It seems that every time I get up in the morning some other part of our heritage has been sold off or handed over to people abroad. The merger of Bradford & Bingley into Santander is a case in point, where a perfectly reliable firm is allowed to be taken over to its detriment. According… Continue reading Euroes, Royal Mail sell-out,imports
Month: December 2008
Graphs plain and simple
I am writing this because the graphs that one finds on Google, in the press, and on television could not only be misinterpreted by those not used to graphs, but can frighten the daylights out of them as a result of what they appear to say about the credit crunch. A graph is nothing more… Continue reading Graphs plain and simple
This is no time for an election
It seems to me that we are being subjected continuously, verbally, by presentations on TV and in the press, that there is such a diversity in the solution to our problems that only an election could solve them. To me this is rank nonsense, because it is universally accepted that we are living in a… Continue reading This is no time for an election
OurBanks are in the Stone Age
Am I the only person who thought that when I put my cash card into the slot and typed in the code number, within microseconds money had been transferred from my account to the payee’s? Perhaps not as quickly as that, but if I can send an e-mail and receive an answer within a matter… Continue reading OurBanks are in the Stone Age
To me it is serious stuff
. Let us start with three facts. Fact one, two and a half years ago commentators, journalists, even simple men in the street like me, were bleating about the fact that the internal debt would cripple this country, and those in authority ignored us. Fact two, billions in assorted currencies are being spent on the… Continue reading To me it is serious stuff
Mainly about dogs
I have noticed over the last seven or eight years that the number of people owning dogs has reduced, and that every year the size of the dogs seems to reduce also, presumably because there are no parks for the large ones to romp on, that the regulations concerning dogs on a lead have become… Continue reading Mainly about dogs
Inequality
The old saying, ‘big fleas have little fleas… ad infinitum’, is virtually saying there is no equality in nature. Similarly, the old adage that ‘with socialism all are equal, but some are more equal than others’, gives confirmation that in relationships there is no such thing as equality. I’m not writing about inequality per se,… Continue reading Inequality
Horrendous mistakes
In thinking about our problems today, I started looking back over the centuries at the horrendous mistakes that have been made, not only by this country but by the whole of Western Europe since the Middle Ages. The worst of them all I believe was the slave trade. This, like most of the other mistakes,… Continue reading Horrendous mistakes
The education of gifted children
This essay was brought about because I met a child of three who had a number of the skills of a five-year-old. It turned out that the child’s grandmother had also been gifted, and early in her school career had found herself in classes two years above her age. This process through giving her serious… Continue reading The education of gifted children