Illegal Immigration: would you report your neighbour?
Always a favourite hobby-horse of politicians and journalists, it seems that immigration, and illegal immigration in particular, is rarely out of the news these days: barely a day goes by without someone fanning the flames of fear and suspicion for their own ends. UK Prime Minister David Cameron recently gave a speech about his plans [...]
Big Society – Bigger Issues
Forget altruism. Everyone is self interested. My experience of those who set up benevolent, non profit making organisations is that it is a very short while between getting the great warm fuzzy feeling that comes from helping the apparently helpless, to the idea that, well, there should be some greater reward.
I’ll come back and haunt you
I was much taken this week by Claire Rayner’s deathbed threat to come back and haunt David Cameron should he dare to screw upher beloved NHS. According to Haunted Britain, the United Kingdom has the highest incidence of ghost sightings in the world – and the frequency of sightings has currently hit a 25 year [...]
The benefit fraud scandal – what should we do?
The term “disabled person” is almost becoming interchangeable with the term “benefit cheat” these days. And not surprisingly. The government are coming down hard on benefit cheats in these difficult times. They are employing private “bounty hunters” to check what benefit cheats, erm, claimants are spending their money on. Like most people I have a [...]
What kind of people are we?
My last blog (not untypically, come to think of it) was a bit of a rant, and I’m afraid this one is too. We’ll blame it on the painkillers rather than the fact that advancing years are making me grumpier every day, I think. Anyway, this one isn’t about any particular issue – it’s about [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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