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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..”

I look around the world and around me…. Over 25 years ago I spent nearly 2 years travelling the world; mainly West Africa and South East Asia, going through some of the world’s most deprived areas and I swore I would try to help. I wanted to be an author, to write about this systemicContinue reading “Can’t blame Covid!”

I can partly understand efforts to fix some of history e.g. if someone says they do not want to read books that try to place one group of people above the other. Things move on. Turkey (Ottoman empire) ruled an urge chunk of the world once, so did Egypt, Italy (Romans), Greece (Alexander the great),Continue reading “The BBC row relating to “rule Britannia’ at the proms is so unfortunate..”

Yes, this could be seen as old news but it’s still rumbling on in the Spanish courts. So, here’s my two cents… Football is of course full of emotion and all that, BUT it is still a place of work. The players are at work. They are hired and get wages etc. And while representingContinue reading “Rubiales should have been fired not for kissing Hermoso, but for his claim that he asked her if he could!”

It is one of those things that are simply impossible to comprehend, but the minute you take a peek that the amount of money that circulates around it, you know it is an untouchable topic, similar to gun control in America or the MAGA movement and other similar phenomena We recently publicly lynched a BaronessContinue reading “Phew! That ordeal called ‘Christmas’ has come and gone…”

Christmas! That time of the year when we tell ourselves we’re doing enough. That we deserve all the excesses and that the rest of the world is not our personal problem.. It is the very reason the world will always be in a mess. We bring present after present out, roll around in glee. IfContinue reading “That time of the year….”

Doctors look for symptoms and try to prevent rather than cure. When you have a presidential candidate using gutter language, sounding like the most illiterate members of society, you’ve had you4 warning folks! There’s your symptom! It all began as a joke pre-2016, with stuff like “crooked Hillary” and people laughed. It’s gone downhill fromContinue reading “Believe it or not, language matter!”

The post-Brexit threats to British fishermen and all the needless petulance is needless.. If the UK is supposed to miss out on the wonders of the EU, there is no need for the EU to keep trying to exact revenge. The EU should just carry on and let us miss being a member, if that’sContinue reading “The EU must do better!”

I believe people should, if they show interest, be employed regardless of what they look like. And yes, that’s not presently the case. We all know that. But for goodness sake!!!What exactly are we asking for here? A world where there are all types of people in equal measure everywhere, is not yet what weContinue reading “BBC presenter says ‘overwhelmingly white’ workplace affects his mental health”

I’ve seen many surprises go wrong over the years, with the recipient putting up a brave face and a phoney smile, just to avoid appearing ungrateful! Personally, if I want to do something nice for someone, I choose to do it with them, rather than to them! Yes, boring and perhaps lacking that 5 secondContinue reading “People who plan surprises tend to enjoy it more than the recipient!”

We can do better. Yes. But we are the best We have and continue to do some awful stuff, but we are a lot less awful than most Today’s society is awful. The ability to exploit others is exponential because of social media etc. Human beings are being smuggled all over the place and exploited.Continue reading “The United Kingdom is the best country in the world! We have our flaws, but we are the best!”

I was going to say that we need a return to decency, but in truth, struggled to find that decent era of the past! Read Jen Psaki’s article this morning (Jen was White House press secretary when Biden became president) explaining that the new Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mike Johnson) is an electionContinue reading “Governments & governing’s become so complicated! delivering for the people has become an impossibility…”

Prisons are a very necessary deterrent in human society. To think otherwise would be naive. Unfortunately, but true. When you look at some aspects of human behaviour and disposition, whether it is a mental illness or just evil as some would say, there is just no means of deterring some dispensation to commit crimes andContinue reading “Prisons are becoming the new motorway (highway) in the UK: more traffic? Build more!!!”

Yes, the BBC is not perfect and has been seen to be biased on occasion, but even with the likes of CNN trying to provide fair and balanced journalism, none come close to the BBC. A significant portion of the problems our societies face globally today, is down to what people read in press releases,Continue reading “The world would be totally lost without the BBC!”

I suspect there were black people prior to slavery, colonisation, apartheid, and the ongoing struggles in America! Perhaps not as conveniently documented like other circulated forms of history, but hey, you want black history, go dig that pre-15th century stuff up. Mythology, you may well find those too. ‘Sango the god of thunder’ is popularContinue reading “Black history month? Ok! Now, please table some pre-15th century black history!”

Very few groups of people over the years have moved elsewhere and discarded their culture to solely and totally imbibe the culture of their host. It is the reason we see towns in the US, Australia, Canada and other places named after towns in the UK and it is the reason you see similarities inContinue reading “Integration, multiculturalism etc.”

Roughly 150 years after the sale of human beings was supposedly abolished, the trans-Atlantic trade in human lives is booming again! All the hallmarks are exactly the same!First we dehumanise them: illegal migrants! —— yet, they have names, were born to a family, have blood flowing through their veins like the rest of us, feelContinue reading “The trans-Atlantic trade in human currency is booming again!!”

Inside South Africa’s Operation Dudula: ‘Why we hate foreigners’ History clearly teaches us nothing as humans!How anyone in South Africa, after decades of the operation they faced under apartheid, can seek to oppress others for whatever reason, is totally beyond me! I must admit I didn’t finish reading the article (it’s on the BBC) asContinue reading “Just read the article titled:”

Awesome result for Coco! Splendid!!!

There is nothing simple about what’s going on in Ukraine. It should never have ended up in a military conflict. The bloodshed is and must always be seen to be totally unacceptable. It represents a major failure by all those involved (Ukraine, Russia, the west..) to exercise diplomacy and zero tolerance to war and needlessContinue reading “How do you solve a problem such as the Ukraine – Russia conflict? Well…, YOU DON’T! All parties will have to compromise..”

All the injury and doubts! …. Well done KJT!!

With the ongoing Women’s World Cup doing great as we all hoped for (and England are very likely to win the final tomorrow! yippee!!), many have been discussing the matter of gender pay gap and asking for equality in female & female pay at the World Cup. Unfortunately, this is one of those instances whereContinue reading “Football is not a charity, it is a massive business machine!!”

Nobody attempting to tackle global indecency is going to survive being daubed a psycho! The reason being: worldwide decency is impossible to achieve. It is that simple. We can hammer Presidents, Prime Ministers and other Western leaders all we want, but the reality is that the best any of them can ever do, is toContinue reading “RIP Sinéad O’Connor…”

If there ever was a situation that require one to listen to both sides, it is this! We all caught a glimpse of how we would behave in a slight emergency during the early stages of Covid, when the elderly were forcefully shoved aside in supermarkets as people rushed to clear the shelves to boostContinue reading “You can’t ‘Just stop Oil’, but….”

It’s like printing loads of money that ends up like the Zimbabwean currency a few years ago, with a trolley-ful needed to buy a loaf of bread! Of course it is tempting to a politician who grew up on a council estate and lived on social welfare, to grow up thinking that higher taxes forContinue reading “Targeting the rich does very little for the poor!”

If you look at some of the instruments of torture that humans have invented over the years and how cruel we can be to each other in the name of ideals, religion, politics etc., there is no limit to our capacity to be cruel. The treatment of Russian sports men & women since the UkraineContinue reading “There is absolutely no limit to how low human beings can go or how appallingly we can treat each other…”

French tennis player Alize Cornet has been having a moan about top players receiving more tickets to get their guests to watch matches at Wimbledon. I can’t recall her complaining nor handing over some of her allocation of tickets (when she was a top player) to the less fortunate lower echelon players all those years sheContinue reading “Alize Cornet’s moaning at Wimbledon sheds light on the pathetic nature of human beings”

The ongoing public anger in France is quite understandable given the nature what happened to the 17 year old boy – and while some may try to bring in some bizarre equivocation, what we all must remember is that the police are employed by the public, by the taxpayer! Their job is to keep usContinue reading “Rioting and the destruction that comes with it, is so wrong on so many levels!”

It’s not about superiority of cultures. I do not believe any particular way of life is superior to another. But if you look at basic principles such as attitude to litter and littering for instance, just as one simple basic example. You wouldn’t have to enforce laws in the 70s or 80s in the UKContinue reading “We must not change the British way of life!”

There was once a World War daubed: ‘the war to end all wars’. Touch of irony perhaps?if you look at the history of military conflicts, the result is damning. The USA is as divided as ever in 2023 and has been for a while now, with most of the same old debates that their civilContinue reading “Difficult to see who stands to gain from the fiasco in Russia, Ukraine…”

Imagine if REMAIN had won the referendum! Everything going on right now will be blamed on us remaining in the EU. Even now that we have exited the EU, people still seek to blame the EU or the remainers who are supposedly frustrating Brexit efforts. The only really sad part of this is that manyContinue reading “Not a brexiteer, but the Brexit referendum result was indeed the best possible outcome of that referendum…”

Well, we are truly doomed, when the reaction to those elected to lead the country telling so many lies is: “the others lie too”… Yes, we all lie and we all do so very regularly; whether it’s to tell kids there’s a tooth-fairy or Father Christmas or that they are doing great, when they’re not.Continue reading “They also lied/lie…..”