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Continue reading →: Famine…what famine?
The United Nation’s chief, Antonio Gutteres, has confirmed the man-made famine in Gaza city. The IPC says that more than half a million people across Gaza are facing “catastrophic” conditions characterised by “starvation, destitution and death”. The report was labelled an “outright lie” by Israel, which has denied there is…
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Continue reading →: Freedom of expression
When does a flag or a T-shirt become illegal? In the UK parliament has the authority to proscribe organisations such as Hezbollah and Palestine Action. By doing so, anyone showing support for those organisations is committing a criminal act. Does that seem reasonable when the Israeli government has been accused…
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Continue reading →: New glasses
I had my annual diabetic eye test and assumed all was well. Then I had an eye test at Specsavers. There is sign of macular degeneration in one eye, I forget which, that seemed to trouble the optician. So she referred me to a Macular clinic, but by the time…
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Continue reading →: Decisions
This week we need to decide what new windows and doors are going to be installed. The choices are aluclad (wood covered in aluminium) or aluminium. Then there is the choice of cladding around the upstairs windows. A composite in blue is favourite at the moment. We will go to…
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Continue reading →: Sharing with Facebook
My stats are generally very low, so when I discovered that the link from this blog to Facebook had been disconnected I wasn’t too upset. Instead I tried Substsck once again I found it easier to use my computer to create content and I am learning how to encourage more…
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Continue reading →: Detente (Soviet Style)
Dear Donald, I know we have had our differences in the past, but I think we can put that behind us. You take Greenland and we’ll take Ukraine. We can talk about Canada and the Baltic States later. Give yourself a big pat on the back for wrecking globalisation. Who…
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Continue reading →: Probability and credulity
At 4 pm this afternoon 34 horses and their jockeys will thunder around the racecourse at Aintree to compete in one of the most prestigious races in the horse racing calendar. Picking a winner will be tricky because the horses have to jump 30 fences and race over 4 miles…
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Continue reading →: Apprentice economists
Not since Maggie and Ronnie tried to impress the Western world with Reaganomics have we seen such disastrous policies brought in by the USA and the UK. Liz Truss plunged the UK economy into a nose dive by cutting taxes and increasing public borrowing on a massive scale. Her premiership…
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Continue reading →: Crisis? What crisis
Living on a small island can make you adopt insular attitudes towards what’s happening in the rest of the world. War in Europe, extreme weather disasters, superpower dominance…not my problem. The EU has an important role in opposing Russian expansionist aggression, and pushing back against Trump’s protectionist import tariffs. It…
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Continue reading →: Tariffs
Deal or no deal politician, Donald Trump wants to boost the USA’s trade balance by making imports more expensive He would also like India to buy more wheat and other grains. Why would they want to disadvantage their agriculture industry? The average size of an Indian farm is about a…
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