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The Sun’s Saturday article of a week or so ago, by Matt Goodwin pointed to some stark details of what he called his verdict of ‘Broken Britain’. So, obviously I am not on my own as I have been saying this now for a few years, on and off. In fact the cost of the national debt interest is even higher than I thought! Some £9billion a month interest? We may ask why do governments borrow so much? The rules of borrowing go for everyone. People, businesses and governments. You must keep an eye on borrowing as it can easily get out of hand. In the case of governments they just issue bonds. When the UK Government needs to borrow money, it can issue a bond, gilts as they are known. This is a way of requesting a loan from investors via the financial markets. In buying a bond, investors are lending the government money. By all accounts this debt stood at the end of March 2023, at £2,537.0 billion, or 100.5% of GDP ie £2.5trillion. The annual bill therefore is about £100billion! So, again why bo...

A while ago I started to read a book by an author named Douglas Murray. Thanks to my concerns about the civilisation we are building, or are in the process of, in Europe. The title is “The Strange Death of Europe”. A rather interesting title I would say, in the first place intriguing because the cover showed three words a lot of people do not want to know about. “Immigration, Identity, Islam”. It is quite evident that European peoples are divided. A small minority, mainly the ruling class versus the ‘normal’ population. The ruling class includes politicians, the judiciary, and academia. The author is clear in the idea that Europe is committing suicide. An interesting statement. He is talking about culture, also he finds that Europe ‘has little desire to reproduce itself or even takes its own side in arguments. Viz the problem with the eastern bloc, Russia in particular. Also that those in power and certainly so since the Second World War seem persuaded that it would not matter if its p...

Well, well, so poor Heathrow Airport closed for a whole day? And this is 2025? Does that tell us anything? It sure does! Our infrastructure is pants to say the least and incredibly badly managed by our wonders in power. Whether they are Cons or Labs it doesn’t matter, they are all guilty of mismanaging the country. It is about time we all wake up and start smelling the roses. Except these roses are way past their sell by time. The rotten stench goes all the way up to No.10 and its ministers. People like Electric Ed (Miliband) who has his mind set on completely destroying the remaining tottering infrastructure in his quest to plaster the country with solar panels that don’t work and wind turbines that spew poison all around, (the bi-phenols from the vanes). The point here is that single minded individuals with some power are permitted to fulfil their wet dreams. The cost does not seem to be too important. I can say this having been through Electric Ed’s tenure as Opposition leader which...

 T he beginning furore about contaminated waste sites are just beginning. Obviously, it has been known for years that such sites have been misused by unscrupulous business and also by an absence of proper supervision by local government agencies. Also possible rich opportunities for graft, meaning the ‘ celebrated ’ backhanders. As a matter of fact one only needs to come to the southern parts of Wales to find plenty of sites where rubbish was ditched by the tonnes. The Valleys are pockmarked. The small town of Tonyrefail situated in the Ely valley (Cwm Elai) has quite a number. By all accounts its Tynybryn Park is built on top of a waste dump, and next to the newly built A.4119 trunk road is a site that was originally the floodplain of the upper river Ely was heightened by unregulated waste dumping. Allowed by both the then Council and the company that took over from a food distributor. That company poisoned the land and the river by storing treated wooden pallets on it when the pl...

It has been a nice week, weather wise that is, but just a bit cold . On other fronts there have been quite some upheavals, I’d say. With Trumpy boyo indicating “If they don’t pay, we won’t help them”, which could mean almost anything from not aiding Ukraine to not honouring Article 5 of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) commitment. Its central purpose is set out in Article 5 of th e Treaty, which says that an  “armed attack against one member shall be considered an attack against them all” . So, whatever the president of the US meant it did not sound too good. However, he is very much in favour of the rather blunt statements that are designed to ruffle feathers. Pretty evident throughout the ill-tempered White House meeting with the Ukranian president. In any case there were many ruffled feathers in European capitals. From equally blunt words from Paris to the mealy sort of stuff that comes out of London nowadays. It is obvious PM Starmer wants to play both...

Apparently last Sunday the Polish president Donald Tusk said this as he was leaving for the London summit on the American-Ukraine-Russian debacle: Why do 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians? He indeed called it a paradox. It is easy isn’t it, to rely on somebody who is too willing to do things that would cost you money, and billions of it. Europe just sat back and spend its cash of social experiments such as we have seen in the UK (despite our politicians’ denials) where literally we have created a nation where too many people are now expecting to be kept in luxury without lifting a finger. What’s more we are still doing it. And we are not alone. In the name of what they call humanitarian action, Europe including the UK has allowed, even encouraged, a mass movement of peoples from practically all regions of the world. Especially from places with economical poverty and living conditions without much of an understanding of the cos...

The various news bits coming out are getting worse by the day. It is beginning to really look like the latter part of the 30’s! The US although not disintegrating, it certainly is lying to the rest of the world. It seems the money men are now in charge or nearly so. Just look at that trumped up idiot Musk. Donating millions, yes MILLIONS to the Trump presidential campaign and as a reward where is he now? Getting his money back and a seat at the table with the steaks on it. He did not donate all that dosh because he likes giving his money away. The same for that Bezos fella. And the Zuckerman suddenly has withdrawn some important safeguards from his platforms. So, what is the US up to? I believe they have started thinking that as has already been said by others, there must be only three power blocks on the planet. The US, Russia and China. And that is why words like “Europe and Ukraine don’t really matter” come from. Actually I also believe that the US now thinks it is by far the MOST p...

Many of the ‘normal’ people are just wondering whether politicians have now completely lost their marbles? But I think we need to look at the wider implications. First of all, you might think Trump is an idiot. And frankly listening at some of his verbal emanations I wouldn’t blame you. But he is right about his ‘America First’ talk and corresponding actions. Because let us be very frank, we in Europe for far too long have sat back and with a nice beer in hand sat on the beach watching the waves, thinking how well we are doing. Letting the States pay all the bills. Being very frank indeed we have let it slip! And now finally someone has said, “Sorry boys, play time is over”. Unfortunately the other bit, whether used as a ‘frightener’ or not, about the US’ getting more in line with Moscow’s rhetoric and actions, is not so good for the world. There is rejoicing in the Kremlin, thinking they might just nicely get away with their invasion and keeping the land plus its resources. Inclusive ...

The Fight in the White House – or perhaps the Rumble in the Jungle Part 2? What a sad spectacle. But anyone thinking this was an orchestrated attempt to demean another person in front of the cameras to be shown to the world? What was the Vice President doing there? Vice Presidents are mere appendages and mostly unheard and unseen! It also was rather idiotic that one bystander thought it important to point out the Ukrainian president did not wear a suit. It was disrespectful to the highly important edifice of the White House. Has the nearby lunatics asylum opened its doors and let everyone out? It begs the question as to what is behind all of this. Is it about not saying enough 'Thank you’s'? Is it about repayments or rare earth minerals? I don’t thinks so. It is about Trumps idea of how the world should be like. Ukraine is not important. He does indeed think it belongs into the Russian sphere of influence. As a matter of fact I would go as far as saying Trump believes there are...

If you ever thought politics was a bit of an iffy business, don’t worry you are correct. It is an iffy business. In fact it is a dirty business and if it ever was put on legal investigation it would almost certainly be found guilty of misappropriation of funds and be jailed! Also under present legislation certain verbal exclamations would incur either a jail sentence or a hefty fine. So, let’s have a look – Finance – it will be said that tax income of the government is theirs to do with what they want. But surely tax is for the benefit of the whole UK population? It is now known we pay billions to overseas aid but also what the aid is used for. Most of it for nefarious strange purposes. The nation of India seems to have used most for sending a rocket to the moon. That must have been a great consolation to the teeming millions who are starving there. In the meantime to find these billions for ‘foreign aid’ we denuded the armed forces of money and allowed our defence to go to such a low...

Ridiculous waffle is what the Daily Express says. Yeah, about who and what? The beautiful manicured and gay haircut wearing PM, Keir S. Indeed the foremost distributor and owner of the Pulitzer prize for meaningless waffle. Has there be anyone more unprepared to be Prime Minister than K.S? I knew his number was up when Trump warbled from the White House he could do business with him. That alone is more than enough to bury one. Just look at how the American present-day political crowd think. Zelensky is nailed on the cross and Russia is now the cleanest country in the world worthy of emigrating to for a better life. Friends, this is how we, ordinary people are led. By idiotic half-wits who cannot think beyond their front door. How sick is the reported demand by the US for $500billions worth of Ukrainian minerals as ‘payment’ for their ‘help’. Who needs friends like that? As I said, the Ukrainians are thrown to the wolves or dogs, depending what you are used to say. Now, it may all be st...

Three years ago an aggressive nation invaded a neighbour on the pretext it needed ‘security’. Whatever security they were thinking of is not very clear but it seems that even today Russia because that's the nation we are talking about, needs for some reason a hundreds of miles wide belt of land around its borders to ‘thwart’ those nasty Europeans who are all members of a military organisation called NATO. Obviously no-one mentions that NATO was set up to ‘thwart’ those ‘nasty’ Russians from invading or even start a nuclear war. So, yes the impasse is right in front of our eyes. It is not going to be solved either, at least not in my lifetime or indeed anyone else’s life time. Simply because the Russian mindset is about one thing – world domination. Probably a left over from their Mongolian forefathers who were rampaging all over the steppes, probably just to see how far they could get. Europe and that unfortunately includes the more populous western part of Russia, ever has suffere...

If you haven’t figured out what goes on, please wake up. Politicians talk an awful lot about housing. We must build more houses. More and yet more. Even to the point to free up green belt land. This to be named grey belt land. Yet this morning there was shown a BBC news item about the hospital crises. How many older people are in beds but could be at home as long as there was some care. Care at home or care in care homes. I know that sounds odd but care homes are NOT homes, private homes. Anyway, the point here boils down to yet another so-called effort by government to alleviate pressures on society because there are too many homeless or families living in unsuitable accommodation. In other words, for a long time now the demand for housing has outstripped availability. This has been so for a very long time. It seems the government has still not figured out why this is so. Or if they know do not really want to address it right from the bottom. The question of whether just building ho...

How about that! The Americans, or rather the American president is selling out Ukraine. After a cosy telephone chat with Putin, it has been decided to throw the Ukraine to the wolves. Russia’s conquests will stay Russian and Zelensky will be declared a criminal. It seems to me that although I applauded Trump for his stance on all the woke business that has pervaded the western world, I do not think we can trust the Americans. If you do not dance to their tune, you are a dead duck! The United States is no longer the fighter for freedom unless it is theirs, anyone else can go fish (but not in the Pacific). More and more I want to see us here, the UK, take up the cudgel and form together with France and Germany the beginnings of a strong European army! But not to dismiss any other European nations. Nations like Sweden and even Italy. We can no longer depend on the US. Europe has to become the greatest power on the planet. The US is finished and on the decline. Now, I know it sounds the b...

Staring up at the sky one clear night in South Wales, ignoring some of the light pollution in order to see if I could notice the asteroid which was promised could be hitting the Earth, I saw precisely what you are able to see on most clear nights. Clear nights in present day South Wales is a bit of an hit and miss affair. Even so, I started thinking it did look endless. Reading some of the many technical websites concerning the Universe and pondering words like ‘Big Bang, String Theory, Expansion’ to name only a few I began to wonder whether the BB actually happened. Obviously, astronomers have figured out as the Universe seems to be expanding, ie the space between matter is enlarging there must have been a beginning point. A black hole of gigantic proportions perhaps. First of all I think the Universe is the wrong name. Especially as most people think it’s all there is. I equate Universe with the matter, anti-matter, dark matter that originated some 13 or so billion years ago. But all...

 Interesting times we live in, not? America’s Trump throwing executive orders all over the place, to Britain’s David Lammy, a British politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since July 2024, insisting Britain owes a few trillion pounds to Caribbean nations. I’ll have a look at my bank account straight away to see if I had my annual interest. To Rachel Reeves insisting the UK is buoyant. May I ask what have we, citizens , done to deserve all of this? But to be fair, does anyone ‘normal’ (i.e proper male or female and loving his or her country) think Trump has done anything wrong? Surely, it was about time to right this woke hurricane that has enveloped the western nationalities? It is about time LBGT+ people button the cakeholes, and let them get on with trying to make a living. It is about time that someone said there are just two genders, female and male. OK, we might think trying to wrestle Greenland away from Denmark is a bit much but let’s have a look why Trump wants i...

There are some uncomfortable truths to be highlighted. The accident in the States with a helicopter flying into a descending aeroplane carrying over 60 people is a case in point. Just have a look at Flightradar24 to see how many aircraft are in the air at any given moment. Apparently 100,000 every day, every hour. Imagine the stresses on flight-crew and more so air traffic controllers. Perhaps it is time to have a real chat about the impact on everything caused by the air travel industry. There are signs that in the States people are using air travel like we do bus trips here. ‘Oh darling, just popping out for a Chinese, be back in an hour or so’. Perhaps a bit too flippant but it has been said by a few people. It is also why I am also convinced we will not deal, we cannot possible deal with climate change with this going on. Besides leaving the political side such as off the cuff marks by a certain president, it is surely time to start thinking about what humanity is actually doing. I...

Talking science on a Channel5 program Prof Jim al-Khalili tried to explain something about the end of the Universe. Or rather how it would end. Now it has to be said if that happened it would be billions of years from now. No wonder we have sleepless nights. Whilst this is interesting the question is should we pay so much money into educating about something we will never see or experience? Is there something palpably important about knowing how the Universe will end? Obviously in performing these studies there will be attached discoveries that are important and undoubtedly will aid in the development of our present attempts to travel to the outermost reaches of our own solar system or even such a mundane thing like trying to establish humans on the planet Mars. Whatever. The whole talk began to sound like guesswork with attached scientific explanations such as the composition of the galaxies and how they measured the speed of them. All I got out of it was that either the Universe wou...

Whilst it is undeniably true knife crime is on the increase, possibly due to the ease at which the so-named ‘zombie’ knives can be bought, even from places like Amazon despite their denials; the efforts of politicians like PM Starmer will only drive it underground. The blunt truth of the situation is knives can easily be obtained. The political solution of yet more laws is the usual bit of, ‘Hey, look we are doing something’. It would, however, make it more difficult to buy from places like Amazon if one had to provide a picture of a passport without deleting the accompanying meta data. In fact it ought to be so that a personal name should also be in that data. The name of the person that registered the phone. Obviously even that could be falsified but the truth is that we are talking about people. And people are the most vindictive, aggressive and inventive animals to roam the planet! Politicians like Starmer should start to understand those few simple adjectives. Another problem is o...

Despite the world shattering message that the Clock that measures how much time we have left on this Earth has been set to 89 seconds before midnight, we learned Wynne Evans has decided to ‘take time off’ to strengthen his mental well-being. For those who don’t know this, Wynne is the Welsh tenor acting the part of Gio Compario in the TV ads for ‘Go.Compare’, the insurance comparison website. Lately he has been under fire for his purportedly sexist remarks. Interesting that people in the public eye still think they can say whatever they like. One would have thought that people in such positions would know by now how woke this country has become? Even a burp in the wrong place would ‘cancel’ you! Let’s have a look at what he has supposedly said. Also remember the ‘furore’ about his ‘wandering’ hands. This was shown on TV this morning and frankly it is the usual pooha about nothing. His hand was on the lady’s waist and she moved it slightly. Tell people who ‘saw’ the world move towards t...

As a former Reader in the Church in Wales (Eglwys yng Nghymru) I am aghast at the decline. I suppose there are reasons, probably the general decline in public standards, the voracious Internet and morally defunct social media, just to name a few. But we cannot dismiss the standards themselves within the Church. When I say Church here I mean the Anglican Church. From the problems commenced with the continuing attempt to accept gay marriage, to the belief that rock music will save the day and everything in between. The funny thing is that all of that has set myself thinking about what religion, what faith is all about. For instance, I have begun to see the many discrepancies within the Bible. Not a real problem obviously as the Bible is basically a great story of how a people became used to the idea of a single God. But the underlying message is a very powerful one. It is about spiritual strength. The truth is that I have never believed, along with quite a number of others about the Bib...

The focus this morning is on ‘Rubbish’. I have long worried about the huge amounts we discard. Our Council has changed its collection method from so li d ‘Wheelie Bins’ to black plastic bags. Not sure who thought that one up in the hallowed palaces of local councils, probably someone they have dug up from the local primary school. The result was as anyone with a brain could figure out in five seconds, an enormous amount of rubbish floating around. You ought to visit the area on collection day to see what happens. First of all, if it’s a windy day bags fly all over the place, even onto the roads. Do cars stop? Oh, Welsh drivers don’t stop for anything. Obviously the results are simple to figure out, the amount of rubbish within the environment has increased vastly. My town looks worse than a third world country city. Even Cairo looks better. The Rhondda is suffering bad decision making, careless attitudes from citizens and lack of maintenance. There have to be answers, even if some co...

Anyone thinking Britain is governed alright? Alrighty then, here is why not, paedos are going to be deported, yes but are still here after some 10 years and worse still living in the same house! Then we have a government which promised paradise on earth, which has rescinded almost ALL promises! Then to follow that jacked up NI tax so much that a lot of businesses are shedding labour. Borrowing, instead of falling has now reached levels unheard of. All by a government and led by an incompetent Prime Minister that keeps on telling everybody how bad the previous government was! Even to the point of pretending they had found a £22 billion black hole. A black hole no-one has even seen or detected. We have had sound bites after sound bites. Let’s not forget this tinkering with the NHS (National Health Service). The facts are simple – it will never stop needing money. The reason is simple, research advances and an aging population. But also the NHS itself trying to provide unnecessary procedu...