The Salvation Army

A long time ago I wrote a piece entitled ‘the religious round’, based on the period of my youth when I was completely incensed by the behaviour of our vicar. At that time my mother forced me to go to church on Sunday, she didn’t care what the religion was, as long as it was… Continue reading The Salvation Army

Illumination and education

Illumination. You can just imagine some civil servant, dying to impress his superiors, waking up in the middle of the night with ‘The great idea!’. He had decided, either here or in Brussels, that those little clear, candle light bulbs used for wall brackets and hall chandeliers are a serious waste of energy even if… Continue reading Illumination and education

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Questions that I ask myself.

I have already written and I believe that the young today are short-changed. I want to widen that to include the way they are, and we were, taught. This business of homework, which I believe to be totally unnecessary, and taking up valuable time of the children and the parents, who are obviously struggling because… Continue reading Questions that I ask myself.

Cars and celebrities

Modern cars Yesterday, because Sophie and I need help, we had visits from eight people before lunchtime. Each one of these people had their own car. In consequence of this on a weekly basis, I find I am subconsciously researching the complaints of motorists concerning the electrics of their cars, and the number of complaints… Continue reading Cars and celebrities

Miscellany

You will probably have noticed if you are a regular reader, that I am sticking to my promise to only write when I think I have something worth saying, and this applies to the last few days when the news, its reasons and its outcomes, have been predictable. Yesterday I have been housebound for nine… Continue reading Miscellany

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362 Arrests

This morning I was intending to write something entirely different, but when I saw the headlines that the Manchester police had arrested 362 people and are proposing to arrest more, a number of aspects immediately came to mind. The first of course was the problem of holding these people prior to being charged, then the… Continue reading 362 Arrests

A Repeat

I have said this before, and whether it is wise to repeat it is arguable, because I think you will know what I am about to say, but it seems that we are unable to do anything about it. In my view our political system had lost its way It is we, the populace, who… Continue reading A Repeat

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Incentives

Yesterday, I talked my elder daughter, who was born in 1945, and consequently whose childhood and early adulthood was in a period still recovering from the effects of WW 2. She raised the matter that she, like I, had had to pull ourselves up by our bootlaces, and this had provided us with a totally… Continue reading Incentives

A few questions

Education There is no shadow of doubt that university education, as my generation knew it, has been turned upside down for several reasons. There seems to be a universal expectation that a university education is the right of every citizen. The effect of this is that more and more universities were built or converted from… Continue reading A few questions

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It’s a dirty business

I am referring to politics today, where it seems that those who are supposed to be responsible, are being utterly irresponsible on a daily basis, because they are fighting the next election with lies, half-truths and invalid statistics. They have lied, or else not done their homework properly, about the provision of materials in Afghanistan,… Continue reading It’s a dirty business