One of the characteristics of older age, is that one tends to drop being old into conversations frequently enough to force people to ask how old you are. The expectation is that when you tell them they will gasp and say “no, you can’t be. You look at least 10 years younger”, and your ego […]
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If there exists an anchor that connects generations, surely it is the classic dad joke. Characterised by their pun-laden simplicity and eye-roll-inducing punchlines, these jokes have an unassuming charm that, when well-chosen and delivered, can elicit laughter from children, parents, and grandparents alike. Why did the man fall in the well? Because he can’t see
The anger, sense of injustice and total mistrust of anything a politician says is now manifesting itself dangerously across the nation. Perhaps the way to earth the bubbling rebellion is to come out with some policies which make sense to a cynical population. It is easy to select ten issues of burning concern to a
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THE EVAPORATION OF AUTHORITY (In conclusion to Part I yesterday) This unorthodox proposal about language and thinking has far more corollaries and consequences than I can touch on in this essay. Here I want to draw attention to one peculiar consequence: the gradual evaporation of authority. Authority is in essence a relationship between one person and
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What is going on? We are surrounded by insanity. The Western world is riddled with irrational beliefs, absurd policies, dysfunctional organisations and fanatical advocates of monomanias in medicine, climatology, education and sexual politics. Amid this lunacy single-minded corporations are making outrageous profits regardless of the collateral damages of their actions. The mad, like the poor, are always
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For many years I worked for a behavioural training company. One model we taught was Push/Pull. It focuses on the difference between pushing your ideas, wishes, etc., at people instead of persuading them to adopt your thinking. It is a simple but powerful model, and I’ll not pretend the implementation of it is easy. I
Our Parliamentary democracy no longer works. It seems as though the major systems of governance, our Executive and Parliament have gone rogue, forgetting who is truly sovereign and who they actually work for. A significant number of people have disengaged from politics at any level, and far too many of our elected representatives operate from
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During Mao’s Chinese Cultural Revolution, “struggle sessions” were pivotal in enforcing compliance. These involved publicly humiliating individuals who deviated from approved scripts or expressed impermissible opinions. Anyone accused of holding the wrong views had their life destroyed through public branding. In China, they were paraded through the streets carrying a board with their name written
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For weekends on end, since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7 last year, massacring 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages to Gaza, London streets have seen mass demonstrations protesting against Israel’s response. Many people openly support Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation that has called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Often violent and extremely
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I have a very good friend whose son applied to join the Royal Navy in 2019 as aircrew when the navy said they were short of pilots. As progress was slow, it was suggested by his University Air Squadron CO in June 2023 that he should also apply to the RAF. By January 2024 he
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