Many of us know of the phrase about men being from Mars and women from Venus, and ‘get’ the basic message that the sexes are a bit different, don’t we? However, many ignorant or discriminatory others take it a bit further than that – or to be more accurate they take the differences between men […]
The unfortunate women who turn to prostitution, sexual activity in exchange for payment, are publically and privately pilloried, and when they get savagely attacked and abjectly abused, they seemed to be portrayed as just worthless trash, rather than the tragic real-life victims they actually are, don’t you think? It is a source of constant annoyance […]
Someone two days ago read this post I had published 5 years ago and I thought it might be worth others reading it and thinking about it as well? American Kim Peek was quite a ‘different’ personality indeed in the flesh. He had both amazing ability and commendable insight about life. He had a strange […]
PM Theresa May has brought her “meaningful vote” motion to the floor of the House of Commons three times: first last year on 11 December but then pulled the vote when she accepted that she would lose massively, she prevaricated for a month and brought it back on 15 January, only for it to […]
Three times now PM Theresa May has brought her dreadful Withdrawal Agreement to the House of Commons, and twice she has asked Parliament to vote for it and each time she has left with a flea in the ear – told in no uncertain terms that it was totally unacceptable to both Remainers and Leavers, […]
There can be little doubt in anyone’s mind that British politics has indeed been dragged into the gutter, surely? Now, its demise is not simply at the hand of one political party [though Conservative, Labour and LibDems have certainly played a substantive role, eh?], nor is it down to an individual nor even a group […]
Over three years ago, a post here identified the problem of our police forces’ downward spiral caused by cutbacks [The UK Police ‘underfunded’ and ‘under resourced’….], and six months ago another post here covered the fact that the problems had got unbelievably worse, that knife crime was out-of-control, and it suggested the background reasons [England’s […]
Lake District Machu Picchu, Peru Great Wall of China The Taj Mahal Most British people will know of the Lake District in Cumbria, even if they have never actually been able to visit it – or perhaps they might know it better by its other titles of ‘The Lakes’ or ‘Lakeland’? Whatever, it is undoubtedly […]
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