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Last week 27 migrants drowned in a single incident on the English Channel. The family if one of the dead migrants said: ”she wanted to make a better life for herself and she chose the UK”… I find that statement baffling. she chose the UK? well, the point of entry into the UK is notContinue reading “I find this impossible to comprehend…”

Seriously, what is wrong with people these days??!!!! YES, some will argue we were never any better. But surely, there must be a minimum standard at least in so-called developed countries right? I was reading about the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse this morning and although the acquittal itself is not surprising to me, what hasContinue reading “Can the world get any more pathetic? Why is human life still so CHEAP????”

Freedom of speech is not the same as Freedom from consequences! I just read an article about 2 kayaks washed-up on the English Channel, which means 2 or 3 illegal immigrants have drowned. 99% of the comments by members of the public celebrated this and rejoiced. How vicious can we be? Ok, blocking them fromContinue reading “What is the purpose of allowing online commentary and reckless hate-mongering???”

Has she done anything that many others before her haven‘t? The simple answer is: NO. So, why is there so much ire? There is nothing complicated about the Meghan Markle story or saga. Yes, some sad twists and turns concerning her father and half-siblings going on ’celebrity’ shows and the people who continue to exploitContinue reading “Meghan Markle’s unending saga is a vivid example of what’s wrong with the social media generation…”

Take a look at countries that claim to oppose western culture and you’ll find a large section of their population quietly overdosing on hollywood movies… Many claim to loath elitism but if you offer their kids a place at Cambridge or Oxford they’ll snap it up and later conjure up reasons why it makes sense….Continue reading “We are mostly trying to be exactly what we claim to oppose…”

….. well, what a mouthful! For starters, have they asked the other side if they are prepared to reconcile? perhaps just a national day of TRUTH would have been a better idea? afterall those folks have waited decades foe such truth…. and then perhaps next year, one can then suggest a national day of reconciliationContinue reading “National day of TRUTH and reconciliation in Canada apparently…”

Picture this: an individual has just crossed the Atlantic in a tiny inflatable boat, after weeks of perilous treks and in company of people who would cut your throat without any second thought, and we think making it difficult for them to get access to benefits or healthcare is an effective deterrent? Some of theseContinue reading “Creating a ”hostile environment” has not only proved to be ineffective but is also dumb, wasteful and laughable!”

…. proves nothing other than the fact that she is a fantastic tennis player who took the opportunity she had in front of her and also, that we can learn to pronounce surnames that are not ”smith” or ”porter” when we wish to.. Other than that, the long line of hasty commentators rushing in toContinue reading “Emma Raducanu – born in Canada to a Chinese mom & Romanian dad – proves nothing other than….”

Watching children grow is fascinating. You ask a child to draw a person and they will try to do so, without any thought on fat, slim, redhead, blonde, black or white as topical features; they will simply try to draw a person (perhaps someone they see often, who may be slim and blonde or chubbyContinue reading “None of us is unbiased. Only difference is that some of us actively hold ourselves in check..”

It is so easy to point the point finger at others. We expect clergymen & women to be sinless and faultless – forgetting they are human. Yes, if you take an oath of office to serve & protect for example, you should try to keep that oath and such situations cannot be watered/down or likenedContinue reading “We are all irretrievably stuck with THE PHYSICAL!”

I recently had some of these items explained to me in great detail: (1). Majority if not all of the developing or 3rd world countries are less than 100 years old and are still on a learning curve (2). We often say they are corrupt and their leaders embezzle funds, BUT most if not allContinue reading “Few items to understand before criticising developing/third-world countries”

Unarguably it is necessary to fix a lot of the issues being flagged up; be it racism, other forms of bias & intolerance or distribution of wealth and opportunities etc. But, you only have to spend 10 minutes driving on our roads, to see the hopelessness of humanity. One reckless driver decides he or sheContinue reading “Fix every problem BLM & others have identified, sort all white v black bias etc and what follows will surprise many: rich blacks v poor blacks, rich whites v poor whites (not new), blondes v brunettes, freckled v non-freckled…..”

In movies you see people giving it all up to be monks and give back to society etc. That is quite practicable and many in society do indeed do that. But what really is privilege? There is no notion dumber than thinking people will give up their privilege! Even if they try, they can’t. Why?Continue reading “Naive to expect people with privilege to give it up! Why would they? Would you?”

There’s an old saying: “when you live in Rome, act like Romans ” A mix of cultures: cuisine, sports etc. is great. Where there are conflicting cultures, local norms should apply The world got it horribly wrong and this is where right-wingers blame liberals. But pointing fingers now, isn’t going to resolve anything. The horseContinue reading “Confusing multiculturalism with core principles & values is a grave mistake”

This will be a very short article… So, now, the UK say we will take in 20,000 fleeing Afghans and one can assume the USA will take in as many or s bit more, Canada will take some, perhaps France, Germany and Australia will take some too? So, WHY DIDN’T WE JUST DO THAT inContinue reading “The futility and folly of war!”

The world has a penchant for looking away from the readily achievable, to focus on what we cannot achieve and we continue to waste resources as others suffer: Achievable: condemning hate and intolerance in all formats (be it clever tailored formats by some news channels or less subtle abuse on our streets) and standing upContinue reading “We seek the impossible, while routinely failing to achieve the achievable”

This week has been dominated by goings on in Afghanistan and opinions are flying in from all corners of the world I do not believe anyone has got it right or wrong We all continue to make the same mistakes over and over again There should never be an acceptable reason for war. If allContinue reading “Nobody is right or wrong about Afghanistan!”

Yikes! It appears many Americans have forgotten how and why America was formed and what America should stand for…. The woman (Rapinoe) is now said to be “anti-America”. All she did was try to stand for the rights of the LGBTQ community and demand equal pay for women. If that is now anti-America, god helpContinue reading “Some Subway (American fast-food chain) customers in America boycotting subway because Megan Rapinoe appeared in subway’s latest commercial…”

I am sick to my teeth of hearing or reading about people complaining about being called this or that. Well, Jews have put up with horrendous abuse for decades, so have women, fat people, black people, the Irish etc. Yes, abuse is abhorrent and needs challenging BUT jeez! We are fast losing focus on theContinue reading “We must urgently ditch this modern “cry-baby” culture to focus on policy!”

Been watching the Olympic Games in Tokyo and can’t help but wonder why athletes or countries they represent, stack up the medals or consider victory as prowess. You only have to look at the mismatch in funding, training facilities and incentives across some of the participants and the whole thing becomes quite laughable. The RussiansContinue reading “Do we truly, honestly want equality?”

Past few days we’ve all been watching the Olympics in Tokyo. To hear and read about people saying winning or securing gold is what it’s all about is so puzzling. How pathetic are we going to get as a society before we all wake up and say enough is enough! Just getting to the OlympicsContinue reading “The world needs to get a grip! – devaluing silver & bronze…”

…those are the empty, hollow words set to dominate the rest of 2021… I am not sure what people are looking for? You cannot stop racist abuse by attempting to track & arrest all perpetrators. It won’t work. Racist abuse online or anywhere else should be dealt with in the same manner as any otherContinue reading ““disgusting”, “no place in sports, society” etc….”

Following on from my last article, just over 15 years ago, from my UK office, we were looking at a major engineering project in a South East Asian country that has a lot of its people in the UK – many are second generation Brits – and we thought it would be an excellent ideaContinue reading “We are trying to solve a problem with the wrong solution and from an awful starting point..”

Today I coincidentally read a CNN article on child-slavery on the major lake in Ghana. Some fisherman roam the country to find parents who are struggling to feed their children and offer them some money (typically as little as $250) to practically buy one of their children. Once bought, the children (some as young asContinue reading “Can’t expect others to love you if you don’t love yourself!”

I can’t honestly say I know what being “woke” means, but it has become very clear that attacking “woke” culture is the new way the exact same individuals with questionable disposition to bias (based on their feeling of superiority usually via class, race, privilege etc.) now seek to continue unchallenged. This week some university studentsContinue reading “Condemning “Woke” is now the acceptable way to promote prejudice…”

I do not follow French politics and personally neither for nor against the French President. But for a citizen to reach out and slap an individual who is the representation of your country just shows how self-destructive some of the young folks of today are. It is tantamount to fouling your own living room! ButContinue reading “Bravo President Macron!”

Stratification of society comes in several modes or formats. Some are manufactured e.g. we get an average joe on television and begin calling them “celebrities” and soon they have millions of followers and their jokes are funnier, their tweets more impactful etc. Nothing new and all that’s fine. It is what it is. But whenContinue reading “How do you solve a complex problem such as ‘affordable housing’?”

The late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel once said, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”Wiesel said that to the indifferent person, “his or her neighbor are of no consequence… Their hidden or even visible anguish is of no interest. Indifference reduces the Other to an abstraction.” We can all do so much moreContinue reading “Indifference is the reason the world remains in such a sorry state!”

Just before we all heard of something called Covid-19, we were obsessing with what material straws (for our drinks) are made of? Paper straws started showing up – after all, we have to save our planet right? Now we hear that discarded Covid-19 PPE (largely made of plastic and certainly bigger than straws) are nowContinue reading “Threading a camel through a needle…?”

If a teacher works for an hour in Kenya, China, USA, England, India or anywhere else on earth and gets paid 20-globotokens (a currency that holds the same value across the globe) that has the exact same purchasing power anywhere on earth and if we standardise across all professions and all forms of work, weContinue reading “Single global currency at same value and standardisation of earnings…”

My short book entitled “Perfection in an imperfect world” now available as an e-book on kindle and also in paperback on amazon…….

Capturing humankind’s history and recording events as they occur is essential and as such, we continue to document our history. However, if lessons can be learnt from history, the world today, would not be as messed-up as it is, would it? We conveniently choose which history is relevant and what is to be taught TracingContinue reading “Recording history is imperative and essential but teaching history or pretending to learn from history is farcical”

For decades, many have ducked behind the principle of ‘freedom of speech’ to profit from hate and peddle hate, be it for profit (usually is; directly or indirectly) or other more sinister reasons. Now there are organisations out there, actively digging up past tweets and statements, it never surprises me when you look at certainContinue reading “Freedom of speech – YES. But that is not the same as ‘freedom from consequences of speech’”

Just think about this for a minute: we have a judicial system that utilises jurors that are expected to be as impartial as possible right? But when that system was created, nobody thought there would be social media and the current speed at which unregulated opinion can be cast out there into the public domain.Continue reading “The world & humanity as a whole need an urgent RESET but we do not know where to reset to???”

I think some urgent perspective is needed regarding the Harry & Meghan saga and last weekend’s Oprah Winfrey interview While race remains a very complex subject, we cannot go back in time to undo Roman or Greek conquest of half the world or the Moors (who we’re largely black by the way) conquest of largeContinue reading “Meghan & Harry v British Monarchy..”

Last week a co-worker said to me: “why are we (human beings) like this???”. I wish I could answer her question but I don’t have the foggiest idea how or why we are the way we are? Possibly tied to greed… As the Covid-19 vaccination programme rolled forward in the UK, with politicians trying toContinue reading “Here we go again!!!!! – the idiotic debate about ‘working-from-home’”

We create them, we place them on a pedestal, we make them feel superior, we line their pockets and then we expect them to behave like the rest of us…. Woke up this morning to read about yet another so-called celebrity in the UK – Amanda Holden – another manufactured darling of reality TV bingers,Continue reading “Continued breaking of Covid-19 rules by so-called celebrities”

Although Britain left the UK for the wrong reasons, it will soon become very clear that exiting the EU was never a bad idea, for the right reasons. Either way, exiting the EU is indeed the only sensible thing to do You have a bunch of European officials, many with a chequered past in theirContinue reading “European Union (EU) on the cusp!”

Google ‘sheku kanneh-mason’ and you will discover a talented cellist that few can match. Simone Biles blew gymnastics out of the water! Lewis Hamilton…. Tiger Woods….. Neil deGrasse Tyson…. These folks are myth-busters….(they’ve gone where their kind isn’t supposed to go…; how dare they?!). Michael Jordan, LeBron James… ah, that’s okay… basketball, football, … sure,Continue reading “Insecurity plays a huge part in bias”

It is now abundantly clear that focusing all effort on defeating Covid-19 is foolhardy. Latest predictions now assume circa 2024 before we witness significant demise of this virus and its variants. So, it is time for thinkers out there to begin popping out suggestions around how society can coexist with this and future pandemics, withoutContinue reading “Covid-19, new variants and other pandemics here to stay – governments need measures to co-exist with pandemics”

We’ve spent the past couple of weeks watching numerous officials place their hand on a bible and swear oaths in America. The new House of Representatives just did it (even as over a hundred of those members continue to contest the 2020 election) and various members of the new administration have been shown with theirContinue reading “Is swearing an oath of office worth anything these days?”

Just watched the Joe Biden inauguration. The entire world heaves a massive sigh of relief! No matter how much we all try to pretend, most of us know (deep down) what is decent and what is indecent. The minute someone begins to make excuses such as ‘America First’, to lock helpless children up in cages,Continue reading “Decency isn’t that difficult to recognise (same for indecency)! Welcome back America! Glad to see ya!!”

This morning I shared an excellent article from the Guardian Newspaper in which John La Carre and George Orwell’s quotes were use to make some difficult to dispute points The poor and poorly educated seek to show disdain towards the elite, but when the opportunity arises for them to act on that disdain, they areContinue reading “Is there any truth to society’s supposed loathing of elitism?”

I must start by admitting to knowing very little about politics (I have never been political) and perhaps even less about the EU. However, when you listen to the thoughts of the impressive German leader, Angela Merkel about her motivation and expectations of Europe, with free movement within EU member states at its core, itContinue reading “Unpacking the mess that is THE EUROPEAN UNION”

I was an early supporters of the clearly essential Covid-19 lockdown and the need for much sooner introduction of lockdown globally, to curtail the spread of the virus. Such early sacrifice would have proved critically worthwhile in limiting the spread and lessening the overall duration of this unfortunate pandemic. Now, if history has taught usContinue reading “Will western governments get carried-away with new-found Covid-19 powers?”

A friend shared a very interesting thought in an email and I find it very difficult to disagree with it, even though she does often go a bit hard on tradition The FATHER walking the bride down the aisle during weddings for instance. Laughable isn’t it? Given how much mothers have to put up with.Continue reading “We want progress but find it impossible to let go of ill-conceived traditions!”

There is no period in human existence that is worthy of revisiting in its entirety. But there are some basic principles that we should collectively fight darn hard to re-establish: Basic truth – this has become an impossibility. As a global community we need to reset and demand honesty and demonstrable fact, not just anyContinue reading “WE NEED TO GO BACK TO BASICS!!!!”

As time finally runs out on the protracted charade that is Brexit and we have to pretend we are surprised by the no-deal ending, history tells us ALL WILL BE WELL! We are a tiny, tiny island that went on to rule a quarter of the world and have a financial system that props upContinue reading “Brexit: history tells us Brits are crucial to europe”

I was watching the supposedly award-winning series depicting the nuclear incident in the former Soviet town of Chernobyl, with the roles played by British actors with no attempt whatsoever at authenticity. It also reminded me of various productions over the years where British actors play the role of detectives in series set in France (e.g.Continue reading “Illiteracy is the worst disease that has gone untreated for decades!”

Jeremy Corbyn. Probably the most honest, decent MP (Member of UK Parliament) that will ever be, and even more importantly, probably one of the most decent, caring human beings left on earth. But he failed woefully in his bid to become UK Prime Minister. Why? We all know exactly why. The office of Prime MinisterContinue reading “Why Jeremy Corbyn was unelectable”