Storming the Bastille
Despite the amazing advances of the past 500 years, we will end up back where we started.
Harry Palmer
This New World Order
Since the turn of this century, the fabric of Western society appears to have become almost transparently thin and holes are evident. I put it down to Tony Blair, who became the Prime Minister of Britain in 1997 and subsequently cooked up a story with President George W Bush that
They Want to Play God
Do not cast me aside in my old age; as my strength fails, do not forsake me. Psalm 71:9 The American actress Patricia Clarkson has been around since around 1987: she’s 64 years old. I’ve been an admirer of her and her work for many years, though
And What of Our Future?
Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made. JRR Tolkien Popular products still missing from supermarket shelves and school attendance and labour productivity below par: it’s the sick-note culture, as they’re calling it in the UK after the
The Ghost of Ned Kelly
I see the Australian Federal Police Association, a police union, is calling for the setting up of an Australian National Guard patterned on the National Guard of the United States, which was made up of the colonial militias consolidated together as the “National Guard” under the National Defense Act of
‘Gimme Money, That’s What I Want’
The growing wealth of the country…is mainly concentrated in a few hands, and the number of very rich men is becoming larger. The tendency of wealth to get into fewer hands is becoming more marked. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 (First Annual Message) It’s not just in New Zealand but