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Your Disappearing Right to Freedom of Expression

Written on 22nd February 2022. Posted in Chat. Leave a Comment

Freedom of Expression: Article 10 of the Human Rights Act protects your right to hold your own opinions and to express them freely without government interference. But this basic right is about to be taken away for good. It could be argued that we have never had greater freedom of expression....

How Fear of Everything will Kill Us

Written on 15th August 2020. Posted in Chat, COVID-19, Politics, Social Media. 5 Comments

Quite a few years ago, when my 22 year-old Son was 6 or 7, he was mad about climbing trees. There was this massive oak in the children's park near our house and he used to climb that tree every day – usually several times a day. The council cut off the low-hanging branches, but that didn't...

covid, fear, terrorism

For the Common Good…

Written on 2nd July 2020. Posted in Chat, China, COVID-19, US, World Trade. Leave a Comment

Has there ever been a more loaded phrase than “For the Common Good”? Thankfully, we are not quite at that point yet but time is running our in how to deal with Chinese internal and external aggression. Let's rewind a little and you'll see what I mean. For those who may not be aware...

CCP, China, coronavirus, Remdesivir, Trump, vaccine

You wait for a post for ages… and then three come along at the same time

Written on 25th June 2020. Posted in Chat, Right vs. Left. Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, I joined The Daily Telegraph private group on Facebook. I don't belong to many groups and certainly don't post in many. All went well. Lots of likes, comments and a group that engaged, was critical, without being nasty (unlike my personal feed where, seemingly, it's ok to insult...

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Why I’m Writing This Blog

Written on 8th May 2019. Posted in Chat. Leave a Comment

This post has also been saved to the “About” page. I expect that it will otherwise get lost at the bottom of the pile 🙂 Something is changing in our society. We are less able to debate respectfully and ideas that don't fit into the collectivist (politically correct) model are shouted...