Most of us don’t think too much about democracy except perhaps at election time. We are probably too busy living lives of quiet desperation running a business, paying extortionate taxes & trying to keep one [more…]
With the year almost over and the Great British Brexit Betrayal almost done and dusted – apart from that little rebellion in the Tory party still waiting to be brushed away like a ghastly Ghetto [more…]
The original Athenian concept of democracy was the people were represented in a system of government by consent. People who had what the Americans would call ‘skin in the game’. Today’s head count system would [more…]
I wonder what would happen if our bank manager called us in because he was worried about our spending. The Chancellor of the Exchequer of course has no bank manager in the way we do. [more…]
Part Three This is the part of this little trilogy that I found the hardest to write, because it forces me (and thus you) to confront the possibility that we, as a nation and as [more…]
Part Two While walking the dog this morning, I met one of my neighbours, walking with his black spaniel. This being the morning of the Prime Minister’s speech, we got chatting about politics. He is [more…]
Part One Right now, I have almost everything going for me. I am free of debt, I have good health, and I live in a small village in a very nice part of South Somerset, [more…]
The latest so-called “hate crime” has once again shown up just how worthless our press are. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they have gone with the narrative that it was a “stabbing”. The victim [more…]
Watergate Hotel 1972 and Watergate – the illicit underhand practices of a government in power thoroughly investigated by reporters Woodward and Bernstein who via an informed source given the code name ‘Deep Throat’, followed his [more…]
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