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There is something strange that happens in Britain, it is called a Public Enquiry. Not sure if it happens in other countries. These enquiries tend to happen after bad things, like a very nasty killing. Something that recently happened when a rogue policeman killed a girl walking by. Or we have an enquiry into actions or non-actions by police or claiming of expenses by MPs. Things like that tend to attract a Public Enquiry. There will be a Chairperson, a number of officials appointed and there will be tons of paperwork. People will be interviewed and after a zillion years a report will be published. Everybody that took part has already gone to heaven and no-one alive will quite recall what the enquiry was all about. The report will have just two lines. ‘It was a terrible thing and must never be allowed to happen again’. Plus ‘LESSONS WILL BE LEARNED’ or ‘HAVE BEEN LEARNED’. The same every time. Great words, everybody please applaud! The truth of the matter is these public

Let me ask this friends because you might also begin to wonder – Is Westminster the new Comedy Central? Westminster meaning the scaffold tower and building next to it, The House of Commons. The jokers inside bellowing at each other gives that place the right moniker – the Abattoir. Any policy that is pushed through nowadays will suffer six U-Turns before it is dished. I quite like it because for the entertainment value. Let’s be fair the BBC’s programming is so bad nowadays with interviewers who are sent abroad and then start talking and asking questions unrelated to the work at hand. The poor Ms Kuenssberg who normally seems on the ball sort of missed a penalty in New York. Well, I suppose we all have off days. But altogether it shows a big problem, the government is floundering. It is quite clear that planning is an art long lost in the hallowed circles of the green leather seats. Surely this lack of drivers is not something that just cropped up? That has been a problem for years! I

The bit of understanding I had about the collective mindset of the human being has again either disappeared or severely dented. If the various governments of the world do not take heed of how easy it is to panic every Tom, D*ck and Harry, just look at the pandemonium about the so-called shortage of petrol. Forgive me for saying this but is it not our own fault? There was no shortage at all bar a few hiccups of supplies. We get then these BBC nitwits starting to report, and not just the BBC, all stations are at fault. Talking about shortages of petrol, diesel all thanks to no deliveries due to no drivers. Result? Our wonderful British population goes en-masse to the pumps, literally bleeding them dry within a few hours. My local filling station had a delivery yesterday morning and you know what, motorists would NOT let the poor guy out of the forecourt! They completely jammed the road from both directions! It took two hours for the driver to get out and you know what he said? ‘There is

Hang on a minute before I write more I must get some diesel for my car. The station is not far away and the cars are queing up already. Do I hear you ask, why? Oh reader it is simple really. Two things, firstly woeful planning by the government, that could be national or the Welsh Assembly and secondly as soon as people hear of shortages they immediately rush to whatever is short and make it even less. So, the media, newspapers and particularly the BBC are good at stoking this frenzy by their continual silly reports about drivers not being there or sheltering at home because they had some stupid message that they were in contact with someone who was positive for Covid. I think there is need for anyone who is in government or who wants to stand for election to have a course in ‘The Repercussions of Decisionmaking’. That is to say ensuring you will be aware of making a decision what the possible ramifications will be, then act accordingly. What we see today is just the opposite, they m

After all is there actually ever any good news? With politics, the state of ythe economy, the state of the planet, the never ending troubles between nations, just to sum up a few. But it is easy to highlight the bad, you have to look very hard for the nice and good. This morning I got up and the sun was shining just getting above the eastern horizon and also a huge moon low in the western sky. I was thinking blimey, what’ s wrong with that? You do not see that often in our situation. Wales can be clouded over, grey and damp for days on end. That is why it is so green. So, I will spend some time to tend to the garden, I noticed the grapevine in the greenhouse has mildew! Never had that before. According to pundits jojoba oil will kill it, so I might try that rather than a mixture of washing-up liquid. Anyway, back to the good news, it seems that more and more of us are beginning to look at our personal lifestyles. That certainly is good news. A life of western excess will do no good to

More and more reports are seen that show without any doubt that the planet is in trouble. Well, actually it is not the planet but what lives on it, and that includes us humans. Global warming is no longer in doubt, it is happening. Whether we will cope with it is another matter. Actually, I think from the reports that we have already overstepped the mark where going back was possible. The problem of CO2 is only part of the total. If you already have an enormous amount of it, even volcanic emissions will just increase the total and these will continue whether we like it or not. The warming of the seas and soil will only help to further emissions of methane, a gas worse than CO2. Human activity itself, for instance the increased deforestation of tropical forest has also increased the loss of soils which in turn contains nutrients for bacteria and algae providing poisonous blooms in the oceans. It is no wonder fish stocks already under threat of overfishing have further declined. The ‘hol

Looking at the latest political machinations, eg the reshuffle, we might think that things are changing for the good? Nadine is going to take the woke society to task? I like the sound of that. Then also we have Priti’s insistence on taking on the lazy French. Not paying a penny until they do something about the inflatables trying to cross the Channel. All these problems, if I may call them that, are of our own making. Our lax attitude, our weak political will. To top it, we are governed not by the elected government but by a woke Civil Service. Time to give them a bath.   But it shows in a distasteful way the situation we face today. It sounds good doesn’t it when someone says ‘We protest against global warming’ and then just does the things that furthers global warming. It sounds good when someone says ‘ I have just thrown a statue of that horrible racist goon in the water’. The facts of how societies were in the past escapes them because they failed their GCSEs, in particular histor

We probably all know by now that the prince named Andrew has a problem. According to the news on the BBC he has now been served with the necessary legal papers. What many people including myself don’t understand is this, he has vehemently denied any wrongdoing. He barely knew the lady in question. So, why not then stand up in court and officially fight the accusations? Yes, he is a member of the royal family but he is also a member of the human race. A man like half of the world’s population. One would have thought that a past member of the Navy had more of a backbone. He was under fire from Argentinian forces, not many can claim that! So courage was not in short supply! Why then walk away from these sordid claims? Face up to it because the way this is handled now just makes him show guilty. All men will understand that if you are free, not married, roaming the world, you will meet ladies. Some wild ones, some loving ones, some hard nuts, and some soft nuts . It’s the natural way. You

Anyone who’s thinking this country is sane? First of all we have a PM who is convinced that 1.25% on NI is enough to solve the health and social care crisis. Then we have Churchill erased from our collective memories. Who is Churchill anyway I hear you ask? Well, dear reader only the man who kept his nerve during WW2 and in the end ensured our victory over the defeated Germans of the Nazi era. The world would have looked a lot different and possibly a lot poorer if it wasn’t for him. Shame on the wokists. But what do you expect? When you start listening AND acting on vociferous minorities then you are just lost. It needs a real rethink how we select managers or manageresses. And by saying that I am grammatically correct! Because friends, there IS a difference in men and women, only I am not sure exactly what. But Prince Andrew seems to know. Talking about the NHS, I have said many times before it is a money black hole. No matter what you pour into it, it will never be enough. Besides

So, the increase in NI contributions (NI – National Insurance) is virtually agreed. 1.25%. We should not be surprised, I have said sometime ago on this blog ‘Who do you think is going to pay for it all?’ Remember the government has no money of itself. The only thing it could possibly do is print more money and fuel a huge inflation increase. The other things such as increasing VAT would hit businesses and increasing Income tax would also hit the lower paid. I have heard it said before, increasing NI would be the least problematic. Yet this government is still struggling despite the cheering smiles and the lovely words. It is quite observable that actions are in pretty short supply. We hear encouraging words like ‘We are going to press the French to become more assertive’ Eh? The French becoming assertive? Forget it, the boats will still be coming, they are now crossing the Channel at a thousand a day! And Boris’ words about families not having to pay destructive sums for care to the el

Yoohoo Boris where have you gone? More and more editorials are saying the same thing. The government is a rudderless boa, it started out from the harbour, flags flying, people cheering on the banks. We all saw it taking a right straight course, it was wondeful. Suddenly then it veered of course, and started the go around in circles. What happened? The captain left the bridge and is hiding in a cupboard. That is how the UK government is looking at present. Boris seems to have lost his mojo, the captain no longer has his thumb on the button. In fact he doesn’t even know where the button is! On top of that he is not on the bridge! Where is the image now of good old Winston? Who is leading the UK? Surely not his wife? Or his dog? Or did Jeremy Corbyn take over after all? Well, I had a dream, I dreamt seeing old Winston back at the helm. Yes, yes, yes, I know he liked a drink, yes I know he had faults, for all that he had his thumb on the button. He had a good wife. He had British interest

As you would imagi9ne I do receive many mails, do read many political comments, and I am getting more aggressive. No, not really. But some of you might remember a person who wrote editorials for the Sun and other papers as well, Kelvin McKenzie. I would have been proud to call him my neighbour. But he lives I think in Wokestan. Not that he is woke, no far from it. In his latest missive he says McCall has to go (from ITV) and Piers to be re-instated as lead of Good Morning Britain, the ITV morning newscast. I couldn't agree more. If we believe in free speech, then free speech it is. However, a modicum of restraint is necessary. We must remember if we say something nasty or things like that, please ensure it is based on truth and not hearsay or outright lies. As Kelvin reported the sayings of a US mother who had lost a dear son in the airport bombing in Kabul, something she had said after the news she received of her boy being killed ‘My son is gone and I just want all you Democrats

Some time ago I mentioned something about the water, that is potable water, drinking water, problem. Yesterday on the BBC4 TV channel they showed a programme called ‘The H2O molecule that made us’. For the non-molecular scientists among us, H2O is the molecule that water is composed of. Two atoms of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen that have combined. It was worrying viewing. You think that we have problems with global warming, yes we have but the impending problem that is looming on the horizon is absolutely huge. We are using water reserves like there is no worry, there’s plenty for everyone, WRONG! It showed the Arabian peninsula now devoid of water which was pumped up, mostly gone. The Arabs set up a company that now grows crops in the Arizona desert and does exactly what they did in Saudi Arabia. There is only some 30% left and is expected to be gone within two years. The same story happens all across the world. Water is pumped up from wells and wasted. It waters crops but 90% is actual