admin | March 1, 2011
It is probably a little confusing that a blog that purports to be a commentary on the news has failed to mention that ‘winds of change’ that appear to be sweeping the Middle East with many commentators hoping and even predicting it shifting into sub-Saharan Africa.
admin | December 7, 2010
As company after company fall over themselves to distance themselves from the controvencial wikileaks website, either in self-censorship or due to backroom arm twisting and the subsequent criminal and spying accusations and manhunt for its owner, I wonder how many people see the scary ramifications of this matter.
admin | November 30, 2010
I am one of those people who kind of pay attention when a lone voice cries out for attention continuously. Recently I became aware that one the Telegraph’s commentators, Christopher Booker, has been trying to draw attention to the danger of the Social Workers’ powers in the UK to remove and force the adoption of children in a system that does not appear to have enough check and balances to ensure injustice does not happen.
admin | November 18, 2010
Call me an old cynic but the riots against the United Nations peace-keepers in Haiti make me smell a rat. With elections just round the corner I have my money on the fact that someone does not want too much outside scrutiny of the elections.
admin | November 15, 2010
Sayings like ‘one law for them and another for us’ and ‘only the little people pay taxes’ are sentiments that come out of a system that is basically unjust. Many will say we should be thankful that we live in a society where we can say things like that and not be thrown into prison or worse still shot. Really? Just because that is true does not make it right and nor does it mean one should just put up and shut up.
admin | November 12, 2010
Not a day passes now without some African country reporting the discovery of oil deposits with the latest news worthy finds in Uganda. Relying a little on memory here; along with Uganda, Mozambique and Namibia will be joining the giant African producers of Angola and Nigeria and the other seven or so non-Arab countries .
admin | November 9, 2010
Recently one of the police forces in the UK used twitter to demonstrate the kind of work they were doing over a 24 hour period and let me say, it was fascinating. So fascinating it probably robbed many businesses of man hours, I know it certainly distracted me until I got a grip. By the end of the 24 hour period the police had received 3,205 calls and made 341 arrests.
admin | October 20, 2010
I have an English working class friend who likens being working class in previous centuries to slavery and to explain some colonial behaviour by referring back to what was happening in England at the time. Many early British colonialists were working class trying to escape the oppression of the class system back home.
admin | October 10, 2010
..What appears to be the problem is that many people mix class with race as in many cases these do in fact correspond, but not always. For example in this article -Who’s Black? – there is a number of examples of people changing race suggests they actually changed class based on their wealth. Unlike many other societies, class appears to be a dynamic social construct in Brazil…
admin | August 25, 2010
“The current financial crisis could bring about a change in the international economic order with countries like China and India becoming the dominant global economic powers. The Chief Economist of one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC, believes Asia’s rise poses a threat to prosperity in the West.” via BBC News – Hardtalk – Will [...]
