Only 14% of people have so far had Covid-19 in a hard hit German town, when expectations are 60% – 80% will get the disease. That means we are in for a long haul. The scientists seem most concerned our herd immunity is a long way off. So we should worry that Ministers look to… Continue reading Is money worth more than lives?
Vultures circling the NHS?
“Britain is paying the price for an overly centralised system that is reluctant to work with the private sector.” At first I thought it just stupid, but it’s actually really quite threatening, heard on 3rd April’s R4 Today programme. The commentator is advocating the system so badly failing the American people, now the Covid-19 epicentre… Continue reading Vultures circling the NHS?
No equality on a dying planet
While we are striving to settle the most contraversial issues just now, maybe worth considering the words of Sisie Orbach, by way of context? “With a broken planet, we will have no gay rights, no feminism, no respect for trans people, no attempt at fairness and justice for people of colour.Brutality is only kept at… Continue reading No equality on a dying planet
Exasperated trans Labour supporter
I listened yesterday to a radio debate between an AllianceLGB spokesperson and a journalist applauding some Labour Leadership candidates for signing a pledge calling on the Party to expel “transphobic” members. A trans caller made an interesting contribution, saying that women are women, an immutable biological fact, and trans women are trans women, not women.… Continue reading Exasperated trans Labour supporter
Tories Ape Trump
Watching some aspects of the election with a sort of morbid curiosity, you can’t deny the Tories’ tactics aren’t fascinating. They saw Trump and how he won, looked at our voters, and calculated. They clearly think there is a big enough section of the electorate that will let them do similar. The likes of Rees-Mogg… Continue reading Tories Ape Trump
Do you think consuming meat or dairy is OK?
Amazon forrest is burned and cleared. Powerful insecticide is applied up to nine meters deep to kill everything on or in the land. Huge ships hoover up massive quantities of fish at sea, which are then liquidised and used to fertilise the sterilised land, to grow soya. The soya is harvested and sent to Europe… Continue reading Do you think consuming meat or dairy is OK?
Trouble With Palm Oil
Appropriating natural habitats for agricultural use is a leading cause of thousands of species going extinct every year. Orangutans are unwitting ambassadors for those species that are, or soon will be, sent into oblivion. Expanding and new palm oil plantations, probably the most important vegetable oil of all, is the main driver of deforestation in… Continue reading Trouble With Palm Oil
Fish feel fear and pain, just like us
Fish feel fear and pain, the clear scientific evidence is shows this is the same as for mammals and birds, yet they are treated as insentient beings and made to suffer in a way we would call torture and find totally unacceptable on land. It is staggering that a so-called civilised and rational society still… Continue reading Fish feel fear and pain, just like us
EU Referendum decision is simple – and all about war
Possibly the single best reason for Britain’s continued membership of the European Union (EU) is that the EU prevents wars. Following war between France and Germany three times in 70 years (arguably four), the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC ) was founded shortly after World War 2 by six nations, making them industrially and economically… Continue reading EU Referendum decision is simple – and all about war
Don’t vote to maim and kill Syrian children in my name
Bombing Syria will uselessly waste lives. I have written to my MP asking him not vote to maim and kill defenceless children in my name. “Dear Mr Bebb I am writing to tell you that, as a constituent, I do not want you to vote on my behalf to bomb Syria.Air strikes alone will not… Continue reading Don’t vote to maim and kill Syrian children in my name