Sorry for Nick Griffin?

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The furore over BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC TV’s ‘Question Time’ shows no sign of abating. I have to say, I knew very little about Nick Griffin or his past comments before the show. What surprised me was how much the ordinary people in the street who were [...]

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£1m to walk in the countryside

I was staggered to hear that the UK Lottery Fund is to make £1m available to be spent on encouraging ethnic minorities to experience the British countryside – walks, treks, exploration and all that goes with it – weather and all. I am all for everyone enjoying the countryside but why pick on ethnic minorities? [...]

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The Capitalists Tale – timely short story

I am indebted to an old friend and relative for this timely tale of capitalist ingenuity.
Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with new [...]

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The Apocalypse and the credit crunch

I’ve had a longish break from this blog that included Christmas, the New Year and my birthday. There is a condition known as blog burn out but I don’t think I was suffering from that. Maybe I had just run out of ideas for posts.
What’s happened since then? Well, the world has spiralled down [...]

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Whatever happened to all the wild young children?

I am watching a TV programme about ‘Wind In The Willows’, the all-time classic children’s tale of the river bank with some of the greatest quotes of all time. Kenneth Grahame based his mythical story on the Thames side village of Cookham, where he lived as a child.
The programme made the point that as a [...]

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80% of us dead by 2100

Well, it’s official! At least, it is according the scientist, futurist and Gaia proponent James Lovelock. By the year 2100, 80 percent of the world’s population will have perished; victims of climate change, or in Gaian terms, the revenge of the planet. He proposes that our current obsession with sustainability, banning plastic bags, Kyoto agreements, [...]

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From Elton John to Sai Baba

I have been invited to do a local radio interview and it’s one of those shows that have a pool of standard questions that you pick out of a hat. Questions like: What book has had a lasting impression on you? What period of history would you like to have lived through? What’s the favourite [...]

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40 lashes or look good naked

Nothing would seem to demonstrate the absurdity of the human condition in terms of hedonism on the one hand and blind adherence to dogma than a TV show in the UK and the recent accusation of a UK teacher in Sudan for blasphemy against Islam.
A teacher called Gillian Gibbons was imprisoned in Sudan (released after [...]

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Film deal, Bush goes green and the rise of PC

A slight delay on the film deal meeting but I hear development monies have been put in place. I’ll be away from this blog for a week because I will be in Spain, in Almeria to be precise. I am assured the meeting will take place when I get back, possibly in Germany. So, there [...]

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