Are you as disgusted with the theatre of Prime Minister’s Question Time, as I am? The body language, especially of David Cameron, when he leans on one elbow, almost as far as the dispatch box, screaming at Brown, makes me think of Playtime in an elementary school playground. All, or almost all of the children… Continue reading Switch off the limelight, get down to brass tacks
Month: October 2008
It worries me, does it worry you ?
We are all worried about something these days, but I have found one or two specifics strange enough to be worrying. It seems that to some extent we are joined at the hip with America and what happens there affects what happens here. The credit crunch has born this theory out. Therefore when you read… Continue reading It worries me, does it worry you ?
The futility of war and terrorism
In 1914 Germany went to war for its own aggrandisement, thousands died time and again and the overall death toll was in millions. That was a war to end all wars, but it wasn’t, and the next time the death toll was obscenely high, the largest proportion of which were civilians. Yesterday when the Paras… Continue reading The futility of war and terrorism
Personal Political Rants
At a time when the trust in government is at low ebb, they bring back Peter Mandelson, whom for some reason they have made a Lord, to once again take up a post of being an adviser, rather than having been voted in as an MP. Whether it is the press or just public opinion,… Continue reading Personal Political Rants
The competitiveness among designers can be costly.
It was thinking about the new hospitals that prompted me to write this. Design is an art and comes in several forms, the architects, product designers, the visual arts and even music. It can be influenced as much by fashion as by aesthetic. Fashion being a product of advertising, of celebrity influence, and often a… Continue reading The competitiveness among designers can be costly.
We are getting into deep water in the NHS
For a start the government is doing its world leader bit. They have built a hospital in St Helens which is alleged to be the best in the world. It was built under a system known as Private Finance Initiative, or PFI, whereby the NHS makes an agreement with the private sector to design, build… Continue reading We are getting into deep water in the NHS
Sex education for five year olds.
The government is proposing that as a result of the large percentage of children of 16 and under who are becoming pregnant, and the level of sexually transmitted disease, they propose to have sex education of five-year-olds and upwards in the schools. I often use an analogy to discover the snags in a problem. If… Continue reading Sex education for five year olds.
Latchkey, loneliness, criminality
I write the following as a result of the boy being stabbed outside a youth club. At about ten, I visited a youth club, not of the quality of the one referred to in the press, but a miserable little room, in the loft of an old stables, dark and poorly equipped. I never went… Continue reading Latchkey, loneliness, criminality
An open letter to my Councillor.
To day for the second time since the scheme opened, my plastic and paper waste-bin has received a note of complaint due to ‘contamination’, this time by a tub. I am not an inveterate complainer, but I do expect logical, reasonable and courteous service, as I believe the residents to be the council’s employers. The… Continue reading An open letter to my Councillor.
Amazed they get away with it.
Several things have come to light in the last few days that I have found beat logic, that those involved seem to have got away with it. The biggest one of course is the question that we are all asking, where has the money gone that used to be swilling about in the financial world,… Continue reading Amazed they get away with it.