Monthly Archives: June 2017
SOCIETY & SECURITY IN EUROPE
It’s hard not to conclude that something weird is going on in Europe and the European Union at the moment. Not yet reported by the BBC, but the Parliament of the Czech Republic has just voted to enshrine in its Constitution (subject to Senate approval) the right for its citizens to carry arms. It’s done this […]
BREXIT – AN OPEN LETTER TO MY NEW MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
EU-UK Negotiations On Monday 19 June, the British Government and the European Commission will start their negotiations regarding the UK’s exit from the European Union (Brexit). It is a fact that the British, European and other political and societal elites who wanted the UK to remain in the European Union are now doing everything within […]
FACEBOOK AND FRIENDSHIP
‘Friendship should be more than biting time can sever’ T S Eliot Interesting Times We live in febrile times – or interesting times as the Chinese proverb would have it. That said, some folk choose to take little or no interest in current affairs compared to others who (like me) do take an active interest […]
COUNTERING ISLAMIC TERRORISM – CHANGING ATTITUDE
Hope, Anger and Courage In a previous post on this subject I argued that if we were going to get serious about fighting the terrorist threat we now face, we needed to start with some form of societal change of attitude. Attitude is a settled way of feeling or thinking about something. In that same post, […]
LONDON BRIDGE: OH COME ON, NOT ANOTHER ONE, PLEASE
Warning: this post contains black/military humour I know we live in an era when to offend is to all but commit a crime, but I’m going to risk offending a few folk anyway (stuff it, I’m too old to care). If the ongoing incident on London Bridge turns out to be a terrorist incident then I […]
POWERING CIVILISATION (PART ONE)
‘Energy is vital to civilisation. In fact, all of human history can be viewed through the lens of energy’ Dr Michio Kaku, ‘Physics of the Impossible’ ‘Ultimately, the economy is, and always has been, a surplus energy equation. As such, it is governed by the laws of the thermodynamics, and not by the man-made ‘laws’ […]
Moraymint Chatter 