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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…..”

Shame on us all! Who started it? How did it start? None of those questions matter, when it is clear it won’t be decided. Everyone involved knows that. So the question is: why has it carried on?

You can see where this is all heading right?Next set of headlines will be: AI to brush your teeth before you even get out of bed!AI to do your laundry while you’ve still got your clothes on!AI to end the war in Ukraine even before it started! (I suppose we all thought it had alreadyContinue reading ““AI to stop water pollution before it happens” – BBC article this morning…”

At what point is it sensible to accept one has been outmanoeuvred? You’re the Prime Minister and got forced to resign, promising to “be back” and plot from the back benches of parliament; then you resign as a Member of Parliament, promising to “be back” and now, plotting from your conservatory or kitchen table. Surely,Continue reading “Even Houdini had his limit!”

Couple of decades ago, this was a description solely for 3rd world despots. Leaders without dignity, who would cling on and on and on, until they got killed in a coup or exiled. It seems the west have only gone and learnt the wrong lessons from those despots! What has gone on in recent yearsContinue reading “We are firmly in an era of leaders who would rather burn the whole house down than leave with dignity!”

You don’t have to be a saint to be good at what you do!Nobody is perfect!But many tried to crush him when he was down. He never came out promoting anti-vax, he never said anything. He simply wasn’t winning to tell whether or not he took the vaccination. And yes, perhaps he was selfish andContinue reading “They tried to break him! Well done Djokovic!!”

Today an old colleague reminded me of his reasons for always used to complain about income tax going higher and higher for him and those of us who pay £hundreds of thousands in income tax each year and are not obese, never ill, have rarely ever used the NHS, use private heath services that weContinue reading “We continue to get immigration wrong!”

Not “has become”. Is! When the death of a celebrity is announced and there’s no mention of cause of death, the social media probe and gossip begin! Do the dead care? Probably not. But hey! If it’s suicide or drug overdose, society can quickly judge those as dishonourable death and promptly move on to focusContinue reading “The Phillip Schofield saga demonstrates yet again, how pathetic society is!”

Hats off to you Jeff on your final Soccer Saturday! Legend!!!

Anytime the subject of illiteracy is opened, people get defensive and assume you are talking about university degrees! Yes, in the UK, we have erroneously made it all about university education and those with university degrees are assumed to be the ones capable of leadership and high positions of office. I am not saying thisContinue reading “Literacy has very little to do with university degrees!”

Society rarely assess the wider impact of white collar crimes such as what Elizabeth Holmes and her Theranos buddy were found guilty of, because we do not see in front of us, the thousands of broke, poor individuals who lose their life savings in trying to make a few quick bucks investing in companies suchContinue reading “Jailing Elizabeth Holmes up for 11 years serves little purpose…”

An era where someone enjoys huge wealth and privilege merely due to the coincidence of birth, should be well in the past. BUT, is that not also true for the advantages – albeit not necessarily wealth or affluence- accorded a non-royal child born in the UK versus one born in Honduras? Society must learn toContinue reading “None of the arguments for a monarchy makes any sense. BUT, if so many people are still happy with it, who are we to deprive them of their happiness?”

Perhaps when cavemen crushed each other’s skulls with rocks? or Ukraine today? Sudan? Countless wars in Europe? the era of the crusade? Spanish Inquisition? the daily mass shootings in America?And I won’t bother to mention those who have never been danger-free, through all eras, including the danger from some of those folk paid to keepContinue reading “A.I. danger ahead? which period in human history has been danger-free?”

What on earth is wrong with human beings????!! A country like Sudan, where people are struggling to find food on any normal day, AIRSTRIKES?! How can they afford weapons, let alone use them?? Surely, this is the definition of insanity?!!!!! What on earth can they be fighting for?? We can blame history all we want.Continue reading “Sudan seriously????!!!!”

When people sit about criticising everything, we never take a moment to appreciate some things. This week a bunch of people trapped in Sudan, got evacuated back under perilous conditions! The men & women of our armed forces who risk their lives (yes, it is their job, but NO, they didn’t send the Sudanese-British foldContinue reading “BBC Chairman resigns! Kudos to him, regardless of what is being said – pushed or voluntary, at least he was swift”

Tucker Carlson, ex-Cable TV news guy released a video on twitter today, few days after his sacking and he spoke about “the truth”. It appears the poor fella confuses the word ‘OPINION’ with the word ‘TRUTH’. If you believe something to be true, and fervently believe it to be true, doesn’t mean it is true.Continue reading “The truth? Whose truth? ….. What really is the truth?”

Of course the ideal scenario is for the planet earth to be a place where everyone can exist in peace & quiet. Unfortunately, at present, we do not have a universal agreement on all aspects of life; norms, cultures, laws etc. As such, to allow some folk to start practicing laws that are not UKContinue reading “The UK must enforce its laws & protect its sovereignty – this is not about left or right..”

The continued, mindless division of society into these crazy ideological groups is creeping into how we are supposed to perceive or react to someone charged with committing a crime….

Over the years many have resulted to blaming conspiracy theory spouting channels and news channels that no longer attempt to be unbiased or neutral, for the awful state of today’s society, where truth is a long discarded concept If you’ve ever read a boring novel, you’ll know that it is rarely one that you saveContinue reading “Are we willing to pay for boring but true news or sensational, headline-grabbing news?”

Fix Africa, fix South America, fix SouthEast Asia! Outlaw wars! If migration becomes solely a matter of choice and not out of desperation or due to displacement, then the present feeling of intolerance will melt away. It is naive to think discrimination or racism is solely from one singular race to another. It isn’t. EveryoneContinue reading “Want to end discrimination? Well, it’s simple: sort the so-called third world out!”