Tag: politics
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HOPE IS MAKING A COMEBACK
This line from Michelle Obama’s speech at the DNC really resonated with me, of all the wonderful happenings at the convention, which I watched with much relish from my home in Sussex England, this line left me with a hum, that gentle resonant sound from satisfaction and a warm caress of the soul in a…
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JOURNALISM MATTERS
The other day, I was just about to turn off the news. Stop. Go cold Turkey and not bother with any more news but the parliamentary committee had other plans and they were going to pull me back in.Do you ever get the feeling that it’s all a bit too much news? This is the…
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MIGRANTS & MILLIONAIRES
As I type this, there is a huge rescue effort ongoing in a race to find the submersible carrying five explorers who are on an expedition to view a vessel that has been sunk to the bottom of the oceon for over one hundred years, yep you guess it; The Titanic. What is essentially a…
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WHEN WOMEN QUIT
I think we can all agree that politics is a bit shit right now, a lot shit actually. The world is in flames and it is no surprise that some people want no parts in it, no parts in fixing a system fundamentally and continually broken mostly by men in power- let’s be frank. However,…
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REMEMBER MAHSA ZHINA AMINI
A young woman was killed. Her name is Mahsa Zhina Amini. Her crime? Not covering her head fully with her hijab in Tehran. Not her whole head, but part of her head; just to reiterate, she had on a hijab but it simply covered part of her head. That was her crime and for that…
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THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER- A HOUSE OF CARDS.
So, what do you get when you have an agreement by handshake almost, that relies on honour and good manners? Chaos, scandals, lies, deceit… that’s what. A string of scandals that has meant the big dawg’s behind was left unclean because let’s face it, there is only so much covering of arses that can be…
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ROE V WADE- RAGE.
I was not going to write anything about this. I was simply going to rage and keep raging on my various timelines on social media. After all, I am not American nor do I live in America, nor do I have any plans of visiting America any time soon, or at this stage, ever, but…
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UKRAINE-RUSSIA TAKE 2.
Well, well, well. The world is an ever-loving skip fire these days. Is that the right phrase? I could not possibly post anything else without a follow up to this article. I remember where I was when those two planes plunged into the World Trade Centre in 2011 and I remember waking up a year…
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WHAT’S GOING ON BETWEEN RUSSIA & UKRAINE?
There is an increased likelihood of a Russian invasion or incursion into Ukraine, at the moment, 100,000 Russian military is assembled on the Ukrainian border, and the world is on edge. A war in the Black Sea is not just limited to the countries that border it, this affects the rest of the world. All…