspense is killing us – not!”

”there’s no place for this in our politics”. Well, sorry, it has found a place! Reading a BBC article this morning that laid the vileness of this out in detail! Candidates receiving death threats even before they are in office, horrendous abuse etc. Drastic action is urgently needed!!!! The most capable people we need inContinue reading “Harassment of politicians really must be stopped!”

Mechanisation, industrialisation, building up infrastructure is what 3rd world (awful tag by the way) countries need. The Church of England recently offered £100m in reparation.. What on earth with these struggling countries do with such funds? They lack the financial structure to spend the money judiciously. It will all end up in the Swiss bankContinue reading “Industrialisation is what the 3rd world needs, not reparation!”

People who use foul language, racist language or utter other insult do so because they wish to belittle their targets and make them feel awful. It gives them extra pleasure to know their victim is hurting. The only way to stop a bully, is to end the pleasure they derive from bullying you. You standContinue reading “There is nothing extra special about racist abuse! Minority folk need to stop letting the bullies get one over them!”

With Rachel Reeves, the Labour Party have a chance, if they do, as widely predicted, form the next government She is doing exactly what needs to be done. Forget party politics, you need the wealth generators to help you Loopy ideas such as bashing the rich or slapping VAT on independent schools are just wetContinue reading “Rachel Reeves hires City high flyers to unlock billions for Labour’s economic plan”

The greatness of Great Britain is not from being called Great Britain! Yes, we have, over the centuries, committed some heinous acts such as slavery, colonisation and meddling (which is still ongoing), BUT, on balance, which country this size (tiny as we are) has wielded so much influence (for good)? Be it in the spaceContinue reading “Defecting MP Lee Anderson says: “I just want my country back”. Sir, don’t be obtuse! Great Britain has never been lost! Will never be lost!”

Good government is what any of our 3 main political parties should be able to readily provide if in government. That should be the basic minimum that the electorate deserve. Regardless of differences in opinion, policy, strategy etc. Now, an awesome government (which many may argue we haven’t had in a long time and inContinue reading “UK’s Labour Party needs to get the basics right in order to be an improvement”

Our politicians need to be reminded! This new phenomenon of “he’s only saying what everyone’s thinking” is not going to fly! It isn’t everyone getting paid from the collective tax! There is nothing wrong with an outspoken MP, but their choice of words cannot be the same as those of the general public! If weContinue reading “If you take a job with a salary paid from everyone’s tax, then you must respect everyone (not just those who support you)..”

Box office film success… Flippant remarks form several quarters… Disgraceful!! It was in full view on BBC a few years ago, when the then Labour Party candidate for UK Prime Minister was chastised for not answering quickly that if Britain came under threat, he would quickly press the red button! We make it sound soContinue reading “I wonder what people think a nuclear war would look like? These gross ‘casual’ allusion to nuclear war should be concerning…”

Americans will not be complacent in November 2016 was no fluke, but in truth, the only democrat Trump could beat, was Hilary Rodham Clinton. Not because she wasn’t electable, but simply because she had too much baggage. Her baggage cost her too many voting blocks. You add to that, several thousand American women who stillContinue reading “Relax world! The only democrat Trump can beat in a presidential election is the lady he got in 2016!”

Did Donald Trump come up with, and execute the separation of children from their parents in cages at the US border? Did Hitler single-handedly murder millions? We like to blame charisma We like to blame inability to reject orders It is the rest of us and in particular, the willing, who aid & abet butContinue reading “We always find INDIVIDUALS to blame!”

It takes a great deal of courage (most of us do not have it – which is why the world is in such a sorry state) to take a stand, in the face of certain reprisals must require immense fortitude Talk is very, very cheap! That is why there are so many hateful people online.Continue reading “Prudent to hesitate to criticise those who want their country to remain largely unchanged…”

I still do not see anything fundamentally wrong with people wanting to get away from EU bureaucracy and exiting the EU. But it was never going to be the solution to the problems people were made to believe it would solve. No industrialised country can be totally isolated as the trade arrangements, security etc., demandContinue reading “The clueless folk who sold Brexit as the solution to the problem that it simply was never a solution to, now say Brexit has failed….”

This week has been all about a story from E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer (Roberta Kaplan) that at a deposition with Donald Trump at Mar a Largo some times back, he flew intoa rage and threw a pile of paper when he found out his legal team provided lunch to those deposing him. Ok. For goodnessContinue reading “A return to serious journalism may help deal with the rise of populism..”