This is the second part of a piece written about the Invasion of Iraq in 2003. The first tells the story of Katherine Gunn who acted as whistle blower and released a memo showing how the Government was trying to influence the debate in the UN about the […]
Today at 11 is Remembrance day. I will be publishing a piece inspired by my visit to Imperial War Museum this evening at the usual time. However as you observe the 2 minute silence at 11 today I hope the following will help guide your thoughts If you […]
Being retired there is time to go and see films which are thought provoking. One of those is Official Secrets In the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Centre on 9/11 September 2001 there was a War on Terror Campaign. A picture of some of the […]
NHS, the title was not chosen by chance but to show how the NHS was the topic for many newspaper articles recently. I wonder if you have ready my previous article. It seems that this was “right on message”- to coin a political soundbite. Inspire-NHS:News Has Significance. The topic […]
We recently visited Gdansk and saw their excellent World War 2 museum. Most informative was to see the war from a Polish perspective. One of the striking rooms was the exhibit about the Nuclear Bomb attack on Hiroshima and Little Boy, the first nuclear bomb. Photography-World War 2 […]
It is no accident that this piece has NHS as its title. Being retired I now have time to study and look at the news in greater detail. The News Has Significance or NHS is because there have been several recent stories that could be testing public opinion […]
There was quite a build up to October 31. Yes Brexit again and the shops were onto it Apart from the pumpkins there were other essentials which needed to stockpiled. Memories of that military order “Hurry up we are going to be late- then we all wait and […]
That old question, Monday morning again and the need to be motivated. Well, being retired there is suddenly an enjoyable week ahead of you. However what if you were considering retirement and only aged 30. That was one of the facts that came from a recent full page […]
Why Nottingham, but why not. This is what happens when you are retired and have that chance to travel which was denied you for all those years. So off we went and arrived. We drove past various car dealerships on the way in, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Maserati and […]