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      An interesting website named NovaPrism came up on my feed. It had an interesting explanation about the Universe. I had always read the Universe was the Big Bang and the matter it created and we see (part of it). But now we are talking about infinite. Space is flat meaning if I started travelling now I could carry on forever. But that sounds a bit silly, so what does it mean? It stated ‘ To understand how this is possible, it helps to separate the universe into two parts. The "observable universe" is the spherical bubble of space visible from Earth. Because the universe is 13.8 billion years old, light has only had that much time to reach telescopes, creating a visible horizon about 93 billion light-years across. This observable bubble is strictly finite, containing a limited number of galaxies. But the observable universe is just the region whose light has reached Earth' . So, the ‘universe’ is what we live in and see. The result of the ‘explosion’ (reall...

      The question of what AI will mean for humanity, is one that has no answer. At least not yet. This morning one learns the American supremos have limited access to one of the newest promotions, I think it is called Mythos or something like that. Is someone waking up to the dangers AI actually poses? The way development is going seems great until someone starts thinking – ‘What if this falls in the wrong hands?’ And quite obviously, looking at past human endeavours, developments ALWAYS fall into the wrong hands. It is inevitable. Either they just copy stuff, the Chinese and Japanese were very good at it or the Russians reverse engineered a Super Rolls Royce jet engine thanks to some woolly British politician thinking they were a humanitarians. So, AI will be in the hands who think banking is just for them. The question then is a simple one, how do you combat something like AI? Because in the end that is how it will be. Isaac Asimov wrote about it, years ago b...

      Reading he good Julia Hartley-Brewer’s penned effort in the Sun newspaper this morning, made me applaud. She has a knack of putting it just the way it is. She was talking about Britain being ‘ungovernable’. And as she said , no- it is not. The reason, and I totally agree, is that we’ve had mediocre duds as Prime Minister. Just have a proper look at the list, Lizzie Truss? I am sitting down with a cool bandage over my head. Boris? He only governed in between abseiling exercises, unfortunately he couldn’t remember what he was supposed to do. Sunak? Not too bad if he only remembered where his loyalties were. The irascible Ms May? Who was that again? Anyone remember her? No? Cameron then, anyone? Ah yes, are we in or out of the EU or should we belong to the United Kingdom. But first can anyone tell him what the United Kingdom is? Please? Well, like the good Julia, it is easy to despair, as I have also said many times, how in all honesty have we sunk so low? Th...

     As the politics is now dying in this country, and we are waiting for the seventh Prime Mogul in ten years, let’s have a look at how that is likely to play out. I read a news item on the mobile, already beginning to query some of the rumours going around. One of which said, that Sir (Burnham) is looking at taxing (oh jeez, here we go again) investments. So, selling some shares you might well lose half the income. It probably means we have arrived again at the usual Labour crap, tax the people, tax those rich b4st4rds. To be fair, there was also talk about dropping a few things. But if you believe that you need an appointment with a shrink! Labour will always tax, in any way they can. The frank truth is, they will never get enough from the so-called rich because those know quite well how to protect their money. So, it always tend to land on the backs of working people. You don’t need a binoculars to figure out why. Remember, “We will make life better for workin...

      What sort of nation have we become, for Pete’s sake? So we have a bit of warm weather, OK, a heatwave, but do we need these endless exhortations on TV about drinking water (if it isn’t already poisoned by Thames Water) or there haven’t been any warnings about Stand Pipes yet. We now have to cope with Green, Amber and Red warnings pushed onto the population every five seconds. I think as a people we understand very well that some of us will die. If we do not look after ourselves well enough, and you know what I mean, smoking and drinking or taking drugs, we will simply be asking for trouble. And nature will present the bill. The other thing we will have to start understanding is, it is us, all of us, who are guilty of messing with this planet. So, there is a problem with CO2, oh not to worry the oceans will take it up. No, it doesn’t, at least not in the quantities we blow out driving cars and flying planes.       Yes, I too like my hol...

      There is no greater fool than one who thinks he has done a great job. Despite all the signs that the truth is a heck of a lot different! And here we have Mr Snoozefest, Starmer. But let us be clear, he is a decent man, but so not suitable to lead a nation.  A law degree from Leeds or somewhere around there. A man who seemed to be well liked by his contemporaries. But he is going. The seventh PM in a decade. What does that say actually? It simply seems that position comes with a warning. That warning is ‘Don’t talk nonsense’. Meaning, don’t promise things you cannot keep and then do the opposite. For instance, anyone remember the sound bites? ‘Country First, Party Second’? ‘We are making lives better for working people?’ ‘We don’t intend to raise taxes’? It seems that, as I have mentioned before, as soon as a party is in government, the intentions change. So, why are we all listening to the crap they come out with? None of it is going to be done. The r...

     Now that Mr Snoozefest has resigned as PM which in my opinion has been far too late, I do believe the Labour party cabinet should also resign. The King should be informed and a General Election called. After all the government is not something that should decide its own future. Yes, Labour was elected with Mr Snoozefest as sleepy leader. Fine but now he has thrown in the towel. What he should have done is to see the King and resign the whole government. But don’t hold your breath. The Labour party is not going to give up power now. As such we will end up with a red. Andy. Red Andy, in other words. Will he change things? Well, do you believe in Father Christmas? If so, Yes. For every other sane person the answer is No. We will just increase benefits, or maybe tweak a few, call ‘m differently and trumpet it as a major change benefitting the country. The boats will not be stopped. The red faction, the woke lefties won’t ever do it. The sound bites will come thic...

      Great stuff, aren’t we happy that our wonderful knowledgeable PM Starmer has declared his unwavering support for children? May I ask, does he know what children actually are? Dolls? Maybe something else, chimpanzees? Here we are again, the cameras are rolling, a bevy of MPs stand around smiling at the side and back of the PM, much like you see Trump doing when he signs those idiotic pieces of card, and starts opening mouth. Unfortunately both of these guys have the same problem, what tends to come out, is so unhinged, badly spoken and even worse we know they are lying! How they can do this is beyond me. I am sure Starmer has had an education, he knows what is right and what is wrong. He knows what can be done and how it ought to be done. Yet he stands there uttering the most inane idiot plans which have zero chance of working. Not only that, plans that are designed to be kicked about the mulberry bush. So, yesterday we had to listen to this wonderful verba...

    Wow, great news! The sun is back. After a scorching week a short while ago we had what I would term some heavy Scottish mist ( light rain) which was propelled forward by some strong winds. Not only that but it continued for days and nights on end. Lovely we need the rain, Welsh Water said and upped the bills as a joyous statement of intent. On top of that I was told to boil the water before making my coffee or I would die. So, not bad then. As it was the local Tesco sold some lovely English sparkling water and I am still alive. Now it is a Sunday and listening to the always uplifting news reports I learned that the by-election to get Andy (our Saviour) Burnham elected as the next PM is a given as Reform and Restore are at each other’s throats. The good Rupert wants to decapitate Nigel and Nigel wants his friend Trump to deport Rupert to Alcatraz and throw away the key. Interesting times eh? And oh yeah talking about Andy, would he make any difference? You bet he ...

     The fact that the UK is basically not an island any more seems to have escaped the worthwhile MP’s and in fact the whole government. Yes, I can see the sea around us as well. But drones do not! The problem is a simple one, today’s wars are fought more and more by robots. Drones today, walking robots, or just moving robots, tomorrow. On top of that the speed at which they go and are developed ensures we must think about defence right now! When you look around to see what can be a problem such as Ukraine experiences with drones carrying explosives, the power infrastructure is being destroyed piece by piece. In the UK the power structure is above ground for everyone to see. One cannot miss the straggling power lines marching all over the country. The power stations that generate the electricity are even signposted on the atlases. Just type for the Google maps on your mobile. Just type Hinkley and it pops up with a nice picture and a small map to show Putin where ...

     What a show this PMQs is , Prime Minister’s Questions? My foot, it is just an almighty congratulatory show. But what was more interesting watching the talk afterwards with Henry Zeffman and some finance MP’s. It did also show the government’s disarray in the question of how to finance the Defence requirements. The Strategic Defence Review is now so overdue it might as well be shelved altogether as the situations in the world have changed considerably. The other mentioning by the Treasury spokesman was the possibility of raising taxes. As he said we need to go to the country and find out what people want. Excuse me? Who did we vote for to sort these things out? This point was not really taken up but frankly it seems to me they have completely lost the plot. They are at loggerheads, hundreds of MPs want more social services. More people on benefits and they just don’t care whether that cost comes at the Defence budget or any other budget. You hear about all the ...

      Whoopsidoopsie, another celebrity facing a twenty year old grievance. Touching another person, probably a woman, sexually? Wow, stone the crows. Really? Open zip showing the naughty innards? Adjusting a lady’s bra straps? OK, a woman came forward telling everyone for years how she felt violated by this horrible man. Twenty years? Good Lord, a long time to keep your mouth shut I’d say. Let me say first and foremost I don’t agree with wokery. I also don’t agree with these sexual actions. It is stupid, silly and dehumanises people, it can leave those who had to endure it in a bad way. Racism also, and tell me exactly what that is? Bearing in mind I believe humanity is one animal, so there are no races. So, this lady has now decided to complain. Why not, it gets you in the spotlight once more., rightly or wrongly. The problem is things happened in the past which were, let’s say, condoned or approved even. People like rock musicians mostly had women throwing t...

      One question everyone should ask – Has the present type of politics improved the country? Eh... well, let’s have a look. The multicultural idea – did that improve the country? Eh… The gender ideas, did these improve the country? Eh… The taxation ideas then, did they improve the country, Eh… Blimey did any of these well publicised new ways of thinking improve the country? How about the Open Door policies of Labour then? That should have improved the country? Eh… Well good heavens, has anything at all improved the country? Eh… Oh dear, how is that then. Who is to blame? Eh…. Friends, the real truth is and you could argue about it for hours and still not find an answer. Except to say, we are all to blame. First and foremost there is something wrong with our politics. Yes, I know they say we are proud of our two main party politics but is that really true? The main argument seems to be, at least on the streets that a Coalition type government is no good. Nothi...

      Why are we, western people, so perturbed about Israel? Is it that they are only looking at the biased TV reporting from both sides and making their minds up about what is happening today? A good question then would be, were they all asleep? In my younger days, no-one seemed to worry about Israel or indeed about Russia or China and Trump was only a screaming kid in his mother’s bosom trying to find a teat to suck. A thing he probably has never forgotten and dreams about day and night. Why not. It is a natural thing, so the experts tell us. But yes Israel, in the UK now we have loads of people mostly imported who have waken up about the happenings on the ground in the Middle-East’s eastern seaboard. Bit late wouldn’t you say? There has been a problem there ever since the Muslims started thinking they would conquer the world. Nice idea, many have tried. History tells us it usually is an absolute failure. Now it has to be understood that there are problems of...

     More and more are we all aware that somehow we vote into Office people who are basically dishonest, have the idea ‘I take out whatever I can because I only have four or five years’ amongst other interesting ideas about how to enrich themselves. Again, it must be said it is not all who do, but unfortunately it is still too many who do. More so, when caught out they invariably say things like, “My mother-in-law hated me, and ‘I couldn’t cope so I wasn’t sure what I was doing’, ‘My mental health suffered because my son started masturbating’ or interesting other excuses. But of course, when you become the CEO of a political party with loads of lolly coming in freely and mostly without much of a record, it is pretty easy to start thinking, ‘Hey, I’ll put this 1000 quid in petty cash’. Forgetting of course the petty cash tin is in the drawer of the desk at home. It is a fact that those in Office do get approached with gifts, disguised as a ‘Thank you’ but in reality...

     The question today everybody is asking – What will AI do for me? Well, as far as I can see it, nothing. Unless you’re talking about Artificial Insemination. In which case if successful will give you years of problems and sleepless nights. But if we are talking about Artificial Intelligence then yes, it could do something worthwhile. It is like most human inventions, there is a good side and a bad side. In other words, can be used for good or bad. The present fear is that AI itself could be used like that. I, as a person use AI, it helps giving me some interesting points to develop writing a novel. If you’re an investor then it can show ways to work that could be profitable. It designs, it draws. But it should always be remembered that AI is no more than the knowledge humans have committed to the wider world. Written or recorded. A humongous database. Using data it could perhaps find ways to multiple gates instead of just one. But on its own it could never thin...