by The Editor | Feb 1, 2018 | Politics
I’m going to start this weeks blog by thanking all of my readers, supporters, followers on Twitter and friends on Facebook. Also I want to than all my activist friends for their support. Today was absolutely freezing cold. Not only did I have to contend with walking...
by The Editor | Feb 1, 2018 | Politics
Here’s what yesterday’s announcement by BP looked like in an anonymous (junior reporter?) Herald report yesterday: ‘BP oil find is major boost to North Sea production. Oil giant BP has announced the discovery of what is believed to be a large North Sea field in a...
by The Editor | Feb 1, 2018 | International
Since all the news has been about Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address, I, rebel that I am, decided to veer in another direction. How about a state senator who is point-blank refusing to obey a state Supreme Court ruling? Pennsylvania seems to be much in the...
by The Editor | Feb 1, 2018 | Politics
In June 2013, Edward Snowden – a former contractor at the US National Security Agency – blew the whistle on the huge scale of Government spying on every one of us. He revealed that GCHQ, the UK’s eavesdropping agency, was intercepting and processing billions of...
by The Editor | Feb 1, 2018 | Politics
Passports were once used to enable travellers safe and smooth passage and were only available to a select few. When they became obligatory they became impediments to free passage. The United Kingdom is in the throes of all sorts of crises: crumbling health system;...