Archive for 'Politics' Category
Khaled Abdul-Wahab
In my ignorance I was not aware of Khaled Abdul-Wahab until today when a correspondent for the guardian wrote an article on Israel being asked to honour this man that hid jews from being killed . Abdul-Wahab, a well-to-do farmer and son of an eminent Tunisian historian and writer, sheltered 24 people from two Jewish [...]
Please sign the Libel reform campaign petition
I should have blogged about the Libel reform campaign back in December last year when I signed. I have received two replies from my local MP since then, the last letter was a copy of an attached response from the Ministry of Justice regarding possible reforms of the law on libel in England and Wales. [...]
Recuriment agencies and the futile cv
To add something else to my frustration, job pimps … i mean job agencies have a arousal to catapult my inbox with their indeterminate offers of finding employment if i just roll out my CV. This has been fruitless all along. I am delighted to find out that a head of a labour union in [...]
Criticising soldiers in wars
Deciding to be a professional soldier for some may well be an attractive alternative to long term unemployment or continuous low paid brain dead work. Its very hard to blame someone for deciding the former. Is attacking a soldier for fighting in a war (as part of their job) that one does not agree with [...]
A case for individual collectivism
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality. – Mahatma [...]
Elected constables maybe not such a good idea after all
A good friend of mine has noticed a flaw in my suggestion in voting for a local Chief Inspector, if the people that can vote for them can also vote for them to resign , it appears undemocratic. People could vote for who they are friends with or even racist police officers. There could even [...]
No need to panic over the far-right EU election gains
The far-right managed to gain some seats across the union, considering there are 736 seats and they did not even gather 50 altogether their voices are not going to be the most heard. The turnout was at a very low 43.39% in total amongst the 27 countries. Looking at some of the countries that did [...]
Rethinking in the way to protest
The G20 protests last week in London have shown there is a desperate need to reorganize. I have for a long time discussed with different people that demonstrations should not only be in the main cities and places. Ideally they should be held in streets and neighbourhoods where people actually live and can see with [...]
Kettles being sent to the police
The police tactic in England of keeping protesters at big demonstrations cornered in, so they cannot even go to the toilet is officially known as kettling. In response to this tactic used at the G20 Protests in London, people will be sending their old no longer used kettles to the police. The address to send [...]
Where is the UN heading?
The United Nations Human Rights Council has just voted on defamation of religion. It may now be a crime to criticise religion. It is a path that we really cannot afford to go down. Religion has done more damage than anything to humans and we want to protect it from being being criticised, is the [...]