We seem to be desperately retreating from the age of enlightenment where science was based on evidence & philosophy drove social progress. My main comment on my Twitter Feed now is ‘the madness continues’. The [more…]
Brief history of welfare One way or another we have always had welfare. The family unit looked after each other to the best of their ability. Religious communities made it a point to care for [more…]
Bordj Badji Mokhtar is an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert on the border with Mali, 1368 miles south of Algiers. As of 2008, there were 16.937 inhabitants in Bordj Badji Mokhtar. Since what I [more…]
This has been written so much better in thousands of articles on the web (including GP). Wasn’t going to write this one but have included it for completeness. Very short and to the many points. [more…]
Autumn is upon us, misty mornings, shorter days and cool breezes from the west herald its arrival. In our tiny corner of North West England, little changes. Sheep get moved from field to field, taking [more…]
Fairly taxing thoughts… In this article, I hope to think through a fair taxation system. What to tax and why. I am starting from the ground up and paying no attention to the fact that [more…]
This section is where I feel all parties fail abysmally. And I see no reason to believe Reform etc would be any different. It is also my only gripe with (far better) writers on GP, [more…]
Does society really need and can it benefit from goals designed to achieve statistical “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” metrics? The answer, of course, is “no” on both counts; i.e., society neither needs these goals and [more…]
Previously in Oldham In July’s first part of Brown Wall, Blue Line we looked at Oldham. A report entitled Review into historic safeguarding practices in the borough of Oldham exposed a seedy underbelly of child [more…]
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