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As a new year is beckoning we should really start talking and acting to the problem of global warming. I am aware that I personally as I am driving a car, am also partly responsible for this, the warming of the polar areas and the heat-waves in Africa and Asia. Obviously I am not just on my own, in fact we ALL are! I saw a nice TV documentary, one of those made by Steve Backshall who was paddling along the receding North Polar ice-shelf . He could not really believe how far it has receded! I have quite a lot of admiration for old Steve but I think he ought to realise he too is responsible with all that travelling to and fro to virtually inaccessible places. There again, how would we otherwise know about these places that suffer the consequences of humanity’s careless ways? We are still living according to 19 th century’s attitudes towards politics, influence and power. The Russians show this without any doubt. The US of A is not much better. And let’s not mention here that bunch resi...

As the Christmas we were all looking forward to, also watching all the good films (or bad ones, unfortunately), in one I picked up a very true saying. Something I have struggled with about how to explain certain issues. The film was called – The Boy who would be King. Yes, the story of King Arthur but set in terms of today. In fact a local secondary school. Merlin came out as an interesting character waving his hands about in some strange fashion. King Arthur was portrayed as a bit of a wimp but with a good heart. Anyway, towards the end of the film Merlin congratulating the ‘heroics’ said – ‘A country is only as good as its leaders’ .  These few words actually shook me somewhat because in that very short sentence Merlin, and now spoken by one of our great actors, Patrick Stewart put down in these words the reason why this country is as it is! Britain a bit of a laughing stock today, with second rate , even third rate people portraying they know how to change it for the better. We ...

If anyone wants to know how shallow and bad politics in the UK really is, just listen to the verbal denials of items. Items such as pension repayments or rebates to women who lost out some time ago on decisions made by the government in power at that time. When the now Prime Minister Starmer was in opposition he was so happy to be photographed with ladies with that problem, saying how we would rectify ALL the wrongs of the Tory government. Well, we have now seen how far that goes. Absolutely nowhere. As has been mentioned many times before – you cannot trust a politician’s word. I think it is correct to say, we have elected a Labour government on false promises. It is also true to say that whatever they said and promised before the election has virtually melted like snow before daybreak! They would say that now they are in power the reality of the situation, the financial one, has become clear. Sorry Labour people, you did not do any real work about finding out the true si...

It might have escaped people’s notice, the reason for the strange governmental verbal emanations made by virtuoso Ed Miliband are rooted in the failures to control illegal immigration. Especially as the increased population necessitates millions more homes and vastly increased power needs. Plus bearing in mind that power here means electricity as coal, oil, wood and gas are out of contention. Electricity generated by those thousands of massive wind turbines. Obviously as we have plenty of land to spare according to Ed we will build these on Green Belt land. Ed is an English chappie so a lot of wind turbines as he envisaged, will be needed, and will be winging their way to Wales. Wales as ever will bear the brunt of English inventive thinking. England is full of NIMBYs as we in Wales know to our cost. Even so, they will still have quite a number to contend with. It has become glaringly obvious that the government, past and present, haven’t got the foggiest about how to deal with 21 st ...

We have indicated many times how poor our government really is. We all can see it yet again in all its splendour. The Labour promises, now slowly being backtracked. The incessant ‘Talk’ about ‘black holes’. Black holes no-one knows how they came about or even if they existed at all. The continuing talk about the previous government having left us ‘with a real mess’. Which they will put right in two months. Or even before Christmas. OK, Starmer, if there was or is such a mess how about doing something? Instead of looking like you heard it thundering in Paris? I believe the problem is a simple one, MPs are basically bottom sitters. That is to say they talk about real problems then go home and believe they have solved them. I have news for them, problems are NOT solved by talking about them but by doing something constructive. However, it is only the Cabinet that has the power to take action. Unfortunately they are of the same ilk. Take the much talked about new idea of taxing – Inherita...

If anyone here thinks we are safe in the UK or indeed, safe in the western world, think again. For a start the climate which is worsening will make it almost impossible to live in the drier parts, plus make harvests in cooler climates due to excessive rain much more problematic. Hence, it is predicted that starvation will become common. Coupled with vastly increased human populations, already half the 8.2 billion people live in Asia, necessitating those that can to seek a life in the richer parts of the world. Politics also, that is viewing the autocratic regimes, will make people pack up and seek work and a life somewhere safer. These are not predictions, they are already happening. Nearly a million a year get into the UK bringing the (in)famous boat people. Through a few experiments in the fifties to the seventies, researcher John Calhoun made efforts to study the effects of population density on behaviour. He provided limitless food, and secluded little apartments. He studied the...