Like a recurring dream or Groundhog Day, Christmas comes round every year, and some people dread it, don’t they? Christmas Day like clockwork is always there on December 25th – but it ‘starts’ earlier, indeed these days in England it seems to kick-off earlier and earlier (as much as six months before!). No wonder […]
Russian aircraft in Syria (photo Daily Mirror) It is a few year now since Vladimir Putin set out to tweak the nose of Barrack Obama, isn’t it? Russia following the demise of the USSR had already lost its pride of place as a joint superpower with America, when Putin initiated his campaign. We all […]
Did you know that a couple of weeks ago the Russians sent two bombers (one nuclear carrying) over to the UK? They were met by RAF Typhoon fighter aircraft of course but carefully kept themselves just outside British airspace, over the Channel no less. Normally when Russia sends threatening planes as an airspace […]
The human population of the World has reached well over seven billion now [that is a snapshot say of 7,293,109,900] and increases by two or three babies a second [indeed the population has doubled in fifty years]. This population trend has far reaching implications for our descendents – the facts are that more people are […]
What do most of us in the public know about Vladimir Putin apart from him being the current longtime leader of Russia? Not a lot probably? Like many Russian leaders before him, he is a bad piece of work (you will have heard of some past infamous deeds & names – Lenon, Trotsky, Stalin, […]
intolerance is what destroys and kills things in the end (particularly religious intolerance). You just have too look at past history to get a flavour of that! So called ‘radical’ Muslims for some decades have embarked of a campaign in the UK and around the World to alter their and other societies; not by argument, […]
WHERE IS GOD? Since time immemorial mankind has believed in a higher power, a creator no less, one who can control our lives and environment, can reward or punish us, can provide rain and sunshine when required, can grant us offspring, can promote or blight crops, can endow us with riches, or even can pick […]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Just when the civilised World had relaxed and thought that the historic (& perhaps nuclear) threat to western democratic and capitalist values by the alternative oppressive hard-line communist principles from Eastern Europe had been adverted, we get Vladimir Putin putting the cat amongst the pigeons don’t we! Russia has invaded Ukraine. Don’t make any mistake […]
violence? Many peoples of the World believe in a God. Indeed there are over forty acknowledged faiths around so there are plenty to choose from. That being said, Atheism also embraces billions of peoples of all races and creeds and has done so for some three thousand years (the third largest group in the world). […]
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