This is as succinctly and clearly as I think I can put it...

This is the kind of claptrap you are ruled by when alien vandals are allowed into power.

Why does British Television look more like the United Nations than the United Kingdom?

Rain, how I have missed you so! ❤️🌧️🌧️

RIP Tim 😢

Capitalism is feeding population replacement. It does this first by leading to a decline in fertility; a well-documented effect as people have fewer children in capitalist consumerist societies. Where children are seen as assets in agrarian societies, in capitalist consumerist ones they become expensive liabilities who not only cost a lot of money (education, healthcare, childcare, toys/hobbies), they are forbidden to work by law, and they (and the sacrifices needed to raise them) are seen to get in the way of indidvidualist consumerist lifestyles. Women, meanwhile are actively propagandised to becoming parts of the GDP machine rather than stay at home mums. This is, as I said, a well-documented reality. Then, it demands labour and consumers for its markets to replace these lost children, because consumerist capitalism always needs more workers and consumers, so it ships them in from abroad. I wonder what it will take to wake people up to this? Greenock is just one example of this, and it will not stop there. Note: no I am not a Socialist. This isn't a pro-Socialism post. You can recognise the bad things in Capitalism without being a Socialist. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgd…

Is there any way to ban the BBC from using generic photographs to depict stories? Either show photos of the actual people or do not show any at all.

Actors are paid to lie convincingly (we give awards to those who are really good at it), and nothing as effective at spreading sheer make-believe as modern media has ever previously existed. This is a liars dream come true. Best we all keep that in mind.

It's raining! For the first time in about two and a half months. Oh dear heaven thank you! 🙏🥰

Conscience exists to serve harmony, which is the ultimate purpose of intelligence (because intelligence is about structure and harmony is peak structure).

The water in the cold tap is warm, and the water in the hot tap is cold. 🤦‍♂️ Paging Autumn. Autumn to the Front Desk please. 🙏

When Jo Cox was murdered, in June 2016, the accused was in court and convicted before the end of November that year. The trial of the man accused of killing Ann Widdecombe in July 2026 does not even begin until June 2027. 🤔

Crikey, Sam Neill! RIP 🦖🦕😢

Until we make truth and honesty the priority, all other discussions are pointless really.

We live in an age where billions have anonymous digital access around the globe, whilst hundreds of millions cross the world and tens of millions cross the nation every single day. The potential for criminality here is off the charts (especially for children online exposed to the whole world). It is unlike anything that we have ever experienced in human history. If we have traffic police on our literal highways, all the more so we need police on our virtual super-highways (now there’s a term that dates me…). Also, even without criminality, societies have to be managed. There has to be some form of guaranteeing identity. It would be nice to believe that people could work with voluntary association, but that is a pipe-dream (hence the Tragedy of the Commons). Up to about 50 years ago, this need for management could be handled informally, organically, locally. People knew you because you grew up together and saw each other from one day to the next. Now though will live in a hyper-mobile world of millions upon millions of transient strangers. The old ways just cannot keep up with that. We need Digital ID. And that includes Facial Recognition. The police have always done this (what do you think Wanted posters are for), the only different being now that, in a society so much larger and more mobile than ever in human history, the system has to be computerised to keep up with the complexity. The catch, of course, is that our government simply cannot be trusted not to abuse that power. You know that it would soon turn into a Panopticon dedicated to imposing unwholesome, possibly downright insane, values upon us. Dare to question its latest foreign war, or the current woke crusade of the moment, and ‘click’ you lose your ID and are frozen out of your life. So I’m left with the uncomfortable situation of knowing that Digital ID is needed, and is certainly coming (just as surely as CCTV cameras sprouted on every corner, smartphones are carried everywhere, Chip-and-Pin replaced signatures, and now the need for ID to combat vote-fraud), whilst being fully aware that our govt categorically cannot be trusted not to abuse it. I realise that this is not a typical internet polarised answer (tough) but are we trying to have a grown-up discussion about the trade-offs or is the internet just for tabloid slagging matches? The fact remains though, when all is said and done, that in the world that we have made we need Digital ID.

If you invite in the culture of the third world, don't be shocked when the people follow shortly afterwards....

2,500 years ago, a man named Confucius (you may have heard of him) categorised people into two main types: the Junzi (gentleman or exemplary person) and the Xiaoren (petty person or small-minded man). He also warned about a third type, Xiangyuan ("thieves of virtue"), who are Xiaoren but pretend to be Junzi, faking morality for personal gain. Together, they set out a warning and a choice, for our life and our society, which still very much applies today.

"Favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate" Best leave the House of Commons too then, if that is the standard that you wish to apply...

Through food aid, medicine aid, and the creating of a globally mobile world, the First World opened a door that it has no idea how to close.