symbol Yin (dark) Yang (light) Many of us will know that next Tuesday, 5th February is the start of Chinese New Year [the year of the Brown Pig indeed]. Now while we in the West have our New Year on a specific (Gregorian) calendar date of 1st January, the date of the Chinese one varies […]
Fifty year old Hinkley Point Nuclear power station being decommissioned [to be replaced by the Chinese] It can have escaped few people’s notice that the inscrutable Chinese president Zi Jinping was yesterday commencing his State visit to us in the UK, can it? It included of course a ceremonial welcome, a massive gun salute, a […]
Without doubt the cycle has been the best transport system invention the World has ever seen, hasn’t it? Without doubt the car has been the worst transport system invention the World has ever seen, hasn’t it? The very worst thing done in the United Kingdom (and America) was to remove a hundred years ago the […]
1969 2014 A couple of days ago the USA’s unmanned cargo new rocket, heading for the International Space Station blew-up a few seconds after lift-off. This is undoubtedly a technological disaster for the Americans – a slap in the face indeed that puts major question marks over their supposed supremacy in expertise, equipment, capability, and […]
Many of us have now after 20 years become totally disillusioned with the UK lotteries [Lotto, euro Millions, Health Lottery, Postcode Lottery – not only are they expensive and never deliver the big money we are hoping for, but they are taking massive amounts of money out of the British economy (some seventy billion pounds […]
The founders of the United Nations (UN) will be turning in their graves. Their high minded aspirations for the organisation are in the gutter. A UN so called ‘peace conference’ has now started in Switzerland to ‘pretend’ to deal with the horrific civil war in Syria. The dreadful slaughter of combatants, adult civilians, children and […]
We read about it, we hear about it, we see it on the television. We are aghast, disgusted, and left feeling sick and powerless at the dreadful treatment of their peoples by the tyrants of the World and their organisations’ implements of oppression! Sometimes we find out about it historically, and are in disbelief about […]
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