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Perhaps readers would not mind if I said – Does humanity need a reality check? Oh dear, problems? What is reality anyway? I might be doing too much asking as it is but I have been thinking looking at the present situation of increasing prices, particularly in the power sector, how this situation has arisen. Hearing also about the enormous profits being made by the likes of Shell and others, EDF for instance. It makes you think ‘How is this right’? Well, first of all I suppose a market of whatever commodity is based on basic costs of acquiring it, then to manufacture or store followed by supplying it to the market. In the case of electricity it would be obtaining equipment, next generating it and maintaining the supply lines (cabling etc). For gas it is pumping it out of the ground and then into the supply piping system and also storage. T here are costs associated with these activities. T hose costs will be increased by a percentage and charged to the user and let’s not forget tax...

Ah now then, the pigeons are coming home to roost (for my foreign readers, if there are any, it is a British euphemism meaning that the effects/results of someone's actions are finally beginning to catch up with him, her or it). And if you don’t know the word euphemism then have a quick look on the Internet. But I am referring to the escalating disease called ‘immigration’. Disease, you say? Yes, it is a disease. Like all diseases, unwanted. For some reason it is now known that Albania, a two-bit country somewhere in the Mediterranean basin, is emptying because its people are pretty fed up with its government’s failures or something like that. All its young men want to come and meet British girls because they have heard that they are easy. Easy for what I can only surmise. Besides that they are booked on the rolls of the wonderful drugs gangs which told the unsuspecting young flipper-snappers, ‘ D on’t worry, plenty of work in the UK because these idiots are all on drugs’. I have ...

So, do you feel safe? Plenty of local problems? Government in disarray? War in Europe, again? Not enough money? Worried about Trump putting his head over the hedge? Well, it is pretty well the same for everyone. I am afraid that things are getting out of control. People in charge have lost self-control and too many are just like baying dogs. The system of control has collapsed. You can see it in the Metropolitan Police. There are officers who should not even be there. I am nearly 100% certain that it is not different in other forces. I cannot help but thinking we are back in that all-dancing period before WW2. When the moral stance of Europe just went belly-up (literally). Business, personal morality just got lost in a frenzied free-for-all. When a country just waltzed over another one and hand-wringing ‘peace-makers’ bearing letters that more or less said ‘Give us what we want and we will let you live’. We now know how that ended. May I point out we are just in that time again? Wh...

Those politic ians just do not go home and smell the roses, don’t they? Every day has to be a day when they have to try to get one or more ministers on the rack. Or better still, get ‘m the sack! It is as some responsible journalists indicated, once they have the bit in the mouth, watch out. Suella Braverman is in sight people, stop frothing at the mouth. Let’s look at what is happening. First of all in a past post I read that as Home Chief she used emails in such a way even I could have read them. That’s not much good for someone who is supposed to keep some things secret and out of the media’s voracious appetite! But OK, she has been reported as not knowing the rigmarole that purports to be the Home Office. I am sure we will not see that again. Let’s look at the performance, it is really a bit early and coming on the back of a very difficult period but I think looking at the TV reports, so far so good. The problem(s) she has now been shackled with - 1. Migration and 2. woke Police ...

Every day I watch the morning’s news on TV, yes from the impartial BBC and this morning I listened to Yvette Cooper, one of the lefty Labour stalwarts. It is really no wonder that this country is in the doldrums with people like that around. Bereft of common sense and full of ideas about how to spend money. The problem is it is not her money but mine and yours. The discussion was about the immigration problem. And before everyone jumps down my throat I am NOT against immigration in principle. Certainly not because in one way I am one or rather was, one myself. But I am against uncontrolled immigration. And I shall tell you why, for people to come believing as they do that this is the pro m ised land flowing with milk and honey and free money and a house, there will be a sharp awakening. Because the reality is completely different. There is no milk and honey, the farms a slowly closing down because they cannot make ends meet due to power costs, there is no honey because all the bees are...

As most will know by now, I am a reader of Quora, the Question and Answer platform but not a contributor. It is rather interesting in the banality that shows up at times. Having studie d mathematics in my past life I smile at some of the questions that are asked. Mostly I ruefully smile and think to myself ‘What the *ell’? You continually get silly formulae type questions such as – From an unknown number 5 is deducted, multiplied by 10 and the result is 82, what is the unknown number? Well, if you work it out which will take all of two seconds you will know the answer is 13.2 as (x-5)10=82. So, opening brackets to multiply the constituents 10x-50=82. Transferring the negative to its positive side 10x= 82+50 or 10x=132. So x=132/10= 13.2 In order to check you can put the answer into the formula like so – (13.2-5)10=82 deducting and multiplying 8.2x10= 82. So, correct. One of the rules that lots of people do not get is the use of the ‘equal’ sign, the =. This is where a positive nu...

Just reading the newspapers there is one item that provides all the headlines. The sorry state of politics in this country. Never mind Liz Truss, Boris, or Rishi they are all just the same. As Douglas Murray says in the Sun newspaper, too many MPs including leaders are just in the game for themselves. And as he pointed out this is not just something that happened a few weeks ago to today. No, this has been something that stems from further away. We have been badly served by non-entities which I too have been continually saying. If you think this is a Conservative political problem, no Sir it is not. It goes across the board. Just look at the frontbench of the Labour party! Low quality abounds. On the Conservative side we see eager beavers just to start the next resignation scandal. All to enhance themselves. Rishi is basically a newcomer, what is his political strength? God knows because I sure don’t. Our politics as was pointed out today resembles that of a banana republic.  Even...