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I’m writing this having a nap after a few beers in my belly after having got home from a night out. I was out at a local pub and had been told by local friends that I person in the pub was being aggressive and hostile to singers (including me) as they sang, unnecessarily criticising them like he was Simon Cowell on a professional night of judgement which I thought was was unfair and…

A week on Sunday and I will be in a Devon Town called Totnes for a birthday get away. It’s my 50 birthday and so I wanted to do something different and hopefully memorable in a positive way. It will be the first time that I have stayed as a guest on holiday since going to Ireland with my Dad in 2024 for St Patricks day. Although its just a train ride down the track rather than a flight or a ferry…

The Cost of Noise: How and why the British Press Lost the Public Introduction: A System That No Longer Serves There is a growing disconnect in Britain-between the public and the press that claims to inform it. Once positioned as the “fourth estate,” the British press was meant to challenge power, expose wrongdoing, and provide citizens with the information needed to make informed decisions.…

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4515994213/red-dragon-reading-at-typewriter-t-shirt?sr_prefetch=1&pf_from=shop_home&ref=shop_home_active_1&logging_key=c3707b5926850bb6c0a4638b76a506df8267a0eb%3A4515994213 So I had been thinking about printing a T-shirt for myself with one of the images that I have created for my website and have designed a T-shirt with the following T-shirt design. They are…

One idea ticking away on my brain this morning is the concept of time. I sometimes wonder too much about what time is how does it exist and what should I do with it. In many ways time is an illusion. In my mind there is no past now, for it has already happened and there is no future for it has not yet happened the only time that we ever live within is now. So what time is it well the time is…

Big Amazon fail. Not delivered and took two weeks for them to pay refund and their still telling me to return to refunded item to them. Due to poor customer services on Amazon’s part when things go wrong they go really wrong. Have to now phone them for forth time informing them that item never arrived. I have since bought an alternative from John Lewis with a 2 year manufacturing guarantee which…

But have the politicians in power listened? Members of Parliament in the Labour Party this evening are starting to put wheels into motion to remove the Labour Prime Minster, Keir Starmer from office as the head of the UK government. The necessary evil about politics and human nature is people do not like to speak out, protest or show dissent unless or until they feel what is politically happening…

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has emerged as a significant force on the British right by capitalizing on anger over immigration, the cost of living, and disillusionment with mainstream parties. They really have smashed through into a form of political mainstream acceptability and voted in by considerable political sales and gullibility and buy in to what ever Farage is choosing to peddle to the…

Sometimes I find myself and others in crisis, not one of there making but one that they or myself or others are very much being weathered by and emotionally unable to take shelter from what is raining down. Although the instinct is sometimes to try and wipe them or yourself dry with reassuring words and all knowing answers, such words and answers can not always stop the emotional rain. its…

Over the past 100 years, several coordinated global interventions have significantly improved human health, reduced poverty, and increased life expectancy… These actions were primarily driven by international organizations (UN, WHO), specialized global alliances, national governments, and large philanthropic foundations. The most dramatic improvements came from global health campaigns that…

For the last hundred years, the United States has repeatedly intervened—covertly, economically, and sometimes militarily—against governments that tried to redistribute wealth, nationalise resources, or break from Western corporate and strategic influence. Historians argue that these actions were driven by Cold War ideology, corporate lobbying, and the desire to maintain a U.S.-led global…

Though I have successfully managed to navigate many a storm in my employment history and keep my head above water maintaining a position in the job market for most of the last 30 years or so. Surviving the closure of companies, redundancies and also businesses no longer having enough money to hire me or restructuring me out of a roles on the odd occasion. I am more blessed with some of the areas…

You just can’t make this stuff up in a very Game of Thrones style the President of the USA has juts tweeted the above tweet. Just when countries are trying to deal with Trump and Netanyahu’s oil war Trump decides to set fire to social media with a Molotov cocktail. He is certainly no cool and calm head in a self engineered social, political and economic storm or war. Matthew E. White – Rock &…

Chained To A Past That Locks Away Its Future! I’ve lived in the UK long enough to know its contradictions intimately. This is a country that can produce Oxford mathematicians, Glastonbury headliners, and Nobel‑winning scientists — yet can’t run a functioning train network on a rainy Tuesday. A country that invented the industrial revolution but now struggles to build a railway line without it…

The UK economy consists of workers, unemployed and those that profit from the status quo.   The UK economy in 2026 is characterized by a high-inequality structure where the richest 1% own roughly 21% of wealth, while over 14 million people live in poverty. A weakening labor market has seen unemployment rise to 5.2% with over 9 million economically inactive, often due to long-term sickness, while…

Whether our global system is immoral or corrupt is one of the most debated questions in modern philosophy, economics, and sociology. There isn’t a single factual answer, but rather a tension between two primary perspectives: The Argument for Systemic Corruption Critics argue the system is inherently flawed because it often prioritises capital accumulation over human well-being. They point…

Whether Donald Trump is “evil” is a matter of intense public debate and subjective judgment, with no consensus. The term is used by various critics, supporters, and observers to describe his character, policies, and political impact from widely differing perspectives. Arguments for Characterizing Him as evil Critics and some public figures often use the term “evil” to describe Trump based on…