by The Editor | Sep 15, 2017 | International
Has “political correctness” run wild, threatening to destroy our language and culture? Certainly, it’s a pain to have to learn new terms all the time. And no one likes to be scolded for using the wrong ones. But is this all just a way of repressing free speech and...
by The Editor | Sep 13, 2017 | International
How many disasters can we take at once? The short answer is that while the US is continuing to rebound nicely as the economy restructures, it’s still a very delicate process. Unemployment is low in much of the nation, or at least a lot lower than we have seen for a...
by The Editor | Sep 13, 2017 | Featured, International
Can’t pronounce it? Neither can I, but that doesn’t stop me from shining a light on this good lady. I was thinking last night, when I was searching for a subject for today’s good people post, that nearly all the good people I have highlighted thus far have been in...
by The Editor | Sep 3, 2017 | Politics
When the Scottish Government announced that the newly devolved training schemes they will be running in place of the dreaded Work Programme will not be mandatory, all of us familiar with the impact of sanctions heaved a collective sigh of relief. So it was with an...
by The Editor | Sep 2, 2017 | Politics
Of Friends and Foe and Felons | Some thoughts on online and other abuse and responses to it No one who watched No More Boys and Girls | Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? on BBC 1 recently can deny that there is still a lot to do to ensure that our genitals at birth do not...
