No Matter The Outcome, The Future Is Dark
Political life could be so much better in the USA, if only a few people would stop turning over the same old rocks and pout their prejudices to one side. Every single politician claims to be working...
View ArticleHalloween: Now With Age Certificate
Almost everything in life comes with an age recommendation, whether it be films, games (0-99!), sex, smoking, driving a car, but most of them are a start by age – aside from games, which have both...
View ArticleSingle Digit (Millionaires) And Justice
It is sometimes hard to understand the apparently blind, irrational stupidity of some of the things we get to hear and read these days. I have no doubt such matters were common in the days before the...
View ArticleThe Future For US Elections?
We’ve read countless reports during this election cycle about disenfranchisement, suppression and intimidation of voters in the press. We’ve seen people being thrown out of campaign meetings because of...
View ArticleUSA: It Was Your Choice
Millions of people in the United States of America, and millions more worldwide, cannot believe let alone understand what has happened here. The polls all pointed to a different outcome, the general...
View ArticleUSA: Unify, Work, Heal?
The elections in the United States are over and both sets of figures have been counted, tallied up, and passed to the public. Donald Trump will be the forty-fifth President, and there is nothing that...
View ArticleUSA: The President Elect Is Learning
It’s not going to be easy, jot for the president-elect, nor for the citizens of the United States of America. It is going to be a trial and error time, a time when everyone must learn, must adapt,...
View ArticleUSA: The Media Post-Mortem
It’s going to be a very long time before we have this election – both the campaign and the results – out of the news headlines. The coming two months until the inauguration are going to be full of what...
View ArticleUSA: The Two Faces Of Politics
The first clear indications of how the new government are going to be acting have been revealed. The Wall will probably be a real thing, separating Mexico from the USA. Deportation will probably be a...
View ArticleThe Problem With Banning Fake News
After a certain amount of pressure from outside, it looks as if Facebook might consider reacting to the number of fake news stories propagated on its servers, some of which are claimed to have...
View ArticleBad News Sells Better
Fake news is in the news, but not all fake news makes it to the forefront, not when it comes to highly thought-of and well established concerns who have been in the business of reporting for many...
View ArticleEducation: Is This Our World?
I’ve seen quite a few videos on YouTube recently where a television presenter has interviewed ordinary people on the street, asking them a series of easy general knowledge questions. The answers have...
View ArticleUSA: Not My President
You can go back all the way through history and study every single country which has an elected officer at its head, and you’ll find exactly what we have in the United States today: a group of people...
View ArticleReligious Freedom Is Only For Christians
There are, in theory, two great bastions of religious freedom, going by what their governments, constitutions or laws claim: the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Both of these countries...
View ArticlePlaying The Stock Market
Two days ago a small thought came to me, after I had seen reports about the troubles Boeing and other companies have had, or could potentially have, when Trump lets his thumbs do the talking through...
View ArticleLoan Interest: How Much Are You Paying?
This is the way it works: you’re short of cash and need a quick loan. You know someone, or there is a payday loan company near you, and you get some ready cash to help you through the day, a few days,...
View ArticleWhen A Typo Makes A Difference
You’ll have caught it in the news sometime recently, the hack on the DNCs mail server, and on Hillary Clinton herself, was caused by a typo. Instead of writing illegitimate someone wrote legitimate and...
View ArticleWhere A Typo Shouldn’t Be
A few days ago we saw a whole mess of Twitter comments, and newspaper reports, about a typo from Donald Trump. In a less-than-well-thought-out Tweet he used the (non) word unpresidented rather than the...
View ArticleNews Media And Terrorism: Verify First!
Yesterday evening a large lorry drove into a crowd of Christmas market visitors in Bremen. Latest reports say that twelve people died and about fifty were injured. I followed the news live on Twitter,...
View ArticleTerrorism: The Passage Of Information
We are going to be overwhelmed with a wealth of information in the next few days, and all of it information after the fact which was available before the fact. This has been the case in so many...
View ArticleHoax, Cry Wolf, Fake News Damage
In Aesop’s fairy tale, a young shepherd boy found it amusing to alert local villagers with the claim that his flock of sheep was being attacked by a wolf. The villagers, out of concern for their own...
View ArticleDonald Trump Challenges Barack Obama
A British newspaper recently claimed that one Tweet from Donald J Trump has been mocked by other Twitter users. If they had been keeping up with the news, and with Twitter, they’d have seen that every...
View ArticlePutting Your Trust In God, Or Reality?
I have nothing against people who wish to believe, no matter what their chosen path is and so long as it is for them. I’m not a fan of those who insist on going from door to door, selling their...
View ArticleHanding Out Impounded Cash
One of the things I am constantly hearing here, especially when interacting with the older generation whose memory goes back further than mine, is how fair the British were, back in the day. By this...
View ArticleTrump And The Buzzfeed Dossier
If there wasn’t so much news at the moment, especially surrounding the President-elect of the United States, then we would just be reading about the weather and precious little else. Either that, or...
View ArticleMyth Of The Fat Hacker
I think it was the Donald who claimed that there is – or is not, hard to keep up – a fat hacker sitting somewhere in Russia who concentrates on disrupting things. Sometimes this fat hacker is good,...
View ArticleWhile The World Is Burning
Someone on Twitter, today, said that they were going to pray for me. They suggested that I would be surprised that they pray for all LGBT people while we, the LGBT people, only sue good, law-abiding...
View ArticleNot My Leader Of The Free World
I have a great problem with the idea behind the title of this post, a title which has been used many times over the years and which, unsurprisingly, refers exclusively to the President of the United...
View ArticleSetting Priorities Over Reality
I read in the German news today that seven children lost their parents in one single crash on a highway here. Someone lost control of their vehicle, possibly hit a small patch of ice which hadn’t been...
View ArticleDonald Trump: New Style In The White House
He has promised that things are not going to be the way they were, that the practices of the past eight years under President Barack Obama will have an end, that it will be a new era taking us away...
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