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Goes to show it is all just a political football after all? A slight drop in net migration figures and we are squabbling over whether it was down to the policies of the previous government!? Who cares???!!!! Just get on with the work!!! Some folk are planning summer protests – which we hope, isn’t goingContinue reading “We are in truly awful times! UK net migration is reported to be going down and we are quarrelling about who takes credit for it!!!!!”

It is bandied about all over the place. Diversity. Ok. I have absolutely nothing against the concept of people mixing, I champion ‘live & let live’. Tolerance. All good. But there is also a saying: when you’re in Rome, act like the Romans! There is nothing wrong with cultural diversity, but any culture would beContinue reading “Cultural Diversity. Great concept. But what if some cultures do not wish to diversity??”

I do not see any other reason Kier Starmer would be cosying up to the EU, other than for the very obvious fact that we don’t have a choice. He is very well aware of the huge number of Brits who voted to exit the EU and he is not stupid. He understands fully wellContinue reading “Our government must do better at explaining itself and trying a lot harder, to get people to understand that the government is indeed trying to help us all….”

We’ve all been there before, when people tell you to take action, go in strong, be robust, stand your ground etc., but when you turn around, those same people are off hiding away in the shadows!Like it or not, Trump was voted in as President of the US and they are not a tiny country.Continue reading “Well done Mark Carney! Reasoned discussion with Trump re Canada”

Years before Boris Johnson ran for Mayor of London, I said he will be Mayor. A year after he became Mayor, I said he will be Prime Minister. I can say with very little doubt today, that Boris Johnson will soon be back as the leader of the Conservative Party and he will try toContinue reading “Our politics in the UK has always been very predictable…”

It is certainly curious.. Take the case of David Beckham’s rumoured quest to get knighted and getting repeatedly overlooked. He will get it at some point. When individuals think they have achieved fame, wealth.. they begin looking for the next thing: Adulation! or whatever it is, they see as the next level of recognition…. IsContinue reading “The curious case of OPPORTUNISM: Who’s actually using whom?”

Yes, we are not perfect in the UK. And yes, we may be heading towards similar situations, BUT, I always like to believe that we have people here, who will always stand up for what’s decent! We now see a good number of people rushing to relocate to the UK….. I am fiercely pro-British, notContinue reading “To all those who say the UK ain’t good enough & moved elsewhere.. well…..”

Building a big prison and dumping in a bunch of heavily tattooed men, without trial, to rot in there indefinitely only offer temporary relief. What’s going to happen to their children? Those children will shortly find their way to the tattoo shops?El Salvador is not a success story. It is very possible that they hadContinue reading “There appears to be no interest in tackling the real issues….”

It is definitely a mental health crisis! Has the world suddenly changed so much? I don’t think so. It is still largely what it used to be, but the only very obvious change, is that we have now embraced and celebrate meanness and hatred. Openly. I am a firm believer of the fact that anyContinue reading “The world was never nice but we never used to openly celebrate hate & being horrible..”

There is a very clear lesson there for kids to learn. Or rather, several lessons… The most important of those lessons is: NEVER PUT NEEDLESS PRESSURE ON YOURSELF! All ends in vanity!!! You look at the likes of Colin Montgomery, excellent golfer & human being. He never won a single major. Unbelievable right? But, soContinue reading “Rory McIlroy – well done! Finally, his nightmare is over…”

8,064!!Compassion is imperative and I do feel for these people as they are, for whatever reason, in this situation. BUT, this really has to stop. Everyone in the UK benefit from a system based on the rule of law: we work hard, pay our taxes etc. Services are based on careful planning. To have suchContinue reading “The number of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel has set a new record for the first four months of 2025”

… and I do not say this lightly! Sadly, we are presently bogged-down with a myriad of domestic issues…. The world desperately need British diplomacy right now! (yes, there are several examples of global missteps over the years, but I can’t at present, see anything better out there! And it’s all steadily getting worse!!!). GetContinue reading “The UK must climb back up to centre stage in global matters. If nothing else, we exercise reason & diplomacy”

It is well worth asking: what exactly is it all about????? Life, as we presently have it. With so many people around the world living in squalor, in abject poverty and pain. Given the chance, they rarely help each other, the just want to break out and join the ranks of the rich… I onceContinue reading “The very poor seek to survive, the poor seek to get rich, the rich seek to stand out, the super-rich seek adulation…”

To understand this madness, you would need to go right down to grassroots golf, in schools, colleges and clubs that the PGA fund, and how that pyramid structure grows the sport and how ALL golfers earning $millions came through that structure. I am not going to comment on ‘sportwashing’ and all the allegations levelled againstContinue reading “The golf fiasco! LIV vs PGA tour…”

If America believe it has been and is being taken advantage of, and as such, slaps on tariffs, why is the rest of the world having a hissy fit? Should it not be a simple exercise of rebalancing trade? Or could it be, that America was indeed being taken advantage of? Let’s see where itContinue reading “Perhaps it’s time for a return to ‘trade by barter’?”

Banning Marine Le Pen from running in the upcoming election won’t be a clever move! Macron should pardon her- if she is found at fault tomorrow – and let her run in the election. She won’t win the election. Banning her from running is simply going to lead to an unnecessary mess!

….. few would disagree though… The earth is roughly 510 square Kilometres…. why can’t we just live & let live??? It is so sad seeing how human beings treat each other. And we find a way to justify it… But we are all to blame. We are so quick to point to others. So quickContinue reading ““History is a set of lies agreed upon” – a bitter quote from Napoleon in his final days in exile”

Unfortunately, we are stuck in an era where everyone’s permanently entrenched in the sides they have taken and do not feel the need to try to be understood, mainly because they – perhaps rightfully – do not believe anyone will listen, even if they do try to explain.. The dismantling of the Department of Education,Continue reading “If politicians can explain their actions better….: some of the actions being taken by Trump are actually sensible..”

… but we don’t like the person trying to end the war? ….. but we think there is an alternative, better way of ending the war? …. but, but, but….. but what? human beings are insufferable at times!! There are no ‘buts’… if others had a better way to end the war, a better compromise,Continue reading “Finding a way to end the war in Ukraine is a good thing. But… but what?”

Hundreds of thousands gave their lives (soldiers) in WWII and they and those that survived will tell you that they did so, so that the world never have to go to war, ever again!But at the first sight of conflict, we start talking about conscription and arming nations…. Have we forgotten those hundreds of thousandsContinue reading “We have repeatedly tried men (in power) and men have repeatedly failed! Let’s try women for a bit….”

ok. If we put half as much effort into training ourselves in finding peaceful resolution to disagreements, the world would have a chance?? The bravado of men! Wars solve nothing! We should be training all our adult and youth population in the folly of war instead!

They may not be perfect, but heaven help us if there was no police! You read about some of the heinous, unthinkable stuff that is now so commonplace, you would think you’re watching a James Bond film! Society has lost the plot!!!

Historically, stronger nations have always grabbed territory. Nothing new there. To undo that past, will be to hand Canada back to the native tribes or empty the US of Europeans or Australia, New Zealand etc. Russia annexed Crimea. I don’t see any possibility of them ever handing it back to Ukraine anytime soon. But itContinue reading “Strange that the most vocal critics of the UK government handing Chagos Island back to Mauritius are the same ones seemingly ok with Ukraine losing land…”

You can almost guarantee that whatever we have gotten wrong in the past, gets sickeningly repeated. Is this not exactly how the world got carved up in years gone by? With what began as adventures and expeditions, turning into land grab, empires etc. So, what are we complaining about? Would we have Australia, Canada, USA,Continue reading “Repeating our mistakes is perhaps the only human consistency…”

To think it was 30 years ago that the lyrics below came out.. Today, 2025, 30 years on, we have politicians casually stating that conscription is necessary and we will be at war within 5 years. People speak to casually and flippantly about civil wars, world war 3 etc. How pathetic we all are! HumanContinue reading “Earth Song – Michael Jackson, 1995. Lyrics below..”

… ‘messianic complex’? History will of course continue to repeat itself. The rich can’t be rich if there are no poor folk about to compare them to… or something along those lines… What’s a pied piper without the rats? Elections have now become handy tools. Someone’s found that loophole. It’s easier to line suckers upContinue reading “I’m better than you, but I will pull every crazy stunt to impress you & secure your adulation & worship….”

The latest is said to be Ncuti Gatwa, the fellow currently playing Dr Who. His parents fled violence in Rwanda to solace in Scotland. You can’t carry on looking for a better place! Sometimes worth putting up a bit and trying to make where you find yourself, a better place? You see a spate ofContinue reading “Puzzling when black actors in the UK moan about lack of opportunities, then move to the US to deprive others there of opportunities….”

You have to laugh! Mens number 1 tennis player, Jannik Sinner! Said to have unknowingly taken substances that got him to fail doping tests twice! Yet, he dodged the usual punishment that has been meted out to others, and has now accepted a 3 month ban that takes effect during a period where no meaningfulContinue reading “Sinner by name, sinner by nature?”

We say the country is in economic peril. We have a Chancellor who has been in place for a few months and we want to do her in!!?? For Pete’s sake! Much as I do not agree with many of the actions she has taken so far e.g. the obsession with slapping VAT on privateContinue reading “The hounding of Rachel Reeves is tantamount to cutting off ones’ nose to spite ones’ face!”

Parental responsibility has been totally discarded. We expect governments to take care of everything. I just read this morning that it appears another car may have driven into a crowd in Germany. Do we ban cars? How many bollards will we need to erect? Nobody wants to accept that the weapon used, is not theContinue reading “This may well be the worst of times….”

Yes, inevitably life does indeed go on. But….. It hurts me immensely, every time I have to throw food away. Why? In just over 2 years that I spent travelling across West Africa and South East Asia, during parts of my formative years, I saw what hunger really means. And YES, I am not naive,Continue reading “What I have always found so depressing about the world, is this sense of ‘life goes on..’”

When a male undocumented immigrant called Jesus, in Florida says: “I voted for Trump for the economy”. Next week Jesus is hiding in the back of a car repair shop as Immigration Enforcement officers from ICE search for him. The week after, Jesus has been caught and he’s in the back of an ICE van,Continue reading “’the moral high ground’ was there ever any such thing”

Disagreeing with politicians and taking opposing views is as old as the hills. I get all that. It’s not going to change. But delighting in their failure and willing them to fail, is counterproductive. Past few months has been Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer (i.e. our Finance Minister in the UK). It seems sheContinue reading “If our politicians fail, we all suffer! So, why are so many willing them to fail???”

Can you imagine just how many people have suffered utter devastation from this?11 teenage boys! Snuffed out just like that!The police can’t implement necessary measures to end knife-carrying by teenagers in London, because people complain about perceived lopsidedness of the race of the folk who get stopped & searched. I accept that the police canContinue reading “A total of 11 teenage boys stabbed to death in London in 2024”

I read one of the pitiful comments that typifies many 20 – 50 year olds in Canada today, who think the Liberals are to blame for everything that wrong in Canada (whatever those are??). The comment read: “if Trudeau & his liberals hadn’t destroyed Canada, Trump would never have thought about making us the 51stContinue reading “A pathetic generation of finger-pointers! Justin Trudeau was only PM for about 9 years right??”

If you are the president of a country where so many of your citizens are hellbent on fleeing to another country (for whatever reason), would you have time to trade silly bards? Today, the President of mexico had the time to stand in front of some silly map, to suggest the US can be renamedContinue reading “Very strange that the President of Mexico can find so much time for tittle-tattle with Trump..”

Leave a single lamp on in a dark room and all bugs flock to it. How about turning on several lamps in that same dark room? The current rate of migration to the west is not sustainable. Not only because of the friction it is causing and resentment (be it fair or unfair), but forContinue reading “The obvious stares us directly in the face, but we’re too distracted to acknowledge it….”

The rule of law and common sense can now be so readily bypassed by populism. Shout out, shout loud or have a twitter account with a few million followers and who needs Parliament? Just force politicians to start answering questions on twitter! No need for truth, facts or due process. Welcome to today’s world… TheContinue reading “We are now back to 264 BC. the era of gladiator games…”

Perhaps, the simple answer is: IT IS US! Humans! Not social media or the knives, guns etc… For years, the folk who sell guns, tell us it isn’t guns that kill. Those who counter, say: well, punches or knifes kill fewer people. I won’t get into all that today. I was astounded today, when aContinue reading “We find the next excuse, then the next and the next…..”

I feel very strongly about this. I can see the perspective of those who try to argue that Britain and some other countries were built on the back of the empire and other acts in years gone by. I am also someone who strongly believes in the need for human beings to accept that weContinue reading “The UK will not be here, as a place where people can come to seek refuge/asylum, if there were no rules during those years gone by…”

Donkey years ago when I took Economics 101, same as many of us, it felt a bit strange to learn about how goods were valued and the global demand & supply arrangements that left supposedly poorer nations in a pit, as the products they exported were valued by a matrix that they didn’t create….. NothingContinue reading “We created a trade system that’s now eating us up from the inside!”

I have read several online posts of many Canadians stating: “see, that’s the way to go”. Referencing the US. Yes, Trump has surprised pretty much everyone, by winning the election (albeit, the situation wasn’t very different from his defeat of Hilary Clinton, and perhaps that result should have been a peek preview to Kamala’s outcome)Continue reading “Calm down Canada, shall we see the implementation of solutions & the outcome first?”

Who knows? One of the most obvious flaws of our democracy is that it has become so easy to exploit. So easy to manipulate. Anyone can say anything during a campaign and promise anything, knowing they won’t be challenged. In the UK, we have a 5 year limit for each government but today, we startContinue reading “Will we ever be able to fix the obvious flaws of our democracy?”

The newspapers had stories of 80year olds being shoved aside in supermarkets as people rushed to grab stuff off the shelves. Many were hoarding stuff. Toilet paper ran out across the country as people hoarded them. And Covid was a mini emergency compared to a World War. Who wants to see their children carted off,Continue reading “Anyone remember the first weeks of Covid? Anyone?…”

Several articles earlier in the week were dedicated to Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called godfather of Artificial Intelligence, stating that AI will wreak havoc 10 years from now and wipe out humanity. Today, it’s Prof. Anthony Glees of University of Birmingham saying we are now on a countdown to World War 3. It is aContinue reading “As we head towards the end of 2024, it appears that predicting the start of WW3 or AI ending the world is in vogue..”

We have learnt nothing throughout the course of human history! It’s just so callous. To stand there and say you just cast a vote for the sake of paying a few pennies less on a loaf of bread! Yes, we all want to be prosperous. But for goodness sake! There is more to life thanContinue reading “Nothing irks me more than when I hear voters quoting the price of gas (petrol) or grocery as the reason they cast their vote for a candidate…”

I do not follow any religion and have never been religious. And yes, many will quickly point out that Christianity did not prevent slavery, colonialism, the inquisition and several other heinous acts of humanity to date. Ok. But when you look at how completely soulless society have become, with opportunists and charlatans everywhere you look.Continue reading “The demise of Christianity has possibly left a void that previously held some in society accountable by piety”

If you read the newspapers and online articles, you will be forgiven in thinking parents no longer exist and the government must be responsible for everything!! We blame the government for EVERYTHING. I was reading a BBC article this morning, which reported on the spate of theft in shops (shoplifting) across England. It is anContinue reading “Alarming increase in ‘shoplifting’ across England, is yet another glaring example of how today’s generation feel so entitled…”

As I’ve always said, it takes a type. Most likely individuals who feel they must lead. The current toxic environment of our politics is a huge deterrent to the brightest and best. It now takes more guts & thick skin (to take repeated vile abuse) than brightness, to be a politician. It’s a surprise weContinue reading “Politicians have a thankless job at present. So, why do they do it???”

I know many people are waiting to say “told you so” to Trump voters. The reality is simple: you will be waiting till eternity. Why? Well, look at Brexit. The people who have been most-impacted, who are suffering most, have now been told their suffering isn’t as a result of Brexit, but that it isContinue reading “There’s no ‘buyer’s remorse’ for the ignorant…”