Generation Stupid

In a confirmation of everything that I have said about talentless celebrity in the UK ....

'Celebrity' Comes Cheaply These Days

 .... a poll by Acuvue of 1,000 members of generation Z (young people between the ages of 15 and 24 year olds), came up with exactly the results you might expect. 

Cannabis Confusion

The medical uses of cannabis goes back centuries to ancient China, India, and Egypt ... 

Its Odd What Gets Banned These Days ....

 ..... which isn't necessarily an indication of its effectiveness, after all the Chinese also grind up rhino horns and tiger bones etc as 'medicinal', despite them doing nothing. 

The System Is Broken

Fifty Six year old Paul Robson, has a long history of sex attacks on children and women. 

Paul Robson - Lifetime History Of Sex Attacks

In any right minded society this pattern of offending would have been spotted, and his very obvious permanent danger to females recognised, certainly by at least the time of his second conviction for a child sex attack, and he would have got a whole of life sentence, with no possibility of release.

Britain Broken By Fuel Costs

Britain is in the middle of a crisis driven by an inflation surge, and especially by the monstrous rise in the cost of fuel.

The Ofgem Price Cap

Now although they are the bill issuers, most UK energy suppliers are middlemen, meaning that they buy the energy they control in the international wholesale market, and then sell it on to you.

Monsieur Pernelet And His Animal Act

In a simpler age, where international travel was restricted to the armed forces, diplomats, government officials, and the upper strata of society ....

Monsieur Pernelet And His Crocodile Pets

 ..... then exotic amusements were extremely popular in the UK, and indeed in Europe and the USA.

Ship Of Gold

As I have blogged for over a decade now .....

A Daguerreotype Of A Young Woman 1857
(California Gold Marketing Group)

 

....  I have developed an interest in photo repair, colourisation and creation.

Policing Threat USA

With the de-fund the police movement in full swing across the USA throughout 2021 ...

The USA Has Seen Too Many Police Funerals

 .... apparently the murders of police officers also rose by nearly 60% during that year.

Suppressing Free Speech

We still haven't learned any lessons have we ....

Sir Salman Rushdie Speaking

 

.... this is obvious after last weekends attempted murder of Indian born author Salman Rushdie, when he was stabbed several times on a stage at an event in New York state.

Monsters Inc Three

Every now and then, in my eyrie at PC towers, I like to review the world of monsters .... 

Alaskan River Monster .... Or Not?

 .... and recently my attention my attention was brought to these videos.

Going Pear Shaped

On this blog I have discussed India's rise and attempts to get invited permanently to the top table ....

Indians Need Jobs

.... and the reasons for its failures to do so. So I am not going to reprise these attempts and the reasons why they have not really succeeded, but instead look at a structural problem within the Indian economy, that could easily destabilise the whole project.

Health And Safety Comes First

In our increasingly strange, politically correct, woke, cancel culture, health and safety aware society ....

 

UK Emergency Services Let Down By Current Command Policies

..... its amazing that any of the emergency services work at all. 

Bad Teeth And Bad Politics

Free dental treatment on the National Health Service (NHS) treatment ended in 1951, just three years after the NHS was formed, because it was deemed unaffordable.

NHS Dentistry

The vast majority of us opted for the subsidised system (where we paid for some of the costs) as 'private' treatment was too expensive. But over the decades an estimated one in seven adults moved over to private treatment (I'm not sure why ... presumably there are good reasons) ...

5G Conspiracists

The Internet has been good in many ways ....

The Internet World Is Small

.... but it allowed the stupid's of the world to congregate in one virtual space, then echo chamber their outlandish or ignorant views and then, self affirmed in their rightness, march forth to spread their madness.

Woke Entitlement

Harmonie Mulumba from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was fired from her job with Partners Group (an Investment Company with offices in London and Switzerland) in 2018. 

Anything Can Be Deemed A Micro-Aggression

But as is the way of the world nowadays, she immediately raised a string of complaints about 'wrongful dismissal and racist discrimination,' which eventually would find their way to an employment tribunal in London.

Moon Madness or Lunacy

The Soviets were definitely in the race to land on the moon first, despite their later coolness over the matter. 

The Race To The Moon Was Real

Their first circumlunar flights were planned to occur in 1967, and the first landings to start in 1968. Secret failures of the N1-L3 rocket slowed the program, and the USA pipped them.

A Strange Campaign

It really is hard to understand the mindset of gun defending conservative Americans ....  

Campaign To Defend The 'Simple Semi-Automatic Rifle.'

 .... Rick Manning (President of Americans for Limited Government), has recently sent out an email, asking (or warning) all 'lovers of liberty' that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to ban semi-automatic rifles is likely to succeed.