I had always been of the belief that if an individual had a poor education, with the ability to read, learning is still a life choice. With the advent of the internet, this became even more the case. Good Information at your fingertips via Google, Wikipedia, and countless other sources.
I stuck with this belief right up until Covid19 appeared on
the scene. As it emerged as a public health crisis in the UK, I have read about
it nearly every ...
I bought a camera as a lockdown gift to myself recently. It is a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ1000. It was chosen after months of the type of middle-aged dithering I thought I would never suffer from.
Impulse Purchasing
As a man of impulse purchasing, I have almost made a career out of buying ill-advised clothes, gadgets, cars, and in one tragic case, a house with someone as unsuitable as the shit location it was in. However, in recent ...
I have been thinking a lot about racism and prejudice this
week. I still don’t know enough about it to be anywhere near an expert. Still,
I hope what I am about to write makes sense.
The problem as I see it, is there are a lot of people who
have convinced themselves they are not racists because they are fundamentally
decent. They wouldn’t scream racial obscenities like those morons in London
last week; so, in their mind, that means they ...
Old Boris Johnson seems to be making more U Turns than a
knackered SatNav right now. The latest, under pressure from a footballer, being
the extension into the summer that offers food vouchers for the poorest kids in
society.
Sport & Politics
Of course, the government should be happy that a professional
footballer is doing his bit for the Coronavirus. After all, it was footballers
who they told to do more at the beginning of the ...
The term ‘Whataboutism’ is something that came to my attention the other day. I had sort of heard of it, but I didn’t really know it was a tool used as a way of deflecting guilt.
Nazi Germany and the USSR
Apparently, it was well used in Nazi Germany and Cold war Russia.
Germany would defend putting Jews in camps, with other European countries doing
the same thing during the ‘Race to Africa’.
Communist Russia would deflect ...
